"A child - so wasted and so white, He told a lie to get his way, To march, a man with men, and fight While other boys …"

"So broke with pain, he shrinks in dread To see the 'dresser' drawing near; and winds the clothes about his head That …"

"But when the dreaded moment's there He'll face us all, a soldier yet, Watch his bared wounds with unmoved air, (Thoug…"

"I dreamt last night Christ came to earth again To bless His own. My soul from place to place On her dream-quest sped,…"

"And through that Golgotha of blood and clay, Where watchers cursed the sick dawn, heavy-eyed, There (in my dream) Chr…"

"The pain and laughter of the day are done So strangely hushed and still the long ward seems, Only the Sister's candle…"

"Here one cries sudden on a sobbing breath, Gripped in the clutch of some incarnate fear What terror through the darkn…"

"And one laughs out with an exultant joy. An athlete he - Maybe his young limbs strain In some remembered game, and no…"

"One murmurs soft and low a woman's name; And here a vet'ran soldier calm and still As sculptured marble sleeps, and r…"

"Through the wide open window on great star, Swinging her lamp above the pear-tree high, Looks in upon these dreaming …"