The Great War

from Great Poems of the World War, an electronic edition

The Lost Ones

SOMEWHERE is music from the linnets' bills,

And through the sunny flowers the bee wings drone,

And white bells of convolvulus on hills

Of quiet May make silent ringing blown

Hither and thither by the wind of showers,

And somewhere all the wandering bird, have flown;

And the brown breath of Autumn chills the flowers.

But where are all the loves of long ago?

O little twilight ship blown up the tide,

Where are the faces laughing in the glow

Of morning years, the lost ones scattered wide?

Give me your hand, O brother; let us go

Crying about the dark for those who died.