FROM MY TRENCH

A clear, cold night, and in the southern air

Those far-off thunderings so often there;[12]

A Turkish moon is shining fitfully—

My thoughts are ’neath another moon where we

Paced slowly through the tree stems—you and I.

And, looking back at yon farewell, I sigh

And wonder whether then I cared as much

As now I do when far beyond your touch.

Cpl. Comus, 2nd Bat., A.I.F.