IN MEMORIAM
MY BROTHER ARNOLD
2nd Lieutenant, 11th Hussars
KILLED IN ACTION NEAR YPRES
MAY 1915
In twenty years of lands and seas and cities
I had small joy and sought for it the more,
Thinking: "If ever I am πολύμητις,
'Tis yours to draw upon the hard-won store."
I had some bouts from Samarkand to Paris,
And took some falls 'twixt Sweden and Sudan.
If I was slow and patient learning parries,