From other hands. Nay, we shall dread:
If we return,
Dread lest we hold blood-guiltily
The thing that men have died to free.
Our English fields shall blossom red
In all the blood that has been shed,
By men whose guardians are we,
If we return.’”
That is perhaps the keynote of a book which the author has dedicated to all dead and living comrades who have loved England.
J. H. Collett, C.M.G., Colonel
Commanding the Fifth Battalion of the
Gloucestershire Regiment in France.