With thoughts of one in a grave,

And wind stroking the grass.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE MEN

Gloucester, Glevum, and Caer Glow,

The name is nothing! Then as now

Men mowed the meadow-grass for cattle,

Died for Gloucestershire in battle,

Fought, and loved, and built, and planned,

And wrested with this kindly land.

Man’s tiny spark of mortal fire