THE AIRMAN
Splendor of chivalrous Youth, swift-soaring far
In valorous venture of eagle-battle on high
Fate of a falling star—
Nay! a new Star in the sky!
TO FRANCIS LEDWIDGE
(Killed in action, July 31, 1917)
Beauty’s boy-servant, far in Flanders dead,
There shoots across the sea a shaft of pain
To think you are gone—a memory garlanded