CONTENTS

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[DEDICATION: TO M. M. S.][7]
[THE VOLUNTEER][13]
[THE FARM][15]
[OMENS][18]
[ETERNAL TREASURE][19]
[FIRE IN THE DUSK][20]
[TURMUT-HOEING][21]
[IN A WARD][22]
[CAMPS][23]
[GIRL’S SONG][25]
[SOLACE OF MEN][26]
[DAY-BOYS AND CHORISTERS][27]
[AT RESERVE DEPOT][29]
[TOASTS AND MEMORIES][30]
[FROM THE WINDOW][32]
[YPRES—MINSTERWORTH][33]
[NEAR MIDSUMMER][34]
[TOUSSAINTS][36]
[THE STONE-BREAKER][38]
[DRIFTING LEAVES][40]
[CONTRASTS][41]
[TO F. W. H.][43]
[THE IMMORTAL HOUR][44]
[TO HIS LOVE][45]
[MIGRANTS][46]
[OLD MARTINMAS EVE][48]
[AFTER MUSIC][49]
[THE TARGET][50]
[TWIGWORTH VICARAGE][51]
[HOSPITAL PICTURES:]
[1. LADIES OF CHARITY][52]
[2. DUST][53]
[3. “ABERDONIAN”][55]
[4. COMPANION—NORTH-EAST DUGOUT][56]
[5. THE MINER][57]
[6. UPSTAIRS PIANO][58]
[HIDDEN TALES][61]
[RECOMPENSE][62]
[THE TRYST][63]
[THE PLAIN][64]
[RUMOURS OF WARS][65]
[“ON REST”][67]
[DICKY][70]
[THE DAY OF VICTORY][71]
[PASSIONATE EARTH][75]
[THE POPLAR][76]
[DOWN COMMERCIAL ROAD (GLOUCESTER)][77]
[FROM OMIECOURT][79]
[LE COQ FRANÇAIS][80]
[THE FISHERMAN OF NEWNHAM][82]
[THE LOCK-KEEPER][83]
[THE REVELLERS][84]
[“ANNIE LAURIE”][85]
[THE BATTALION IS NOW ON REST][86]
[PHOTOGRAPHS][87]
[THAT COUNTY][89]
[INTERVAL][90]
[DE PROFUNDIS][91]
[THE TOWER][93]

WAR’S EMBERS

THE VOLUNTEER
(To A. L. B.)

I would test God’s purposes:
I will go up and see
What fate He’ll give, what destiny
His hand holds for me.

For God is very secret,
Slow-smiles, but does not say
A word that will foreshadow
Shape of the coming day.

Curious am I, curious ...
And since He will not tell
I’ll prove Him, go up against
The naked mouth of Hell.

And what hereafter—Heaven?
Or Blighty? O if it were ...
Mere agony, mere pain the price
Of the returning there.