From heedless walks, from ageing rust we came
--we called it life.
'Twas not! We came to live.
Out of the profound, profound we'll come, out, up;
Out of the deep we'll come, not from the shallows.
H. H. V. Cross,
London Rifle Brigade.
'A Young Soldier's De Profundis.'
II
NOTRE DAME DE DÉLIVRANCE
At the gate of a ruined farm in our sector in Flanders is a little chapel to 'Our Lady of Deliverance.' It is seventy years old. The brickwork at one corner is broken down by shell-fire, but the ancient picture above the altar, and the altar also, are intact.