Picture-Show

[PICTURE-SHOW]
[RECONCILIATION]
[CONCERT PARTY]
[NIGHT ON THE CONVOY]
[THE DUG-OUT]
[BATTALION-RELIEF]
[IN AN UNDERGROUND DRESSING STATION]
[I STOOD WITH THE DEAD]
[MEMORIAL TABLET]
[ATROCITIES]
[TO LEONIDE MASSINE]
[MEMORY]
[TO A VERY WISE MAN]
[EARLY CHRONOLOGY]
[ELEGY]
[MIRACLES]
[THE GOLDSMITH]
[DEVOTION TO DUTY]
[ANCIENT HISTORY]
[SPORTING ACQUAINTANCES]
[WHAT THE CAPTAIN SAID AT THE POINT-TO-POINT]
[CINEMA HERO]
[FANCY DRESS]
[MIDDLE-AGES]
[THE PORTRAIT]
[BUTTERFLIES]
[WRAITHS]
[PHANTOM]
[THE DARK HOUSE]
[IDYLL]
[PARTED]
[LOVERS]
[SLUMBER-SONG]
[THE IMPERFECT LOVER]
[VISION]
[TO A CHILDLESS WOMAN]
[AFTERMATH]
[FALLING ASLEEP]
[PRELUDE TO AN UNWRITTEN MASTERPIECE]
[LIMITATIONS]
[EVERYONE SANG]

And still they come and go: and this is all I know—
That from the gloom I watch an endless picture-show,
Where wild or listless faces flicker on their way,
With glad or grievous hearts I'll never understand
Because Time spins so fast, and they've no time to stay
Beyond the moment's gesture of a lifted hand.

And still, between the shadow and the blinding flame,
The brave despair of men flings onward, ever the same
As in those doom-lit years that wait them, and have been...
And life is just the picture dancing on a screen.

RECONCILIATION

When you are standing at your hero's grave,
Or near some homeless village where he died,
Remember, through your heart's rekindling pride,
The German soldiers who were loyal and brave.

Men fought like brutes; and hideous things were done;
And you have nourished hatred, harsh and blind.
But in that Golgotha perhaps you'll find
The mothers of the men who killed your son.

November, 1918.