For Earth is envious of the Sea

Which shelters England's dead at last.

Robert J. C. Stead

From "Kitchener and Other Poems"—By permission of The Musson Book Company, Limited, Toronto


KITCHENER'S MARCH

Not the muffled drum for him

Nor the wailing of the fife—

Trumpets blaring to the charge

Were the music of his life.