"Bend down upon thy knees, my son,

And take into thy hand,

Thy wounded hand, and mine, somewhat

Of the earth of this good land,

That dreaming of our home, we two

May kiss the soil of England!"

Emile Cammaerts

From "War Poems and Other Translations"—By Lord Curzon. By permission of John Lane, The Bodley Head, London


EXTRACT FROM "THE WAR AND THE SOUL"