Your bright, brave soul keyed to the fighter's clench—
This purgatory that men call the "trench"—
This modern "Black Hole" of a modern war!
Yea, Love! yet naught I say can save you, so
I lay my heart in yours and let you go.
Stories of French Courage
By Edwin L. Shuman
[From THE NEW YORK TIMES, April, 1915.]