Shalt freely foot it where the poppies blow,

Shalt fight unfettered when the cannon roll,

And haply, Wanderer, when the hosts go home,

Thou only still in Aveluy shalt roam,

Haunting the crumbled windmill at Gavrelle

And fling thy bombs across the silent lea,

Drink with shy peasants at St. Catherine's Well

And in the dusk go home with them to tea.

A. P. H.