They save the choicest of their tears to shed

For those who break all laws divine and human;

They'd bid the dead past cover up its dead,

Forgetful of our murdered, child and woman;

Forgetful of our drowned who sleep

Without a grave beneath the wandering deep.

I know not how or when this War will close,

But this I know: unless my brain goes rotten,

Never will I clasp hand with hand of those,

False to their blood, who'd have these things forgotten,