Loss

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Loss

THE world went blind to-day
Groping with shattered faith.
And in the lonely awful night
Madness stalked, taunting me.
The gibbering ghoulish wraith
Of dreams unrealised
Sprang up and mocked my way;
Just that in one wild spot beyond the sea,
A dear heart that I prized
Passed to the Silent Light.

They say his soul lives on—
That I shall find
Him safe in God's eternity.
To-night, to-night, this aching in my breast,
This wildness in my mind
Cries to the farthest cruel star:—
"O Thou to Whom his soul has gone,
Spare me his lips love-prest!
In this pained night eternity is far—
God! give his dear warm body back to me."

Title: Loss
Identifier: greatwar_moresongs2011

Item sets: More Songs By the Fighting Men

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