When They Have Made an End

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When They Have Made an End

When they have made an end
Of their importunate crying over you
"God speed," and "God defend,"
And time is swift and there is nought to do
But match with wilder hope our wild despair;
When there is quiet, bend
Your lips to mine, and in the darkness there
Wish me good courage, friend.

-- Gerald H. Crow.

Title: When They Have Made an End
Identifier: greatwar_cunliffe031

Item sets: Poems of the Great War

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