<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Somewhere in France</h1><p class="byline"> LE ROY C. HENDERSON <br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/><span class="smallcaps">IN Cartoons Magazine</span><br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/>Permission to reproduce in this book</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">SHE stands alone beside the gate, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Where oft with him she stood before, </p><p class="line">And seems to hear his voice relate</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Life's sweetest story o'er and o'er;</p><p class="line">A hand she feels upon her own,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Unconsciously a tender glance</p><p class="line">She gives, then starts and stands alone,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The lover sleeps--Somewhere in France.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">She could have kept him if she would--</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">His heart and soul were all her own--</p><p class="line">But true love knew and understood</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">That Honor is its own true throne;</p><p class="line">She heard the bugles' blaring sound</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And whispered--"Go and take your chance."</p><p class="line">There 'mid the scenes of war he found</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Eternal peace--Somewhere in France.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">She knows not where that spot may be--</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">On barren plain, in hidden dell,</p><p class="line">On wooded hill, beside the sea--</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The lips that would will never tell;</p><p class="line">She knows not what his last words were.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The thoughts that come with Death's advance,</p><p class="line">And yet, she feels they were of her,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Those last fond thoughts--Somewhere in France. </p></div></body></html> · Great War