<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">In a Harvest Field.</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">How</span> quietly beneath the quiet sky</p><p class="line">These men are sleeping who shall never wake!</p><p class="line">But soon the plough, the harrow, and the rake</p><p class="line">Shall pass them as I pass unheeded by;</p><p class="line">For underneath the fallows they will lie</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Who front to foe -- good seed for Freedom's sake --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Have fallen, and those who here their harvest make</p><p class="line">Will wonder at the richness of the rye.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">But He Who lets no single sparrow fall</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Unnoted, unremembered, in His care</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Has garnered all their great self-sacrifice;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">And though too 'soon in tender earth there lies</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">-- Till crack of doom -- each body made so fair,</p><p class="line">A happier world shall be memorial.</p></div><p class="byline">H. D. RAWNSLEY.</p></body></html> · Great War