<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The Roll of Honour.</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Your</span> faces haunt me from the printed pages,</p><p class="line">The roll call of our valiant English dead;</p><p class="line">What woman's hands, I wonder, clung in parting?</p><p class="line">What woman's heart breaks now the shot is sped?</p><p class="line">We speak of Glory and the Cause you died for,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">We lay our homage on your bloodstained grave,</p><p class="line">Will Glory help to ease the women's anguish</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Or solace them for these dear dead they gave?</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Yea, surely. For your spirits go before them,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">You, who made Death a crown about your lives!</p><p class="line">And in the splendour of your souls that conquered</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">We learn this lesson. Blessed is he who strives,</p><p class="line">For Love and Faith, for Truth and priceless Honour,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">These cannot pass away with mortal breath,</p><p class="line">God guards them safe, and in His mighty keeping</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Are also those who nobly looked on Death!</p></div><p class="byline">MARGARET PETERSON,<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/><em>Author of "The Lure of the Little Drum,"<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/>"Blind Eyes," "Tony Bellew," etc.</em></p></body></html> · Great War