<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">A. S. K.</h1><h1 align="center" class="head"><em>July 14, 1915</em></h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">You</span> must not mourn for him, he that went out to France,</p><p class="line">He, like the rest of them, clear-minded, open-eyed,</p><p class="line">It was for him to decide;</p><p class="line">He took his chance;</p><p class="line">And he is dead in France.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Oh, do not mourn for him, he heard his country's call,</p><p class="line">And answering, gave all he had to give;</p><p class="line">Yet though they die, they live;</p><p class="line">Not dead at all</p><p class="line">Those who obeyed that call.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">No, no, it is not wasted, all that love and thought,</p><p class="line">It is embodied in all truth and right;</p><p class="line">These pass not out to-night</p><p class="line">Nor turn to nought --</p><p class="line">Labor and love and thought.</p></div><p class="byline">-- N. M. H.</p></body></html> · Great War