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The Spike: or, Victoria University College Review, June 1916

A Soldier Dying

A Soldier Dying.

To help to shape—to die, before we know
What form and likeness our great work will take—
The rest with willing hands to mould and make
The work that we began, and, ending so,
The rest will stand, their bright eyes all aglow
With joy in the fulfillment! We'll ne'er wake
To hear the thund'rous guns whose salvoes shake
The very skies, while glad processions go
Through the thronged streets with streaming banners proud.
While people pour their thankful hearts in praise
That now has passed away the grim war-cloud
And rosy Peace smiles through the sunlit days;
Though here and there are heads in sorrow bowed
Mindful of us, now hid in Death's dark ways.

—M. L. N.