POETRY.
Gmumn with white daisies was the great green world Your restless feet have pressed this long day through— Come now and let me whisper to your dreams A little song grown from my love for you.
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There was a man once loved green fields like you, He drew his knowledge from the wild birds' songs, And he had praise for every beauteous thing, And he had pity for all piteous wrongs. . . .
A lover of earth's forests—of her hills, And brother to her sunlight—to her rain— Man with a boy's fresh wonder. Ho was great With greatness all too simple to explain.
He was a dreamer, and a poet, and brave To face and hold what he alone found true. He was a comrade of the old—a friend To every little laughing child like you.
. . . . . . . • • And when across the peaceful English land Unhurt by war, the light is growing dim And you remember by your shadowed bed All those—the brave—you must remember him; And know it was for you who bear his name And such as you that all his joy he gave, His love of quiet fields, his youth, his life, To win that heritage of peace you have. MARJORIE WILSON.
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