Poems, 1914-1919

<h3><SPAN name="PIERRE" id="PIERRE"></SPAN>PIERRE</h3> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="smcap">I saw</span> you starting for another war,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The emblem of adventure and of youth,<br/></span> <span class="i0">So that men trembled, saying: “He forsooth<br/></span> <span class="i0">Has gone, has gone, and shall return no more.”<br/></span> <span class="i0">And then out there, they told me you were dead,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Taken and killed; how was it that I knew,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Whatever else was true, that was not true?<br/></span> <span class="i0">And then I saw you pale upon your bed,<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Scarcely two years ago, when you were sent<br/></span> <span class="i0">Back from the margin of the dim abyss;<br/></span> <span class="i0">For Death had sealed you with a warning kiss,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And let you go to meet a nobler fate:<br/></span> <span class="i0">To serve in fellowship, O fortunate:<br/></span> <span class="i0">To die in battle with your regiment.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_024" id="page_024"></SPAN>{24}</span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />