Sunday War Poet ...

The theme for this months poetry

 is


Remembrance

Valley of the Shadows 

by

John Galsworthy

(1867-1933)

God, I am travelling out to death's sea,

I, who exulted in sunshine and laughter,

Dreamed not of dying — death is such waste of me! —

Grant me one prayer: Doom not the hereafter

Of mankind to war, as though I had died not —

I, who in battle, my comrade's arm linking,

Shouted and sang, life in my pulses hot

Throbbing and dancing! Let not my sinking

In dark be for naught, my death a vain thing!

God, let me know it the end of man's fever!

Make my last breath a bugle call, carrying

Peace o'er the valleys and cold hills for ever!