Slain
Slain
Original Text
The Collected Poems of T. W. H. Crosland (London: Martin
Secker, 1917): 155-56. PR 4518 C686A17
1You who are still and white
2 And cold like stone;
3For whom the unfailing light
4 Is spent and done;
5For whom no more the breath
6 Of dawn, nor evenfall
7Nor Spring, nor love, nor death
8 Matter at all;
9Who were so strong and young
10 And brave and wise,
11And on the dark are flung
12 With darkened eyes;
13Who roystered and caroused
14 But yesterday,
15And now are dumbly housed
16 In stranger clay;
17Who valiantly led,
18 Who followed valiantly,
19Who knew no touch of dread
20 Of that which was to be;
21Children that were as nought
22 Ere ye were tried,
23How have ye dared and fought,
24 Triumphed and died!
25Yea, it is very sweet
26 And decorous
27The omnipotent Shade to meet
28 And flatter thus.
Publication Start Year
1899
Publication Notes
The Outlook (Nov. 11, 1899).
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2002
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