R. C. G. Dartford
War-time Consolation
BUT for the watches dark
Would you welcome the morrow?
Can any joy reach your heart
But mounts upon sorrow?
Surely pains in which you take part
Pleasures will borrow?
Welcome Death
WHEN you've been dead beat, and had to go on
While others died; when your turn to be gone
Is overdue; when you're pushed ahead
("Go on till you die" is all they said),
Then die—and you're glad to be dead!
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