MEMORIES.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18591, 16 January 1926, Page 11

MEMORIES.

TWO ARMISTICE DAY POEMS. Here are two typical peetr.s frosi tbo many which appeared : .n the I-on !.v. newspapers ou Armistice Pay. The is from the "Morning Post":— THE TWO WOMEN. (Br lan Colvin.) Younp Woman: I bouch: shtjo in ti<# strftt. Old Woman: Foppies ere flowers of t".:33* mor wester. Young Woman: Theso are the work cf tirjerj neat. Of »:it and V.t-3 together. The? loo's .->.?erfal thevr: Murky eves:-; of Norseber. Old Womsr.: Poppies u* to Young Woman: Thcs? wi'.; he!p ta reir»3bfr. Old Woman; What of all ; year '"it this That *ou bring =:» p??r:e» ? Touag Woman: 'Ts* the cijM of Ar»Uti:i>. Darlir.c i!o:her of the DfiJ. Old Woman: Armistic* thvt catna 'a?* Young Woman: It Old Woman: It did cot t? tc-i jv-t miV. Ni>r did i: jive to me e? Yoanp Woman: Darling Mo:>.?r. do r.o! It is SfV,-v years Old Wcraan: Poppies. sier.ifying sleep. Givo • yea.-# si *.-3:."-Ypr<-s."V;iV «»v. kr.eis. I have thre? OTer ther?— What is peace o and you f Po you rhsni they a!wp *0 'N>a:h rho poppiil Konrin; Ihus Over ther* .>*■. foreign jroaaJ. That thfy never think oi a*J Young Woman: Sometinut I™. the tii'.l of ni jht. Whov. rcaestbsring I iatj bin. It has »?emed as might Have bp,-- t.rabb'.inc o.i the rani». Old Woman: Broken hear:j, lite «&pt;r houses. Full of ghost'r echfM air. And the wind assise ti* boughs is— Or a casement left a?*r—— Like enough th* aosnd si siehir.c To the li»:eser on th» With co lover near her Ijioj But the taoraory cf her dead. Young Woman: Darling Mother, ca this night. Will it comfort thesa ta know They Are zrot feTsott«a Thouch *lia j«ks year* ago: That the folk they to save. For a spaca viti head. Seek to imitatn flte rr«*» And the aitescs cf th»> dead I • • • They fell to ailence too, thesf brats. And listened, pressing to «sc& oth«r. Ah, was it hut the leaves sf»in. Or brother whisperinf to broth art Who knows!— The wind waa lilt® a ai«b| Not even love can break th* bar#: They looked out to th« wintry aky. The night was full of (tara. The second is from the 4 'Observer,'* and suggests a new angle:— AFTERWARDS IN FLANDERS. (By An Unknown Civilian) Out of their mingled earth tall tow «rt sproutinje, Withered thetr laurels now, their &ÜBM unguesaed; Here, where they died to *avo hj, BothifcC doabtinp. Sheltered from our forgetfalnea* th*y twi. Falls once agaic the twilight of Koveraber. These gave their lives when 1U« m* at the May. .... Have I the right to whisper. "I reawaMr 1 I was not with them when the? Buclltl •way. All that they never had -araa Sl':a% iiU meaaure. Dying, they passed to me their ltartU«»— Love, friendship, toil, achievement, bwntias. leianre. Voices of children, goldra middl»-»5». And, with it all, the knowledge afltr »Se*;>ing. Though none reproached, that X was mat as they. That Life is won by losing. loat by keejinff— I was not with them when tiey nasefcut away.