FROM JEST TO EARNEST
♦ (Written in tho Trenches, December 30, 1916.) If Death (that loore from whom we cannot hide), to share the jest of Lifo with me, _ " ■ Should poke a jovial finger in my , side, Then I'shall smile, and find indeed a jest ' . . \ In dying ere the-tfay lights up my life, Content in this—'tis for the common best. • - .* , » ♦ ■• Aye; but to find this earthy strife, , - An earnest struggle on the godlier. side; A training for the battlefield of life; . To take the road, and, looking back, to see All in one view—this seems to mo the best- : ' To watch the unfolding of the world and nie.—E. 11. MaGee. in the "Westminster Gazette."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3022, 8 March 1917, Page 6
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113FROM JEST TO EARNEST Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3022, 8 March 1917, Page 6
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