For the great Almighty’s blessin’ on the Girl yuh left behind.
E. C. D., Field Hospital.
TO THE CHILDREN OF FRANCE
I wish you, children, playing round
On this too-rudely trampled ground,
Only the good things I would send
To all the children I befriend.
But one wish circles all: To know
Little of what your elders do,
And somehow into the sunlight grow