C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Francis William Bourdillon (18521921)
Poems of the Great War: Here: and There
September, 1914
HERE
SVoices of children, laughing as they run;
Green English lawns, bright flowers and butterflies;
And over all the blue embracing skies.
Tumult and roaring of the incessant gun;
Dead men and dying, trenches lost and won;
Blood, mud, and havoc, bugles, shoutings, cries;
And over all the blue embracing skies.