A PRAYER ON EASTER FOR OUR BOYS

By Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Dear God, they will not come again, those lads of ours,

Who went to fight with honor's foe across the sea —

Who died with eyes set straight ahead, amid the showers

Of shrapnel, as they cleared a path to victory,

They will not come again... And it is Easter weather,

And all the world is waking to the call of life,

But they lie sleeping, Over There, our lads, together,

Who died before their hearts could know the end of strife.