'EQUALITY OF SACRIFICE'

A. 'I was a ''have''.' B. 'I was a ''have-not''.'
    (Together). 'What hast thou given which I gave not?'

    A SERVANT

We were together since the War began.
He was my servant — and the better man.

    A SON

My son was killed while laughing at some jest.
      I would I knew
What it was, and it might serve me in a time when
      jests are few.

    AN ONLY SON

I have slain none except my Mother. She
(Blessing her slayer) died of grief for me.

    EX CLERK

Pity not! The Army gave
Freedom to a timid slave:
In which Freedom did he find
Strength of body, will, and mind:
By which strength he came to prove
Mirth, Companionship, and Love:
For which Love to Death he went:
In which Death he lies content.

    THE WONDER

Body and Spirit I surrendered whole
To harsh Instructors — and received a soul . . .
If mortal man could change me through and through
From all I was — what may the God not do?

    HINDU SEPOY IN FRANCE

This man in his own country prayed we know not to
      what Powers.
We pray Them to reward him for his bravery in ours.

    THE COWARD

I could not look on Death, which being known,
Men led me to him, blindfold and alone.

    SHOCK

My name, my speech, my self I had forgot.
My wife and children came — I knew them not.
I died. My Mother followed. At her call
And on her bosom I remembered all.

    A GRAVE NEAR CAIRO

Gods of the Nile, should this stout fellow here
Get out — get out! He knows not shame nor fear.

    PELICANS IN THE WILDERNESS

    A Grave near Halfa

The blown sand heaps on me, that none may learn
   Where I am laid for whom my children grieve . . .
O wings that beat at dawning, ye return
   Out of the desert to your young at eve!