HE was a boy of April beauty; one Who had not tried the world; who, while the sun Flamed yet upon the eastern sky, was done. Time would have brought him in her patient ways -- So his young beauty spoke -- to prosperous days, To fulness of authority and praise. He would not wait so long. A boy, he spent His boy's dear life for England. Be content: No honour of age had been more excellent. Note. Lieutenant S.G. Ridley, Royal Flying Corps, sacrificed his life in the Egyptian desert in an attempt to save a comrade. He was twenty years of age. |