To all the heart-wounds touched afresh this day As on the Soldier's resting place we lay Thy flowers, Christ, in tender memory, Give healing thou, This eventide. And for the sorrowing ones who yet remain, To whom the heart-break and the bitter pain Come like the memory of an old song's sad refrain, Have pity thou, This eventide. For all the losses of the lonely years— For all the weight of shed and unshed tears, For all forebodings, and all coming fears, Give quietness, This eventide. By all the flower of youth in battle slain, By all the woman's heritage of pain; The prayer that it may not have been in vain. We leave with thee, This eventide. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER by JOHN CROWE RANSOM BROTHER JONATHAN'S LAMENT FOR SISTER CAROLINE [DECEMBER 2O, 1860] by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES THE HIGH TIDE AT [OR, ON THE COAST OF] LINCOLNSHIRE by JEAN INGELOW DAYS OF THE MONTH by MOTHER GOOSE INCOGNITA IN THE TEMPLE OF THESEUS by SEYMOUR GREEN WHEELER BENJAMIN |