Two Voices

David Westcott Brown, (1892-1916)

Killed at the Battle of the Somme on the 14th of July 1916

Written in May 1916

The roads are all torn, but the sun's in the sky,

The houses are waste; but the day is all fair,

There s death in the air; and the larks are on high,

Though we die - ; It is spring-time, what do we care?

The Gardens are rank; but the grass is still green,

The orchards are shot-torn; There's bloom on the trees,

There s war all around; Yet is nature serene,

There s danger; we'll bear it, fanned by the breeze.

Some are wounded; they rest, and their glory is known,

Some are killed; there's peace for them under the sod,

Men s homes are in peril; their souls are their own,

The bullets are near us; not nearer than God.

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