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Robert W Service - Our HeroRobert W Service - Our Hero
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"Flowers, only flowers bring me dainty posies,     Blossoms for forgetfulness," that was all he said; So we sacked our gardens, violets and roses,     Lilies white and bluebells laid we on his bed. Soft his pale hands touched them, tenderly caressing;     Soft into his tired eyes came a little light; Such a wistful love-look, gentle as a blessing;     There amid the flowers waited he the night. "I would have you raise me; I can see the West then:     I would see the sun set once before I go." So he lay a-gazing, seemed to be at rest then,     Quiet as a spirit in the golden glow. So he lay a-watching rosy castles crumbling,     Moats of blinding amber, bastions of flame, Rugged rifts of opal, crimson turrets tumbling;     So he lay a-dreaming till the shadows came. "Open wide the window; there`s a lark a-singing;     There`s a glad lark singing in the evening sky. How it`s wild with rapture, radiantly winging:     Oh it`s good to hear that when one has to die. I am horror-haunted from the hell they found me;     I am battle-broken, all I want is rest. Ah! It`s good to die so, blossoms all around me,     And a kind lark singing in the golden West. "Flowers, song and sunshine, just one thing is wanting,     Just the happy laughter of a little child." So we brought our dearest, Doris all-enchanting;     Tenderly he kissed her; radiant he smiled. "In the golden peace-time you will tell the story     How for you and yours, sweet, bitter deaths were ours. . . . God bless little children!" So he passed to glory,     So we left him sleeping, still amid the flow`rs.
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