"A Cross in Flanders," G. Rostrevor Hamilton

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A Cross in Flanders

In the face of death, they say, he joked–he had no fear;

His comrades, when they laid him in a Flanders grave,

Wrote on a rough-hewn cross–a Calvary stood near–

"Without a fear he gave

"His life, cheering his men, with laughter on his lips."

So wrote they, mourning him. Yet was there only one

Who fully understood his laughter, his gay quips,

One only, she alone–

She who, not so long since, when love was new-confest,
Herself toyed with light laughter while her ...