Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Rik George writes

Admonition

Don’t weep for the dead, they want no tears 

Falling on their graves. The green lawns need 
No salty tears the living leave. 
They flourish un-watered, unwept, forsaken 
By the living who fear to find themselves 
Under the grass in the ground that lies 
Heavy with sorrow above their bones. 
Don’t weep for the dead, your tears are wasted 
The dead don’t care if you cry for them.
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A Roadside Cemetery Near Neuve Eglise -- George Edmund Butler

1 comment:

  1. Neuve-Église (Neukirch) is a village in the Bas-Rhin (Unterelsàss) department in the Grand Est (Großer Osten) administrative region in northeastern France (formerly
    Alsace (Elsass; ’s Elsass in Alsatian). Bas-Rhin means "Lower Rhine," though geographically it is part of the Upper Rhine (Oberrhein) between Basle, Switzerland, and Bingen, Germany. Neuve-Eglise) was captured by the Germans on 14 April 1918 after a stubborn defene by the 49th (West Riding) and 33rd Divisions and retaken by the 36th (Ulster) Division on 2 September. The graveyard contains 92 Commonwealth burials from the First World War and 10 from the Second, as well as 4 war graves of other nationalities.

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