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Poem by George MacDonald


Home from the Wars


A tattered soldier, gone the glow and gloss,
With wounds half healed, and sorely trembling knee,
Homeward I come, to claim no victory-cross:
I only faced the foe, and did not flee.



George MacDonald


George MacDonald's other poems:
  1. The Gospel Women. 8. The Widow with the Two Mites
  2. A. M. D
  3. To Garibaldi, with a Book
  4. The Gospel Women. 6. The Woman whom Satan had bound
  5. To S. F. S.


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