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Poem by Charles Hamilton Sorley


In Memoriam S. C. W., V.C.


There is no fitter end than this.
⁠     No need is now to yearn nor sigh.
We know the glory that is his,
⁠     A glory that can never die.

Surely we knew it long before,
⁠     Knew all along that he was made
For a swift radiant morning, for
⁠     A sacrificing swift night-shade. 

8 September 1915

Charles Hamilton Sorley


Charles Hamilton Sorley's other poems:
  1. Richard Jefferies
  2. A Hundred Thousand Million Mites We Go
  3. If I Have Suffered Pain
  4. A Tale of Two Careers
  5. J. B.


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