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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. General Gordon
  2. Russell Gurney
  3. To One Threatened with Blindness
  4. The Chrysalis
  5. To A. J. Scott


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