I, A Stranger And Afraid, In A

This Is For All Ill-treated Fellows Unborn And Unbegot, For Them To Read When They're In Trouble And I Am Not.

Ten Thousand Times I've Done My Best And All's To Do Again.

Earth And High Heaven Are Fixed Of Old And Founded Strong.

I Could No More Define Poetry Than A Terrier Can Define A Rat.

These, In The Day When Heaven Was Falling, The Hour When Earth's Foundations Fled, Followed Their Mercenary Calling And Took Their Wages And Are Dead. The British Regulars Who Made The Retreat From Mons, Beginning August 24, 1914.