14 JUNE 1919, Page 15

AN EPITAPH FOR SOLDIERS.

Pro run EDEMA Or THE " BPDLTADOR."3 than thus when memorials of our soldiers and sailors are much in the public mind may I call to your remembrance some lines of Simonides which seem to me appropriate to such

an occasion P-

detkover eXeet site ialXy wept varpUlt germs ertheor Oardros ituoefletorro riXoi,

otsll TEOParlt &warm, evel 0'0' &peril scOMrepOsr svocireee' /te&ysi 8Wp4res d

which I would venture to translate:— These men on entering Death's o'ershadowing gloom Lustre undimmed on their dear homeland shed.

But divine honour freed them from their doom In glory: tho' they died they are not dead.