17 JULY 1915, Page 16

POETR,Y.

EUCHARISTERIA.

(Sunday morning, 13th June, 1915.)

MB House's heroes to commemorate we knelt before the Altar, at the rail, and tasted food that cannot ever fail the contrite soul to cheer and recreate: And there the young, the beautiful, the great, greater in death, and lovelier, we hail, and bless them, who have won within the veil, war-worn, self-sacrificed, elect, elate.

And even as we knelt, and prayed, and took the elements, and offered Eucharist, and knew ourselves united to the Christ; That moment, in the trenches, God forsook— or claimed our Darling, mid the German shells.

Therefore with Angels and with Archangels!