AUTHOR FOUND.
(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sts,—In last week's issue of the Spectator I noticed that one of
your readers asks for help to identify the following poem. I have pleasure in doing so. You will find it in a small book
called Soldier Poets, published by Erksine Macdonald, London.
The poem is written by S. Donald Cox. Rifleman, 2/5 C.L.R., London Rifle Brigade:- " To Mr Mornee-1916.
If I should fall, grieve not that one so weak And poor as I Should die.
Nay! though thy heart should break, Think only this that when at dusk they speak
/f sons and brothers of another one, Then thou canst say—' I, too, had a son;
He died for England's Sake.' "
1 trust that this thought may bring some little consolation to his mother.—I am, Sir, &c., ANNIE Onme. The Hermitage, The Park, Nottingham.
tWe have received a large number of identical answers. Current poetry must be read more widely than is generally supposed.—En. Spectator.]
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