23 OCTOBER 1915, Page 16

POETRY.

EDITH CAVELL.

[An English nurse charged with harbouring fugitive English and Trench soldiers, and executed by order of the German authorities in Brussels.]

WHAT shall we say of you, Edith Cavell P

For you no flowers and no passing bell, But one last upward look at a grey sky And you, who watched so many others die, Did pass uncomforted, unhelped, alone.

"Fearless and kind," this shall be carved in stone, And set one day above an honoured grave, "Others she saved, herself she could not save."

MORAY DALTON'.