26 JUNE 1941, Page 12

WILL TO LIVE

Painful is life to all that dies, and stern the living word " Arise," the banishment, the angel's sword that makes the grave our only peace.

My life is yours to take, not mine to save, to love too great to know, love I must give— You, Angel, will as life, and not as I, longing myself to live, will but to die.

KATHLEEN RAINS.