12 APRIL 1919, Page 16

AUTHOR WANTED.

[To TICE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIII,—Can any of your readers help to identify, or complete, the.following fragment of a poem, found written on a postcard in the pocket-book of a soldier who made the supreme sacrifice in July last?--

" If I should fall, grieve not that one so weak And poor as I should die.

Say, though thy heart should break— Think only this, that, when at dusk,

They speak of sons and bro rs . . .."

The fatal bullet penetrated the surd at the word "brothers." and, by the pathetic irony of fate, the card is there stained by the brave lad's life-blood. His mother would like to know

and honour his last wish.—I am, Sir, Ac., KENT.