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Inscription on a Soldiers’ Monument
By Joseph Anderson (1836–1916)[Born in Ross-shire, Scotland, 1836.]
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Went forth to fight,—if Heaven willed, to fall!
Returned, ye walk with us through sunnier years,
And hear a nation say, God bless you all!
And came not home to hearts by grief made sore!
They call you dead; but lo! ye grandly live,
Shrined in the nation’s love forevermore!