C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Anonymous
Poems of the Great War: St. Ouen in Picardy
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Through the sunny fields of France;
Flowers that blow at Nedonchel
Thrive in Gloucestershire as well:
Children sing to fleet the time
What they deem an English rhyme—
“Kiss me quick; après la guerre
Promenade en Angleterre.”
Out of children’s lips again
Comes the lilt of English song
When their absence has been long;
Children running through the street
Beating time with merry feet—
“Kiss me quick; après la guerre
Promenade en Angleterre.”
Brings a sudden questioning:
Here the children play and roam—
How’s my little one at home?
In St. Ouen the simple strain
Takes the heart with hungry pain—
“Kiss me quick; après la guerre
Promenade en Angleterre.”