Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1918 — TO A SOLDIER IN FRANCE [ARTICLE]

TO A SOLDIER IN FRANCE

Oh, If today you dream of home, Think of the road we know Untangling a blue skein of hills; - And how the birches grow Against the light, and of that day Only a year ago! For here alone those hills again Your little son and I Are wishing the enchanted trail Would lead us round the sky And drop us in a Flanders field To see you marching by. And now the child is eager for A wonder-tale of Greece; I tell him how you sailed away Like Jason for the Fleece, To find a glory more than <gold Beside the winding Lys. But while his deep eyes glow and slew. It seems another tells The tale and beauty to my heart No world of meaning spells. And the river on the valley-floor Flows over Flemish bells. —Grace Hazard Conkling, In the Century.