Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1918 — THE PARTING [ARTICLE]

THE PARTING

You go. And with you all my heart’s delight. I walk in darkness. Yet you leave my side That all the black world may again know light You go. I weep; and yet with perfect pride And glory born of sorrow, know you fight , , . Till all the bitter tears of earth are dried. You go. And o’er Spring’s gardens sweeps a cruel blight Yet, you depart that one day far and wide The poppy fields of Flanders may bloom bright You go. I bear a cross. And yet you ’ ride To greet mad Death, agrope in war s strange might. For him the unbelievers crucified. Today as then! Ah —go—in Youth’s pure might, . . „ . And should I lose you on that red, red tide _ Know that I shall not question Gods good right. —Faith Baldwin of The Vigilantes.