118 JULIAN GRENFELL
��INTO BATTLE
The naked earth is warm with Spring, And with green grass and bursting trees
Leans to the sun's gaze glorying, And quivers in the sunny breeze ;
And Life is Color and Warmth and Light,
And a striving evermore for these ; And he is dead who will not fight ;
And who dies fighting has increase.
The fighting man shall from the sun
Take warmth, and life from the glowing earth ; Speed with the light-foot winds to run.
And with the trees to newer birth ; And find, when fighting shall be done.
Great rest, and fullness after dearth.
All the bright company of Heaven Hold him in their high comradeship.
The Dog-Star and the Sisters Seven, Orion's Belt and sworded hip.
The woodland trees that stand together, They stand to him each one a friend ;
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