Canadian Singers and Their Songs/Hartley Munro Thomas

by Hartley Munro Thomas

HARTLEY MUNRO THOMAS

LIEUTENANT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE, B.E.F.
AUTHOR OF "SONGS OF AN AIRMAN AND OTHER POEMS."

"Lt.————, R.F C., missing believed killed."

A rain drop on the leaf
Of a rose is here—
The purest form of grief
Is a sunbeam's tear.

The airman who is slain
Has a petal shroud
And he feels the gentle rain
From the mourning cloud.

Where comrade sunbeams leap
In the open space,
Where the hero fell asleep
With a smiling face.

12th S
⁠RFC⁠ Hartley M. Thomas
⁠29/6/17⁠ —————