Page:For remembrance, soldier poets who have fallen in the war, Adcock, 1920.djvu/207

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Ewart Alan Mackintosh
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But the dead men's hands were beckoning
And I knew that I must go.


The dead men's eyes were watching, lass,
Their lips were asking too:
We faced it out and paid the price—
Are we betrayed by you?...


But you 'll forgive me yet, my dear,
Because of what you know,
I can look my dead friends in the face
As I couldn't two months ago.