This war's dead heroes, who has seen them? <br />They rise in smoke above the burning city, <br />Faint clouds, dissolving into sky — <br /> <br />And who sifting the Libyan sand can find <br />The tracery of a human hand, <br />The faint impression of an absent mind, <br />The fade-out of a soldier's day dream? <br /> <br />You'll know your love no more, nor his sweet kisses — <br />He's forgotten you, girl, and in the idle sun <br />In long green grass that the east wind caresses <br />The seed of man is ravished by the corn.<br /><br />Kathleen Jessie Raine<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/heroes/
