Show bu OUR R DEAD OVER SEAS they sleep they took the chance in italy in Bel belgium glum in france for us they gave their to its last breath for us they plunged on into the gulf of death with high highfi heroic heart they did their valiant part they gave the grace and glory of their youth to lie in id heaps uncouth they turned from these bright skies to lie ile with dust and silence on their eyes yet they have wages that wo we know not of wages of honor and immortal mortal I 1 nn love for they went down only to live again in the eternal memory of men to be warm pulse beats in the soul that drives the blind world onward to her goal they are not dead lifes flag is is never unfurled they passed from world to I 1 world I 1 their bodies sleep but in some nobler land their spirits march under a new command new joys await them thero there in hero heavens wrape in immortal Mort alair air rejoice for them ie rejoice joice they made the nobler choice how shall we honor their deed how speak our praise of this immortal breed only by living nobly as they died toiling for truth denied loyal to something bigger than we are something that swings the spirit to a star edwin markham |