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270 AFTER BATTLE

BY DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT

THE YOUNG DEAD

BY MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT

who were born so beautifully

Of straight-limbed men and white-browed, candid wives,

Now have walked out beyond where we can see;

Are full-grown men, with spent and splendid lives:

And these that only a little while ago

Without our help would stumble in steep places,

Need never our hands, stride proudly on, and so

Come to a dawn of great, unknown spaces.