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CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS "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 12th S RFC Hartley M. Thomas 29/6/17 147
 * With a smiling face.