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Rh 'that Love its life in death can find'; and his requiem over the dead is a rejoicing:

He hails the dead as

and elsewhere exults that he and his comrades, dying, will have given their all, even their heritage of youth, that the reign of humanity shall be restored:

and foresees how the youth of the years to be

and learn from them how to die for liberty.

No militarism is here, nor in any of the poems I have read by these soldiers; no strut of the goose-step, no taste for slaughter nor lust of conquest for its own sake, nor any of the cheap, dazzling