Page:For remembrance, soldier poets who have fallen in the war, Adcock, 1920.djvu/266

214

But gropers both through fields of thought confined

We stumble, and we do not understand....

And Alexander Robertson, finding on the body of a dead German soldier a prayer-book, letters, and photographs of wife and children, writes pityingly in 'Thou Shalt Love Thine Enemies':

When you know something of Alexander Robertson, scholarly, peace-loving, high-minded, you recognise how unself-consciously he has revealed his personality in the verse he has written. He was born at Edinburgh in 1882; had a brilliant career at school and college, winning at Edinburgh University medals in Latin, Education, and Political Economy. He took his M.A. degree there, with a First Class Honours in History. Then for three years he taught, as senior master in History, at his old school, George Watson's College,