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278 involuntarily to some lines from one of Simpson's poems, 'If It Should Chance——,' that might have been written for so many of the unremembered thousands who have fallen in battle:

And because that must be true of the vast majority, one is the happier that these at least will be held longer in remembrance who could give words to their thoughts and emotions, which were the thoughts and emotions also of their comrades who died and made no sign, and have put their hearts and minds into songs that are not so perishable as the singer.