Seager, Alexandrine – June 1917
VIOLETS FOR REMEMBRANCE
In lowly reverential love
On this their mem’ry day
We wear a violet to prove
The debt we cannot pay
To those in whom youth’s golden dream
Warmed glad young veins like wine
Who made the sacrifice supreme –
A sacrifice divine
Their fame shall fast through ages stand
Like giant rocks, when we
Are but as grains of drifting sand
Beside and endless sea.
June 29, 1917
