Victor James William Patrick Daley

“ But oh! my heart was sore to think
Of friends I left behind.
We rode o'er hills that seemed to sweep
Skyward like swelling waves;
The living stirred not in their sleep,
The dead slept in their graves. ”

“ Fear had become a lily white
And Pain a rose of red.
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