Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NAMELESS MEN, by EDWARD SHILLITO


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First Line: Around me when I wake or sleep
Last Line: The men who watch and die for me.
Subject(s): Death; Redemption; Soldiers; War; Dead, The


Around me when I wake or sleep,
Men strange to me their vigils keep;
And some were boys but yesterday
Upon the village green at play.
Their faces I shall never know;
Like sentinels they come and go.
In grateful love I bend the knee
For nameless men who die for me.

There is in earth or heaven no room
Where I may flee this dreadful doom.
Forever it is understood
I am a man redeemed by blood.
I must walk softly all my days
Down my redeemed and solemn ways.
Christ, take the men I bring to Thee,
The men who watch and die for me.





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