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IN FRANCE by CLINTON SCOLLARD

First Line: IS IT WELL WITH HENRI AND JEAN AND PAUL?
Last Line: "WELL WITH THEM ALL—THEY ARE ALL WITH GOD!"
Subject(s): DEATH; DEATH - CHILDREN; FRANCE; MOTHERS & SONS; SOLDIERS; SONS; WAR; DEAD, THE; DEATH - BABIES;
"Is it well with Henri and Jean and Paul?"
An old bent man to a mother said,
As they met at morn by a little stall
Where the baker sold them their loaves of bread.

"Is it well with Henri and Jean and Paul?"
And the mother bowed as beneath a rod;
Then she answered, "Aye, it is well with them all,
Well with them all—they are all with God!"



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