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EPITAPH by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY

First Line: YOU WHO DIED FIGHTING
Last Line: THE ROSE IS YOUR JOY.
Subject(s): CEMETERIES; DEATH; HOLIDAYS; MEMORIAL DAY; SOLDIERS; UNKNOWN SOLDIER; WAR; WESTMINSTER ABBEY; GRAVEYARDS; DEAD, THE; DECLARATION DAY;

YOU who died fighting
For me and my little children;
You who are a million
Yet are but one,
I lay upon your grave
A rose and a tear—
The tear is the world's sorrow,
The rose is your joy.



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