Remembering a Veteran Lance Corporal Francis Ledwidge Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers KIA - Battle of Passchendaele

Death of a War Poet: Francis Ledwidge

by David F. Beer



A Soldier's Grave





Then in the lull of midnight, gentle arms

Lifted him slowly down the slopes of death

Lest he should hear again the mad alarms

Of battle, dying moans, and painful breath.


And where the earth was soft for flowers we made

A grave for him that he might better rest.

So, Spring shall come and leave it sweet