<meta content="urn:uuid:22cbf975-d1e0-4f7e-87f9-b9f93192d64c" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <p class="p15"><a id="a106"/><a href="../Text/004.html#a13"><span class="t9">SIX</span></a></p> <h1 class="h14"><a id="ncx522"/>AFTERMATH</h1> <p class="p0"><img alt="img7.png" src="../Images/img7.png" style="max-width:100%"/></p> <p class="p8"><a id="page_199"/><span class="t7">By hedge and dyke the leaves / Flame to the clay / Fanned by the wing / Of Death. Yet Life achieves / From such decay / The buds of spring. / By air and sea and earth / To glorious death / Our loves we gave / Certain that Death is Birth / Love blossometh / Beyond the grave.</span><span class="t11"><a href="../Text/128.html#ch7_n_1" id="ch7_nr_1">1</a></span></p> <p class="p9"><span class="t7a">CAPT. CHARLES K. MCKERROW,<br/></span><span class="t8">‘Flanders’, October 1915</span></p> <p class="p20">*</p> <p class="p8">‘<span class="t7">We worked for three days and three nights without rest. It was the bloodiest battle I ever saw.</span>’<span class="t11"><a href="../Text/128.html#ch7_n_2" id="ch7_nr_2">2</a></span></p> <p class="p9"><span class="t7a">PTE. H. STREETS,<br/></span> <span class="t8">58th Field Ambulance</span></p> </body> </html>