C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Charles Murray (1864–1941)
Poems of the Great War: “When Will the War Be By?”
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A lanely lass, bringing hame the kye.
Pu’s at a floo’er wi’ a weary sigh,
An’ laich, laich, she is coontin’ ever
“This year, neist year, sometime, never.
When will the war be by?”
Is there nae news o’ oor lads ava?
Are they hale an’ fere that are hine awa’?
A lass raxed oot for the list, to read—
“Weel, wounded, missin’, deid”;
An’ the war was by for twa.