<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428655" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>No Man's Land</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not to an angel but a friend<br>He turned at the day's bitter end.<br>It was so comforting to feel<br>Some one was near, to see him kneel<br>By the deep shell-hole's edge: to know<br>He was not left to the fierce foe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This soldier who had eased his head<br>And staunched the flow where it had bled,<br>Who made a pillow of his breast<br>Where the poor tossing head might rest,<br>Wore a young face he used to know<br>Yesterday, some time, long ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The night's cold it was bitter enough,<br>But who shall keep the fierce Day off?<br>And must he lie, be burnt and baked<br>In the hot sands, with lips unslaked? --<br>Will no one give him dews and rain?<br>Lord, send the frozen night again!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But here's the one who comforted!<br>No angel, but a boy instead,<br>Slender and young, above him leans:<br>The sands are changed to tender greens;<br>He hears the wind in the sycamore<br>Sing a low song by his mother's door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such tender touches to his wound,<br>Such loving arms to clasp him round,<br>Until they find him the third day!<br>The stretcher-bearers heard him say,<br>Don't leave me, Denis! I am here.'<br>Denis? But Denis died last year!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He will maintain that Denis was<br>Beside him in his bitter case,<br>Denis more beautiful and gay<br>Than in the dear, remembered day:<br>God sent no angel, but a friend<br>To save him at the bitter end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katharine+Tynan">Katharine Tynan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428655" data-title="No Man's Land de Katharine Tynan" data-description="Not to an angel but a friend He turned at the day's bitter end. It was so comforting to feel Some one was near, to see him kneel By the deep shell-hole's edge: to know He was not left to the fierce foe. This soldier who had eased his head And sta..."></div> </div> </div>

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