ONE THOUSAND FAMOUS THINGS 97

Come On, All You Young Hen

on now, all you young men, all over the world. You are
V^ needed more than ever now to fill the gap of a generation shorn
by the war. You have not an hour to lose. You must take your
places in life's fighting line. Twenty to twenty-five. These are
the years! Don't be content with things as they are. The earth
is yours, and the fullness thereof. Winston Churchill

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As Sure as Macaulay

WISH I were as sure about any one thing as Macaulay
is about everything. Lord Melbourne

I Am the Grass

PILE the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work.
I am the grass ; I cover all.
And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the Conductor :

What place is this ?

Where are we now ?

I am the grass. Let me work. Carl Sandburg

Beauty Bright

HERE lies Merrily Joules,
A beauty bright,
Who left Isaac Joules
Her heart's delight.

Epitaph in a Somerset churchyard

On Robin's Grave

lightly here, for here, tis said,
JL When piping winds are hushed around,
A small note wakes from underground,
Where now his tiny bones are laid.
No more in lone and leafless groves,
With ruffled wing and faded breast,
His friendless, homeless spirit roves ;
Gone to the world where birds are blessed
Where never cat glides o'er the green,
Or schoolboy's giant form is seen ;
But Love, and Joy, and smiling Spring
Inspire their little souls to sing.
Epitaph by Samuel Rogers on an urn in a garden
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