_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ SEVERN AND SOMME, 1917 WAR’S EMBERS AND OTHER VERSES BY IVOR GURNEY LONDON: SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD. 3 ADAM STREET, ADELPHI, W.C.2. 1919 _First published in 1919_ _All rights reserved_ TO M. M. S. _O, if my wishes were my power,_ _You should be praised as were most fit,_ _Whose kindness cannot help but flower._ _But since the fates have ordered it_ _Otherwise, then ere the hour_ _Of darkness deaden all my wit_ _I’ll write: how all my art was poor,_ _My mind too thought-packed to acquit_ _My debt ... And only, “Thanks once more.”_ A few of the poems in this volume have already appeared in print: “The Volunteer,” “In a Ward,” and “The Battalion is now on Rest” in _The Spectator_; “The Immortal Hour” in _The Westminster Gazette_; “The Day of Victory” in _The Gloucester Journal_; and “After Music” in _The R.C.M, Magazine_. The author desires to thank the respective editors for their kind permission to include these poems in the present collection. CONTENTS PAGE DEDICATION: TO M. M. S. 7 THE VOLUNTEER 13 THE FARM 15 OMENS 18 ETERNAL TREASURE 19 FIRE IN THE DUSK 20 TURMUT-HOEING 21 IN A WARD 22 CAMPS 23 GIRL’S SONG 25 SOLACE OF MEN 26 DAY-BOYS AND CHORISTERS 27 AT RESERVE DEPOT 29 TOASTS AND MEMORIES 30 FROM THE WINDOW 32 YPRES--MINSTERWORTH 33 NEAR MIDSUMMER 34 TOUSSAINTS 36 THE STONE-BREAKER 38 DRIFTING LEAVES 40 CONTRASTS 41 TO F. W. H. 43