Here and There

'HERE' 

Soft benediction of September sun

Voices of children, laughing as they run

Green English lawns, bright flowers and butterflies

And over all the blue embracing skies.

'THERE'

Tumult and roaring of the incessant gun

Dead men and dying, trenches lost and won

Blood, mud, and havoc, bugles, shoutings, cries

And over all the blue embracing skies. 

Francis William Bourdillon