Marlborough and other poems/In Memoriam S. C. W., V.C.

by Charles Hamilton Sorley

XXXVII

IN MEMORIAM

S.C.W., V.C.

There is no fitter end than this.
No need is now to yearn nor sigh.
We know the glory that is his,
A glory that can never die.

Surely we knew it long before,
Knew all along that he was made
For a swift radiant morning, for
A sacrificing swift night-shade.

8 September 1915