FOREWORD CONTENTS 44422 ST. PANCRAS STATION, AUGUST 1915 TO A FALLEN IDOL TO MONSEIGNEUR THE ONLY SON PERHAPS A MILITARY HOSPITAL LOOKING WESTWARD THEN AND NOW MAY MORNING THE TWO TRAVELLERS ROUNDEL THE SISTERS BURIED AT LEMNOS IN MEMORIAM: G.R.Y.T. A PARTING WORD TO MY BROTHER [A] SIC TRANSIT TO THEM OXFORD REVISITED THAT WHICH REMAINETH THE GERMAN WARD THE TROOP-TRAIN TO MY WARD-SISTER TO ANOTHER SISTER "VENGEANCE IS MINE" WAR THE LAST POST THE ASPIRANT
VERSES OF A V.A.D.
VERSES OF A V.A.D BY
VERA M. BRITTAIN
(V.A.D. London/268, B.R.C.S.)
Foreword by MARIE CONNOR LEIGHTON
ERSKINE MACDONALD, LTD.
LONDON, W.C.1
All Rights Reserved
First published August 1918
DEDICATED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ROLAND AUBREY LEIGHTON
Lieutenant, Worcestershire Regiment
DIED OF WOUNDS NEAR HÉBUTERNE
December 23rd, 1915
“Good-bye, sweet friend. What matters it that you
Have found Love’s death in joy, and I in sorrow?
For hand in hand, just as we used to do,
We two shall live our passionate poem through
On God’s serene to-morrow.”
R. A. L.
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