In Memoriam
From time to time a glowing chapter
Lost names must have rooms in story
The heroes who braved and toiled
To create an untold glory
Half saint half human they cared no odds
And made our villages name
Reverberate and haunt from pole to pole
A widening whisper of fame !
But had their ways for all their days
Been set in lands apart,
Straitened and pent with never a vent
For mighty brains and heart
These very men, Perhaps might then
Have joined the nameless throng
Who wage endless war against social vices
But win no name in song