The Ridge 1919

The Ridge 1919 written by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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Here on the ridge where the shrill north-easter trails
Low clouds along the snow
And in a streaming moonlit vapour veils
The peopled earth below.

Let me, O life, a little while forget
The horror of past years –
Man and his agony and bloody sweat,
The terror and the tears.

And struggle only with the mist and snow
Against the hatless wind,
Till scourged and shriven I again may go
To dwell among my kind.

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