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 In sea and strait and bay。

Though they have lain for ages

 Beneath the changeless flood;

They shall be white as silver;

 But one  shall be like blood。









'End of Main Street and Other Poems。'









The following biographical information is from the Occasional Notes

to ‘A Treasury of War Poetry'; 1919; edited by George Herbert Clarke。







Kilmer; Joyce。  He was born in New Brunswick; N。J。; December 6; 1886。

He had first joined the Officers' Reserve Corps; but soon resigned。

Within seventeen days after the entrance of the United States into the war

he left his journalistic career to enlist as a Private

in the Seventh Regiment; National Guard; New York。

Shortly before the Seventh left New York for Spartanburg; S。C。;

he was transferred at his own request to the 165th U。S。 Infantry;

formerly the 69th National Guard Regiment of New York。

He accompanied the regiment as a Private to Camp Mills; Long Island。

He was transferred from Company H to Headquarters Company;

and became Senior Regimental Statistician。  The regiment sailed for France

in October; 1917; and there he was placed in the Adjutant's Office

and made Sergeant。  Thereafter he was attached to the Regimental

Intelligence Staff as an observer; and showed great fidelity and courage

in the tasks to which he was assigned。  He was killed in action

on July 30; 1918; while trying to locate hostile machine…guns

in the Wood of the Burned Bridge; on the Ourcq。  His war writings

may be found in ‘Main Street; and other Poems'; and ‘Joyce Kilmer;

Poems; Essays and Letters'。













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