Versamelde gedigte

On Churchill's birthday, 1944

Our thoughts to-day are centred upon one

Whose worth is more than one man's worth should be,

For we were taught, even when necessity

Howled rampant at the door, that there was none
Not to be matched, for all that he had done,

By some one else; that no man's valency

Transcends the sum of human force; but he

Reached far beyond our common grasp, and won.
In this long, weary midnight of our war

He dared to face the gathering darkness spread

O'er all we loved and all we held most dear.

He gave us faith to rouse our almost dead,

Peace-rusted soul from doubt, suspicion, fear,

And glimpse beyond the rising morning star.