Roland Aubrey Leighton 1895-1915
Villanelle
Violets from Plug Street Wood,
Sweet, I send you oversea.
(It is strange they should be blue,
Blue, when his soaked blood was red,
For they grew around his head;
It is strange they should be blue.)Violets from Plug Street Wood-
Think what they have meant to me-
Life and Hope and Love and You
(And you did not see them grow
Where his mangled body lay
Hiding horror from the day;
Sweetest it was better so.)Violets from oversea,
To your dear, far, forgetting land
These I send in memory,
Knowing You will understand.
Taken from the Testament of Youth movie
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