Case Study:
Violets from the Trenches: Selections from the Letters of Roland Leighton and Vera Brittain
Creator:
Leighton, Roland
Source:
poem
Date:
April 1915
Collection/Fonds:
Contributer:
McMaster University Libraries
Rights:
Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format.
Identifier:
00001460
Language:
eng
Type:
image
Format:
jpg
Transcript:
Violets
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.)