TO THE YOUNG WRITERS AND ARTISTS KILLED IN THE WAR 1914-18

We haven’t forgotten you !  We haven’t forgotten !

You were the first generation of the world’s greatest century,

And you were doing, and were going to do, fine things . . .

You were a great Young Generation . . .

And then you went out and got murdered –- magnificently—

Went out and got murdered . . . because a parcel of

          damned old men

Wanted some fun, or some power, or something.

    Something so despicable in comparison to your young lives.

Anyhow, you were glorious . . .

And we will do our best to do what you have done.

Oh, we will fight for your ideals – we, who were too

        young to be murdered with you. . . .

And—we haven’t forgotten you !  We haven’t forgotten !

--Brian Howard, published in the Eton Candle, 1922