Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

25 November 1875 – 15 August 1928 / Canada

Epitaph

(For the unknown soldier buried in Westminster Abbey.)
YOU who died fighting
For me and my little children;
You who are a million
Yet are but one,
I lay upon your grave
A rose and a tear--
The tear is the world's sorrow,
The rose is your joy.
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