The Words They Could not Sing

A telling extract from a brave man’s experience, related in the Evening News:— “I’ll tell you a funny thing, sir. On Sunday the parson held a service on the battle-field very near the trenches. Three hundred of us stood up in the field. The parson said prayers. We had hymns. We were all singing away in a fine style when we came to the lines, ‘Can a woman’s tender care, Cease towards the child she bare?’ Funny thing, sir, but do you know, we couldn’t go on singing it. We had to leave that verse out.”