24/09/2025
EDWARD BACH
Eager and ardent, like a living flame,
Without a thought of self, desiring ever
Nor wealth nor power nor influence nor fame
Except as those might forward his endeavour
To help mankind. So swift to understand
All doubts and fears and failures, yet so slow
To judge or to condemn, he set his hand
Alone to heal, to help those powers to grow
That make for fellowship and cast out hate
And aim to help the whole wide world to gain
Touch with Infinite. Darkly we wait
So long for light, so oft it seems in vain,
But here was a life that sped too swiftly by
Yet kindled fire that will be slow to die.
C.E.W.