"Couldn't tell what had happened to me but thought that I was done for.

I was all alone and afraid--terribly afraid.

Dead men were all around me, lying on the horrible grey, slimy fields.

I was woefully thirsty--and I thought of David and the Bethlehem water--and of the old spring in Rainbow Valley under the maples.

I seemed to see it just before me--and you standing laughing on the other side of it--and I thought it was all over with me.