



Produced by Al Haines










"ALL'S WELL!"


BY

JOHN OXENHAM



AUTHOR OF "BEES IN AMBER," ETC.




NEW YORK

GEORGE H.  DORAN COMPANY




COPYRIGHT, 1916,

BY GEORGE H.  DORAN COMPANY




  TO

  MY SON HUGO

  2nd LIEUT.  ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS


  TO

  ALL HIS COMRADES IN ARMS
  ON LAND AND ON SEA

  AND TO

  ALL SORELY-TRIED HEARTS
  AT HOME AND ELSEWHERE

  _THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED_

  IN PROFOUNDEST ADMIRATION,
  IN MOST LOVING SYMPATHY,
  AND IN PERFECT ASSURANCE
  THAT SINCE GOD IS,
  RIGHT MUST WIN
  AND THE FUTURE WILL BE
  BETTER THAN THE PAST




FOREWORD

For those who were chiefly in my heart when these verses came to me
from time to time--our men and boys at the Front, and those they leave
behind them in grievous sorrow and anxiety at home--my little message
is that, so far as they are concerned--"ALL'S WELL!"

Those who have so nobly responded to the Call, and those who, with
quiet faces and breaking hearts, have so bravely bidden them "God
speed!"--with these, All is truly Well, for they are equally giving
their best to what, in this case, we most of us devoutly believe to be
the service of God and humanity.

War is red horror.  But, better war than the utter crushing-out of
liberty and civilisation under