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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RIDDLES, R.F.C., by JOHN DRINKWATER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: He was a boy of april beauty; one
Last Line: Attempt to save a comrade. He was twenty years of age.
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Ridley, Lt. Stewart G. (1896-1916); Sacrifices; World War I - Casualties; Airplanes; Air Pilots
First Line: He was a boy of april beauty; one
Last Line: Attempt to save a comrade. He was twenty years of age.
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Ridley, Lt. Stewart G. (1896-1916); Sacrifices; World War I - Casualties; Airplanes; Air Pilots
HE was a boy of April beauty; one
Who had not tried the world; who, while the sun
Flamed yet upon the eastern sky, was done.
Time would have brought him in her patient ways --
So his young beauty spoke -- to prosperous days,
To fulness of authority and praise.
He would not wait so long. A boy, he spent
His boy's dear life for England. Be content:
No honour of age had been more excellent.
Note. Lieutenant S.G. Ridley, Royal Flying Corps, sacrificed his life in the Egyptian desert in an
attempt to save a comrade. He was twenty years of age.
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