I wrote this preface in such a different June, that if I sent it out
with no addition it would make the book appear to have dropped a long
while since out of another world, a world that none of us remembers
now, in which there used to be leisure.
Ledwidge came last October into the 5th Battalion of the Royal
Inniskilling Fusiliers, which is in one of the divisions of Kitchener's
first army, and soon earned a lance-corporal's stripe.
All his future books lie on the knees of the gods. May They not be the
only readers.
Any well-informed spy can probably tell you our movements, so of such
things I say nothing.
DUNSANY, _Captain,_
_5th R. Inniskilling Fusiliers._
_June, 1915._