War Poems in German & Italian P.O.W. camps.
Sergeant Lynn Sarrell Ongley



My Wife
L.S. Ongley
30 May 1943

You are my own, my very tower
My work, my play, my trial, my power
Your truthful lips, and gliding grace
Those ways, those acts, my thoughts embrace
All you I love, my hearts refrain
My hope, my fear, my joy, my pain
Your thoughtful eyes and redgold crown
Those pools, those strands, my sorrows drown
In you I find my whole domain
My left, my right, my quest, my claim
Your simple faith and girlish pride
Those aims, those traits, with me abide

Concentration Camp 54.
Fara Sabina. PM 3300. Rome. Italy.