Written by Jack Caddigan and James Alexander Brennan: I've seen some beautiful flowers, Grow in life's garden fair, I've spent some wonderful hours, Lost in their fragrance rare; But I have found another, Wondrous beyond compare.

There's a rose that grows on "No Man's Land" And it's wonderful to see, Tho' its spray'd with tears, it will live for years, In my garden of memory.

Written by Louis Delamarre: J'ai vu bien des fleurs s'empourprer, Au jardin de la vie.

La rose fleurit sous les Boulets, En avant du front elle est De pleurs arrosée Pour bien des années.

In Jacqueline Winspear's novel "Maisie Dobbs", the title character sings this song to a group of badly disfigured veterans of World War I in England.