The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling

So we settled it all when the storm was done As comf'y as comf'y could be; And I was to wait in the barn, my dears, Because I was only three; And Teddy would run to the rainbow's foot, Because he was five and a man; And that's how it all began, my dears, And that's how it all began. - Big Barn Stories.

As war correspondent Dick Heldar's vision fails, the light of everything around him--his life, his hopes, his dreams--fail with it. There are terrible choices to be made--between the love of the woman he treasures--and the love of the men who stood by him at the front.