THE CONQUERORS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16341, 12 October 1918, Page 7

THE CONQUERORS.

» Who can the ; desert's strength subdue? ■ Pipe, rail, and road. Pipe to carry your drink to yon; Bail to speed your rations through; Boad to march on, firm and true, Past "bit" and "hod." Abram came and Abram went; (Pipe, road, and rail). Joseph sold to banishment* Jesus into. qafety sent, Bonaparte on conquest beat, These did not prevail. Came the Unmans on a day} (Boad, rail, and pipe). Mighty engineers were they; Blew their glass and baked their clay; Now their glory's in decay; England's is ripe. Long the desert stood attach (Pipe, rail, and road). Laughed at man, and flnng him back} Sept him to a camel track; Gave him drink of brine and brack; Scant mercy showed. Now the day of reckoning's here; (Pipe, road, and rail). Steadily past "hod" and "bir" Forges on the pioneer, Scaring lizard, fox, and deer, Sand-rat and quail* Sinai's lonely day is done: (Road, rail, and pipe). Pear of foe nor heat of sun Stop tlje work that we've began; Desert patches one by one 02 the map we wipe. Who has conquered? Tell-me who} Pipe, road, and rail. Pipe to carry your drink to you; Kail to speed your rations through; Boad« to- march on, "firm and Uu&— Hail! Victors, Hallt —From "Songs on Service," by Eliot Craw-shay-Willioms. X. Bir is Arabio for " welL" , 2. 204 is a depression filled with -palm*