A SOLDIER'S LIFE.
Some sigh for a life on the bounding main, 'Midst the tempest's roar and rattle; But a soldier's life is the life for me, In tho clash and the clang of battle. Oh! the muoic I love is the crash of the gun, And the tiumpets' warlike braying; For »t calls to my heart the noble part That in life's great game I am playing. Oh! I love to reflect on the noble deeda That brave men have done before me; How they shed thair blood and gave their For the Sag of the Britain that bore me. And evermore shall it be my aim To fight for old England's glory; E'en to give my life for a sacrifice, On the battlefield grim and gory. I fear no foe in this wide, wide world f My lieari within me 5s bounding To take my place, as a soldier brave, Wheie the music of battle is sounding. No better an object in life do. I -know Thar, to fight for my country and beauty; Xo more noble a desth than to draw my last breath * And to perish in doing my duty. — Eomeo. Mosgiel, May 3. 1906.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2722, 16 May 1906, Page 63
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199A SOLDIER'S LIFE. Otago Witness, Issue 2722, 16 May 1906, Page 63
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