A GRAVE IN FLANDERS.
Here to the marshland,' past the battered bridge, One of a hirndred grains untimely sown; Here, with his comrades ot the hard-won ridge, , Be rests, unknown. His horoscope b%d seemed so plainly drawn — School triumphs, earned apace in work and play; Friendships at.win; tiien love's delightful dawn j And mellowing day. Home fostering hope; some service to the State; Benignant age; then the long tryst' to keep Where In the yew-tree shadow, congregate His fathers sleep. Was here the one thing needful to distil From life's alembic, through his holler fate. The man's essential soul, t*be hero will! "We ask. and walk .-4X.ED CBJSWK in &c "HinroTlan.' 11
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 13, 15 January 1916, Page 13
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