NEW ZEALAND VERSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 43, 20 February 1926, Page 22

NEW ZEALAND VERSE.

THE £AST CRUSADE. "Who's bound -for Palestine, And the Garden of the Road? Who'll, buy the peace of Palestine, heart's best blood ?'* "I'from cliff Normandy, , v . f - And -"I. from old Gulenne, ■•■■•,' '. : ' With all my piping troubadours, . " ' And merry Jongleur men." : . "Go back* ye knights o' Normandy, And song men of tbe South; The sudden red is on yqur blade, .: And folly in your .mouth.". ■ ■■'.''. : "Who's bound fop Palestine, And blessed Olivet, Again upon the iHill of Dread The holy cross to set?" ■ "I frohv.rdyal Winchester, ; . Where England hears the bell," ■ And, "I from heady Sicily, ,' >.. ■. , r Where the fire fiends dwell. , ' ■ "Go back; live out your squiring"days, '■:■.■■ The henchmen of the Lord, Before you bathe in Heaven's dew, '•' . .The knightly; proven sword." ''Who's, bound .'for , - Palestine, To raise her from the dead, ....... And bid the dewy rose again In Sharon lift its head?" "I from mighty London's hold,' ... Her Babel mart and quay," ■" .':''■■■ i And, *;i from the Western Babylon, . The freje and the unfree. .... ."Go-back; your hands are pale and full-)' , . Of the dim yellow gold. O, dreamed you then the Holy Land Were lightly bought or sold?" "Who's bound for Palestine,' . Zion to redeem, . And track to starry Bethlehem ■ ■ The ages' euidlng gleamj ,, ..-.■• - ■•" "I from Abtei's land. ' fp. i^ re nnd sea and light— in w«fM hat . du,nb,y cradled dawn in wateU of olden night." ■ "3^^i^ou-lh eßtlne Pass to tne Dran d. k ~ ,E88,E Chri.tch«ca.