SACRAMENT.
(November n, 1928.) I have not seen the scarlet poppies blowing On Flanders' wearied field; Nor knelt in reverence midst white crosses showing The truths that War revealed. But I have heard, and hear it still. in_istent, The voice of dying men; It breaks the silent hour to-day, persistent, "It must not be again." So listening on this day of great thanksgiving, I take the blood-red flower, Symbol by which the dead inspire the living, . Oh God! Give us the power Each one to keep the vivid emblem flying Of purpose high and clear.. Make greater answer to so great a dying Than memory's falling tear— To win to Peace, with War for ever ended. Ah! See in Flanders then Ked poppies blaze to greet the triumph splemdid: "It shall not be again." —E.K.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 267, 10 November 1928, Page 9
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135SACRAMENT. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 267, 10 November 1928, Page 9
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