A SOLDIER'S VERSE
POEMS WRITTEN AT SEA In a recent letter from a soldier now in Egypt were enclosed the following verses written to pass clie dreary days at sea. Fifth Reinforcements To seize the sword we drop the pen, Secure that in the minds of men No thought of blame we shall attain, Who seek to build the world again. To check the powers of force and lust, Thrice, armed who has his quarrel just : We leave our homes, unruffled, calm. That it and curs shall know no harm. Deep in our hearts' the Empire shrined. In unitj r of heart and mind. Its sons in scorn of death go forth From East and West, from South and North. United, free in thought and word, We hear the call and take the sword. Convoj' Black hulls against the sunset's lire, These seek no islands of desire. Theirs is a sterner task to-day 1 .. The foam of fairy seas conceals A hundred dangers to their keels. In ocean, harbour, gulf or bay, Thej" span the world in sombre grey. Alert by night; aware by day, Not careless to their valued trust So vulnerable to evil thrust. Unhurried, brave, the seas they roam That Truth and Freedom find a home. Where, from the ruins of the Earth A brighter future lias its: birth.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 132, 23 July 1941, Page 6
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