KITCHENER OF KHARTOUM

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3011, 4 August 1916, Page 4

KITCHENER OF KHARTOUM

Brittania's greatest soldier-son The bravest of the brave, Sleeps not upon the battlefield But in a sailor's grave. The stormy waters, sweeping down From rocky reef and isle, Are cold above the hand that carved An empire by the Nile.

For him St. George's crimson cross Is drooping on the staff; The heart of every Briton speak 6 His glorious epitaph. For King and country loyally His gallant life was spent, The boundless sea's his sepulchre, Khartoum his monument. —Minna Irving, in Leslie's (New York).