THE BLIND SOLDIER.
Admvn tin* field paths wall swilt <t■■ 11 u■ ini j feet! . With laughing lips and catcher "t light, song, Lust year we played togelh*-f through tlu* long (Him! <iavs iiinii! the poppies !l|u! tln ' wheat : And tlia( the hours were wind'd with pinions (left. S(.‘('lin'd in those halcyon days tin? nnly \NT()|l^ That lati' could liriiiii : for we were young and strong. And all the world was gay and Ilia was •svvfu't. The and of play. alas. Mill soon ii canu’i And war mad 1 ’ havoc piougst the young ami fair ; , . . Pale like a fury rent the screeching air. Plinging her gifts (d ruthless lead and llama t Por him was death and yet undying dune ; Pm- me the blackness ol a liliml despair. How can 1 gain relict? What solace lied In this dread darkness where my heart has lain In torment since the hour, my friend was slain'.' Though he 1 lov«il is dead, and 1 am blind. Vet in my heart those summer days are shrined ; Xuw 1 have trod the ulermost depths ot pain [into the heights I turn and seek again The paths of "used to he which love designed. Oh brother mine, loved comrade nj my youth, Dear friend, though envious time has la. eti away All else of those brave gifts which once he gave; Though blackness mocks my waking sense, in truth I store thy image sii my heart for aye. And cheat the 'powers of darkness and the " grave. -■Svdnev Oswald, in ‘'Colour,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 March 1917, Page 8
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