FOR THE FALLEN

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 26 May 1915, Page 6

FOR THE FALLEN

Verse, which is justly termed "grave and beautiful, combining a. .stere c evasion of mood with a curious ard comforting tendern....s," is contained in.MiLaurence Binyon's volume on the great ; war, entitled "The Winnowing Fan." Following are the last stanzas of the piece "For the Fallen":—

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. ' At the going down of the sun, and in the morning We will remember them.

They mingle not^ with their laughing comrades again; They sit no more at familiar tables of home; They have no lot in our labor of the day-time; They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound, Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight To the innermost heart of their own land they are known As the stars are known to the Night.

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust, Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain, As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, To the end, to the end, they remain.