BROTHERS

Maoriland Worker, Volume 10, Issue 448, 8 October 1919, Page 3

BROTHERS

(From the German of Heinrich Lersch, 1915) Before our wire there lay for long a dead xu&w tall iill-ow: The sun burned down upon him, ho was cooled by wind and dew. Day after day upon hia pallid face I used t*> fctaro, And ever grow mpro" certain 'twas my brother lying there. Aud often as I lo.ked at him outstretched beioro my -.aae,. I seemed to hear hi. an try voice from tar-oli peaceful days. And vi my dreams I heard him—crying out a-u'd■ wiping sore, "Ah, brother, dearest brother, do you lovo mc then no more?'-" At last I risked the bullets and tbe shrapnel-rain, and ran And fetched him dn_ and buried « . , an unknown fellow-man. My eyes deceived mc, but my heart proclaimed tho truth to mc; In every dead man's countenance a brother's face I see. Translated by Bertram Lloyd.