BROCKENHURST CHURCHYARD.
. -o- : • .'-:■ . NEW ZEALANDER'S CORNER. 0 hearts who wonder where they rest. Who fell so far across the sea. 1 send you greeting from' their graves: They died for England and for me. Unknown alike to them and you, I passed along those green mounds' line. Where kindly hands 'mid whom they died Heather and rose and heartsease twine. Only the fretful summer gale ' Came sweeping up that churchyard slope, And drift of summer rain recalled ' Shed. tears, long rainboVed into hope. Here, in the Forest's storied heart, :? God made a garden for their sleep; •: The oaks of many a hundred years - Proud vigil at their corner keep. O, it is well with them! They live Where Memory knows no parting sea; A stranger greets you from their grave: They died. for , England and for me. Ethel M. Hewitt. BrockenhonV Hampshire,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18553, 10 November 1923, Page 4 (Supplement)
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142BROCKENHURST CHURCHYARD. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18553, 10 November 1923, Page 4 (Supplement)
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