Babes
The little white baby Is sleeping to-night In a narttry pink or blue: Bat tangled Wreckage and booming noise, Art the nurserit», the lullabies and the toys, Of others—white babies too. The little black babe Is asleep to-night— * There is peace on his dusky /ace; Bat I know of babes who• are wideeyed with fright, Whih haggard mothers are holding them tightSad babes of the yellow race. , Oh motherj, whose babies are happy to-night— Pray that the war-planes' roar May cease; that peace and happt-
-f|gJ3 i. ' Replace the terror md blttemett Of tills terrible iconrtfe of War, —Jean Erceg. ~
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22961, 12 February 1938, Page 6 (Supplement)
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101Babes New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22961, 12 February 1938, Page 6 (Supplement)
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