REFLECTIONS AFTERWARDS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2274, 30 September 1897, Page 46

REFLECTIONS AFTER WARDS.

He'd seen some honest service,

And he n ?re Rome honest scars ; But a howling curse hung to him —

He'd been thrown from the Blue Hussars* When the last low light has flickered, And the war-glint has quitted the steel. We must give our minds to reflection

In j-pite of the ills we feel. We had turned their noses camp ward,

And tat our saddles tight. And we thought of the glory of Eugland, And ot men that aro black and v/nite. Though 'twas p'rap3 not the right way of thinking. We said it without restraint, That a liar can go to heaven

As well as a soldier saini. When it. comes to the great brigading < 'f civile and toldiei'n above. Where you can't get a rosy billet ■

For money — too late for love Say, in Fuoh a case as this ii,

Yvheie a man s none so black as hi 3 paint, Can't a liar g«t to heaven As well as n soldier taint?

! And we wondered if England's glory Would be wrought aay more in the fight If »-very man was a deacon

Or a cross and prayer-book knight. They can no more resist a volley

Tbat g<-< to their death without taint. For a liar can stop a bullet

As well as a soldier saint. Loag as tbe white send races, Long as the storm-cloud rolb, And the devil's owa hundred-i^Hindera Are potting at bravo men's souls, May the tribune waive his measure, May the tribune looso his s.-,iaint, That the brave, eVn though a liar, May re.st with the soldier saint. — GliV H. SCIIOLEFIET.D.

Milton, Septcmb,r IS.

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