WHERE THE DEAD MEN SLEEP.

Otago Witness, Issue 2511, 30 April 1902, Page 59

WHERE THE DEAD MEN SLEEP.

A kingdom of those who are gone. But as long as the world shall last We will honour the shadowy throng, With their tale of the wonderful past, As they stand by their solitary banners, Just where the border lines meet, To tell of the bygone manners From the land where the dead men sleei"). We honour the brave pioneeis. With their story ungarmahed, undressed, Coming down through the lengthening years From the wilds of the wilderness Wo look for the treasure they 9ought, Though they found what they went not to seek, But into their long home were brought, The land where the dead men sleep. The ocean has rlaimed a% her own Th? heroes who lay on her breast, To succour, help, and atone For the lives that her billows caressed. But from out of their watery graves. From the depths of the mighty depp, Voices ri»e up with the waves, From the land where the dead men sleep. From out of the roar and th-e rattle, From out of the heaps of the =lam, From out of the smoke of the battle, Where their bodies enveloped have lam. They .stand like a bridge of stars, The leaders who "led up the steep, And tell of the glorious wars From the land where the dead men Mrop But ju"t at the lear of tile l.ne The falteniig cowards arc <-c>!\ No light on the woi Id wil' «hine From where the lijilit might ha\ c lje-n. And sad is tlif story tluy toll, Ai-d bitter the teais, that they weep, A« they point with their lives where they foil Fiom the lahd where the dead men sleep. Se wo -n tlu- lam! n. the living, Ctrli w.tli the in. ght of our sway, bh.il] join with the other-, in giwng Tlip le-'-on we- learnt by fie way. Then will mvi feel the power Of the strength of 'ho murmur we «peiik, Each with the talc of Ins hour, Fiom the lard wheit the dead men sleep. - Arch. M. M'Nicol. Mer'cn, April, 1902.

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