REVEILLF.
He was off to the front, and some
Were merry and glad, But, the heart of his pale child- wife Was heavy and sed. For she shuddered to think That a stray shot might Bn;ig to her eye"? a mist of tears. He is off— to fight! lie was off to the fiont I came For the last good-bye. Yet the blinds of the house were drawn, Though the =un was high One. a? she led the way (I had known him best), Sa-'d "You come too late. He has gone." He had gone— to rpst! — W. Fr.-vXCIS CITAMbEKS.
August, 1902,
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Otago Witness, Issue 2527, 20 August 1902, Page 59
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102REVEILLF. Otago Witness, Issue 2527, 20 August 1902, Page 59
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