COME HOME TO DIE.
Had they but fallen as their cennadps fell On Afric's plain, for honour n"d the King, Facing the foe. v,ho fought c o io,!g and well, In fierce, wild joy thsir nii'ists we might
Silip, And tell our children of the glorious name
They won the lan-d lhat sent them foith to fight. But now, aVas, we hang our he as m shame.
To think how Britain doth her bons lequile, Martyied by th^se whom thej we.it foith to aid: Write that upon tlieir tombstones clear and plum. They've earned their rest, sinre loyalty is paid By death and sufferirg— Eiiglnad'b living fclwuie.
— D. B. P,
Du.iediu, August, 1002.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2528, 27 August 1902, Page 59
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113COME HOME TO DIE. Otago Witness, Issue 2528, 27 August 1902, Page 59
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