BELGIUM TO AUSTRALASIA
A REMINDER. Pause in your joyous talk of springtide's gain Your boast of fair lands ploughed and cash in hand, And look to the realms where death is sowing pain, Look where our fields lie waste —a barren land. Our hearts are furrowed by the ploughs of grief, The fruit we watched has fallen immature; And whilst you count your wealth.in golden sheaf, 'Tis we who pay the price of fair land s lure.
Oh ye who in the years that are to come Shall hold the right to exile from your marts Tho muxd'rocta Hun who coveted your home Value that right OS bought in Belgian hearts; And if it cause you loss, remember yet 'Tis but the merest payment of yotir debt. M. E. G. (Contributor to Punch, Evening News, etc.).
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW19160628.2.188
Bibliographic details
Otago Witness, Issue 3250, 28 June 1916, Page 57
Word Count
136BELGIUM TO AUSTRALASIA Otago Witness, Issue 3250, 28 June 1916, Page 57
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Otago Witness. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in