THE TREES THAT DIED IN THE WAR.
To G. H. G. So gentle they, jet glorious, Living their livsa unseen; Treading the soil, victorious, Brave gods with -banners green. They asked for naught but the pleasure Of serving the sons of men, Lavish with leafy treasure When spring should come again. What answered we to their yearning? What give we for their cheer? Hatred and shells and burning, Death in the spring of the year. Gone like a vanished city, Tragic and far as Greece. God! Shall they give us pity? Men! Shall they bring us peace? —Angela Morgan, in the Spectator.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3768, 1 June 1926, Page 74
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