FAREWELL TO ANZAC.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13931, 2 March 1916, Page 4

FAREWELL TO ANZAC.

- ■ ■■•y\" > ' i i:.". ! ..-' J .* .■ ' .■' ■■ ■•■ . . Oh ! hump your swag and leave, lads, the | ships «fre in the bay, We've, got- our marchjhg orders* now, it's time to com«. away j .......; And a long good-bye to Anzac Beach, where blood has flowed in vain, Fur we,'re leaving it, leaving it— game to, Ugijt again ! „.,'. But sonjLe., there ai;e . \vho> will never quit tills bleak and bloody shore, And aomo marched... and fought, with us Twill fight and march no more; Their ; , blood -has : bought till Judgment Day tho slopes they stormed so well, And we're leaving them) leaving' fhem, sleepjing* whore they fell ! (Leaving, th^tti, .leaving them— and, maybe, glad tp rest ! . We did 1 our beat with yesterday, tomorrow's still our own — But we're leaving them, leaving them, sleeping all aldne!) 1 Ay, .they arp- gone, beyond ■it all. t/he praising and. thef blame, < . And inany a-: man . may win renown , but none more fair a fame ;■ : • They showed the world Australia's lads , '■■;knejw'-'well-the way to die, And we're leaving them, leaving them, quiet "where they lie ! (Leaving them, leaving them, sleeping where t/h*y died!, : . :< Loavi)i|): them,,' leaving them, iir t^hpir glory and their pride! • Round them sea and barren land, over them the sky, ...-.•■ Oh! we're leaving tliem', leaving them, quiet wHeVe {lieMie!) ;" — C. Fox Smith, in the Spectator.