HARVEST IN FLANDERS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14448, 7 November 1917, Page 8

HARVEST IN FLANDERS.

In Flanders fields the cresses stanch : ?j£ aTlg6 harv^t for a fertile" land j— Where once the wheat and barley 'grew, ■ With scarlet poppies running through' "Kiis-year the -poppies bloom to greet JNot: oats' nor . barley norvwhite wheat; jB-at only cresaes, rim. bfc \ . Where stalwart reapers used;-' Jp go. j ln., Flanders fields no Women sirigY' ■ .1 £ s :° n ?s6 . they sang, at harvesting. '. ■ ■ ; No men now come with scythes to, mow The little crosses, row by row/ • The . poppies; wonder^ why. th>-meh ■/■• ~*" And women do not come again ! In Flanders,. at the wirid^fodtfall, ' ..,.' The crosses do not bend at all, 'A/ As wheat and V barley ; »sed H .-to'do Whenever (Wind .went ,T.rimiMgV;through. The poppifes The crosses stand; %.issajy*.j l^iß*SnPt^i-^ What they haye. done,. f^ ; reckoning At harvest' tim,e whit byre "or "biii '^'> Have y.pui to :^ut these .c'rosiiSs/iri^V 'i What 1^ Not wheat, s ,butci^es,:ro^ hv xbwf a-i . A' x * : •'*'' , '"--7--; AAt 'i>i' yy.VfXil. Alas ! Our, /tears csan. never br,ihg r ; ' ITie men; who. came here : harvesting • And come no more ! -, We Veto -not imow What -way the sirtffipgvwo^en/'io.' "v > Their songri all/still ! %it^r^ R icUrid Itow after ro^;in, 4 *_ilande#."lina. !/ ■ .''■'•' -^ouis Driscoll; jri c^y^^T-mea.