LULLABY (1915).
Child, that your sleep may stay, Men wake, And watch, and die. Though powerless to repay, Child, you and I, Their gift of life we take; For thanks, a sigh! The hero, heart beats forward to its foes. But, safe behind, Soft cradled yet against the poisonous wind, Of war that blows, In pure repose And still, Out of your menaced weakness grows The will, The need, the passionate right to kill! —Winifred Lucas, in the "Sphere. -
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 568, 4 December 1915, Page 8
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79LULLABY (1915). Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 568, 4 December 1915, Page 8
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