THE AEROPLANES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 884, 9 December 1916, Page 8

THE AEROPLANES.

(From a Hilltop in France.* Overhead in :i tranquil skv. out of Ilia sunset Blow, The statelv tattle-planes are sailing east against the foe; Ami the quivering air is all a -drone, like an organ. deep and low. The sunset gleams on the old bell tower and the roofs <>r the old French to\vu: Gleams am] lades, and the shadows fall :•* the night comes creeping down. And the German line in the twilight gl'iom ;, distant, and dark, and brown. One by one. their duty done, the n]an< ; come bark from the fight; One bv one, like homing l>:rds. back through the darkening night; And, twinkling against the fading west got s up tlnir guiding light. Vnd hour by hour the light goes up. flashing the signal far; Itut the 1-ast Pilot heeds it not his ship has crosseil the bar; Ami he has found Eternal Peace in the light of his Heavenly Star. - Duncan Tovey, in the "Daily Mail."