THE SAME CANTEEN.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 157, 19 June 1886, Page 1

THE SAME CANTEEN.

[Dedicated to Mr W Ma.th.eson, late of A. Cum p*»y New South Wales Contingent to rho Soudan, oa his departure co New Zeal-md from his friend, thura, »nd well-wish- r, R. D. Fcrpuson) late B Company, Now South Wales Coutingeut.] There are bonds of all eorts in this world of ours. Fetters of friendship and tiea of flowers, And true lovers' Vnota. I \ve--n. The boy nn 1 ) the girl am bound by a kiss, But thare'ri never a bo id. old friend, liko this : That we've dtuuk fiom the siine cauteen Cncmus. The Barne canteen, my soldier f rend. The s°me canteen ; Tfiere'd n«ver r bond, old friend, Hlnj thi9, We've drunk from the same canteen. It was sometimes water and sometimes milk, fcom^iiniHrs c<der, as free as silk, Hue whatever the tii plo h^B been. We've shared it together mid«t bane or blisi. Ana I warm to rou, friend, wheu I think c f this. Th.it wove drunk irom the same canteen. We've shared ou" blanket atH tont together. And march-dand foißhtm allkindsof wcither, An 1 hiingry aud full we've been. "Wi-'ve faced the storm of phot and f-hell, And «h ther 'twas lit or whether Vwis wel\ We'v.j dru k from the same canteen. Tlio rich and the great sit do v n to di-ie, APd quaff their noi Ihis of uoldon wine, From «l*»8e8 rf sitv-r aud green ; But I Kuess in thur noble rot-iUona thoy miss The »armth or regard 10 be found in this: We've druuk from the same canteen. For \vh9n w lunded I lay on the oute- slope, Wi'h my blco 1 flowng fa/t, arid but littlo hone, On ■which my f unt spirit iniKht h an, Ah ! then, I r member, joa crawled 10 mysid'*, And.bleeiing so fust.it seemed both would hive died. But we drank from the same canteen.