TOPICS OF THE DAY.
THE HARVEST. Tliey have just been mowing and threshing the grain In the golden fields of the wolrld, my sweet ; And homo o'er the hills they h&vo driven the Wain And off to the vessels they've hauled the wheat. The corn is in silk in the vales of light, And the pumpkins are golSep between, . And the moon of the harvest . Joofaa down to-night On a lovely and tender scene. 1
Over tho waters there's harvest, too, They will gather it soon on the field of strife; , And there ifc will lie in tho damp and the dew, , In the. ranks as they, mowed it in all. its life: - • The harvest of valour and courage and skill, The harvest of those who were yotittg and fair, Prone in the valleys, asleep on the hill. With the dry blootd clotting their ringleted hair. '
Oh, what &_ harvest is this that thev reay With the guns of war and the sabro and sword! Ohj what a pity that these should sleep Who have 1 gone do'sai under the charge of the hordfe! The grim, dread harvest that death hasj^owii With his flashing thunder and fiery spear; And we so glad in our hearts for our own, . For the harvests of love we have gathered, dear! —Baltimore "Sun.*'
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11216, 23 October 1914, Page 4
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