MILE BY MILE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11509, 4 October 1915, Page 4

MILE BY MILE.

With these eleven divisions Sir John French has been able to take over-seven teen miles of additional front from tho Freuch.—Lord Ki tc-honer. Now mile by mile the battle-front form# up against the Hun, To aid the gallant Frenchmen in the wt>rk so bravely uonc; With every hope of Potsdam disappearing all the while Mile by mile And mile by mile behind the line of trenches and deep, The shells fill up the magazines, the waggons never sleep, Fnr back towards the Humming port you tee their endless file Mile by miie Then milo by mile across the Straits the slim, low hull is seen Where swift destroyers send to sleep a prowling submarine; A bubble and ;m oily scum the end of German guilo j Mile bv mile ! j And mile by mile on British roads is heard an army's tramp. Men marching safe, in pride find hope, to battle from tin? camp; A Zeppelin will come and gc: but here's tho British 'style, Mile by mile Now mile by milo the stubborn foe must yield the ground he gained, Fall backwards in Jiis slow disgrace for honour that he stained; Till Belgium's consecrated suil is freed from tyrants vile Mile by milo The poisoned gas in vain is loosed; each day the s|>out of Game Glows less against the wad of men who join the glorious game ; The Hun owes debts to human life which Death must, reconcile Mile by mile So mile by mile is triumph won, and long may bo the fight, But liberty will conquer lust, and j wrong give way to right, Until they batter Potsdam's gate, and •'■lid tJie traitor's wile .Mile by mile —Sydney " Sun"