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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16949, 9 April 1917, Page 6

GONE WEST. —. —_<&. He smiled, and took his trappings on his back. And bade his.friends good-bye with words of cheer;' Pride in himself lie had, nor did he lack That splendid courage soldiers hold so dear. Bravely he went to war and played the man, And sent the death-shot singing to tho foe; Nor thought too deeply of the tears that ran Or parting's crown of thorns that wrought such woe. Too young he was for such grave thoughts as these— Too young for trial in battle's furnace tire; But cruel wa.r demands his living fees, And thinks himself most worthy of his hire.. " ,' Too young he was to don the robes of death— With life's first joys a-flutter in his breast; But he was born—alas!—to yield his breath. And 9ink to sleep within the quiet .West. One of the "unreturning 'fe»-,re" who fell— A rosebud severed from a. summer tree. To bloom again in memory's silent dell And breathe the air of immortality. Troubadour. I

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