Rachel Weeping
How well they sleep, with foreign earth above them, Our Lion Hearts ! while days speed after days And haply leave behind with some who love them Courage to breast the newly-steepened ways. Oae heart there is wherein will linger ever The grip of loss, however long the years 'Ere time, the silent-footed, halts to sever The little link that sets us free of tears !
And there's one memory with space unmeasured To hold each word and whisper of the past And keep its dear, unbroken record treasured Inviolate, the " while the light shall last." While year on year may leave the soldier sleeping And steal the sting of many griefs away, His Mother's love no count of Time is keeping — Ever to her he died but yesterday ! — C. B. M.
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Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XI, Issue 2, 1 April 1918, Page 69
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132Rachel Weeping Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XI, Issue 2, 1 April 1918, Page 69
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