"YOU HAVE SEEN IT. ”

Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 12, 11 March 1944, Page 10

" YOU HAVE SEEN IT. ”

I know that you have seen it, m he hills when grey with rain, And you hr.,76 heard the songbirds whistle

'/Then the sun shone through again. You have heard the Hu ioulis whisper When quietened by the rain.

You have seen tho coral rampant, Like Canute before tho soa, You have seen the small white ceossgs Under which the brave dead 110 You have .seen the natives wablng . .

As you went rumbling by, You have seen the bullocks plodding A 3 they pulled tho loaded dray,

You ha fee seen the songbirds flying, Clad in their bright array.

You .-have felt the sun’s fierce burhing As you bent a weary back, fou have cursed the greasy 9 sticky mud As you sweated up the track, And you- growled and groaned and grumble 7hon the mail did not arrive nd you snarled at the mosquitoes -whining Like the noise of an -angry hive. You have heard the hornet’s buzzing And felt their barbed stings ■ ” You have cursed the whole damn country And it’s creeping, crawling .things -ou have thought of another • country And a field of golden grain i As you lay in. your tent of an evening And dreamed you were home again. Your thought of your childrens’ laughter As they had played on the floor at your ' And you smiled as you thou&'-.t of a homslj That is smiling, green and free And you thought of its hills and g Random When the snow had covered their tope And you thought of a Friday evening When you did a round of the shops I nd you thought 1 Oh hell, this is silly As you ground out a but in the dust. And you thought f When I go or. leave aga: I’ll bloody wall go cn the bust

Sam Burrows