Lines written on the Allied Victory in Tunisia
A season has pass’d In full flight of fuller moment Pregnant with deed and achievement Of results hard earned, The sweat, the blood, the blisters burned, The toil and torment of a world upturn’d, Of clamourous sound and grinding gears; The weapons of wars, these stirring years Toss’d into the furnace Mars has will’d. To the shriek of shrapnel men have thrill’d The whistling bomb, and the bursting shell Madder than man, this man-made hell Has left a stain on the slate of fame. The monster of hate has received his gain Then has the MAN suffered in vain ? Victory looms, that shall wipe the slate, Free the oppress'd, and those whose fate Has flung them slaves to that greater hate. Lucifer! Cringe! the steeled arm of right Shall cast you forth to a deeper night. Illum’d, the face of the world turns to the sun Inspir’d, gives thanks for freedom won. A.N.G.
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Tiki Tabloid Supplement, Volume 1, Issue 3, 20 December 1943, Page 2
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161Lines written on the Allied Victory in Tunisia Tiki Tabloid Supplement, Volume 1, Issue 3, 20 December 1943, Page 2
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