"OUR DREAM-COME TRUE”
Far . across '.the, ocean lies a land that’s sweet and fair With .rugged hills and winding vales and ’rivers cool and clear, Once a land of., free and plenty, home of England’s fighting sons, How the home of Poles and Frenchmen, Czechs and Yanks and .sons of .• •. ' ’ . " ■ ’ '" , guns. ' On land and sea and in the air, fighting side by side, Warriors of the mother country battled with the tide Till the enemy was beaten and their fleet swept from the sea And all the battles ended in the triumph of the free. And now -the war is over.and there comes- the normal life And-there wait for each his sweetheart or his home or friend or wife • For all that kept us.fighting when the fight had seemed in vain - Was the thought of that great morrow When we’d sail home once again. - A/B Clare, D - Ward J - -0-000-0-
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What Knots, Volume 3, Issue 5, 31 December 1945, Page 3
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