HOW MANY MILES TO MOSCOW ?
How many miles to Moscow? The sun is bright o'erhead, And gaily into battle the boastful 'Aryans tread; Eastward 'and ever eastward they force their armoured way, And who their speed shall slacken and who their steel shall stay? How many miles to Moscn-w? And still the tall tower's stand— The battlements of Freedom, the buhvailks of the land. Round them in stout resistance the banded burghers Avait, A million fearless citizenss to guard their western gate. How many miles to Moscow? Still pile 1 the German dead, Still wrestle in the throbbing sky •the dark planes overhead; And now it is not mile by mile but foot by weary foot While dangles on the distant tree the fair forbidden fruit. How many miles to Moscow? That, road Napoleon knew, Who came in guise of conqueror,, then wavered and withdrew, Whose worn and tattered army retrod the trampled snow Along the miles from Moscow—long, bitter miles to go.
flow many miles to Moscow? How many, who can say? And who can count the sleeping dead that line the fateful way? Remember, Adolf Hitler, e'en though you batter through, There broke his lieart on Moscow a greater man than you!
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BPB19420925.2.6
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 8, 25 September 1942, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
204HOW MANY MILES TO MOSCOW ? Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 8, 25 September 1942, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Beacon Printing and Publishing Company is the copyright owner for the Bay of Plenty Beacon. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Beacon Printing and Publishing Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in