"ANCIENT AND MODERN"

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 69, 4 May 1943, Page 6

"ANCIENT AND MODERN"

l ine lniui Ol uie i'iiaroans ul ims and Ra — Whose temples stupendous 1 , are now relics tremendous— OF the splendour, adorning the banks of the. Nile—When the sun, on the glory of Eg'3~pt did smile— When Sheba's Queen saw Solomons Palace of goldShe exclaimed, the half to me never was told. Alexandria, Cairo, Carthage and Rome, Cleopatra for whose charms Anthony left his home. Caravans, Arab steeds, palm groves and spices— Vultures and bleaching bones, desert virtues and vices. Italy's conpulent number one gun— AVent to Egypt to see how the British could run— But. he danced to the music composed in Berlin — And finds himself in the scup up to his chin— Rommel, who charged like a bull seeing red — Before the Eighth Army has turned tail ami fled— With front and Hanks threatened, and back to the sea— Dunkirk's but a rumour, to what we shall see. Uncle Sam and John Bull's men, tfce Free French and StalinHave something in pickle, to ticKic Berlin— The Nazi's are certainly going to reap— The whirlwind for making Europe a scrap heap. When a dragon is gorged, from its tail to its chinIt -exposes the part where its armour is thin—■ Ibe Allies arc ready, and waiting their chance — Like. St. George of Old England, to get in the lance. Our armies with the unction, or freedom are stored — To fulfill the immutable word of the Lord— "lbat those who live by, shall die by the sword. The wide world is asking, Oh whe*i will it be.— The final defeat of mankind's enemy— The answer is written in tears, sweat and blood— , hen the wide w r orld exchanges its j evil for good. ! H. SERGANT. ! ______ j