FAREWELL TO ANZAC

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2705, 26 February 1916, Page 3

FAREWELL TO ANZAC

Oh! hump your swag and leave, lads, the ships are in the bay, We've got our marching orders now, it's time to come away, And a long good-bye to Annac beach, where blood has. flowed ill vain, For wejre leaving it, leaving it, —gain© to fight- again I

But some there are will never quit this bleak and bloody shore, And some that marched and fought with

us will light and march no more; Their blood has bought till Judgment Day tho slopes the.v stormed so well, And we're leaving them, leaving them, sleeping where they , fell I'

(Leaving them, leaving them —the bravest and tho best! Leaving tliem, leaving them, —and maybe glad to rest! We did our best with yesterday, tomorrow's still our own, — . But we're leaving tliem, leaving them, sleeping all alone!)

Ay, the.v are gone beyond it all, the praising and the blame, And many a man may win renown, but none more fair a fame ; They showed tho world Australia's lads knew well the way to die, And we're leaving them, leaving them, quiet where they lie!

(Leaving thom, leaving them, sleeping whero they died! Leaving them, leaving them, in their glory and their nridel Round them sea. and barren land, over thom the sky, Oh! we're. leaving them, leaving them, quiet whero they lie!) —C. Fox Smith, in the London "Speclatoiv'-