NEW YEAR 1916
[These New Year veries haTe been specially written for the "Sunday Pictorial" by Lieutenant Herbert Asquith, 6econd son of the Prime Minister, and one of the most gifted of our younger poets.]
The Old Year goes with all its vanished flow'rsj ■ Across the fields tcs hear thft- distant bells; To other music fade the dying hours, Leaving a heritage of long farewells.
What world is this, to .which the New • Year comes? A world by God forgotten, lost to Man? A. weary battlefield of broken, homes, A'red monotony without a plan?
No! Love and Laughter live; and Chivalry , Still holds the seas from sunsfet to the dawn; , The saered wells of . Honour are not dry, And still for her the brightest blades are drawn!
The young 1 Crusaders go to battls singing, And we, who listen to that eons, may know. Again the bells of Freedom will be ringing, " As they were rung a hundred yeats ago.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2723, 18 March 1916, Page 13
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160NEW YEAR 1916 Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2723, 18 March 1916, Page 13
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