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A DUBLIN FUSILIER

As he came down from the hills that jnorniu', ' And, head uplifted, he-passed ns by, Did he hear in his heart tho Banshee's warnin' ? Did he mind the tear in his father's eye? As he came marchin'- from Gurth-na-minen. Bravo in his khaki, erect an'- tall, He turned an' saw, as he passed Kilsynon, Tho hurlin'-field,' where he oft played ball. He heard once more, at tho cross of Garted, ' _ ~~ j The hiuintin' lilt of the piper's tunc, Where lie had danced with one long departed, A night long vanished; in. leafy June. He saw the sun o'er Knoc-Aulin mountain Whiten the mist like a smile of God. And pink-eyed daisies beyond all countin' ■ Winked, up at him from the blessed sod. And strange, lost mem'ries of boyhood's dreamin'— ... Wee wisps of prayer by his mother taught— To his brain and lips came, in sudden teem in', Sad, holy visions by fancy wrought! He heard the boomin' of death-knells tollin', Shakin' his soul like a knell of doom, And a muffled thunder, like wild surf rollin'— , Tho' round him stretched But, the rustlin' broom. Mother o' God! as lie went to slaughter By a barren shore line, far, far away, Did lie hear the lappin' o' blood-dyed wather, Who died a hero at Suvla Bay ? —Jas. F. Dollard in the Toronto "Globe."

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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2799, 17 June 1916, Page 3

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225

A DUBLIN FUSILIER Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2799, 17 June 1916, Page 3

A DUBLIN FUSILIER Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2799, 17 June 1916, Page 3

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