SUNSET CLOUDS
"Clouds of my dear grey noithtand, What eweep ye south to seef' "Wo go to join tho cannon clouds In the battlo for the free." ■. •', "Bnt, clouds, whence all this gloiy Of red and gold tonight f" "Our banners from high Hoavoit For soldiers in tho fight." "What do ye for the sailors. You clouds of giant fonnP" "Wo tell them the wind's secrete ■"'•■ And warn them of tho storm." "In all your travelling splendours Has the peeping blue a. place?" , "He goes to cheer the airmen Aβ they wing their flight USrough space." "Why all your rolling masses Of white soft pillowed clouds?" ,f God eends us for the heroes To bo their resting shrouds." "And, clouds, for our dear wounded, Hore can you case their pain?" "Wβ bear them tender messages Of welcome home again." "lly clonds, I would eo with' you"; "Nay, child, we bid you stay ' [And kneel in daily prayer for those ' Who have not time to pray." "Dear clonds, I'll do your bidding, ' Such prayere 6hcill never cease." On bonded knee she watchod them Rβ To Victory and Peace. "H.," in the "Westminstor Gazette."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3039, 28 March 1917, Page 5
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192SUNSET CLOUDS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3039, 28 March 1917, Page 5
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