THE WAR SONG
I heard one whistle in. the street an. air A thousand times repeated in its folly. A rng-timo tune of stage and "limelight flare, A merry lilt of wit and melancholy. Where have I heard it (that it moves my heart As never march of death or funeral hymn ? Cannon and cavalry and ships depart, I cannot hear it but my eyes grow dim. A son;; of death! 1 The song of nations massing, fiugle and fife and drum, the. clank of steel, The sound of many feet in thousands pawing That go in answer to the sword's apneal. I hear it, his last song, as in a spell A lost soul hears an angel's song in hell. —Judith Lytton, in the "Westminster Gazette."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 183, 23 April 1918, Page 6
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127THE WAR SONG Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 183, 23 April 1918, Page 6
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