HOMELESS
The sea will give up her fighting men, Tho soldiers will win to their homes again, And pass throng" tlieir doors anon; But what will become of tho forest folk, Robbed 1 of their roofs of elm and oak And tho towers from, which their niusio broke And their painted splendour shone? The squirrel is rohbed of his winter keep, The banks are torn where the dormice .And tlio glndes whore tho badgers roll. Tho thrush is reft of his fir-top throne, The croon of tlio dove is no more known, l'Ynm tho ravished glen is the brown owl llown With the cry of an outcast soul. The homes of men shall be built anew, Our corn shall grow where of old it grew, And our keclfS rccross the main; But tho fallen homes of Ui'p woodland folk, Larch and fir and elm and oak, Hoof and wall that the war years brokeWho shall bnild them again? —Will H. Ogilvio, in the "Westminster Gazette."
Foundations are Ivdw started for a new building in Now York with an aeroplane roof landing.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 221, 12 June 1919, Page 5
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181HOMELESS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 221, 12 June 1919, Page 5
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