EXPECTATION.
Let me live on ! I only ask to live Until the war be ended, and I see . What is the verdict that the heavens give ■ To wrong and fraud and force and treachery. I would outlast this strife, 'twere but an hour; I would see Belgium righted and rerepaid, I would see gallant France in queenly power, And little Serbia free and. unafraid. And storied Italy regain her coasts, And mighty Russia seated on the sea, And martyred Montenegro's murdered hosts Give back her sons a larger liberty: And I would know that Poland breathed anew, Her ancient glory granted her again, And my dear England greater than she knew, • And my dead son one hero of the slain. H. 8., in " London Times."
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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 14 September 1916, Page 2
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125EXPECTATION. Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 14 September 1916, Page 2
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