ROLL OF HONOUR.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 23 October 1917, Page 2

ROLL OF HONOUR.

WOUNDED. PRIVATE JESSE P. WHITE. Yesterday's Roll of Honour contained the name of Privats Jesse P. White, son of the Rev. White, Presbyterian minister, of Levin. Young White, when in Levin, was for some time with Messrs Stiles and Mathieson, drapers, he played the organ in the Presbyterian Church, and took a leading part in local entertainments. A largo circle of friends will be sorry to hear that he is on the " Dangerously 111" list. The following poem was composed by him while lying in hospital in France. It is dated August 8. Watchers fok the Dawn. The world is wrapped in gloomy night, And such a night was never known ; The only gleam war's lurid light, The only sound Death's anguish moan. Veiled is the Polestar of our hope By battle smoke and mist of tears, And thro' the dark we blindly grope With faltering faith and aching fears. While nations locked in deadly strife Join in a hellish revelry That bleeds of all its noblest life, This suffering humanity. Where is the glorious pomp and power Vaunted so proudly yesterday ? Behold it now in this dire hour As distant fleeting pageantry. N or compensation could we find In golden ages yet to be For this fell strife among mankind With all its nameless agony. We have but consciousness of Right T' atone us for the fearsome fray And strengthen us against the might Of those who Justice would betray. 8o be it. Though the shadows fall And shroud the heights ot victory, Responsive to the clarion call We vindicate our chivalry. That when the righteous task is done, And overthrown the rule of might, Humanity may rise newborn From out the dark tempestous night To greet a new and cloudless day, Fair herald of the age to be,, Wherein, with all-embracing sway, Peace reigns supreme o'er land and sea. Not armed peace, beset by fears, But such as evermore shall be While onward through the radiant years The life-blood ot humanity Flows clear and strong until its tide Turns outward from this mortal scene, And tumbling thro' time's portal wide Re-enters God's great stream serene. In the list of wounded the following names also appear : —Pr. R. F. Murray, son : of Mrs G. O. Murray, Otaki; Pr. T. M. I.Ryder, son of Mr F. J. Ryder, Otaki; S. C. Saint, son of Mr H. Saint, farmer, of Ohau. Not long since Mr Saint received word that another son was killed in action on the western front.