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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1777, 17 January 1918, Page 3

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(Wiib. apologies to my cobber Rudyard!)

How far from Northern Eranee today to little Eoxlon town”? (A drear road, it queer road, with

blood all down (he track), A cross for every milestone, where our boys are lying down. (And some of us are lucky—for we may gel back!)

How.long in Belgian shell-holes ere we see our Heart's Desire?

(A dreary time, a weary lime, and all I he best -are dead), "Where little >nn-kissed beaches

flaunt polioatakawa's tire. (Here wounded lit* a bleeding till the Flanders mud is red).

How much shall lie the payment that the politicians make?

(A long sum, a wrong sum, the

.answer’s never right!) We’re dicing- with “Old Smalibones,” and our limbs and life (be slake; (And at dusk we long for daylight —and at dawn wc pray for itight).

The fort going verses reached ns from Corpl. R. H. Dalhousie, by thujas! mail. ' In a footnote the writer says: "Ghccroh! Jay Kay! Tonight is a good night. We’re way back from the mad and blood —bilJeted in a farm with (lie R.S.M. (who.is some kid these days!), and 1 sleep in a BED (first time in 11 months!). A.lso I’ve just heard Eoxlon has been made* a separate electorate. Regards to all.”