FROM THE "KIWI."

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 105, 8 November 1915, Page 3

FROM THE "KIWI."

♦ "Pro Patria." ] The call came forth; 'twas the call to arms, l'o leave their all for the Em- ] pire'ssake; f l'o strive for the Kight 'mid war's alarms. They heard the call: 'twas theirs to forsake Whate'er thfy e«-joyed—the sweet pleasures of Life— For the Camp, and tin Field, and the merciless strife. Tbe call has come: 'Tis the call of - Death. ' for some are laid in a lonely j grave J in Egypt's sands,- with roftened breath Breathe a prayer—and the gently , heaving wave Hocks some m sleep. Not theirs the fame Of glorious feats---the remembered name. For some a name in a hurried hand, A wooden cross or the roughpiled stones; A mound of clay in a far-off land; A soldier's coat and the whitening bone?, Where they fought and fell for Libtrty On the shell-scarred steeps of Gallipoli.