FROM THE BATTLEFIELD.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 113, 26 November 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

FROM THE BATTLEFIELD.

AH those I've left behind me, Whose love and kindness bind me To the home I do so love, Now wounded I am lying, And in the dim night dying, I commend to God aliovc.

They will so sorely miss mo, How they would hug and kiss me!

Did I return once more; My soul, may Christ receive it; My body, I must leave it Upon a foreign shore.

I'm glad I did not falter, Or with my conscience palter, When my country was in need; My memory will not perish, But my name the more they'll cherish, Although their hearts will bleed.

1 seem to see the r laces, And the old familiar places That do their lives enshrine; I see them, O, so clearly! I love them, O, so dearly! ..'.nd feel they still are mine

I've for my country striven, \l,i :il I ill ; i\: ,Ji\eil Trod tilt way my fathers trod; I know sometime they'll moot me, And their den rest faces greet me, lu the Paradise of God.

In a, country newspaper appears the following announcement: "A nu'uler of deaths unavoidably postponed.