THE LARK'S MESSAGE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 154, 10 March 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE LARK'S MESSAGE.

The following lines—"On Hearing a Lark Singing at Dawn in the Trent-h----as" were written by Private J. B. Nicholson, 4th Black Watch, a son of the Rev. T. B. NichoKon, Dunfermline, and a well-known Dundee journalist, since shot through the heart by a German sniper : 0, Wonder Bird, what song is this you sing? "What message : > as weary, war-worn men. 5 Is it to memories of peace you ding. 1 Of sunlit strath and ! ower-be-jcwellcd glen? Would von remind us of timet io,.ntrv lanes? Oi ivied homesteads nestling 'mong the hills? 01 to "., beeked maids me-ind.-rmg with their l wains J 1 Of pebhlv rivulets and whispering 'rills?' Or do your notes protest against the fate That forced you. neutral, from your love-lined nest, To share the humans' agony of 1 ate T: ..* found no o. ho in your joyous breast ? I think at time* you mo. k great .Man's strange mind, Which civitised create*, an Earthly Hell, Calling it war . red murder el a kind Undreamt by Aula before he lei!. There was a tremble in >our song just now That spoke o\ mate, ot . hild bird* lost to yen. () Wonder Hud. wo watchers numl how Your wings still Hut tor in that skv of blue. Haste, herald lark, for soon your silver tune Will die amid the discord of the giltls ; The heavens will shriek iu agony by noon. Hid.- Wonder Bird! ....