THE ONLY PEACE.
They eoine to us with dripping hands. JJloiml stain- the 'o:ive branch" they hear. Trampling across the ravished lan's Where tortured peoples know despair. They prate ot peace whose brutal grip Still hold* the tealnis we sworo to free; Tie cracking of the slaver's whip Still mock-" tie plaint of liberty. Deep down beneath the o can waves The pirates' murdered victims sleep: By many a thousand Rntish gravrs In spirit -till our watch we keep. And now the bully in hi> pr'-dfl Would hid the hand of vengeance stay, Knowing the signs that well betide The dawning of our brighter day. Rr all our dear and splendid dead. Hv all th-> blood and all the tears That Hritih hearts and eyes |»pvo -hcl In our long ag ny of yerin!. There i- no ending to the fight Till, 'mitten by the final thrust, The i' uers of darhnr-« and of night Are -pumed and trampled in the dust. Touehst no, in the "Dailv Mail.''
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 253, 23 February 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)
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168THE ONLY PEACE. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 253, 23 February 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)
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