A REQUIEM.
A few days since, to Bluff I took the train. A curious notion seemed to seize my brain. In front a vision well-nigh made we weep- — Eight trucks piled up with rows of living sheep. Had I unconscious joined a funeral train ? And were these victims soon about to sail By steamer sent express from whence they came Twelve thousand miles to cross the sea again ? If so a funeral grand indeed I view For *lafe and Death is promised to them too. Perfidious Albion soon their fate will know— For-Ward the order under which they go. Poor things! You claim a funeral dirge from mo. And Nature’s object now you soon will see; Tat would I taka your place and ignorant go Sbrongb all thia vafa of deep and lasting woe. i • Tl*a ix Mdafru.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 26, 23 September 1893, Page 9
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138A REQUIEM. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 26, 23 September 1893, Page 9
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