KITCHENER!

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 57, 10 June 1916, Page 5

KITCHENER!

Far in the distance, boom the guns; Near, in the darkness, shout the waters. ‘ . Over the sea, where the flood tide runs, , . ’ , Sadly the drum beats call to “quarters.” Someone has passed by the way that •' goes Put through tli£ heavefia’ trinmjpl - ..i. ,r ant arches.L,-:; ; ; ,Op 0 who was king, the ||| blows, wh'’ '• - ~v-J f ® no " r l;o was lovod^iir. -H. y t This >8 a ddy wlien This is a Sorrow the least anffjjfiaring. ‘ Whijo. he, was ,living, few Low - F “« >4s mlmww jaring. „ , ~, ... j . , While he, was here? Bill the‘nigltfc !-;w. : . shuts down/; 7 **. • V* ' Louder the drum beats, deep ,nct rolling, , ' Oyer the seas in an Irish town. .Bells that he knew are tolling, tolling. . - " v .' « ■ Kitchener—warrior, Consud, chief! Now but a, name that we hold and . »* n« --.n*.* awe--. Knowing iievJr its fame c-ou]<f perish. 6b; fie K. pas^^ B^he s |mr|S2?Tl Gone ■ wide arches, Where he will meet, when the bugles iU> i blow, - 'Men that he led in the lonely ” :i marches. ■ ' Fainf, in the distance, yet the ;uns Boom in the . battle-lines far reaching. : ' ■ ’+) Over the sea, where the ebb-tide runs, J - Drum-beats throb, like a heart beseeching. ;’ > Someone is passing, whose going tills - Every heart with a heavy sorrow. Over the water and ,over the hills, Grief will be grey in the world to- u « morrow. .•(, >, ■ WILL LAWSON in “The Dominion.” Wellington, June 7, 1916. ;;