ARMISTICE DAY
IN the distance a gun booms. The wind holds its breath, and a bird, skimming the wide blue spaces of the sky pauses m i s flight. All the air seems listening. Silence has fallen on tlie world of everv day. * . , Two minutes out of a whole crowded year of minutes and life stands still to remember. Time is annihilated anc le pas is with us again. Soldiers pass to the lilt of familiar marching songs, handkerchiefs flutter, great ships draw away from the quays. Here stands a mother smiling through her teais. Ana mind you don’t get your feet wet, Jack. There is a swee i « > hurriedlv unpinning a flower at her breast. . - - • 0,1 ' singing a snatch of song, as yet mere hearsay from the battlefront : “Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away . • • And ten years after, a hush falls on the world that knows them no longer. Their memorials are garlanded, for tins is then day. The mother is still smiling through her tears, the sweetheart is unpinning another flower from hoi 11 oa> • • • • The gun booms again and life goes on. The wind lucks at the green leaves, the bird remembers its mission and the to tes of children take up the thread of returning sound. Two mmu in one crowded year of minutes, and the old marching songs a whole decade away. REDFEATHER.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 511, 14 November 1928, Page 7
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230ARMISTICE DAY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 511, 14 November 1928, Page 7
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