CONTENT.
The epitaph roughly inscribed ahovc the desert grave of the first two Englishmen who gave their lives in the fighting in German South-West Africa concludes with the lines—"Tell England, ye that pass this monument, That we who rest here died content." What paean, what victorious cry, By which the molten sky is rent, Can with this silent message vie: "Tell England here we lie content!"
Not theirs the medal nor the clasp, Not theirs the bannered monument; Ah, not for 'these the wreath to grasp! But in the waste to lie content. And from the wandering wave as well, From sailor as from soldier spent, Still comes that sweet but stern farewell: 'Tell England here we lie content." From coral deep, from utmost shore, One voice ascends, but no lament, From English dead the wide world o'er: 'Tell England here we lie content." This is the language, this the tongue, That holds o'er sea or continent, Stronger than any song yet sung: 'Tell England here we lie content." —Stephen Phillips, in the Windsor.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1915, Page 9
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174CONTENT. Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1915, Page 9
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