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(Dedicated to "Cobber"’ Kain) Hark! Dost thou hear the drone of flying wings? Far in the skies above these lesser things, Up where the stars shine ever tranquilly, And where the clouds appear resplendently, There in the sphere of youth's desire, There with his dreams fulfilled-courage afire! There in the "crowded hour of glorious life," High o’er the cannon’s blaze and stress and strife. Brief tho’ the fullness of his manhood’s day, How better could he serve than in this way? What tho’ the end was reached for him too soonHe will arise again-behold the moon! For such as he there never can be rest, Until the Victory’s won for all oppressed. So guided on by him who cannot sleep, Let friends of England fight-though children weep! Up with that dauntless legion gone ahead! Which we remember as "the glorious dead." .... He shall await! and one day he shall knowThe Victory’s Won! and vanquished is the foe! Then-not till then shall Cobber Kain advance, To answer Gabriel’s trumpet call-perchance. ... Across the Channel in the distance far, Peace! then shall reign and there shall be no war, And Cobber Kain no more his watch need keep, He will have found at last a long sweet sleep!
LESSONS FROM GERMANY Sir-On Tuesday (July 2) I heard a lady from 2CR Sydney hinting that Australians would be better off if they followed Nazi Germany in certain things, and I quite agreed with her. The German Government is ruled by one person, Hitler, and what he says goes. The people are told to do a thing, and that has to be done, or the people take the consequences. If England and her Colonies adopted this method, wouldn't we win the war sconer? The New Zealand Government, for instance, instead of threatening people here with a further petrol rationing which New Zealand could, and would, "cut down," should make us do these things. A few fines imposed, and we would scon understand that it was all for the country’s benefit, and to help win this war. Why not start off by publishing newspapers, minus the advertisements, therefore saving paper? Yours, etc.,
B. D.
JOHNSTONE
Gillespie’s Beach, (The price of The Listener without advertisements would be about 2/- a copy. Would our correspondent continue to subscribe?--Ed.).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 59, 9 August 1940, Page 4
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