A VERSE FOR ANZAC DAY
Sir-As Anzac Day is approaching and so many parents are in need of comfort for their stricken hearts in the loss of their sons, could you find space for the following extract from the poem "Ths Flood of Years," by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878): das ye that belt of darkness, still the years roll on 5 More gently, but with not less mighty sweep They gather up again and softly bear All the sweet lives that late were overwhelmed And lost to sight-all that in them was good, Noble, and truly great and worthy of loveAs its smooth eddies curl along their way, They bring old friends together; hands are clasped In. joy unspeakable; the mother’s arms Again are folded round the child she loved And lost. Old sorrows are forgotten now, Or but remembered to make sweet the hour That overpays them; woundéd hearts ‘that bled Or broke ate healed forever. In the stead Of this grief-shadowed Present, there shall be A Present in whose reign no grief shall gnaw The heart, and never shall a tender tie Be broken." : I have met so many bereaved parents, and thought the above might be of help
to them.
C.M.
L.
(Christchurch)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 357, 26 April 1946, Page 5
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206A VERSE FOR ANZAC DAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 357, 26 April 1946, Page 5
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