OUR FATHERS
OUR FATHERS
OUR FATHERS
OUR FATHERS
Wandering spirits, seeking lands unknown,Such were our fathers, stout hearts unafraid.Have we been faithless, leaving homes they made,With their life’s blood cementing every stone?Nay, when the beast-like War God did intoneHis horrid chant, was our first reckoning paidFor years of ease. Their restless spirits badeUs fight with those whose Homeland was their own.Rest easy in your graves, the spirit livesThat brought you forth to claim of earth the best.Ours it is now, and ours it shall remain;Mere jealous greed no honest birthright gives.Shades of our fathers, hear our faith confessed,We shall defend your Empire or be slain.Capt.James Sprent,A.M.C. (3rd Field Amb.).
Wandering spirits, seeking lands unknown,Such were our fathers, stout hearts unafraid.Have we been faithless, leaving homes they made,With their life’s blood cementing every stone?Nay, when the beast-like War God did intoneHis horrid chant, was our first reckoning paidFor years of ease. Their restless spirits badeUs fight with those whose Homeland was their own.Rest easy in your graves, the spirit livesThat brought you forth to claim of earth the best.Ours it is now, and ours it shall remain;Mere jealous greed no honest birthright gives.Shades of our fathers, hear our faith confessed,We shall defend your Empire or be slain.
Capt.James Sprent,A.M.C. (3rd Field Amb.).