THE UNBURIED
THE UNBURIED
THE UNBURIED
Now snowflakes thickly falling in the winter breezeHave cloaked alike the hard, unbending ilexAnd the grey, drooping branches of the olive trees,Transmuting into silver all their lead;And, in between the winding lines, in No-Man’s Land,Have softly covered with a glittering shroudThe unburied dead.And in the silences of night, when winds are fair,When shot and shard have ceased their wild surprising,I hear a sound of music in the upper air,Rising and falling till it slowly dies—It is the beating of the wings of migrant birdsWafting the souls of these unburied heroesInto the skies.M. R.,N.Z. Headquarters.
Now snowflakes thickly falling in the winter breezeHave cloaked alike the hard, unbending ilexAnd the grey, drooping branches of the olive trees,Transmuting into silver all their lead;And, in between the winding lines, in No-Man’s Land,Have softly covered with a glittering shroudThe unburied dead.And in the silences of night, when winds are fair,When shot and shard have ceased their wild surprising,I hear a sound of music in the upper air,Rising and falling till it slowly dies—It is the beating of the wings of migrant birdsWafting the souls of these unburied heroesInto the skies.M. R.,N.Z. Headquarters.
Now snowflakes thickly falling in the winter breezeHave cloaked alike the hard, unbending ilexAnd the grey, drooping branches of the olive trees,Transmuting into silver all their lead;And, in between the winding lines, in No-Man’s Land,Have softly covered with a glittering shroudThe unburied dead.
Now snowflakes thickly falling in the winter breeze
Have cloaked alike the hard, unbending ilex
And the grey, drooping branches of the olive trees,
Transmuting into silver all their lead;
And, in between the winding lines, in No-Man’s Land,
Have softly covered with a glittering shroud
The unburied dead.
And in the silences of night, when winds are fair,When shot and shard have ceased their wild surprising,I hear a sound of music in the upper air,Rising and falling till it slowly dies—It is the beating of the wings of migrant birdsWafting the souls of these unburied heroesInto the skies.
And in the silences of night, when winds are fair,
When shot and shard have ceased their wild surprising,
I hear a sound of music in the upper air,
Rising and falling till it slowly dies—
It is the beating of the wings of migrant birds
Wafting the souls of these unburied heroes
Into the skies.
M. R.,N.Z. Headquarters.
M. R.,
N.Z. Headquarters.
F. R. CROZIER
F. R. CROZIER
F. R. CROZIER