HOW I SHALL DIE
Ionly wait the eventide,The rising of the moon—My little barque I’ll gently slideInto the still lagoon.Here storms are fierce and nations wageAcross the seas their strife,And death’s wild billows break their rageAgainst the rocks of life.I only wait the last, long call—Perchance a short farewell—Then gently for the mists to fallO’er silent hill and dell.PrivateChas. Lowry,9th Aust. Battalion.
Ionly wait the eventide,The rising of the moon—My little barque I’ll gently slideInto the still lagoon.Here storms are fierce and nations wageAcross the seas their strife,And death’s wild billows break their rageAgainst the rocks of life.I only wait the last, long call—Perchance a short farewell—Then gently for the mists to fallO’er silent hill and dell.PrivateChas. Lowry,9th Aust. Battalion.
Ionly wait the eventide,The rising of the moon—My little barque I’ll gently slideInto the still lagoon.
Ionly wait the eventide,
The rising of the moon—
My little barque I’ll gently slide
Into the still lagoon.
Here storms are fierce and nations wageAcross the seas their strife,And death’s wild billows break their rageAgainst the rocks of life.
Here storms are fierce and nations wage
Across the seas their strife,
And death’s wild billows break their rage
Against the rocks of life.
I only wait the last, long call—Perchance a short farewell—Then gently for the mists to fallO’er silent hill and dell.
I only wait the last, long call—
Perchance a short farewell—
Then gently for the mists to fall
O’er silent hill and dell.
PrivateChas. Lowry,9th Aust. Battalion.
PrivateChas. Lowry,
9th Aust. Battalion.