Where cornfields smile in golden-fruited peace There stalk the spirits of heroes firmly-thewed As he that sailed their path to win the Fleece For gods that still enchant our solitude. I weep the dead; they are no more, no more! Their sons that gather in the teeming grain Walk sadlier than the men of hill and plain, Themselves are harvest to the wrath of war. 5 I weep the dead; they are no more, no more! When dusk descends on city and on plain, Dim lights will shine from window and from door, And some will guard the vigil of dull pain, Yet, in the city or in solitude, There is a burden in the starry air, An oversong that cries, "The life is fair That made its triumph nobler with its blood." 6 If English oaks should fret with shade their tomb, Let them have burial here; for one would say "I shall sleep soft if some once haunted room, Keep token of me when I take my way." And one again, "The boon of quietude Is sweet if that old corner of the stream Where last I saw the creepered window gleam Keep memory of my days of lustihood." 7 Some blossoming orchard-plot, some fencéd field, Some placid strip of furrow-stainéd earth, Or some grey coil of cottage smoke shall yield Tribute to them that brought their kin to birth. And this, in city or in lonely wood, Shall be the guerdon of the death they died, The cry of Folk made one in pangs of pride-- "They fell, not faithless to the Lion-brood." FOOTNOTES: [1] Mount York, in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, where stands a monument erected in memory of three intrepid Australian explorers: Blaxland, Lawson, and Wentworth. _Printed by_ Butler & Tanner _Frome and London_ _SECOND EDITION._ LOVE LETTERS OF AN ANZAC By Trooper Bluegum (Oliver Hogue) _English Review._--"We have read with delight every word of these letters.... Brisk, pungent, full of good things." _Sunday Times._--"Forms a document of genuine human and historical value." _Bookman._-- ... "he relates his personal experiences simply, unaffected, and with an easy realism that sets the reader's blood singing, and brings terror and glory of the whole thing home to his understanding." _Price_ =2s.= =6d.= _net._ _Cloth, with portrait of author._ LONDON: ANDREW MELROSE, LTD. 3 York Street, Covent Garden, W.C. Books of Topical Interest. _Fifth Edition._ Glorious Deeds of Australasians. By E. C. BULEY. Price =3s.= =6d.= net. _Daily Telegraph_ says:--"It is a living book and brings one into the very circle of the battle." _Westminster Gazette_ says:--"Mr. Buley's book is one of extraordinary interest." _Times_ says:--"The whole book provides excellent and stirring reading." Ferdinand of Bulgaria.