Over the Top With the Third Australian Division by G. P. Cuttriss
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conducted, when the men choose the hymns which they would sing. They
are reverent in attitude, earnest in attention. Sundays are no different from other days of the week. They merely mark, as do other days, the passing of time, which will bring either grief or gladness to those who watch and wait for the day of peace, and to us who war a victory crowned with honour. There is no _Sun_-day. The thick, dark cloud of war hides the sun's bright face, but there is hope in the thought that Sun-day is prophetic as well as historic, and insistently in its recurrence directs us to wait patiently for the cloud-bursts out of which shall emerge the Sun of Righteousness, who will proclaim such time to be the Day of the Lord. For, lo, the days are hastening on By prophet bard foretold, When with the ever circling years Comes round the age of gold. When peace shall over all the earth Its ancient splendours fling, And all the world take up the song Which angels once did sing: 'Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, goodwill toward men.' SOLDIERS' SUPERSTITIONS |
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