Lest We Forget - Volume 16 www.legionnl.ca 119 WALKER, William Patrick 971333 Served with the Royal Newfoundland Artillery 59th Heavy Regiment as a Gunner. Born in St. Patrick’s Little Bay, Newfoundland in 1921. Was a member in Springdale. Deceased: 2006. A Poem of the Boer War ‘A Wife in London’ by Thomas Hardy - December 1899 I ~ The Tragedy She sits in the tawny vapour That the City lanes have uprolled, Behind whose webby fold on fold Like a waning taper The street-lamp glimmers cold. A messenger’s knock cracks smartly, Flashed news is in her hand Of meaning it dazes to understand Though shaped so shortly: II ~ The Irony ‘Tis the morrow; the fog hangs thicker, The postman nears and goes: A letter is brought whose lines disclose By the firelight flicker His hand, whom the worm now knows: Fresh ~ firm ~ penned in highest feather - Page-full of his hoped return, And of home-planned jaunts by brake and burn In the summer weather, And of new love that they would learn. He ~ has fallen ~ in the far South Land . . . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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