Shall He Die In
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Vain?
HE dwelt at peace with fellow men, Content in heart and mind, And in a calm and pleasant land Tranquility did find.
Year after year his level way He went, and loved it well.
Simple his tasks, but in each one His aim was to excel.
Riches he sought not; to his mind Ambition was a sin.
Yet whirlpools of ambitious greed Combined, and sucked him in.
Far from his land and those he loved— Like others of his kind — He died; and whom he leaves must keep That sacrifice in mind; And. when the time is come for them To build the world again.
Devote their lives to keeping peace— Or he has died in vain.
Sheila Mchugh, Suva.
Mr. J. Barker, who successfully estab lished a cattle and dairy farm in the Bulolo Valley, near Wau, New Guinea, was in a Sydney military hospital in September, undergoing special treat ment. He wore the stripes of a non com. in a New Guinea' unit. He enlisted last January, and has seen, since then, some interesting sides of the jungle campaign.