Here you will find the Poem A Letter From Palestine of poet Alice Guerin Crist
A letter from ?The East? it came today, And all the house is lightened of its gloom: A sun-browned desert wind through every room Eddies, and bring strange scents of old bazaare; Of orange-groves beneath the dreaming stars O?er far Jerusalem. Through these ordered rooms Where poppies glow and pale narcissi blooms Nod in tall vases, sings the desert breeze Telling of brown battalion overseas. Khaki-clad soldiers, singing as they go Along the road to Gaza, and we know The very breath of freedom?s in the air With their gay boast, ?Australia will be there? Mateship and courage, loyalty and truth The very essence of Australian youth! We have no fears! serene in faith we pray For those dear gallant lads so far away.
