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Thread #80804 Message #3576198
Posted By: Jim Dixon
16-Nov-13 - 07:40 AM
Thread Name: Songs about the Great War (WWI)
Subject: Lyr Add: ANZAC COVE (Leon Gellert)
There's a lonely stretch of hillocks: There's a beach asleep and drear: There's a battered broken fort beside the sea. There are sunken trampled graves: And a little rotting pier: And winding paths that wind unceasingly.
There's a torn and silent valley: There's a tiny rivulet With some blood upon the stones beside its mouth. There are lines of buried bones: There's an unpaid waiting debt: There's a sound of gentle sobbing in the South.
[This poem previously appeared in Songs of a Campaign by Leon Gellert (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1917). It may have been set to music more than once. There is a version composed and sung by Ben Abraham on YouTube.]