The trickling creek that twists and twines
Round tall gum roots and undermines,
Is all ablaze with wattle.
A. H. Scott,
4th Battery, A.F.A.
THE TRUE STORY OF SAPPHO’S DEATH
Deciphered—with much labour—by a bomb-thrower of the
New Zealand Infantry Brigade from a very old tablet
dug up in the trenches at Quinn’s Post
The Isles of Greece! The Isles of Greece!
Where burning Sappho sang,
Both day and night, without surcease—