R.S.D., 11th Aust. A.S.C.

THE UNBURIED

Now snowflakes thickly falling in the winter breeze

Have cloaked alike the hard, unbending ilex

And the grey, drooping branches of the olive trees,

Transmuting into silver all their lead;

And, in between the winding lines, in No-Man’s Land,

Have softly covered with a glittering shroud

The unburied dead.