PROLOGUE: "The war in France dragged on into the autumn and winter of 1916."
EPILOGUE: "Olive Haynes married Pat Dooley in England in December 1917. Olive return to Australia in February 1918, working on a hospital ship. The army did not pay her for this service."
EPILOGUE: "Olive Haynes married Pat Dooley in England in December 1917. Olive return to Australia in February 1918, working on a hospital ship. The army did not pay her for this service."
Two stanzas from the poem "I Shall Not Cry Return by Ellen M. Huntington Gates for Alice who is mourning for deceased fiancé Harry:
I shall not cry Return! Return!
Nor weep my years away,
But just as long as sunsets burn,
And dawns make no delay,
I shall be lonesome, I shall miss
Your hand, your voice, your smile, your kiss.
Not always shall this parting be, For though I travel slow, I, too, may claim eternity, And find the way you go; And so I do my task and wait The opening of the outer gate.
Not always shall this parting be, For though I travel slow, I, too, may claim eternity, And find the way you go; And so I do my task and wait The opening of the outer gate.