The Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter

In 1914 at Albany the first ANZAC soldier's fleet gathered And on the transports the soldiers were by orders tethered She was the Light-house keeper's young daughter so patriotic Using semaphore signals she spoke to them on youth's topic It was to the Great War battles fought and won ahead of all Each word semaphored from ship to shore their excited call Finally off to Egypt, Gallipoli shores and Western Front they went There were tough trials of bullet, shot and gas towards them sent They remembered this girl with her heart felt messages freely given Their letters and postcards in her mind her thoughts of them still living. © Paul Warren Poetry