In you the Dogs of War unleashed again
an Expeditionary Force by sea,
and in the ground in years fourscore and ten
lie bones of Empire and Admiralty.
How in muddy trench riflemen joining
charged the lines on Ottoman ancient land,
and loud shellfire through dead night and dawning
fell in great battle Anzac’s finest stand!
Upon Lone Pine, Dead Man’s Ridge, Chunuk Bair,
the battlefield told a colony’s tale
till ceasefire hold and armistice declare,
and still to come, Fromelles and Passchendaele.
The battle was lost, the Great War won, yet
your peace is ours to live Lest We Forget!
Written: April 2005