THE SILENCE
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This is indeed a false, false night; There’s not a soldier sleeps, But like a ghost stands to his post, While Death through the long sap creeps. There’s an eerie filmy spell o’er all— A murmur from the sea; And not a sound on the hills around— Say, what will the silence be? Private R. J. Godfrey, 7th Aust. Field Amb.