6 JULY 1944, Page 9

ON ACTIVE ,ERVICE

(TO THOSE AT HOME As seagulls, wheeling gracefully astern,

Where now for irony days there none have been, To sailors who for some assurance yearn • Give proof the land is there, though yet unseen: And as the tides in ceaseless ebb and flow Confirm th'existence of an unseen moon, So will a word from home—how well I know !— Comfort their anxious hearts. Grant them this boon.

J. T. Nrsser.