Gullsong

Looked at first as though the double of my dream How the water danced with sunlights golden gleam As we gazed to the shore With our heads held high All the gulls did sing their coarse and bitter cry In the land of light a solemn song did thrill Bore the thrust of hate and godless sovereign will As we marched through the mud With our guns slung low We forsook our youth, the restless and the slow How we talked till dawn as sixteen bombs were dropped But then who can speak of what will be and not? How our words rang with scorn Through the cool night air In my sleepless thoughts their sunken faces stare At the drowning of the scarlet sky Where the rose tree blooms and bullets fly It was here that we strayed Beyond God's grave eye And across the land those gulls did surely cry