Episode 6.1 Leon Gellert Gallipoli Poet
WW1 Digger History Podcast
English - September 09, 2019 12:30 - 18 minutes - 21.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsHistory Society & Culture Personal Journals australia wwi worldwar1 diary digger greatwar history memoir Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Leon Gellert, a 23 year old Physical Education Teacher from Leabrook, South Australia is considered to be the best Great War poet from Australia. This episode focuses on his war experience and his poems.
I watched the place where they had scaled the height,
The height whereon they bled so bitterly
Throughout each day and through each blistered night
I sat there long, and listened - all things listened too
I heard the epics of a thousand trees,
A thousand waves I heard; and then I knew
The waves were very old, the trees were wise:
The dead would be remembered evermore-
The valiant dead that gazed upon the skies,
And slept in great battalions by the shore.