FALL IN!

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2294, 30 October 1914, Page 6

FALL IN!

What will you lack sonny, what will you lack' When the girls line up the street, Shouting their love to the lads come back From the foe they rushed to beat? 1 Will you send a strangled cheer to the sky And grin till your cheeks are red'i , But what will you lack when your mates go by With a girl who cuts you dead ? Where will,, you look, sonny, where will you look When your children yet to be Glamour to learn of the part you took * In the War' that kept men free ? Will you say it was naught to you if France , Stood up to her foe or bunked ? But whero • will you look when they give the glance That tells you they know you funked? How will you fare, sonny, how will you fare In the far off winter night, . .When you Bit by the fire in an old man's chair, And your neighbours- talk 'of the fight ? Will you slink away, as it weTe from a blow, Your old head shamed and bent? Or say—l was not with the first to go, But I,went, thank God, I went? / Why do they call, sonny, why do they call For men who are brave and strong? Is it naught to you if your country fall, And -Right is smashed by Wrong? Is it football still and the picture show, •. The pub and the betting odds, When your brothers stand to the tyrant's blow And England's call is God's? Harold Beqbie, in the "Daily Chronicle.