BRAVO!

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 31 October 1914, Page 8

BRAVO!

_ One of tie most striking features of the many War Poems bom? published in the' English press just now is the recruiting'appeal embodied in a large proportion of them. . We have already reprinted a number of these. Hero is another: \ ' Kitchener sat in his London den, Silent a*nd grim and grey, Making his plans with an iron pen. Just in Kitchener's way. , 'And lie saw 'where the clouds rose dark and dun, • And all that it meant, he. knew: ' "We shall want every man who can shoulder a gun To carry this thing right through!" Bravo, Kitchener 1 say what you want, • No one shall say you nay 1 , ■ i And the world shall know, where our bugles blow, \ 'n : We've a Man at the head—to-day I ' ■ Jellicoe rides on the grey' North' Seas ' i Watching the enemy' 6 lines, i ■ ' Where their Lord High Admirals skulk at eaw ■ ■ Inside of their hellish mines.' ' Thoy have drunk too deep to the boasted fight, They have vowed too mad a vow I What do they think—on the watch—to-night? "• What toast are they drinking now P. ; . • Bravo, Jellicoe l" Call them again, And whenever tbey (take the call, Show them the way, give them their "Dayl"- . ' And settle it once for all 1 And French is facing the enemy's front, ' j Stubbornly day .by day, ... 1 - ( Taking the odds and bearing the brunt, ' ' Just in the Britisher's way. 1 And he hears the message, that makes him glad, j Ring through tlio, smoke and flame: ! •"Fight on, Tommy! stick to'them, lad! J Jack's at the same old game!" ! .■ x .._■■■ , i Bravo, Tommy, stand, as you've 6tood, And, whether you win .or fall,. Show them you fight as gentlemen should, ' ! And die like gentlemen all! ' So Kitchener plans in' London T6wn, French is 'standing at bay, Jellicoe's ships ride up and down, Holding the seas' highway. 'And you that loaf where; the skies are blue, . ' ' , ■ And play by a petticoat hem. These are the men who are fighting for you! What are'you doing for them? Bravo, then, for the men who 'fight! ' 1 "To Hell with the men who play! It's a fight to the end for honour and friend, ' It's a fight for our lives to-day! * Fked. E.'Weathekly, in the"Daily Mail." 1 •[' I / i