A NEW PATRIOTIC SONG,

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2525, 28 July 1915, Page 5

A NEW PATRIOTIC SONG,

Sir, —The enclosed verses wore written by a young Australian on the eve of his departure for Egypt with one of tho Expeditionary Forces. James Burns, their author, is himself a distinguished young student, and- his grandfather, tho Rev. J. D. . Burns, D.D., wrote several well-known hymns. , Tho verses have' appeared in the' Melbourne "Argus" and. several other papers, and tho young author's parents have-liad many letters about them,' among others, a request that they might be set to music for the benefit of the Red' Cross Society. They are sung every Friday by the.boys of ono large college in Melbourne. ' I solid a copy with the hope that .tliey -may rouse somo of cur youths with their appeal, and perhaps cheer some .parents whose sons have already "gladly gono their way."—l am, etc., . CHARLOTTE E. WOOD, Island Bay, July 20. FOE:ENGLAND. The bugles of England were blowing o'er tho sea . As they had called a thousand years, calling now to me; They woke me from-dreaming, in the • dawning of the day, The bugles of England—and how could 1 stay? The banners of England, unfurled across . the sea,. Floating out upon the wind, were beckoning' to me, : ■ Storm-rent and battle-torn, smoke-stained . and grey, ' - The banners of England, and how could I. stay? 1 0, England! I heard tho cry of those that died for theo Sounding like an organ-voice across tho winter sea; They lived and died for England, and gladly went their way,' England! 0, England! how could I stay?