"GIVE US MEN"
9- - The following verses are credited to a Bishop of Give us men! Men from every rank, Fresh and free and frank;. M<p of thought and learning, Men of light and reading, Men of ,loyal breeding, The nation's welfare speeding, Men of faith and not of fiction, Men of lofty aim in action, Give us men—l say again. Give us men! Give us men! Strong and stalwart ones; Men whom highest hops inspires, Men whom purest honour fires, Mon who trample self beneath them, Men who make their country wreathe' them As her noble eons,. Worthy of their sires; Men who never shame.their mothers, Men who never'fail their brothers, True, howover, false all others, Give us men—l say again. Give us men! Give us men! - Men who.when the. tempest gathers Grasp the standard.of their fathers . In the thickest fight.;. ' Mcii' who striKe'fo'r; honie and altiir, '. (Lot the coward; cringe and falter), •, .God defend the right! True us truth though low and lonely. Tender as' the.. brave are; only; ' Men'who tread where -eaj lits have trod, Men for country, home, and God; . Give us men—l.: say again. Give. uis. such lYien!
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2902, 14 October 1916, Page 10
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193"GIVE US MEN" Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2902, 14 October 1916, Page 10
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