PUT YOUR FAITH IN FOCH

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 216, 31 May 1918, Page 4

PUT YOUR FAITH IN FOCH

What matter if Iho Teuton horde advance a league or so? Tor Foch is keeping watch and ward, waiting to strike his blow. When darkest clouds obscure the sky fights beat the British stock— , "Are we downhearted?" "No!" wo cry, "we put our faith in Foch." ' Let Ludendortf and Mackensen, and William Great and'Smoll, Move wave on wave; we but retreat to break them one ami all; lor liritisli pluck and French elan will surely stand the shock: Then keep your courage up, my boys,, and put,your faith in Foch. With faces long and voices hushed some people walk the street, "The news is bad/' they whisper low, "the Allies fast retreat, Soissons is gone, and pouring south comes down that mass of grey; Paris may lull, the Channel ports from us be snatched away." Ye craven,crew! be silent now, ana hold at least your breath, See how pur gallant soldiers laugh in the face of death. They nover falter, never flinch—Pat, Tommy, Sammy, Jock; Then keep your courage up, my boys, and put your faith in Foch. In crisis calm and unperturbed, like steel ho meets the crash, But when he sees the hour has come, he strikes Tike lightning Hash. ' Four years ago his task to stem the Germans at the Marne, The Gordian knot he must untie, a tangled skein of yarn "Stand fast!" he cried, "my gallant boys, for God, for home, fov France, Outtlankcd on right, outflanked oii left, I'm going to advance!" Tlio Germans wavered, broke and fled, so sudden was the shockThen keep your courage up, my boys, and put your faith in Foch. We do not know the strength ho hns, we do not know his plan But this wo know the hour has come, and with it comes the M4N> Then never heed the German boasts nor Humour's voices vague" But rather trust in Foch and Pershing, Petain, Dyng, and Haig ' The strugglo now is to the side (hat holds out to the last The troops will stand, if only the civilians hold fast; ' A twelvemonth more, he'll break the Boche, aye, barrel, lock and stock So, keep your courage up, my boys, and put your faith iu Foch. . ' H. V. 11.