"NON SUM QUALIS ERAM"
t Officers holding commissions in the !>peeial Keserve will be demobilised- officers 'holding' commissions in 1 the Territorial lorce will be disembodied."—Army Order.l I walks .iljoiit like other men, I cats my ivittles henriy, , I takes a drink, well, now'and then, Like any decent, jiarty. Jii fact my whole iulberoiico is To" ways'of normal folks;. And yet despite Appearances ' ' '■ Fin just a hollow hoax. • ■ . Now note.tho difference—t've a pnl' (\'o greater wit or' nerve); Bill- I'm a. Territorial, While he's the Bcserve.-. But he (it cannot be disguised That Justice must'have nodded) ■Is decently demobilised, While I'm just, disembodied. It ain't the sort .of attitude Of which to make a 'boast— Ton can't pretend it's gratitude To make it 711/111 a sliost. At duty's call, forsaking ease, The patriot's path' I look— ■ And all the Army leaves ofme'o A disembodied spook! -Lticio in the "Manchester' Guardian."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 229, 21 June 1919, Page 7
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150"NON SUM QUALIS ERAM" Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 229, 21 June 1919, Page 7
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