BRITAINS, AWAKE!
A WAItNINO. ((Jontril>ut4L) Wake up! Wake up! And take your stand! The day of reckoning is at hand! Shadows of doom hang o’er the land, And ill awaits our Empire grand. The fateful hand writes on tho wall, “ ip-ware, lest you like Carthage tall! Wake up! Wake up! And hear the call! House up, you Britain*! On© and all! Come! Come! Ye brood of Viking*! Come! The days of lighting arc not done! Hold hard the lands your forehear s won With battle-axe, with ‘pvke’ and gun! It is the Empire that’s at stake, And woe lie tide you if you take No heed of warnings, for you make The bed on which you lie—Awake! |)o not heed the polilicians. Pair words elothe all their foul seditions. Do not trust them! steady workers! Big talkers are mostly shirkers! Hark how the “Bolshies ” loudly call “Land. life, and liberty, for all.” (Watch how they tramp down those who fall, And push the weakest to the wall.) Do you want a revolution? Lull of bloodshed and confusion? Tear down sedition’s scarlet rag! Hoist high your nation’s loyal flag! Quench! Quench strife’s fiery brand! Wake up! Wake up! and take your stand I Tlie day of reckoning is at hand!
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1921, Page 1
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209BRITAINS, AWAKE! Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1921, Page 1
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