A POEM OF TO-DAY.
(From the Aldershot News.) What have you done for your country ? How have you answered the call? Are you pleased with the part you are playing In the job that demands us all ? Have you changed the tweed tor the khaki To serve with the rank and file, As your comrades are gladly serving, Or isn’t it wortli the while ? Can you meet the eyes of your fellows ? Or have you to turn away ? When they talk of the stay athome slacker. Have you never a word to say ? When you read the roll of honour Of living and the dead —what then ? Does the voice within approve you as one of the ranked with men ? For it in our Island’s glory Each soldier may claim his share, So he who would shirk his duty His burden of shame must hear. You who are strong and active, You who are fit tor the fray, What have you done for England r Ask of your heart to-day. Axon.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1419, 3 July 1915, Page 4
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171A POEM OF TO-DAY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1419, 3 July 1915, Page 4
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