CAPTAIN CHARLES FRYATT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 215, 6 October 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

CAPTAIN CHARLES FRYATT.

W hat wa.s the crime for which he stood lacing the squad in the dawn's cold grey ? T\ hy dd they thirst so for his blood ? What was the score they sought to pay ? Oh, his stout ship an attack had made On the cruel devil-fish lurking there. I narmed he was, but no whit afraid; And he made it slink to its ocean inr,. Other sh-ps had be<?n riven apart: Women and children defenceless had died; But he struck fear to the sea-wolf's heart, As he bravely charged through the rushing tide. The sea-wolves nourished their thwqrtcd wrath For a whole long year; and when Fate, so gnm, Brought the man once more across their path. In sheer cold blood they murdered him. 0 German brothers, misled, insane.. Belated Huns in this gentler age, The whole world gazes, in grief and pain, As you write such deeds on your nation's page. Your weapons could not reach to his height. As he waited, wjth scorn on his manly face. He stood in a halo —you crouched in night. You rent his body—and shamed your race. There's a day of reckoning for you; And your penance alone will not suffice ; For your children's children, the long year through, MiM pay the price, must pay the price 1 - VICTOR KILSPIXDIE, in the NewYork "Times."