THE MOTHER OF A BOY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 278, 25 May 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE MOTHER OF A BOY.

(From the Baltimore Sun.)

I didn't raiso my hoy tn l»e a coward: I want my Imy m jio if thore is war. I wont to stand and wawh him pi-oiidlj marching, I want tu gaze hik.hi him from tsc door. I <lo not want to lose h :.: or to keor. liini, . T only long and long to have him bf A man whruoVr h>s country comes W swoop him Tnto her surging lotion- of the free. I do not want my l.ov to i.-e a craven; I lovo liiin. and Id hate to see him go j \ n J vet I'd rather 10-c hi:::, >ad!y losj ' him. Than have li'm hide in >oar to fae the foe. . I've prayed with all the saint of i woman For nea<v, and that --.r struggl might not coino: But if it doos I want him l>ravo an human. My hoy must march aw..y wth fia and drum.

I'd give him. ye*. ;t thousand time* I give him, With all h ? means 10 me of love a:

fov • Be auso I would not love him >. ' \fv ideal of i w. man - kind of a lx> T do not harbo ir hate «>r yearn t« j-engeance: T would not cru-ii a rwlet with n hand: , T But if it come-to Aght'ng, ficji 1 wai To ho a man ; n.l struggle for h laud.

I rant mv l-nv w go «f we must ent rhis mad world conflict raging m might: j W.th all it means to me to have n

leave me, , l-,» P ive him to hi-country, help h For M.TtVuik a mother doe- her d»i i,„| k-.-.-p- her fiith with honouri with Ood: T didn't raise my Iwy to ho a -^wa ' ,'d"ather have km. dead and tun .-: clod.