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WHAT CAN YE GIVE?

(Belgium: 1915.) What will ye give to the Nationshattered and stricken and scared'; Where the fields lie black in the terrible- track where the path oi the Hun was barred, Bruised at the heel of the foeman; bleeding from out the strife— What will ye give to the Nation who's given her very life?

"What will ye give to' the women?— dark is the dawn of their day, Where the empty shell of a tottering spire still points a hero's way. Oh, the women are waiting and weeping for the men who have given their lives, — Then what will ye give to 1 lie women the women who once were wives?

What will ye give to the children poor little starving ones;. Can't you hear the cry of the children —'mid the pitiless roar of the

Ruined, tin' red-roofed cottage, bowed is their mother's head; So what "ill ,vc give to the children wlio \xi'C]) for a father dead? Hero in our sea-girt haven, with the oceans that lie lietweon, \Y;ir is a ghastly nightmare—do we know what it's honors mean ? Hut gladly we'll loosen our pursestrings, find gladly we'll pay our share. Lest they think-, since, we do not know them, that neither do we care. For all she lias given in flesh and blood we cannot repay in gold, b'or the life of a man and'a heart of a woman will never h ( > bought and sold : But the lonely ones are calling, would you hoed their piteous call? Then give yon mite to the Nation—the Nation who's given her all. —"Myrtle,'' in the N.Z. Dairyman.

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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 23, 27 May 1915, Page 3

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WHAT CAN YE GIVE? Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 23, 27 May 1915, Page 3

WHAT CAN YE GIVE? Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 23, 27 May 1915, Page 3

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