ORIGINAL VERSE.
A CALL. Now all bodes well in this fair land Xatl.less it needs be. guarded, A> unrests high in every clinic Lest shielded—as sure spoil in time May he by foes regarded. Arm! Arm! Ye suns of doughty sires, Who value future safety, 1) ■ self-possessed and resolute. All able males train how to shoot From age fifteen to lifty. The pomp and panoply of war No "Moores" in column serried; Nor 'lis hut by dint of marks-men's skill, grand salvoes to awe in-till, That, victory now is carried. Awake! Come lend a pliant ear Awake! eonie lend a pliant ear
To what reason urges: 'Tis better to at once forestall Invasion than dcliaiice cull, That bear usurper's scourges. Arise! Show Timmeon's mattered stock
Your inate grit and marrow: With rifle now make scared the foe As did your fathers with the bow And deadly fleeting arrow. New Zealand's rampants are those crags That round her coast-line rises, Her bucklers, sheltering nooks and holes Adjacent ground all round controls And dooms hostile devises. A. HOOD. New Plymouth, January 4th, IUU7.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81914, 7 January 1907, Page 4
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181ORIGINAL VERSE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81914, 7 January 1907, Page 4
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