BRAVO!

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 149, 19 November 1914, Page 7

BRAVO!

The followig war poem appeared in the London Press during September for the express purpose of aiding enlistment) : Kitchener sat in his London 'len, Silent, and grim, nnd grey, Making his plans with an iron per., Just in Kitchener's way And lie saw where the clouds rose <!ark and dun,

/.nd all that it meant he know? "We shall want every man win ca-n shoulder a gun To carry this thing right through!"

Bravo, Kitchener! say what you want, No one shall say you nay! And the world shall know, where onr bugles blow, We've a Man at the head—to-day!

Jellicoe rides on the grey North Seas, Watching the enemy's lines, Where their Lord High Admirals skulk at ease, Inside of their hellish lines, They have drunk too deep to the boasted fight, They have vowed too mad a vow! What do they think—on the watch—tonight? What toast are they drinking now ? Bravo, Jellicoe! Call them again, And wherever they take the call, Show them the way, .give them their "Day!" And settle it once for all! ♦ And French is facing the enemy's front, Stubbornly, day by day, Taking the odds and bearing the brunt, Just in the Britishers' way. And he hears the message, that makes him glad, Eight through the smoke and flame; "Fight on, Tommy! stick to them, lad! Jack's at the same old game!" Bravo, Tommy, stand as you've stood, And, whether you win or fall, Show them you fight as gentlemen should, And die like gentlemen all! So Kitchener plans in London Town, French is standing at bay, Jellicoe's ships ride up and down, Holding the seas's highway. And you hat loaf where the skies are blue, And play by a petticoat hern. TJiese are the men who are fighting for you! What are you doing for them? Bravo, then, for the men who fight! To with the men who play! It's a fight to the nd'fdr honour and