ORIGINAL VERSE.
THE MOTHERS OF NEW ZEALAND." We gave our eldest and bravest, when the first call sounded clear ('Twas the dear Old Country calling, we could not choose but hear). And. we sent them forth in the springtime and in flush of the summer heat, But now 'tis the second winter, and yet do the war drums beat! They beat—but on what are they beating? Not on a parchment drumOn the very hearts of the mothers, from whence these heroes come! O God, will it ever silence, to steady the throbbing breast? We gave our first and pur eldest, and now they ask for the rest! Ship after ship went forward, bearing them far away, They whom we nurs'd as babies, watch'd at their boyish play; And now they are fighting and storming where the bullets whistle shrill, Or they lie at rest with the quiet ones, at the foot of some lonely hill. Wc mothers of fair New Zealand, who toil'd thro' the early days, Braving a settler's' hardships for the sake of the sons we'd raise. Wc have heard the nations pleading, and wc cry, yet with aching breast, ""We gave our first for our country, and now we give the rest!" -C M. GROUCPTT. Kaponga, May 11.'
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 May 1916, Page 6
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211ORIGINAL VERSE. Taranaki Daily News, 16 May 1916, Page 6
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