LINE UP!

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 11, 28 May 1920, Page 1

LINE UP!

(After Harold Bogbie's poem "Fall In"). How would you feel, Digger, how would you feel In these days of a peace well won, If your old timo pals who have faced the steel and Ihe fire of the hideous Hun Could point to ycu when they see you pass, And tell how yoii'd missed your chance, And had stay,ed at honie- with the carefree class, While they held the line in France ! But you went with them when the call came clear, And you did your bit with the best, And you faced the foe with no thought of fear, And stood np to the fiercest test ; And you feel to-day, as a soldier should, Tiiat the Cause was worth all the price, For your life was lent for the Coramon Good, And what mattered the sacrince? What do you think, Digger, what do you think As you tread the old streets again, Of the rain that's wrought by tha Demon Drink? Have you fought for your land ic vain ? Is it nothing to you that though war is o'er And the might of the Bosche is laid, The country you cherish is stricken sore But the hand of a ruthless Trade? Whero will you stand, Digger, wlrere will you stand In th^t not far-distant day, When the voice of a freo and enligiitened land ® Shall have banished the curse for aya, Will you share in Ihe honour oi vict'ry won, Or will yours be the shame to see How your work for man's freedom was lefi undone , While you boasted of "Liberty"? What will you do, Digger, what wiQ do When once more the great choico ia yours ? Will you win for New Zealand a glory new, That shall last while her name endures, Or wiH you, for gain or to gratify tasie, Tinge a soldier's honour' with shaino By voting for misery, ruin and waste? Line up; be a sport; play the garne.