WANTED MEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 168, 15 July 1908, Page 6

WANTED MEN.

Give us Men! Men—from every rank, ~... Fresh, and free, and frank; - ..;.... '.'• Men of thought and reading; -■;■'■ Men of light and leading; • , Men of royal breeding; ■ .■■* England's welfare speeding; . : Men of faith and not of faction; - : '■•'.- Men of lofty aim and action; ■ ; Give us Men—l say again, - - 1 ;■' :■ Give us Men! ;".. '[■ Give us Men.! ' a, .' ■ Strong and stalwart ones; ...... Men whom highest hope inspires; : -. ' Men whom purest honour fires; ' '' Men who trample self beneath them; , -\ Men -who make their country wreathe ■ | them As her noble sires! Men who never shame their mothers? Men who never fail their brothers ■ ; I True, however, false are others; .. '{'■ Give us Men—l say again, • •. - Give us such Men! ■'' Give us Men! .; Men who, when the tempest gathers, i^ Grasp the standard of their fatbers i In the thickest of the fight; ' Men who strike for home and altar * (Let the crowd cringe and falter); ' God defend the right! * ; True as truth, though lorn and lonely, ! as the brave are only; ' \ a Men who tread'where saints have trod; » 1 Men for Country—F»ith—and God! v I Give •Uβ Men! I say agaia—agai»- t Give us such Men! . i :;