WAR WORDS.
'.- ■■ :" a.-.,.', ! ""War.means sums in addition,** Urged the Earl in /campaign;*."' ••Trained-men In''condition '■:■ ■-' .Our'-Flag; to maintain. .■■/:.- ---.'/ We are held In/derision, ' "Our; Army is -small; .-'-"' • Multiply each division,. '' •• .' ' , Spring youthlto the call"" . . "'Tie a war of ambition"; 'Twas Wiihelin who spoke, ' : "Forpeaee or-perdltldh: \l :.= ■. ,- . .; My hosts-I convoke.'! .-".'■ "Xo peace' withe nt. honour*' •:'.-. "/ ■" /■•' ",'SaJd fStern Edward -Grey; .•/.-: '. : : , ;- "England's jOathJsVnpon-her, ....- ---"7 ...She-;'seals it/to-day.,"/' " ; " ... ..'" 'lis/a war.of attrition," * '■'■ ' .'.'-'• 'Twas.Kitchener, who -said— . ,' More -men, .more. nfohirldi*;". And swift jhey,are sped.. ! / - ../" ?TJs.,a .war of -condition ",•: •'....--' Cries capable'.-'lfreneh/. "And'to lioldonr. position .■■'•■< jWe'll go arid 'entrench. " .. "Like Romans.before us :. :., ;*.'•:. " '.And 'gallant/old'"Gaul, '.." Go singing In chorus",.;-. * " Come, one and come all/ ■' . "Never: prayer .was; more needed," : Says keen Jellicoe, ' : - ; • Ifits practice be heeded: . To, victory we ■go:'*',!.?; .-.-. To'the" war In commission . : There'went the brave Earl, 7 ■Our soldier-tactician, /.---/•. Bright-eyed as a merle.Ho had called to the nation For years counting/ten;/ For strength.and.'salvation . / ■'•■ To'! Empire and men.'-;" '; But they, had. not-the; vision;-'; "He's aged,"; "they 'said; Too.late,their contrition."-' •/-"// Lord Roberts is dead....'. ; We're ©raised, but not/broken; .'- By.God's mighty grace -..,/ ■>;/>-,?• Our war words are token Of troth to our rice. ; . //-• - • 7 7/' : /7,-^YCE:J6dE£T^/__i_uer_.-7
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 62, 13 March 1915, Page 13
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182WAR WORDS. Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 62, 13 March 1915, Page 13
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