"THE ENGLISH."

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 68, 20 March 1915, Page 14

"THE ENGLISH."

-. * ,;'l.'.'''. '."'■' I've' been ' meditating - lately that, when ..everything is>told, ■ There's something in -the English after ■ aIV ■"■ : .;" ''-;- -:■;.'- .' , >,: ... - They-may be too bent on conquest, and too eager after gold, ,-ft But there's something in the English alter all. "'. ■ *- ', ' " Though' their: sins ".and.' faults.- are., many, .• --and"l ; won'-t;exhaust my, breath, By endeavouring -to .tell you of: them all, ,Yet ;.'they' have a" sense of duty, arid 'they'll face it-to'the death, '--■•'■■■ ;>' So '■ there's" something.' in - the _C English after all. ~•', i ,-.. .; ':,•■,■ If. you'ie wounded by-a savage foe, and • bugles, sound "Retire," '.'..''. There's something in the-'English after . all: . ;'-,-..'' "• You imay bet yonr life thejfll -carry' you behind the lone of flre," :

:. ;For -there's something in the 'English after all. Yes, it-hough their guns are empty, and • their.blood be ebbing fast,• . -And to stay by wounded comrades be to fall. . •-" Yet they'll set their "teeth like bulldogs and protect you to -the last. Or they'll die like English soldiers after all. When a British ship' is lost at sea, Oh then I know you'll find. That there's something, in the English after all; There's no panic lor safety, where the weak are left.behind, ; . for there's something in the English ■ after all. But the women and the children are the •first to leave the deck,, I So there's something in the English after all; Though foreign foes may hat them, would joy in their decline, • Yet there's something .In the English after all. They may scorn the scanty numbers of the thin red British line. Yet they fear its lean battalions after all, For they know that, from the colonel to the drummer -in the hand, There is not a single soldier of them all— But would go to blind destruction, were their country to command. And call it simply duty—after all.. ; —"Boston (U.S.A.) Transcript."