WAVELL'S EYE
PRIVATE FORIN CAUGHT IT APT REPLY FROM GENERAL Private Peter Forin, of Buffalo, now in the Canadian Army, lias re-i ceived a message in verse from General Sir Archibald Wavell, afteT sending a poem to the genera;!. Fo rin ! s poem said: Some people sec more with one eye than others do with two, Some manage better with thfe old than others with the new; Tliejthing that counts is a fighf.i'ng brain attached to a good stout heart, This verse is merely to let you know we think you fill the part, General Wavell replied: It's true I've one. eye only, my aide lias but one too, So he looks east and I look when we want a wider view; My rhyming and my metre could hardly lie much wor,se. But they're meant to thank you for | your complimentary verse. Forin has written 107 poems and received acknowledgments from more ,than 35 people.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 69, 4 May 1943, Page 3
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