THE HOME GUARD
$ t f From every rank and station, they e have come at duty's call 1 To guard these sacred shores of ours from the despot's iron thrall. 1 From 15 years to 80, life's vigour, prime, its full e, Within each heart the sacred flame e leaps high which naught may dull. s The patriach and high-school boy, march smartly side by side a. Full conscious of his sacred task to s protect our firesides. t What tlio' the conscript hordes may s icome, in ever-flowing waves e TJie hearts of gallant freemen will r keep them all at bay. ii God will defend New Zealand—His cause is ours, tho* we Like Peter, oft deny His Christ, pery vertedly. [1 Then here's to our gallant Home 1 Guard, no finer men you'll fine' i- Than these citizens of Lower Hutt 1 who guard our homes and i shrines. A. F. HOWE.
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Hutt News, Volume 15, Issue 42, 15 April 1942, Page 8
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154THE HOME GUARD Hutt News, Volume 15, Issue 42, 15 April 1942, Page 8
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