WAVELL’S EYE
PRIVATE FORIN CAUGHT IT APT REPLY FROM GENERAL Private Peter Forin, of Buffalo, now in the Canadian Army, has received a message in verse from General Sir Archibald Wavell, after sending a poem to the general. Forin’s poem said: Some people see more with one eye than others do with two, Some manage better with the old than others with the new; The thing that counts is'a fighting 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 has but one too, So he looks east and I look we want a wider view; My rhyming and my metre could hardly be much worse, 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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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3252, 14 April 1943, Page 3
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