POETRY

Lake County Press, Issue 2788, 5 June 1919, Page 2

POETRY

STAND READY. If the day should come when an enemy drum Is heard in this little land, Then, strong and ready, with courage steady, For freedom we'll take our stand. If the foe should smite by day or night The men who watch and wait, With eyes a-weary through dark nights dreary. To keep inviolate. These isles that are free from sea to sea, In the strength of our cherished right, Will fight unfearing for ties endearing And fall ere we yield to might. In the gloom of the hour that is war's gnm dower,

0 islesmen, undismayed, By bay and shoreland, on hill and foreland, Stand ready, lest foes invade. The land that ye love; by the sky above And the soil that to you is dear, Vow you will never your faith dissever, Nor thrall of the fooman fear. Calm, resolute stand, should the hour be at hand, When a foreign foe shall faro With stealthy motion out o'er the ocean, To take you unaware. 0 men of these isles, by fraud nor milei Let liberty be laid low; Knit firm together in wild war-weather, Stand ready, to foil the foe. KELSO KELLY.