Lines to the Junker.

Free Lance, Volume XV, Issue 815, 11 February 1916, Page 11

Lines to the Junker.

( tr en^? n War Party. Has issued - a new Hate Manifesto urging . that the one-goal imposed upon the German na- ' is the overflow of England by 'all means.) - My Junker, once again- it seems M^V!.t S r£ OUr tim . e idle dreams; Must this Chimera in your brain cJ n 1 c f e Y iatln gly remain? TW + ' v^M 0 ? 8 JOU good to groan r - inat Jlingland must be overthrown , JSow that 'you've let the whole world know it— Buck up, my boy. and pverthrow itl -But, eyen for the burning Huh, • A?. 6 i ng is easier said than Son©; ' , ' Overthrow England, by all means" - By Zeppelins and submarines »» ul take a longish time to work it, " now they seem inclined to - shirk it I . ■ ' Two Yankee maxims oft are quoted \\ hen cocksure blustering-is noted; The first will well apply to Don't bite off more "than' you can chew!'The other, too, seem apropos, ' prophesy unless you know!" r -o • ere now your braggart boast In Paris your success to toast ? Gone where that other balderdash is That London soon- you'd lay in ashes! Burst with that other, ten times over, That boasted how the cliffs of Dover Should by your guns bombarded be When you had driven us in the sea! But, worthy Hun, astray you go In thinking that your deadliest foe Is "England . . . England!"_. England's more To-day than England was before ; "Empire" is blazoned on her gate, All her Dominions guard "her fate; Not only England ..is your foe, ' - - " ' Nor France, nor mighty Russia ". . . No! ■; That is exactly where you make Your irredeemable mistake, . And all your treacherous scheming wrought For years in secret, comes to naught. Your rash appeal to force of arms Finds a world waked to war's alarms CIVILISATION you've incensed. And that is what you're up against ! —Argent.