To Mr. Webb, M.P.

Free Lance, Volume XVII, Issue 920, 1 March 1918, Page 20

To Mr. Webb, M.P.

{For the New Zealand Free Lance.) Now tell us, Paddy, will you fight Where loud the cannons rattl©, Or will you stay at home t& wage The miners' wordy battle? Why n ot be man enough to face The Hun with rifle loaded ? >ior stay, a laggard in the race. ±>y public pin-pricks goaded? The m in e rs ' white-haired boy are you «t\ our head, I see, is swelling!) Wfer. 110 * d d -, ut y' s P ath > nor heed Ihis foolish "Red Fed." yelling? Go, march where Britain's flags unfurl And charge Huns at the double x\or be m league with those who hurl lhese threats of mining trouble! Help close our ranks, and fight our foes • JNeath martial law and orderlake warning by the Bolsheviks, Where Huns have crossed their border. A bloody tribute would they lay On Britain, could they reach her - lour country's cause espouse to-day And with your rifle preach it!