WE GIVE OUR SONS.
= Such our proud cry—a vain and empty bocst; = E Love did not aslc so great a sacrifice; = 5 The first reveille found you at your post; . - E You line 10 the cost, clear-eyed you paid the price, s E Some far clear call we were too dull to heat = E Had caught your ear. = E Not ours to urge you, or to know the voice, s A'o stem decree you followed or obeyed, s E Nothing compelled your swift unerring choice , E = Except the stuff of which your dreams were made, _ = To that high instinct, passionately true. = E Your way you knew. E }Vc did not give you—all unasked you went, s 2 Sons of a greater motherhood than ours, s 5 To Our proud hearts your young brief lives were lem, = E Then swept beyond us by resistless powers. s = Only 'ice hear, when we have lost our all, E That far clear call. = E —Copied. From Jean Du Pontet, Waiotahi, Bay of Plenty. | riiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiNiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiji.-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21165, 23 April 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)
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170WE GIVE OUR SONS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21165, 23 April 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)
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