TO ADDRESS RECRUITS

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XI, Issue 552, 21 December 1915, Page 2

TO ADDRESS RECRUITS

[After Robert Burns, tune 'Scots Wha Hae.'] Lads who wear New Zealand's fern, Answering war's call loud and stern, Fear not the fate we now must learn — Death or victory. Now's " the Day ' and now's the hour, Dark the clouds of battle lour, See abroad mad William's power — Ruthless cruelty. Wha is "fit" but no' sac brave, Wha would leave it tae the lave, Wha could fill a shirker's graye — Let him "wait and see." Wha for country, Kine and law, Freedom's sword would strongly draw, Freeman fecht or freeman fa' — " On " your watchword be. Italia, Britain, Russia, France, Ne'er must cast a backward glance Whilst Turks or German hordes advance, In air, on land, or sea. By the laws of God and man, By war's widespread woe and pain, By our sons amongst the slain On Gallipoli. Lay the proud usurpers low, Miscreants fall m every foe, Liberty's m every blow — Let us do or die ! — Wallace.