TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13698, 31 May 1915, Page 7

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

When. you're walking, with, your sweet 1 heart Do. you ever, mention war Do you speak of Tommy Atkins On the battlefields afar? Do you speak of Britain's Navy, ■ With our brave j'ouiig men at sea, Ami the work they all are doing, .In. this war for you and me?

Does it thrill yonr soul, young fellow, . : When you read heroic news ? Do the lists \of killed and wounded, . Your position not confuse? Does your sweetheart .ever jask. yon If V. you wouldn't care to go, Just to fill a gap out yonder . Where so tnany. . ar© laid low?

If 'she does, how do you answer, Can you' give her one excuse j Wliv you stay at home when .wanted , For the dear old country's use? Do you snv it is yojtir duty., ! But you'd rather stay at ' hom», As you have no inclination To meet bullet shell, or bomb? Do you tell, her' 'tis much better To be strolling out with her, Than be starving in the trenches, > Where great dangers you incur? Do you say they're geting "plenty Single men and married too. That the war will soon be over, And they'll have no need of you ?

Do you say that you'll be ready Should^ the Gei'nWns ever land, That you'll then demand a rifle, , Arid go out. to lend a hand, , But you cannot go to Flanders, - Gr to cither f areigiii parts, . For you' have not hatt the training In war's; many subtle arts ?

Does she- say then, You're a shirker,

That she wants no Germans here, That your place is with the heroes /Who are keeping Britain clear, That the longer you are waiting ICre the soldier's suit you don, Ypn're disloyal to your . country And the noble nien who've gone?

Ask yourself one th'gent question When you'ye seen your girlie 'home-r 1"Is it t vuo that I'm a shirker, .And afraid of she}! and bomb?" Get, to know we're "still in danger, That you're needed straiffht away, Then b© like a true bom Briton, And tako part in Britain's fray.