"THE ENGLISH."

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13744, 6 April 1915, Page 3

"THE ENGLISH."

I've been meditating lately that, when "everything is told,There's something in the English after allj ; They may be too bent on conquest, and 1 - too eager after gold, i But there's something in the English ! after all. Though their sins and faults are i many, and I won't exhaust my breath, By endeavouring to tell you of thorn all, ' j Yet they have a sense of duty, and they'll face it to the death, So there's something in the English ■ after all. If you're wounded by a savage foe, and bugles sound "Retire," -There's something in the English ; after all; You may bet your life they'll carry you behind the zone of fire, For there's something in the English after all. - Yes, though their guns are empty, and f their blood is ebbing fast, And to stay by wounded comrades be ! to fall, Yet they'll set their teeth like bulldogs and protect, you to the last, Or they'll die like English soldiers after all. When a. British ship is lost at sea, Oh then I know you'll find. That there's something* in the English after all; There's no panic for safety, where the weak are left behind, For there's something in the English after all. But the women and the children are the first to leave the deck, \ So there's something in the English after all;

Though foreign foes may hate them, would joy in their decline, Yet there's something in the English after all. They may scorn the scanty numbers, of the thin red British line, Yet they fear its lean battalions after all, For they know that, from the colonel to the drummer in the band, There is not a single soldier of them ailBut would go to blind destruction, were their country to command, And call it simply duty—after all. —"Boston (U.S.A.) Transcript."'