THE WOMAN'S PART.

Observer, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4, 2 October 1915, Page 23

THE WOMAN'S PART.

With laughing words and smiling face She stands by the good ship's side, Striving with superhuman strength Her bleeding heart to hidie. The whistle blows, the engines start. See! The ship is under weigh! The woman's parti God only knows Its bitterness to-day. The mem who go the foe to fight, Mid&t bustle, and change of scene, Can, shake off sorrow's parting stab, And feel its edge less keen. But mother, sister, sweetheart, bride, Turn away with stifled moan; To them the world seems hard and cold 1 , They yearn to be alone. Alone; and! now that pent-up grief Finds its sweet relief in tearsi — A woman's heart is just the same, No matter whait the years. Tears of sorrow and tears of pride, Though cruel indeed the blow; True woman's heart is glad her man Had the courage to go. Glad to feel when Old England called To' her sons across the sea He did not stop to reckon what The cost to them might be. He has gone! 'Tie the woman's part To anxiously wa.tch and' pray That Godl in mercy will bring him . Safely back from the fray. By G.L.K., in the "Daily Mail."