"FIGHTING MAC."
(Specialty written: for the " S : t-a-r."i Hearty wd corns io cur she-re, Fighting Mar! Though no cannon-sgna! rear, Fighting Mac! For we waiH cur boys to view, How wo 'honour men liko you— What true pluck and graft- can. do, Fighting Mac! t Yoa— we know you very well, Pitting Mm! Ycu're no " brsss-bouita general, I Fighting Mac! ) " Ho who rules muss firs'i ob=y," From >.he ranks you carved your way, ' J \ncl a Nation cheers 10-day, , Fighting Mac! 5 You and Sergeant "Wia-i's-his-name, > Fighting Mac! Taught the Fellaheen "the game, > ° Fighting Mac! j Jlr.ised a. race despised and -wreckedj Gave, them pluck and Felf-resprct, Till the down-trod si-ood erect! > Fighting Mac! 1 Spending years of pafcior.it. ioi'l, Fighting Mao! . Bai: Ming on a foreign, soil , 1 Fighting M.ao! Till you. -witfh such men as ivliese ■Faced" the bravest foes with ease. Beat "the' astonished Soudanese. Fighting Mac! Then Omdurman crowned your fame, i Fighting Mac! ; Where, acccDt-ing risk and b.ame— Fighting Ma.c! ! -England's foes of yesterday.. Handled by your grip and sway, Blew ihe Mahdi's hosts away, Fighting Mac! In a 'triple Tt*aitb, vrvtla. zest, 1 % Fighting Mac! f Pledge we our thrice welcome gues*, Fighting Mac! 1 " Bobs for Ireland's 'honour bright I i Kitch>ner for England's might! A.a.d for Baotland's foremost fight! fighting 'Mac!"
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7239, 28 October 1901, Page 2
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219"FIGHTING MAC." Star (Christchurch), Issue 7239, 28 October 1901, Page 2
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