A SILENT PROTEST.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11717, 6 June 1916, Page 4

A SILENT PROTEST.

I long to talk about the war. But then'l sadly should deplore To raise the carper's smile—hence I, greatly to my own disgust, A conscious ignoramus,_ must Maintain unbroken silence. I _ * I'deemed, when talk of Pr a "Was over, all my troubles fled, But my relief was scanty, For now, ivho'd grapple, stout of heart, "With those three dreadful words which start With Sal and Scut and Anti?

Sneers which would make me sad as Scrooge Would greet my reference to Hooge, And if I ,spoko of Hulluch Loud scofTs would show I seemed aware That I—poor dolt! —encountered there A perfect rhynio to "bullock."

Then, great Allies, as you oppose With " ever-growing force our foes I daily pray you'll trounce them, But trounce them, as you surely can, tn places such that common man Can now and then pronounce tbem. -M.S.