HOMEWARD BOUND.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7920, 18 August 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

HOMEWARD BOUND.

By HENRY VAN DYKE, (Formerly American Minister to Holland). Home, for my heart still calls me; Home through the danger zone; Homo whatever befalls me, J will s'ail again to my own. Wolves of the sea are hiding Closely along the way, Under the water biding Their moment to rend and slry. Black is the eagle that brands them, Black are their heart,! as the night. Black is the hate that sends them To murder, but not to fight. Flower of the German culture, Boast of te Kalmer’s marine, Choose for your emblem the vulture, Cowardly, cruel obscene. Forth from her sheltered haven Our peaceful ship glides slow, Noiseless in flight a; a raven, Grey as a hoodie crow. She d'.ii'bles and trims in her bearing, Like a twisting plover she goed; The way of her westward faring Only the captain knows. In p. lonely bay concealing She lingers for days, and slips, At dusk, from her covert, stealing Through channels feared by the ships. Brave are tho men and ste.adlv Who over tho deep, British mariners ready To face the sea wolf’a leap. Lord of the winds and waters, Bring our ship to her mark, Safe from this game of hide-and-seek With murderers in tho dark.

THE FATHER. That was his sort, It didn’t matter What we were at But he must chatter Of this and that Hi.s little son Had said and clone: Till, as he told ’ . The fiftieth time Without n change How three-year-old Prattled a rhyme, They got the range And cut Him short. TORPEDOES IN THE U.S. CIVIL WAR. “ Torpedoed !” The report was not uncommonly heard luty years ago during the Civil War in the United States. Twenty-eight vessels fell victims, Capt. G. R. Clark, U.S.N.. <ai-serts in his official textbook, “A Short History of the United States Navy.” The Southerners were the first to adopt the polNO NEED OF A CONSCIENCE* “Now, Bobbie, didn’t your conscience tell you that von hid done wrong?” “No.’m. 1 knew it already.’’—New f ork World.

Ar the remit of the earthquake at Mastcrton, fissures have been caused on a number of properties to tbc east of tho town. Several, slips have also been brought down.