CHIMES AND RHYMES

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16780, 24 April 1926, Page 16 (Supplement)

CHIMES AND RHYMES

THE [WEN OF ANZAC. By purple bills and opalescent sea, And sunlit leagues of plain they lived, and they Were summery-hearted all, and life was gay, And peace was theirs, and love and liberty. And when the clarion sounded suddenly They went, a rollicking band of boys at play, Tilted at doom, and there, at Auzac Bay, Died—but they taught the world what men there be. -—Bartlctt Adamson, in the "School Journal.' r WHAT CAN A LITTLE CHAP DO? What can a little chap do, For his country and for you? What can a little chap do? He can fight like a Knight For the Truth and the Right. That's one good thing he can do. He can shun all that's mean; He can keep himself clean, Both without and within—• That's another good thing he can do.

His soul he can brace Against everything base, And the trace will be seen All'his life in his face— That's a very fine thing he can do

He can look to the light, He can keep his thougtit white, He can fight the great fight, Ho can do with his might What is good in God's sight—! Those are excellent tilings he can do.

Though his years be but few He can inarch in the queue Of the Good and the Groat Who battled with fate, And. won through— That’s a wonderful tiling lie can do And in each little tiling lie can follow the King', Yes, in eacli smallest thing lie can follow the King. lie can follow the Christ, the King. —John Oxenham.