THE EMPIRE S RESPONSE.

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 242, 18 August 1915, Page 5

THE EMPIRE S RESPONSE.

America's Response to Abraham Lincoln's Appeal for More Men During the Civil War, We are coming, Father Abraham, .300,000 more, F'rom Mississippi’s winding stream, and from New F.ngland’s shore; You have called us, and we’re coming from Richmond’s bloody tide, For Freedom’s cause to lay us down, our brothers’ bones beside. Six hundred thousand loyal men and true have gone before. We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more. The Empire's Response to Lord Kitchener’s Appeal. We’re coming, General Kitchener, Three hundred thousand more, From Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, And from Old England's shore; We’ve left our homes and workshops, Our wives and children dear, With hearts too full for utterance, With many a hope and fear. Chorus. We come! we come! our country’s need is sore. We come! we come! three hundred thousand more. We dare not look behind us. But steadfastly before; We’re coming, General Kitchener, Three hundred thousand more. Above came from America. The foLowing verses were written by Miss M. S. Powell:— Canadian snows have chilled us, But our hearts are warm and true; Australian suns have warmed us, We love her skies so blue; But we’ve heard the call of Empire, And answered to the cry Of heroes’ blood within our veins, We come to win or die. —Chorus. We’re coming. General Kitchener, From far New Zealand’s shore! We’ve left the farm and sheep-run, The gold mine and the store; Our father’s land is our land, And o’er the ocean foam We come to fight for England, Our bonnie island home. —Chorus. We’re coming. General Kitchener, F'rom mountain and from shore, The Hindu and the Maori, Three hundred thousand more; And should we sleep our last long sleep 'Beneath the alien sod. Our lives arc given for Freedom, For Empire, and for God. —Chorus.