ONE OF BRITAIN’S SUBJECTS.

White Ribbon, Volume 37, Issue 433, 18 August 1931, Page 6

ONE OF BRITAIN’S SUBJECTS.

I'm one of Britain's subjects, and a loyal one to boot, I'm u lover of true freedom; but 1 do not care to shoot Down my poor fellow-creatures, anyhow and anywhere, For a sort of human quarrelling in which I've had no share; And for Liberal or for Tory To triumph at the story. Of a brilliant British victory, is our shame and not our glory! I'm one of Britain's subjects, and I’m used to speaking plain; The trumping up of money will not wash away the stain Of the needless, useless butchering of many fellow-men, For matters that w’ant settling with the arbitration pen; And I’ve only hung my head. When our triumphs 1 have ’•ead, For they’re written m the life-blood of brave fellows lying dead. I m one of Britain’s subjects, and I love my native land; I like to fly her colours, and by them to take my stand; But there's too much heathen savageness beneath our Christian name, When the more we read of butchering, the more w f e talk of fame! And when w’e end the ftght. And might is made the right, There's an aspect there which will not l>ear a penetrating light. —Watson Dyke.