WAR VERSE and PROSE
Selected by A.T.M. .?' ( ; ' THE FLAG. The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger’s troubled night depart,, And the star of peace return. —Thos. Campbell. ♦ * * * NATIONAL DEFENCE. A nation is not to be worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its -fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life and go down into the conflict, however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.— Garfield, in an adress to the U.S. Congress, 1864. ***** ■ THE SOLDIER. For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor; But glory is the soldier’s prize, The soldier’s wealth is honour; The brave poor soldier ne’er despise, Nor count him as a .stranger; Remembers he’s his country’s stay, In day and hour of danger. Robert Burns. **' * * FRANCE. We hate not France, but France has lost her voice, This man is France, the man they call her choice. By tricks and spying, And craft and lying, And murder, was her freedom overthrown. Britons, guard your own. —Alfred Tennyson, 1852.
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Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 140, 18 September 1942, Page 3
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180WAR VERSE and PROSE Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 140, 18 September 1942, Page 3
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