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Of quick-step or Strathspey: But he plays upon our heart-strings When he plays a Scottish tuneHear Jimmy Morgan

And his old mouth-organ

At "The Banks o' Bonnie Doon"!

He has a twist upon his mouth,

A twinkle in his e'e;

A roguish air,

A deil-ma-care,

Like the Piper o' Dundee:

Faith! we would dance thro' half o' France,

And a' the trenches carry,

If Jimmy Morgan

On his old mouth-organ,

Did but give us "Annie Laurie"!

And when the war is over

The war we mean to win

And Kaiser Bill

Has had his pill,

And we boys march through Berlin;

"Unter den linden" going,

We'll need no pipes to blow

Just Jimmy Morgan

And his old mouth-organ,

Leading us as we go!

-"Highland laddie, Highland laddie; whar hae

you been a' the day?"*

*The Regimental March of the Black Watch.

And when this life is ended,

And Morgan gone aloft,

He will not carp

Tho' he get no harp,

Nor trumpet sweet and soft; But if there be a place for him In the Angelic choir,

Give Jimmy Morgan

His old mouth-organ,

And he'll play and never tire.

-LANCE-CORPORAL JOSEPH LEE, in Ballads of Battle.

CANADA TO ENGLAND

Great names of thy great captains gone before

Beat with our blood, who have that blood of thee: Raleigh and Grenville, Wolfe, and all the free

Fine souls who dared to front a world in war.

Such only may outreach the envious years

Where feebler crowns and fainter stars remove,

Nurtured in one remembrance and one love

Too high for passion and too stern for tears.

O little isle our fathers held for home,

Not, not alone thy standards and thy hosts

Lead where thy sons shall follow, Mother Land: Quick as the north wind, ardent as the foam, Behold, behold the invulnerable ghosts

Of all past greatnesses about thee stand.

-MARJORIE L. C. PICKTHall.

THE SUPERMAN

The horror-haunted Belgian plains riven by shot and shell

Are strewn with her undaunted sons who stayed the jaws of hell.

In every sunny vale of France death is the countersign. The purest blood in Britain's veins is being poured like

wine.

Far, far across the crimsoned map the impassioned armies sweep.

Destruction flashes down the sky and penetrates the

deep.

The Dreadnought knows the silent dread, and seas incarnadine

Attest the carnival of strife, the madman's battle scene.

Relentless, savage, hot, and grim the infuriate columns

press

Where terror simulates disdain and danger is largess, Where greedy youth claims death for bride and agony seems bliss.

It is the cause, the cause, my soul! which sanctifies all

this.

Ride, Cossacks, ride! Charge, Turcos, charge! The fateful hour has come.

Let all the guns of Britain roar or be forever dumb. The Superman has burst his bonds. With Kultur-flag unfurled

And prayer on lip he runs amuck, imperilling the world.

The impious creed that might is right in him per

sonified

Bids all creation bend before the insatiate Teuton pride, Which, nourished on Valhalla dreams of empire unconfined,

Would make the cannon and the sword the despots of mankind.

Efficient, thorough, strong, and brave-his vision is to kill.

Force is the hearthstone of his might, the pole-star of his will.

His forges glow malevolent; their minions never tire To deck the goddess of his lust whose twins are blood and fire.

O world grown sick with butchery and manifold distress!

O broken Belgium robbed of all save grief and ghast

liness!

Should Prussian power enslave the world and arrogance prevail,

Let chaos come, let Moloch rule, and Christ give place to Baal.

-ROBERT Grant.

VIVE LA FRANCE!

Franceline rose in the dawning gray,

And her heart would dance though she knelt to pray,

For her man Michel had holiday,

Fighting for France.

She offered her prayer by the cradle-side,
And with baby palms folded in hers she cried:
"If I have but one prayer, dear, crucified
Christ-save France!

"But if I have two, then, by Mary's grace, Carry me safe to the meeting-place,

Let me look once again on my dear love's face, Save him for France!"

She crooned to her boy: "Oh, how glad he'll be,
Little three-months old, to set eyes on thee!
For, 'Rather than gold, would I give,' wrote he,
'A son to France.'

"Come, now, be good, little stray sauterelle,
For we're going by-by to thy papa Michel,
But I'll not say where for fear thou wilt tell,
Little pigeon of France!

"Six days' leave and a year between!
But what would you have! In six days clean,
Heaven was made," said Franceline,

"Heaven and France."

She came to the town of the nameless name,
To the marching troops in the street she came,
And she held high her boy like a taper flame
Burning for France.

Fresh from the trenches and gray with grime,
Silent they march like a pantomime;

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