24 OCTOBER 1914, Page 17

POETRY.

TO THE YOUNG MEN OF GREAT BRITAIN IN ENGLISH CAMPS AND TO YOUNG ENGLISHWOMEN.

KEPT by their mothers, with no shame to rue,

They leave their homes, the cities and the hills : A single thought unites the many wills, To render King and coimtry all their due.

Women of England, let it not be true That these, whose eyes the love of England fills, Whose hearts the passion of England's glory thrills, Should dim the brightness of their dream through you.

Sons of Great Britain, here are souls at stake !

I do not wonder there are girls to-day Who love you so, that they would give away

What only wives may give and husbands take.

Leave them to think of you and dream and pray ,With souls unstained, for your own mothers' sake.

H. M.