28 APRIL 1917, Page 17

POETRY.

MUNITION MAKERS.—THE TEACHER.

BESIDE the blackboard's dull expanse, Gray-haired and spectacled they stand : Forging through good and evil chance Munitions for their native land.

Loyalty—truth--obedience--faith--

These are their hall-marks sure—who send, Untarnished. strong for life or death, Their weapons to the world's far end.

Nor deem their gentler labours less : Nor weak their tools of victory : Who mould for love and righteousness The mothers of our sons to be. JANE BROTHER° nrrr.