MORE WAR POETRY

 

Published in the International

New York, New York, U.S.A.

December 1917

(page 384)

 

 

Old England is our kind and true ally.

Teacher says not to remember the books

About all the battles in days gone by,

For you can’t think how bad it all looks.

And if I see an Englishman without demur,

I will smile at him and be careful to Say “Sir.”

 

HERBERT J. WILCOX (Aged 14) [Aleister Crowley]