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Hen the singing bullet finds its mark In a gallant British breast, When the yellow cloud of poison gas Bears death on its wavering crest, When the blue-grey hordes in a steel-tipped line Sweep on like a living flood, When the deadly bayonets slash and rip, And the trenches run with blood, And we bear it all for thy sake alone, England! Mother! Our love is shown.
When the big guns speed o'er an angry sea, In the teeth of sleet and spray, Their message of death to the tossing foe Scarce a storm-swept league away, When the life-blood creeps o'er the glistening decks In sullen spurts and red, When glazing eyes stare sightless up At the heavens overhead, And the black shark slinks to the riven side, England! Mother? Our love is tried.
So we come, Mother England, thy loyal sons, Ready to do our share,, For behold, we have writ in the blood of our best The proof of the love we bear; We have staggered blindly through choking gas, Reeling with ev'ry breath Shrill, whistling shrapnel, screaming shell, Agony, sudden death, All for thee we can face unmoved England Mother! Our love is proved.
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