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20 HUSH
Who means to tell us, so the story ran.
How guns developed, since the war began.
The wheels reversed again, but prove the point,
Like Hamlet's watch, the time is out of joint.
No laughter echoes from the parlour room
Of yonder Inn, as silent as the tomb ;
No object now to ask for c
Jimmy J,'
The answer to your query c he's away.' 49
No more the genius of a Harty 50 shows
The R.N.V. how good from evil flows.
No more Brett's classic viol charms the ear,
Distinctly pleasing, if a thought severe ;
Nor Dobson's tenor holds a Red Cross crowd,
Nor hosts of others, not to mention Stroud !
No more divine ability to sing
Gazettes for you a sub-lieutenant's ring.
Gone Geikie, Hope, and Lulworth's Ross and
Carr,
c
Gone Eric Williams and the great
No more can Stuart Mason truly say,
J. R.' 61
It's Snell who puts me on the proper way.
Naught too but recollection left to me,
Of happy days with Ritson 52 on the Dee ;
Those records reproduced with strident shocks,
49 A curious Scottish expression meaning 'gone for good.'
To a request for
an evening paper, the answer often was *'it's
just away." At first the ' Sassenach ' enquired when it would be
back.
60 Hamilton Harty, pianist and conductor.
61 J. R. Mason (of cricket fame) and Eric Williams, stationed
at Freshwater in the Isle of Wight.
62 Ritson was Number One on the Dee,