Works in the The Call: The Ha'penny Daily
HE HAS PUT HIS HAND TO THE PLOUGH
What can we say of him better than this:
   He has walked in the clean, straight way;
He has played the game, he has won to fame
   Only as white men may.
We trusted him well in the days gone by;
   So shall we trust him now.
With the will to do, and a motive true,
   He has put his hand to the plough.

True to his mates of the long gone days, True to the same just Cause, He has marched ahead with a strong firm tread, Scorning to halt or pause. And this shall be said in the years to come, E'en as we say of him now: 'His fame was straight; he was true to a mate; And he kept him hand to the plough.'

"DEN"
The Call: The Ha'penny Daily, 25 July 1914

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