Where she states what she’s done for England, with modest pride;
And she works like a black at recruiting outside the pubs;
And is always ready to tell “how her dear ones died.”
There were three of them—Bob, Jack and Arthur—handsome men;
So good to their mother, so courteous, and brave, and kind!
Well—she bred them for England! It was God’s will, Amen;
For her sorrow on earth, a reward in Heaven she would find.
But Lily (the third from the left in “The Beauty-girl’s Glide”)
Belonged to no clubs or committees, wasn’t noble at all;
And the night of Jack’s death, in the wings, she broke down and cried