<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The Woman's Game</h1><p class="byline">AUTHORSHIP NOT KNOWN</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">WAS there ever a game we did not share,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">Brother of mine?</p><p class="line">Or a day when I did not play you fair, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">Brother of mine? </p><p class="line">"As good as a boy," you used to say, </p><p class="line">And I was as eager for the fray, </p><p class="line">And as loath to cheat or to run away, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">Brother of mine!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">You are playing the game that is straight and true, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:7%">Brother of mine,</p><p class="line">And I'd give my soul to stand next to you, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:7%">Brother of mine.</p><p class="line">The spirit, indeed is still the same;</p><p class="line">I would not shrink from the battle's flame, </p><p class="line">Yet here I stay--at the woman's game, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:7%">Brother of mine!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">If the last price must needs he paid, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:7%">Brother of mine,</p><p class="line">You will go forward, unafraid, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:7%">Brother of mine.</p><p class="line">Death can so small a part destroy, </p><p class="line">You will have known the fuller joy--</p><p class="line">Ah! would that I had been born a boy, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:7%">Brother of mine! </p></div></body></html> · Great War