<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">"What Think Ye?"</h1><p class="byline"> W. A. BRISCOE <br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/><span class="smallcaps">IN The United Empire Magazine</span><br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> (Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute, London)</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">WHAT are we fighting for, men of my race, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And the best of us dying for?</p><p class="line">For wealth--or profit--or power--or fame?</p><p class="line">Or a statesman's lust? or a monarch's name?</p><p class="line">Or for aught that our sons of sons could blame </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Did we throw the dice of war?</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Why are ye weeping, sisters of mine, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">With a mien so proud and brave?</p><p class="line">Do ye weep because of the utter woe?</p><p class="line">Are ye proud because ye would have it so,</p><p class="line">Though Fate should have dealt you the final blow </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And there's nothing to mark the grave?</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">What are we fighting for, women and men, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And the best of us dying for?</p><p class="line">It was just because we had signed our name,</p><p class="line">And the Briton's creed is to honor the same:</p><p class="line">It was only for that, and our own fair fame</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">We took up the gage of war. </p></div></body></html> · Great War