<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Roll Up!</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">"<span class="smallcaps">Roll</span> up the map of Europe!"</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The German Kaiser cried,</p><p class="line">"For I'm the new Napoleon,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">An' England's 'ands are tied."</p><p class="line">But another sort o' rollin' up</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Is comin' into play --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">"Roll up! Roll up!" sez Kitchener,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%"><em>An' we're rollin' up all day.</em></p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">'E thought, did Kaiser William,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">That England would stand by,</p><p class="line">While 'e an' 'is five million</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Were crushin' 'er ally.</p><p class="line">"For they 'aven't got the men," 'e said,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">"To fight acrost the seas."</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">"Roll up! Roll up!" sez Kitchener,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%"><em>"New Army, forward, please!"</em></p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Yes, 'e wants a Second Army --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">'E's goin' to get it, too;</p><p class="line">For we know the man that calls us,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">An' we trust 'im thro' and thro'.</p><p class="line">If K. should need a million men,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">'E's only got to say --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">"Roll up for King and Country!"</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%"><em>An' they'll roll up right away.</em></p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">An' while we do our part 'ere,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">We'll think with love an' pride</p><p class="line">Of our comrades now a-rallyin'</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Acrost the oceans wide.</p><p class="line">For East an' West an' furthest South</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">They hear K.'s call resound --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:%">"Roll up! Roll up for England!"</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%"><em>An' they're rollin' up all round.</em></p></div><p class="byline">W. M. L. HUTCHINSON</p><em>Pall Mall Gazette, August</em> 20, 1914</body></html> · Great War