[Editor: This letter to the editor, about the compulsory training of Australian teenage males as military cadets, was published in The Observer (Adelaide, SA), 11 February 1911.]
Compulsory military training
From “Mary Had Another Little Lamb”:— “The Rev. W. Shaw quotes some beautiful lines by the poet James Russell Lowell on the above.
I, too, am a poet:—
Mary had a little lamb,
It’s fleece was white as snow;
Somebody whispered “Discipline,”
And the lamb refused to go.
Mary had always tended it —
It thought its thoughts were right —
So she wrote some lines to the papers,
And got other lambs to bite.
There are some beautiful thoughts in these lines.”
Source:
The Observer (Adelaide, SA), 11 February 1911, p. 47
James Russell Lowell = (1819-1891), an American poet, critic, editor, professor, and diplomat; he was born in Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA) in 1819, and died in Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA) in 1891
See: “James Russell Lowell”, Wikipedia
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