Awake! Young Men of England

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Untitled poem (1914)
by George Orwell

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Published under Orwell's birthname of "Eric Blair" when he was 11 years old, this poem was published in the Oct. 2 1914 Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard newspaper.

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OH! give me the strength of the Lion,
The wisdom of Reynard the Fox
And then I’ll hurl troops at the Germans
And give them the hardest of knocks.

Oh! think of the War Lord’s mailed fist,
That is striking at England today:
And think of the lives that our soldiers
Are fearlessly throwing away.

Awake! Oh you young men of England,
For if, when your Country’s in need,
You do not enlist by the thousand,
You truly are cowards indeed.

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