for Conscientious Objectors’ Day

 

 

‘Ez for war I calls it murder

put under close arrest entered

this place for the word No

is a long sentence six months

hard labour dark as the night

 

that covers me Did not wear khaki

until forced refusing to be made

into a soldier dragged to the French

coast to make example of Owe

no man anything entered this cell  

 

put before the Holy Trinity major

judge MP Home Sweet Home

there you has it plain and flat

then raise the scarlet standard

high at Richmond Huddersfield

 

refusing to disobey the dictates

of – They are fighting against

England – No they are not

fighting against me Conscience  

- It seems so foreign to have

 

a man talk as he does Refusing  

- I have no country - What are you

doing here then refusing put into

this cell for wearing my own clothes

80 days do not acknowledge

 

do not recognise Yield not to

temptation refused to swing arms

or obey because I live thou shalt

live also each of us got the above

sentence etched into And I don’t want

 

to go no furder   The word No

than mi testimint fur that