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WHAT OF THE DUMPS?
["We repeat our question, therefore, and expect a 'Yes' or
'No' answer: _Have all the dumps been sold, or have they
not_?"--_Daily Mail_.]
While wealth untold lies heaped in idleness
We will not see the nation go to pot;
We ask you (kindly answer "No" or "Yes"):
_Have all the dumps been sold, or have they not_?
By many a shell-torn desolate chateau
Stand monumental piles of martial store
Reared up long since to stem a savage foe
By labours of the Army Service Corps;
And day by day, in spite of our advice,
They linger wastefully to rust and rot;
We ask (and let your answer be concise):
_Have all the dumps been sold, or have they not_?
No more may KELLAWAY in bland retort
Disguise the truth with verbal circumstance;
Our special correspondents still report:
"Entrenching tools obscure the face of France.".
The case is plain; the issue is distinct;
You either answer now or out you trot
(And kindly make that answer quite succinct):
_Have all the dumps been sold, or have they not_?
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"WEDDING ROMANCE.
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