DON'T you see the signal seaward? Can't you hear the rocket scream? Men and women start and listen, children waken from a dream; All the village wakes to action, all the storm is on the yell—- Buckle on your life-belts, brothers! Don't you hear the Life-boat bell ? Hark I the coxswain's voice is calling. All their noble faces scan ; In the roll of British heroes, who can beat the Life-boat man? What is danger to a Briton ? What is life with life to save? Tear them from their wives' embraces! Launch the boat upon the wave I When the ship is driving shoreward, who has turned a coward ? When ? Men die daily for their duty, die to save like Englishmen! Sailors, steady, strip for action I soldiers, cheer the trumpet's call I But the Life-boat men of England are the bravest men of all] C. S.

* From The Free Lance.