A Clergyman in shell
production -
An impression sketch by Jamie
An impression sketch by Jamie
Quite recently to
the date,
Has been the
appointment,
Of a man of the cloth
- to take
A post outside of
church duties.
Reverend Stuart
Robertson,
A Scottish
Minister of Glasgow,
Well known in the
community -
Took a post in an
engineering firm.
A new routine,
away from the
Church, would see
the Reverend
Commute daily, on
the early train -
Working ordinary
hours of ordinary day.
Reverend
Robertson assisted
In manufacture of
artillery shells -
His given reasons
in making bombs,
During the week is to fire on Prussians.
To add that the
shells he set out
To create, during his
weekday's work,
Would, on Sunday, be fired at the devil -
This, for him,
seemed a very fair division.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Clergyman
to Make Shells. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 27 Mar. P.5. Col.4. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11495198/Daily-Telegraph-March-27-1915.html
[Accessed: 27 March 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 27 March 2015).
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