The Greatest Blue
Title
The Greatest Blue
Creator
Eastbourne BB Syndicate
Identifier
PC000155
Date
c. 1916
Description
Patriotic British postcard with picture of sailor alongside a poem.
Text reads:
On "What Not to Ask the Boy in Blue."
There are some folk about us
Meaning well without doubt,
Who so with questions ply our wounded here,
That, with a slight addition of a probe
Just here and there, they
Would really almost turn them inside out;
And there are those among them
Who have vainly sought to try
To find out from them whether it is true,
Are they just as keen as ever
To go out again to die
For the love of dear Old England and the Flag?
To all such there's a test
I would suggest they should apply:-
Ask themselves if they would have the
Animus revevertendi?
DB
On "What Not to Ask the Boy in Blue."
There are some folk about us
Meaning well without doubt,
Who so with questions ply our wounded here,
That, with a slight addition of a probe
Just here and there, they
Would really almost turn them inside out;
And there are those among them
Who have vainly sought to try
To find out from them whether it is true,
Are they just as keen as ever
To go out again to die
For the love of dear Old England and the Flag?
To all such there's a test
I would suggest they should apply:-
Ask themselves if they would have the
Animus revevertendi?
DB
Source
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
Publisher
Eastbourne BB Limited
Subject
Propaganda--Great Britain
Poetry poetry, English
Language
English
Original Format
Postcard
Physical Dimensions
77 x 127 mm
Files
Citation
Eastbourne BB Syndicate, “The Greatest Blue,” c. 1916, PC000155, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Postcard Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.