THE DONS OF SPAIN.

Evening Post, Volume LV, Issue 137, 11 June 1898, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE DONS OF SPAIN.

The Eagle screams at the beck of trade, ao Spain, as the world goes round, Must wrestlo the right to live or die from the sons of the laud she found ; For, as in the dayß when the buccaneer was abroad on the Spanish Main, The national honour is one thing dear to the hearts of the Dons ofSpain. She has slaughtered thousands with fire and sword, aa the Christian world might know ; We murder millions, but thank the Lord ! we starve 'em slow, The times havo changed sinoe the days of old, but the same old facts remain Wo fight for Freedom, and God, and gold, and tho Spaniards fight for Spain. We fought with the strength of moral right, and they, as their ships went down, They only fought with the grit to fight and thsir armour to help 'em drown. It mattered little what ohanoe or hope, for ever their path was plain, The Church was the Church, and the Pope the Pope— but the, Spaniards fought for Spain. If Providence struck for the honest thief at times in the battle's din— If ever it struok at the hypocrite — well, that's where the Turks came in ; But this remains ere we leave the wise to argue it through in vain— There's something great in the wrong that dies as the Spaniards die for Spain. The foes of Spain may be kin to us who are English heart and soul, And proud of our national righteousness and*', proud of the land we stole ; But we yet might pause while those brave men die, ana the death-drink pledge again— For the sake of the past, if you're doomed, ' say 1, may your death be a grand one, Spain ! > Then here's to thebraveßt of Freedom's foetl who ever with death have stood — For the sake of the courage to die on steel as their fathers died on wood ; And here's a cheer for the flag unfurled in a hopoless cause again, For tho sake of tho days when the Christian world was saved by the Dons of Henry Lawson.

It is now stated that PaderewsM, the renowned pianist, will assuredly visit Australia next year. The decision of the referee in the Wel-lington-Pet ono junior match in awarding a try for obstruction is to be commended, as to allow wilful play of this description is to encourage rough retaliation. Of costumes there is in Lisbon as muoh variety as in the whole of Portugal, for day by day and night by night peasants from Algarve, Beira, and even as far north as Tras-os-Montes come and go by the stately railway station of the Roeio, in the heart of the city, with its large horaeßhoe-shaped windows and its fourscore-and-five steps leading from the street level to the level of > Its rails.