The Twin Flags.

Free Lance, Volume XVIII, Issue 971, 27 February 1919, Page 22

The Twin Flags.

This is part of a poem written by Edwin Markham, author of " The Man with the Hoe," in honour of "Britain's Day,-' which was lately celebrated with great eclat in New York: We are one people, England, we Who clasp our hands across the sea. We rise from one heroic past; One primal memory binds ug fast. We glory on one greatness sjied From heaven of our immortal dead. Our minds are taught by Shakespeare's tongue, A language old yet ever young. We all are Shakespeare's children; he Engirds us on one sounding sea. The conscience of the Pilgrim Flock Was England's dower to Plymouth Rock; And Magna, Charta'e grand groundswell Thundered in Independence Bell. Hampden and William Pitt passed on The torch caught up by Washington. They all were comrades in one cause, A purpose that must never pause.