KING EDWARD VII.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13738, 20 May 1910, Page 7

KING EDWARD VII.

(Buried May 20th, 1910) '• I have not loved the world nor the world mc." ■ A wandering soul his life'? defianf** hurled. But this our Kinc's birh plory was, to be The friend o( all the world. A funcra'. anthem throbs or. every wind; Th>> flag's sad homnce floats to every air; Abmt the earth his funeral garlands bind A rotary of prayer. His no! alone the- Hr-jrl-and of old rule, The little islo "set m » silver sea"; But lands far found, now nations est to school In English loyalty. Ar.d the years, «pread to its perfect flower, Stalely and fair the Imperial spirit, grew, Brtiuse in him who tore the sceptred power Imperial ftteujth they knew. And Mere? * wared tho councils of the great, And Pcice through all his acts Imperial ran. Because a ki~;l~ heart compassionate Ke:t for hi« brother man. Too brief his rule. Yet thall his blossomed ■fa m » Survive in full fruitions yet to be: Still shall ail bo.d adventurers tpeak hi* na-me, Beyond tho Antarctic sea. Still, year by year, a* the great earth wbeeli round. Bearing his- far-spread nations to the- sun. The hearts that mourned rhall bo more zea'...ns found To bold that kingdom one. Lund after land see* 'nrjth the darkening skies Eve's forabre, asacn banners low unfurled. In the great Peace, with the dead kings no lies; The friend of all the world! —iIARY COLffORXE VEEI*