THE SONG OF THE ALL-REDREALM.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1160, 22 June 1911, Page 10

THE SONG OF THE ALL-RED-REALM.

0 ■ I. Round the rolling world Loyal millions are gathering, Loud in the tumult of their gladness tliey sing; High the smoking breath Of the salvos is feathering, This is the happy day for crowning the King! / 11. Deep and strong from the innermost heart of it, Out from the cloister, and up from the mart of it, Vast and long from the uttermost part of it, Soundeth the song of the All-Red-Realm. 111. 'Tis ours to striko the shining keys, And bid the rising anthem peal; To speed it, o'er the 'sundering seas, Where ride the Sentinels of Steel; Until the Bousing Realm shall wakeEach land its later song begun— And all the strains with grandeur break Into the .majesty of one. IV. Great the Voice of the full kith and kin of it; Bushing the roar and insistent the din of it; Round as the world is the spirit and spin of it; Hark! 'Tis the Song.of the All-Rcd-Kealm! V. ' Hail! Hail to him whose Empire sings Around his proud ancestral throne; And to the Crown its fealty brings, ' From Britain's furthest, brightest zone. Hail! Royal George! Great joy to thee, And to thy spouse, our gracious Queen; Long 1)3 thy reign, and niay'st thou be . What our best Kings and Queens have been. VI. King and Queen! Yc are deep in the heart of it; One with' Empire te uttermost part of it; Throne and people in ;oy or in smart of it, Singing the song of the All-Red-Realm. VII. Father of all! Eternal King of Kings! 11l this great hour the Empire bends to thee; With humblest faith its intercession brings • For Wisdom and for Poaee on shore and soa'i-i'fc--' : ,v. ■ ■ UCro'wn tl'lioii -the 'King, that ho with strength;>inay'.yrel||n, : aiiu'-in his ruling bless; . True to the highest, may his throne main, tain ' , The Symbol and tho Might of Righteousness. ■'■>' ' VIII. Wide the vision and vibrant tho breath of it, Recking not aught that the enemy saith of it; Weal of the world is the life or the death of it; This is the Song of the All-Red-Roalm. —S. Clarko Johnson. Wellington, New Zealand, June 22,1911,