POETRY.
TRAFALGAR. When screw nor paddle vexed the wave, Britannia sailed 'neath snowy wings ; She bound the strong, she freed the slave, And gave the law to peers and kings. And now she strides the ocean brine, Nor changed the spirit of her dream v Annihilating space and time, She drives the Heroules of steam. % With pride she dwells on battlos fought 'Gainst sturdy foes, and triumphs won; The glory walls of oak have wrought, What marvels British pluok has done. If changed the weapons of her might, She yet can make the foeman fe.el That right gives courage for the fight, Lends hearts of oak the thews of steeh In eighteen-five, how Briton's sons Drew Vict'ry in her glorious car To nerve their arms, to serve their guns, And win the fight of Trafalgar I As virtue can survive the grave. And memory valour's life prolong, Let deathless heroes of the wave Inspire and wake again our song. Alone — not merely for her own That day was Britain's flag unfurled, Not only for her hearths and throne— ' She fought the battle of the world 1 'Tis still the burden of our strain i No foe can ever ' make us rue,' Or lose dominion on the main, •Whilst Britons to themselves are true. — B. J. M. Donne, in Public Opinion,
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Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 141, 11 December 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)
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