ENGLAND AND HER COLONIES.
She stands; > a thousand-wintered tree, By countless morns, irapearled ;- Her broad roots coil beneath the sea - :Vr Hfir branches sweep the -world';" ; ' ,fHer seeds, by-careless,winds conveyed, . . Clotlie tlw reraotest straCd . • With forests from her scatterings made ”* ,i JNew nations fostered in. her shade; { •.-Abd linking land with land. ye wandering tempest sown, ' ’Neath every, alien star, Forget not whence the breath was blown : That wafted you'afar! . * For ye are still her ancient seed On younger; soil let . ..Children of Hritain’s. island breed, . , . wbdra. the, Mother-m. her need ft-*'. - 1 ;'(rj .Perchance-pay one day call. . J ;.' ) >■■■'< - William Watson.-JVI-ji'l’-r' i,. t , , ■" ' 1 f-' *! “ Well,” said an old gentleman, who stumbled’ as he was trying to make his why around a 1 gttiup .of walteers, is- really -workfng one’s passage round the whirled.” *
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Evening Star, Volume 11221, Issue 11221, 21 April 1900, Page 7
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134ENGLAND AND HER COLONIES. Evening Star, Volume 11221, Issue 11221, 21 April 1900, Page 7
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