Meeting of East and West
Where the Macedonian phalanx or the legions of old Rome. Where Cortes or Pizarro in their pride could never come, From the East and West advancing—art and science in the van. Over time and space triumphant, see the march of Christian man. No torrid zone, no stormy cape, nor iceberg, nor typhoon, Can stay his mighty progress, all the earth shall see it soon, Each island in the vasty deep, and every sunny shore, Shall yield to human labour, and be fruitful evermore. Haste Westward, O Americans, and cut your isthmus through. And o'er the Rocky Mountains pour, with spangled banner blue; And Eastward haste, Britannia’s Sons! Still glorious to maintain l Victoria’s Eastern Empire, and to rule I % the boundless main, j (This prophetic poem was written by j Colonel Sir Thomas Livingston j Mitchell, D.C.L., who was a staff officer of the Duke of Wellington during the ! Peninsular Wars, afterwards Surveyor- [ General of New South Wales, and a I notable explorer. He died at Sydney 'in 1855.)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 November 1940, Page 4
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174Meeting of East and West Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 November 1940, Page 4
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