A SONG OF ENGLAND
Sir, —Perhaps Alfred Noves had in mind the present threatening hblocanst when lie penned the verses "A Song of England," the following being the last verse:— There is a song of England that flows along the blood. With chaos and old night in it, And yet—a tide of light in it, Uplifting her to chivalries for ends not understood; A stream of living glory Plowing on, through all her story, In sacrificial silenco when the tide is at the flood. In tho men that live for England, live and love and die for 'England. By the light of their desire They shall blindly blunder higher To a wider, grunder kingdom, and a deeper, nobler good. G.D.M.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23761, 14 September 1940, Page 15
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120A SONG OF ENGLAND New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23761, 14 September 1940, Page 15
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