THE ENGLISHMAN
The following poem by the well-known .American poctress, Mis* Ella AVhccler Wilcox, was written on board the Olympic when the news of the loss of the Titanic was received in mid-ocean: — Born in the flesh and bred in the bone, Some of us harbour still, A New World pride, and we flaunt, or hide. The Spirit of Bunker Hill; We claim our place as a separate race, Ur a self-created clan. Till there comes a day when wo like to sav, ■‘We are kin of the Englishman.’ For under the front that seems so cold, And tho voice that is went to storm, We are certain to find a big. broad miud, .And a heart that is soft and warm; And they carry their woes*in a lordly way. As only the great souls can: And it makes us glad, when in truth we May “We are kin of the Englishman. lie slams his door in the face of the world. If ho thinks tho world too bold; Ho will even curse; but ho opens bis purse To the poor and tho sick and the old. He is slow in giving to woman the vote And slow to pick up her fan; But ho gives her room in an hour of doom, And dies—like an Englishman. S.S. Olympic, April 20th,
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8182, 25 July 1912, Page 18
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221THE ENGLISHMAN New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8182, 25 July 1912, Page 18
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