LORD SALISBURY AND THE PARTITION OF CHINA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2302, 14 April 1898, Page 41

LORD SALISBURY AND THE PARTITION OF CHINA.

Salisbury ! Awake ! Send your fleet to the East ; Already the vultures have flocked to the feast ; Old China is dying, and they're hastiug,to prey On the plunder of Asia, the spoils of Cathay. r Strike quick and strike hard, or your part will b% gOEB. Aud you'll be left in the lurch to fume and look on, Unless from tbe clutch of the havpies th« • hare That is lightfuUy yours you venture to tear. But the future we judge from the deeds of the past ; And we know you will write and not act to the Jast. " Infirm of purpose " you shrink from the fray, And the vultures are left undisturbed to their prey. Each year you buy peace at the price of a war. Though to face your foes boldly is better by far. The Frenchman has seized in his claws all the south, Fiom the hills of Yunnan to the Sikiang's mouth. The German has planted his flag in Shanking. And Britain — for a time— may keep hers at Hongkong. The key 3of Pekia and the wide Manchu plain The Russian will add to the mighty domain Which o'evhangis the fair south like a funeral pall From the centre of Europe to China's Great Wall. But Britons — who fir.vt of the East broke the fattcrs, Whose armies have ne'er yet encountered their better?, The strength of whose fleets than all others is higher — For want of a statesman perforce must retire. You've soldiers and Bailors, but Pitt, Trh.ere is " lie ?— Who closed to their ships ilie gates of each sea, Who knew how to act as well as declaim, And made Westminster Aobey the Temple of Fnme. Hear, Salisbury, their taunts when they bade you begone From the shores of Port Arthur and Talienwan : " Take your Jubilee Fleet and review it again. And shout— at Spithead — that you're Lord of the Main. Within the solent you may still ' rule the wave,' ADd swear at your club that you'll ne'er be a falave. Your 'march o'er the wave' and your 'home on the deep,' Within a league of your coast you're welcome to keep. You've a ' meteor flag ' — well— flap it once mor», Let it ' terrific bum,' if you like,- at the Nore ; Let it brave for another one thousand of years The breeze and the battle tied up to your piers, Or use it to wipe the big tear from your cheek, When at length you discover you're eating tbo leek ; For your fleet is as harmless to foe as to friend, A« the bow of Ulysses that no one could bend." March, 189 S. — Soutiilander. .

— Romantic Maiden : " Look, Harry, such a beautiful surset!" Unromantic Harry: " Yes ; exactly like a fried egg, isn't it ? "

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