ENGLAND- 1898.
Now having clomb the rugged steep of fame, Where nevei- nation set a foot before, Be not content, my country, to maintain That dizzy height, but ever upward soar. Pause not to mark, with &elf-eomniending eye, How wide the piospect from thine eyried
crag, Nor arrogantly plant thy red cross flag To evidence thy proud supremacy. For still the world, outstripped, but not sub-
clued, Toils bravely on, with gallant step, if slow; And thy ambition, laggard, unrenewed, May soon, with shame, its yride of place forego. Climb, England, climb I still let thy motto be: Peace to the slave, contention for the free!
H. J. B.
July 1858,
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Otago Witness, Issue 2319, 11 August 1898, Page 49
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111ENGLAND-1898. Otago Witness, Issue 2319, 11 August 1898, Page 49
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