THE CALL OP THE STANDARD.

Otago Witness, Issue 2399, 22 February 1900, Page 53

THE CALL OP THE STANDARD.

Britain has roused from peace slumber, Her leopards have tasted blood; The lion of Scotland is roaring, Revenge for the brave and the good; The harp of Ireland has sounded Its keen for the valiant dead; But the wail had a tone, on the* Sea winds blown, That more than wailing said. Wide sundered cubs of ;the leopards And of the lion awoke; Hammer and pen and plough they lef6, To harken that tocsin stroke; Their hearts grew hoi, and angry — True Britons each to the core ; From desk and from sheep and front Fields that they reap They arose with a mighty roar. So the leopards are out on the war path; The lion cubs ramping forth, From the far south lands, from the island strands , From the east, from the west, from the north. For only one soul is in them, For our Greater Britain's might, With heart and hand to make a stand— i The Empire's sons for the right 1 Forth! Forth! O sons of New Zealand t And while a foenian stands, Think of old days, let a great past's ray 9 Shine from the elder lands. Ake! Ake kia kahal Boys, let them hear your call ! But in hour of won fight, think of Heaven's rightHow God's crosses are over all.