A ROYAL WELCOMF.
Fly out, fair flag! and floating, fling Our welcome far and wide, To greet thee comes our future King In -panoply of pride; Son of our Queon, whose mighty sires Shall reap in thee their proud desires. Son of her son she sends for thine Whb rallied to her call ; Who fell for her in fighting line — Gallant, and proud to fall. Woman beloved, our lands and seas Shall aever grudge thee such as these. A Commonwealth, that owns in thee Her prince of potent race, Shall ne'er the end of Empire see, Nor ever fear disgrace; - Her allies thine — thy foes her own — Her fortunes thine, and liers thy throne. Where'er the British flag be flown; Where'er it flies to-day, Shall this new Commonwealth be known, And British peoples pray That light and liberty may spring, And shine around our coming King! Wide as the world our welcome swells — Warm as our southern sun — Great as the liberty which 'swells \vb.ere duty's nobly done; Welcome the wind which onward blows Our Empire's heir, and York's White Hose.' —JOYCE JOCELYN. Auckland, November 2.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2437, 28 November 1900, Page 57
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186A ROYAL WELCOMF. Otago Witness, Issue 2437, 28 November 1900, Page 57
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