OUR COUNTRY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 10 April 1901, Page 62

OUR COUNTRY.

O, Sealand, Sealand, sisters twain ' "W1103.3 every coast confronts the main, Whose mantle is the ocean's foam, Long may thou stay our happy home; We daily piny that"'neath His'hand Our fathers' God will guard our land. No gilt and pinchbeck rag shall grasp Her brow within its tawdry clasp , Aurora's golden beams alone Ouf Sealand for a crown will own. No palace her 3, but she will find Herself m our true hearts enshnned ; Her state our Sealand will not hold. In chair of ivory o:- gold, Her proudest throne. Thy footstool. Lord! Her law shall be, O.God! Thy Word. No pompous stone need blaze her rame, That graven lives in Sealand hearts; No brazen tongues her deeds acclaim Within Walhalla's warrior courts. The poor relieved, her piaise shall sing; The homeless housed God's blessing bring; The widows sheltered, orphans fed, Shall tell her fame as far as did Old England's battle cry e'er spread. That shout l more fierce than that that fell From heights of heaven to depths of hell With Satan's rebel host — a knell That lolled the whiles they fell and fell. The Britons' shent is lost in space, Those poor folk's th iks attain God's grace; For- louder growing as they rise The crystal iampfl.rt9 of the skies They pass and scale the heavenly wall, Then back 1 ©turned 111 blessings fall. — SOUTHLA^DER.

March, 1901,

Ethel It. Penjamin, Barrister and Solicitor, Albert Buildings, Princes street, Duned-n (opposite C.P.0.), has trust moneys to lend Qj approved security.-— Advfc