THE ROYAL VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 2467, 26 June 1901, Page 64

THE ROYAL VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND.

Fly out, fair flag, and floating, flingLove's favours far and wide. To greet thee comes our future King In panoply of pride; Welcome the wind that onward blows • The nation's hen, and York's white rose. _Ficib the home of our lace, from the cradle of all That appeals to emotion with ienderest call They come, they are coming — they come With messages, born, of the Koyalest giace, From the Sovereign who sleeps — fioru the son in her place— For one moment our welcome is dumb. i 'Tis out for a moment — the sorrow is past; I The grief a'l-pervadmg, the shadow that cast Its shroud and its gloom over all Are lifted for ever, — we stand m the sun, Ai.d vow in its radiance that age 3 shall urn And find us devoted and thrall. In thrall to the noble, the pure and the good ; In thrall to the throne that for ages hath stood To Liberty's law-loving light, And the greeting that springs fiom our heaits shail evince To Duke and to Duchess, to Princess and Prince, Our homage to God and Lo Hight. From Norman and Saxon, froni Southron and Celt, O'ei the blood of the fallen who sleep on the veldt, There rushes the welcoming cheer — In the faith of the future that beckons us on. In the pride of the past, and the triumphs we'\e won , In the strength of the standard we iear. Borne onwaid like vikings, o'er highways their own. We yieid them high welcome, as hens of a llnone Who=e Empire mu»t maich with the van: Whose rule 'tis our pude and our joy to defend. Which, looted m honoui, shall stand to the end While the eaith and its ages shall mn. — Jostce Jocblyk. Auckland, June. 1901.