THE VOYAGE OF THE OPHIR.
Men of our race we send to you one Bound whom iVictoria's holy name Is halo from the sunken sun Of her grand Summers day aflame. The heart of your loved Motherland, ' To them she loves as her own blood, This flower of Ocean bears in hand, Assured of gift as good. Forth for our Southern shores the fleet Which crowns a nation's wisdom streams. That there may Briton Briton greet, And stamp as fact Imperial dreams. Across the globe, from sea to sea, The long smoke-pennon trails above, Writes over the sky how wise will be j The Power that trusts to love. A love that springs from heart and brain In union gives for ripest fruit The concord Kings and States in vain Have sought, who played the lofty brute, And fondly deeming they possessed, On force reliod, and found it break ; That truth once scored on Britain's breast, . Now keeps her mind awake. - Australian, Canadian, To tone old veins with streams of youth, Our trust be. on the best in man Henceforth, and we shall prove that truth. Prove to a world of brows down bent That in the Britain thus endowed Imperial means beneficent, And strength to service vowed. — George Meredith in the « Pall Mall. 1
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Colonist, Volume XLIV, Issue 10137, 27 June 1901, Page 4
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215THE VOYAGE OF THE OPHIR. Colonist, Volume XLIV, Issue 10137, 27 June 1901, Page 4
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