THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.
AN EMPIRE VERSE. \ The absence of am- allusion to the Empire vi the National Anthem prompted the Royal Colonial Institute through its journal, "United Empire." to invite suggestions for an "Empire Verse" which might prove suitable for incorporation in the National Anthem, luoicity was given to the competition in the Press of Great Britain and the oversea Dominions, and some four hundred competitors sent in verses. I In the opinion of the adjudicators ; bir Herbert Warren, X.C.V.0., D.C.I! (late Professor of Poetry, at Oxford' University), Mr Edmund Gosse, C.B. ;md Mr Laurence Binyon, the following v-erso was the best offered :— Wide o'er the linking seas, Polar and tropic breeze, Our song shall ring. 'Brothers of each Domain, Bound but by Freedom's chain. Shout, ?s your Sires, again— "God save the King!"
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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 14960, 7 January 1919, Page 2
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134THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 14960, 7 January 1919, Page 2
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