HOMAGE TO THE KING.
Sire, we have looked on many and miglity tilings In. these eight nundred summers of renown, Since the Gold Dragon of the ~Wessex Kings On Eastings field went down; And slowly in the ambience of this Crown Have many crowns been gathered, till, to-day, ; How many peoples crown thee, who shall say ? : Time, and the oceali, and some fostering star In high cabal have made us what we are, AYho stretch one hand to Huron's bearded pines, And one on Kashmir's snowy shoulder i lay, , And round the streaming of whose raiment shines The iris of the Australasian spray. For waters have connived at our de- . signs, And winds have plotted with us, and behold, Kingdom in kingdom, sway in oversway, Dominion fold in fold. Proud from the ages axe we come. 0 King; Proudly, as fits a nation that hath now So many dawns and sunsets on her brown, This duteous heart we bring. —"WILLIAM WATSON. (Coronation Odd.)
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14476, 24 June 1911, Page 7
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163HOMAGE TO THE KING. Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14476, 24 June 1911, Page 7
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