The Voyage of the Ophir.
By George Meredith,, in the "Pall Mall Magazine."
Men of Our race, we send you one. •.-■■ Round whom Victoria's holy name Is halo from the sunken sun Of her grand Summer's day aflame. The /heart of your loved Motherland, To them she loves as her own blood, This Flower of Oceaa bears in hand,. ■ . Assured of gift as good. Forth for our Southern shores the . fleet Which crowns a nation's wisdom steams, .-•-... That there may Briton Briton greet, 1 And stamp as fact Imperial dreams, Across the globe, from sea to sea, ' The long smoke-pennon trails above, Writes over sky how wise will be The Power that trusts to love. A love that springs from heart and ! twain In union gives for ripest fruit The concord Kingß and State* in vain ' Have sought; who played the' lofty brute, And fondly deeming they possessed, On force relied, and found it break j 1 That! truth once scored en Britain's breast Now keeps her mind awake. Australian, Canadian, To tone old veins with streams of youth, „ Our trust be on th> bfest ift marl Henceforth, and we shall prove that truth. ' • Prove to a world of brows down-bent That in -the Britain thus endowed Imperial means beneficientj 1 ; And strength, to service- vowed.
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Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9973, 20 June 1901, Page 3
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