TRAFALGAR DAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6984, 27 December 1900, Page 2

TRAFALGAR DAY.

THE TWENTY-FIRST OF OOTOBBB. (Written by HAROL© BEGBIE).---v (Daily Telegraph.) „; ■ ' A song is blown from ih& surge to-day, Where tiie white gulls .wheel in the stinging spray; .■•'X. . •'";■': ' ■"."■'■ . Hear it, ye on the wind-wliipt downs;; Hear it,' ye iv the builded towns; Hear the song, ye myriad hosts, . That is swept by the wind to your throbbing coasts! „...:". ... ; ' The song that is sung by the sounding Deep Is the song of warriors Ifept in. sleep ; " „ Sta-y,.0 stay, ye hurrying feet + - Hear it blown thro' 'the roaring street— The aong that is l?orno by the winds afar . • Of the souls who triumphed alt Trafalgar. What is *ho name the breezes-blow From the sea where, the ships of England go? Wheels ihat whirl 'in the foiling town I . . ■.- Thunder on, for ye cannot drown The Name that the wild, salt" breezes bring From the shores where the waves are thunder", ; ■ *w* ''■'.''■■ ■■•'■■' •■■■ : r •■ : ','. i ' ,. Sailor! sleeping in England's shrine, The Name that >the great waves shout is thine 1 ,-«c Kelson! Nelson! the ocean cries, Nelson! \ Nelson'! thy race replies; Name that .oblivion .shall never blot Till the Empire fall with (her last -vain shot. But never shall Britain's glory fade, Never the foe shall wrest her Trade, . While sho is faithful and true to thee. ' Who dying left her an open sea, Signed with- thy blood th' eternalgift ::-*. Ere jtlipu. turned thy glorious soul adrift. The Flag that covered tny.gaWairfc heari At *he grave thy seamen -tbre. apart, , ■'■. from the sobbing ran,ks to pluolc ■fri. t?i " e^ of * Flag that ;was never struck!— The Flag thou planted on God's wide sea ' That 1/ngland might pass there feared and Iree. -■',': ■.. • . ■''""' > ■ Treasure ye all the Flag that streams "" j" Guhi ib, Englartd, from all the world, : Thy jS%k T St *<*£*'* FJ «g beiurl'd; ./ , Thy life, i,hy honour, ithy fame, thy star •Hang on the banner of Trafalgar J V. jailor of England^ year by year : V Whisper^this day in, England's ear * Whispe^thy.lTame, O S acred dust, Trus?^^ *^ c fr - her *V* h * L S^t^ e wiiriwiud W- the ieftlous Sweep wit Mho flood thro' _ 0U r shaitered gates.