Ode.
On the opening of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition by Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate:— Welcome, welcome with one voice I . In your welfare we rejoice. Sons and brothers that have sent. From isle and cape and continent. Produce of your field and flood, Mount and mine and primal wood ; Works of snbtle brain and hand, Splendours of the morning land : Gifts from every British zone. Britons, hold your own ! May we find as ages run. The mother featured in the son ; And may yours for ever be That old strength and constancy Which has made yonr mother great In onr ancient Island State • And wherever her flag may 6y, Glorying between sea and sky, Makes might of Britain known. Britaine, hold your own ! Britain fought her sons of yore. Britain failed, and never more, Careless of onr growing kin, SKa’l we sin our fathers kin. Men that in g narrower day— Unprophetic; iqlexs they— Ilroye from out the mother’s nett That young eagle of the West, To forage for herself akm«. Britons, ha)d jam own ! Shafers of on- glorious Brothers, most W» part at last ? Shall not we, through cold and ill, Cleave to one another still ? Britain’s myriad voices call, ■Sons, be welded, each and all Into one Imperial whole ; One with Bi item heart ai'daouf. One tile, one flag, oi.e Joel, one throne, britenu, hoia ytwtr own. And Cud guard all !
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1830, 10 May 1886, Page 2
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234Ode. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1830, 10 May 1886, Page 2
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