THE ROSE, SHAMROCK AHO THISTLE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 24, 17 June 1893, Page 570

THE ROSE, SHAMROCK AHO THISTLE.

Here’s to the Rose, the queenly Rose, For a royal Rose is she ; And three times three for the noble hearts, Of her suns, where’er they be. We'll twine the Shamrock near her heart, To show the world she is true ; With Scotia's Thistle upon her breast, And her banners, Red, White and Blue. The snow may beat on her castle-walls, And her cots upon the wold ; The sun look down on her Austral crown Jewell’d and genim’d in gold. The waves may dash on her granite rocks, That guard her from the foe ; Her sons may roam from the Mother home, Yet bless her where’er they go. Then we’ll raise a cheer o’er worlds so wide, True brothers in love are we, Here’s nine times nine and one beside For our friends beyond the sea. And yet one more for the dear old Rose, And one for the Thistle true ; One for the Shamrock—dear little Shamrock, And another, old friends, to you. W. R. Wills