DAUGHTERS OF BRITANNIA.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1734, 26 April 1913, Page 3

DAUGHTERS OF BRITANNIA.

Sir,—Will yon kindly publish tho following lines ro Suffragettes (respectfully dedicated to Lady Stout): There ds a turmoil in Old England—the Islands of Unrest, And whose Statesmen are now dancing in a lively hornefs nest, Whero brave w f omen, in their agony, plead, agitate, and fight, And they beg, as a concession, for the vote that's theirs by right. Now, more power to their efforts, for their argument ds sound, There's enough of British Liberty, God knows; to go all round; And our women are a part of Us—perhaps the best part, too— So why should they be abandoned to the Sweater and tho Jew? , To the men that built our Freedom, "Honour bo where 'Honour's due," Hamden, Cromwell, Drake, or Probishor, and all the stalwart crew Who, in council room or quarter-deck, upreared our Empire wide, But, the mothers of our pirate racewhy should they be denied? , How many a namo emblazoned on the' haughty scroll of fame That owes all its great achievements to some grand old British dame? Who reared the sturdy archer bands that bent the quivering yew? Or tho men that won Trafalgar? Or that saved us Waterloo? Noble daughters of Britannia, from the Cottage to the Crown! Bright flashlights on our history, from Boadicea down! A lofty, pure, unselfish leve pervades you, through and through, The race that gave us Good "Queen Bess" produced Grace Darling, too. Give pause, ye sons of Adam's line—consider what ve doStrike the shacldes c : ff their mothers, and your wives and sisters, too, For the Devil you're acquainted with, plus twenty coats of paint, Is not 'half so black a Devil as tyrannical restraint. I am, etc., JACK VINCENT. Levin, April 25.