THE NELSON TOUCH
They've swept and cleared the ocean roads ..Where'er our ensigns run, As Nelson made the tradeways safe When Trafalgar was won. a So prow by prow the homeward bounds Come surging up tho bay, Each convoyed by a battle-ship ' ' Ten thousand miles away. They steam just where the Victory sailed, Where Blake and Howe once ranged, And iron takes the place of oak; . . But nothing else is changed. They're guarding just as close to-day , Their kindred of the South, As though they formed a long grey line- • Across our harbour mouth. . ' ;'*;'.i ■ Their prestige and their prowess now .. Protect by sea and land; They're fighting ' half a world away; Yet ever near at.hand; To not a port the Empire owns Is tho right of.way denied; For Dreadnoughts of.the North Sea fleet Are cruising close outside. So, though the powers of hell be loosed, And Hate and Fate combine, The Fleet • that dares the hidden death, The menace of the. mine, Is shield and sword at once for you— Security and ease; Booause it keeps the Nelson touch Across a hundred seas. —"Wobmera," in the "Australasian."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2284, 19 October 1914, Page 6
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188THE NELSON TOUCH Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2284, 19 October 1914, Page 6
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