THE VOYAGE OF THE OPHIR.
By George Meredith, in the " Pal Mall Maoazine." Men of our race, we send youo no Round whom Victoria's holy namo Is halo from the sunken sun Of her grand Summer's day aflame, The heart of your loved Motherland, To thorn she loave3 as her own blood, This Flower of the Ocean bears in hand, Assured of gift as good. t
Forth for our Southern shores the fleel Which crowns a nation's wisdom-steams. That thore may Briton Briton greet, And stamp as fact Imperial dreams, Across the globe, from sea to sea, The long smoke-pennon trails above, Writes over sky how wise will be The Power that trusts to love. A love that springs from heart and brain In union gives for ripest fruit The ccncord Kings and States in vain Have sought, who played the lofty brute, And fondly deeming they possessed, On forca ra'ied, and found it break ; That truth once scored on Britain's breast Now keeps her mind awake.
Australian, Canadian, To tone old veins with streams of youth, Our trust bo on the best in man, Henceforth, and we shall prove that truth Prove to a world of brows down-bent That in ;ho Britain thus endowed Imperial means beneficent, And strength to service vowed.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 June 1901, Page 4
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213THE VOYAGE OF THE OPHIR. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 June 1901, Page 4
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