A WELCOME.
(By the Poet Laureate.) The Son of him with whom wc strove for power— Whose will is lord thro' all his world domain— Who made the serf a man, and burst his chain — Has given our Prince his own Imperial Flower, Alexandrowna. And welcome, Eussian flower, a people's pride, To Britain, when her flowers begin to blow 1 From love to love, from home to home you go. From mother unto mother, stateJy bride, Marie Alexandrowna ! The goldeu news along the steppes is blown. And nt thy name the Tartar tents arc stirred ; Elbura and all the Caucasus have heard ; And all the sultry palms of India known. Alexandrowna. The voices of onr universal sea On capes of Afric as on cliffs of Kent The Maoris and that Isle of Coutitent,' And loyal pines of Canada murmur thee, Marie Alexaudrowua. Fair empires branching, both, in lusty life— Yet Harold's England fell to Norman swords ; Yet thine own land has bowed to Tartar hordes Since English Harold gave its throne a wife, Alexandrowna! For thrones and peoples are as waifs that swing, And float or fall, in endless ebb and flow ; But who love best have best the grace to know That Love by right divine is deathless king, Marie Alexandrowna 1 And Love has led thee to the stranger land, Where men are bold and strongly say their say ; Sec, empire upon empire smiles to-day, As thou with thy young lover hand in hand, Alexandrowna ! So now thy fuller life is in the West, Whose hand at home was gracious to thy poor; Thy name was blest within the narrow door; Here also, Marie shall thy name be blest, Marie Alexandrowna! Shall fears and jealous hatreds flame agrin 1 Or at thy coming, Princess, everywhere, The blue heaven break, and some diviner air Breathe thro' the world and change the hearts of men, Alexandrowna 1 But hearts that change not, love tliat. ca«not cease, And peace be yours, the peace of soul in soul! And howsoever this wild world may roll, Between your peoples truth and manful peace, Alfred—Alexandrowna 1
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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1581, 2 June 1874, Page 237
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352A WELCOME. Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1581, 2 June 1874, Page 237
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