THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
England First . Self against Self! And England—what of her ? England, that like a labouring Titan rose Upright, beneath a load none else could bear. And shamed the hope of all her envious foes? They hoped to see her broken ; to see her fall. She towered to her full stature through the night; And, on her conquering face, before them all, Caught the first splendour of the world’s new light.
Self at blind war with Self, to-day she stands; As once her Shakespeare, with his heart on fire, Foretold her; while those eager alien hands In the outer dark, prepare her funeral pyre. In such a. war; the very victors lose! Each for defeat; or nil for England ?—Choose. —Alfred Noyes.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1926, Page 2
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124THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1926, Page 2
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