Coronation Anthem.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 15, 16 June 1911, Page 13

Coronation Anthem.

By A. FARRELL. [For The Worker.] From cheers and shouts obscene Of slaves debased and mean That bend to King or Queen —

God save the People. Teach them each man to be Eqvial -with man and free, One world-wide unity— God save the People.

From shams and shows and lies, From empty pageantries Designed to fool men's eyes—

God save the People. From thieves all glorified, From wealth that's deified 'Bore Man the crucified— God save the People.

Clip Thou its ruthless claws, Confound its partial laws, Exalt the poor man's Cause—

God save the People. Perish the that paves Its path with human graves, And fills the world with slaves— God save the People.

Scatter its shaky thrones, O'er Mammondom's dead bones, Save us from thieves and drones-

God save the People. From idolries inhuman From raising; man or woman By debasing all in common— God save the People.

God speed the March of Mind And Truth all men to bind In Social Weal combined—

God save the People. Bring us swift Equity, Freedom, Equality, Man's coming reign to be— God save the People.

Bear up, supreme, unawed, O'er Falsehood, Fear and Fraud, The God MAN that is GOD—

God save the People. Till Freedom, the soul's life-breath Divinest, this side Death All lands encompasseth— • God save the People.

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