Jubilee Song. 21st JUNE, 1887.

Te Aroha News, 21 June 1887, Page 15

Jubilee Song. 21st JUNE, 1887.

I. Victoria! Victoria! Queen and Empress, good and great,— Ruler o'er the mightiest State Mortal eye hath e'er beheld Since the days of hoary eld ; Mistress of those grand old Isles Where the Sun of Freedom smiles ; Noblest of a noble race ! Hea\en, to show thee special grace, Granted thee long years of peace, Wisdom, power, and wealth's increase ! This glad Jubilee repairs Fifty yeais of Empire's cares — Victoria ! Victoria ! Queen of Old England, and Scotland, and Erin, Proudly and nobly the triple crown wearr g — Bright be thy Jubilee, Heaven's smile rest on thee — Victoria 1 Victoria ! Queen of the Home Land, Queen of our own Land — Victoria !

11. Victoria ! Victoria ! Queen of all the mighty West, — horn Niagara's foaming ciest To the blue Pacific tide — Where 'mid woods and prairies wide, Grows a giant nation young, Briush still in heart and tongue ! Empress of the Orient clime, Where the Ganges rolls sublime, Where ten thousand temples gleam, Where the swarthy millions teem, Dwelling 'neath thy sway benign — Subjects tiue and tried of thine, Victona ! Victoiia ! Empress ot 2nd — of a land famed in story ! Queen ol the West — bursting fiesh into glory ! Blight be thy Jubilee, iieaven's smile rest on thee — Victoria ! Victoiia! Queen ol the New Land, Queen ot the True Land — Victona !

111. Victoria ! Victoria ! Queen ot Afric's pearly strand — Lighting many a darkened land, Queen ot sunny Southern Isles, Where perpetual summer smiles; Of that New Land of the Sea — 11 Greater Britain," fair and tree, Yielding, in exhaustless stores, Grain, and gums, and golden ores; Of that Island-Continent, Where the sons thy land hath sent Gained for thee a richer fleece Than the Argo bore to Greece ! Victoria ! Victoria ! Queen of the lands in the broad Austral Ocean 1 Offerings they send thee of love and devotion 1 Bright be thy Jubilee, Heaven's smile rest on thee — Victoria ! Victoria ! Queen of each free land — Australia, New Zealand I Victoria!

IV. Victoria ! Victoria ! East and West, and South and North Send thee now their greetings forth ! Celt and Saxon, with one voice, In thy Jubilee reioice; Britons from far distant lands Pour their hearts and stretch their hands ; Negro, Maori, Hindoo meek, — Black, and red, and tawny — speak In one language, flowing tree From each bosom forth to thee — Words of love and peace serene : Heaven bless thee, gracious QueenVictoria ! Victoria ! Queen of our hearts ! our faith ne'er shall falterNe'er shall our love or our loyalty alter ! Constant and true to thee, Sing we thy Jubilee — Victoria ! Victoria 1 Queen of the leal hearts, Staunch, true as steel hearts — Victoria ! John L. Kelly. Auckland, N.Z.