ORIGINAL VERSE.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1916, Page 6

ORIGINAL VERSE.

"THE UNION JACK."

When Englishmen in ships of oak sailed out to unknown seas From the jack-staff o'er the prow a littie flag they hun«* The little flag.' 'twas called the Jack, floated gaily to the breeze; k "°w those Englishmen, it's might would o'er the world be flung'

1 hey sailed their ships to conquer, to chart unknown seas They sailed their ships to unknown ands. where naught, of ships was known. They battled with their foemen, in "ale or calm or breeze 3 And o'er them ever proudly the En*, nsh flag was flown, 0

Old Scotland's honored flag two hundred years ago Was woven with the English and to the main-tops run, And the Red Cross of St. Patrick if J1 eland, tis over a century ago, Was woven with the White and Blue to-day they float as one.

Nation? against it have Imvled their might, flung back, beaten and battered. Children esn tell of glorious fights—ah! t'lie priee nf victorv, ton: r.e.gions have died f nr it . to tlle , {ar poles they lie scattered And legions to-day fight for the Red, VI lute and Blue.

Flag of Old England and Ireland, da" °f Scotland, too. Flag of .the greatest Kmpire the World shall ever see. Rag of black and brown men, flag 0 f red men, too, Scattered the wide world over, t'liey liaTe proven their loyalty.

■Enshrined nn nil altar of devotion of glorious traditions of old. Kmblem of righteous liberty,'bat-lied in the blood of the brave; Glorious flag of a noble race, dearer to patriots than gold, To victory it shall be home and -by its might in peace forever wave. -GEO. ODEY. Pungare'lm, April 24.