A BALLAD.
to God! He rules the wave, And iwith benignant power doth inspire the Good and Brave To face the darkest hour j just a, hundred years ago All •through the live long day, fought their country's deadliest fee, H There off Trafalgar Bay. the Captains and each crew, With living hearts and will, in their great commander's view His signal to fulfil: fought on while their blood ran down And tinged the billow's foam, for the life, and fair renown Of Country, Hearth and Home: ! awful were that Battle's throes That echo through all time, Tyrant force and Freedom close In energies sublime; Nelson walked the roaring deck, And ruled the raging scene, the Foe's vast- fleet —a worldwide wreck— It was—-Bind mow has ibeen ! heaving, vast, tumultuous sight Against the setting sun! phantoms in the approaching night; His work that day was done! lie wounded falls and cries, " IVe my duty tried to do" : night (half-mast his flag, it flies |^H For that soul so brave and true! give us Nelsons in our need To.serve with all our power, purge our from sloth and greed To face the darkest hour: that ne,w fleeib in conscious might • Looms off the British shore, may call on Freedom's sons to fight As their fathers fought of yore: to God! Wiho rules the wave, H^ And, to our deathless fame, world's freedom to our keeping gave, And Nelson's peerless name.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12632, 20 October 1905, Page 7
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239A BALLAD. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12632, 20 October 1905, Page 7
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