THE SEA QUEEN WAKES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 4, 18 June 1898, Page 4

THE SEA QUEEN WAKES.

She wakes 1 in the fmthest West the murmur has leached our eais — '-She wakes! in the fmthest East the Russian Hbtens and fears — She wakesJ the ravens clamour, the winds cry overhead, '.The -wandering waves tpke up the cry, " She >wakes whom nations dread!" At iast ye ha^e loused the Sea Queen ; at last, when the world unites, She stirs from her scornful silence, and wakes to her last of fights ; Alone, with a world against her, she has turned on the snarling ciew, No longer the Peaceful Tiader, but the Viking North Seas knew. She calls, and her ships of battle — dragons her seas have bred — .Glide into Plymouth Harbour, and gather 'round Beachy Head. She wakes! and the clang of arming echoes through all the earth, "The ring of warriors' weapons ; stern music of soldiers' mirth. In the world theie may be nations, and there gatheis round every thione The strength of eaeth-born aimies, but the sea is England's own ; Ab she ruled, she still shall rule it, from Plymouth to Esguimalt, As long as the winds are tameless — as long as the waves are salt. This may be our Armageddon ; seas may purple with blood and flame As we go to our rest for ever, leaving the world a name. What matter? there have been none like us, nor any to tame our pride ; If we fall, we shall fall as they fell, die as our fathers died — What better? the seas that bred us shall rock us to rest at last, %i we sink with the Jack still floating, nailed to the nation's mast. 43m ve Phillips- Wolley (Canada), in the Daily Columbian.