ENGLAND, OH! FOR ENGLAND.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 8, 7 May 1920, Page 6

ENGLAND, OH! FOR ENGLAND.

A EEDERATION SONG. (From "The Pageant of Life. ") Old England needs her children, She needs them every one, From India's morning-buglo To the last sunset-gun ; North, east, and south she needs them, And in the furtherest west, And where the channel waters Storm round her rocky breast. The day is surely coming When all alike she'll ne,ed, And far-oft true descendant-s Of the old island-breed. The day is surely coming When all may have to strike For England, ho! for England — - So all must fare alike. "For England, ho ! for England" The great deep-throated cry Rings far across the waters; A million mouths reply, "Eor England, ho ! for England, Till England's work be done, And England's work is timeless And measured by the sun." George Barlow, "Poetical Works," Vol. YL