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on tbc Stabilitx) of tbe Britieb Empire, written 
 
 on tbe ©ccasion of tbe Coronation of 
 
 Iking ie&war& tbe Seventb 
 
 bi? 3obn Simpson 
 
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 on the Stability of the British Empire, written 
 
 on the Occasion of the Coronation of 
 
 King Edward the Seventh. 
 
 By JOHN SIMPSON 
 
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 The misls thai hide the storied past uprise, 
 
 A vision of ten centuries appears: 
 Three lines of kings appear before the eyes, 
 That coalesce, and last a thousand years: 
 Down through the ages to the present day. 
 The triune line appears, and still has sway. 
 Three nations now are one, 
 'I'he strife of old is done; 
 Awake the lyre, and sing the song of peace! 
 rhe enmities of yore, 
 luitoml) for evermore: 
 Of ancient discord let there be surcease! 
 
 Although a thousand years ha''- run their race, 
 
 Since royal Alfred struggled wilh the Dane, 
 A king who can from Alfred clearly trace 
 His lineage doth now in Kngland reign: 
 The throne of England, having for its wall 
 The full consent of freemen, cannot fall. 
 .\ hundred thrones are low. 
 But it doth stronger grow: 
 ^'e s(Mis of Kngland, let youi voices rise 
 In thanks for Heaven's aid: 
 Though realms arise and fade. 
 The ancient realm of iMigland never dies. 
 
 Ten centuries ago the Scottish throne, 
 
 Bv monarehs, crowned upon the Lia-Fail. 
 Was' held: and soon, around the ancient Stone 
 
 .\ssemhled, will the Scottish leaders hail 
 .\ king, whoi^e line c(;me down from days of eld, 
 .\ thousand years the Scottish throne has held. 
 The king descent can trace 
 b^rom Scotland's royal race: 
 
The blood of Robert Bruce is in his veins: 
 
 The Scottish pipes bring forth, 
 
 Ye Britons of the North, 
 And rouse again the ancient Scottish strains. 
 
 At Tara, in the famous days of old, 
 
 Ere Scotland saw the mystic Stone of Fate, 
 The kings of Ireland, girt with heroes bold. 
 
 Were crowned upon it wth befitting state: 
 King Edward's sires their shields at Tara bore, 
 And Irish bards their prowess sang of yore. 
 
 Ye sons of Ireland raise 
 
 Your voices loud in praise; 
 Bring forth the harp, as did your sires renowned : 
 
 Attune the vibrant strings, 
 
 A son of Ireland's kings 
 Upon the Lia-Fail is to be crowned. 
 
 In England, Scotland, Ireland, ancient days 
 
 Have vanished; but a living link exists. 
 That binds them to the present, and the gaze 
 
 Doth carry backward through the ancient mists: 
 Through thirty generations handed down. 
 The stock of Alfred still doth wear the crown; 
 To ancient feuds a truce, 
 The lines of Robert Bruce 
 .\nd Edward now are blended into one; 
 The harp of Ireland sound, 
 A king is to be crowned 
 Of Ireland's royal line, and strife is done. 
 
 II. 
 
 Chaldea, Persia, Greece and Rome, 
 The greatest empires of the past, 
 
 Were evanescent, like the foam 
 
 That lives ;i moment with the blast; 
 
 They bowed their heads at Ruin's call. 
 
 And feebly tottered to their fall; 
 
 The homes of bats and owls were all 
 Their palaces at last. 
 
 They could not live; their corner-stones 
 
 Were wars that freeborn men enslaved: 
 They could i\ot live; with human bones 
 
Their paths of triumph all were paved: 
 Their cities were the work of slaves. 
 Their thrones were built o'er yawning graves; 
 They rose, then vanished, like the waves 
 That on their borders raved. 
 
 But freedom is the corner-stone 
 
 On which the British Km[)ire stands: 
 
 What though it oft doth stand alone? 
 It is not built on shifting sands. 
 
 But on the rock of freemen's choice : 
 
 The humblest in it hear the voice 
 
 Of Justice cheer them, and rejoice 
 Within its many lands. 
 
 Though scattered, all its lands are one. 
 
 The British flag floats over all: 
 And never be the bond undone 
 
 That binds them, lest they, sundered, fall: 
 The British Empire doth embrace 
 A fourth of all the human race; 
 Its nations, linked, can dangers face. 
 And none can them appall. 
 
 The throne alone doth make them one, 
 
 And British unity defend; 
 They know it must not be undone. 
 
 And to the Coronation send 
 Their noblest sons: in bright array. 
 Around the throne, united they 
 Arc marshalled now, the Empire's slay, 
 On which it doth depend. 
 
 The men who love the Maple I^af, 
 
 And on Canadian plains abide, 
 Have left for Africa the sheaf 
 
 And herd, to check invasion's tide: 
 They love all measures lenitive. 
 Esteem the Boer, and fain would give 
 Him equal rights with all who live 
 In Britain's empire wide. 
 
 The men who love the Southern Cross, 
 
 The emblem of their sea-girt land; 
 And on their shields its stars emboss, 
 
Around the British banner stand. 
 New Zealand, that would fain restore 
 The (iolden Aije, doth war deplore. 
 Yet sends her legions more and more 
 To Afric's stricken strand. 
 
 From Africa come sounds of war; 
 
 The beating of the martial drum 
 Is heard; the bugle sounds afar; 
 
 But good will from confusion come: 
 The Boer will yet, with joyous pride, 
 Beneath the British flag abide, 
 And onward march with mighty stride, 
 When war's dread voice is dumb. 
 
 The British flag doth freely wave 
 In India, and doth millions there 
 
 From fell invasion's horrors save, 
 And sure protection to them bear. 
 
 Egyptian toilers love to see 
 
 The flag that gave them liberty : 
 
 A thousand islands, full of glee. 
 Their loyalty declare. 
 
 The mighty ocean doth attest 
 
 The boundless range of Britain's sphere 
 Of action; for, upon its breast. 
 
 Her Hag doth everywhere appear. 
 As stars the sky, that flag the sea 
 Bedecks; the emblem of the free 
 It is; to all who liberty 
 
 Uphold, it is most dear. 
 
 Our countrv's present and its past 
 
 Are through the throne together bound; 
 
 No other bond was formed to last: 
 In ruins now upon the ground 
 
 Are lying castles, abbeys, walls. 
 
 Till scarce a mark their site recalls; 
 
 The self-same line in royal halls 
 .\ thou;;and years is found. 
 
 That line has late received within 
 
 Its ranks a queen, whose presence bright 
 The homage of all hearts doth win, 
 
Who fills Ihc royal home with li«?ht. 
 The Dane, Kin^' AUrods deadly foe, 
 I las added to his line a ijlow 
 Of sunshine: stril'es of lonj, ..,^.' 
 
 From earth havo taken llighl. 
 
 III. 
 
 Eight hundred years have vanished since the uay, 
 When William, girt with Norman knights, was crowned 
 
 With splendor at Westminster, yet the gray 
 Old walls will soon re-echo with the sound 
 
 Of loyal cheers in honour of a king 
 Who traces from him lineal descent. 
 Whose Norman blood is with the Saxon blent. 
 
 And Celtic, and to whom traditions cling 
 That fill the British heart with feelings deep: 
 
 All English kings since William have been there 
 
 Invested with the crown; the tranquil air 
 
 Has oft resounded with the trumpet's blare: 
 The trumpet's sound around the Abbey sweep 
 Once more, and rouse the ancient echoes from 
 their sleep. 
 
 Eight hundred years! What food for earnest thought 
 To every British rnind this record brings! 
 
 How wondrous is it that the selfsame spot 
 Has seen so long the selfsame line of kings 
 
 Receive the crown ! Stability must be 
 The leading feature of the British race: 
 The ravages of ages, that efface 
 
 x\ll ancient landmarks, from their dread decree 
 Of ruin, have the British royal line 
 
 Exempted : it doth bind together all 
 
 The scattered British nations and recall 
 
 The past, and may no evil on it fall : 
 A thousand years their proud traditions twine 
 Around the British throne, and save it from dechne. 
 
 What wondrous visions throng upon the eyes, 
 When gazing on Westminster's hoary walls! 
 
 The bold Crusaders from their graves arise; 
 Again the shout, "Long live King Richard!" tails 
 
 L'pon the ear within the storied fane; 
 King Edward, who at Crecy raised on high 
 
The red cross of old England, there doth lie; 
 
 King Henry, who at Agincourt amain 
 Upon the hosts of France triumphant rushed. 
 
 And through her ranks with England's bravest 
 pressed, 
 
 Within Westminster long has lain at rest; 
 
 Elizabeth, who stifled in her breast 
 Compassion, and unhappy Mary crushed. 
 Is lying there beside her, both their voices hushed. 
 
 The place is sacred ! There doth lie the dusc 
 Of bards by whom the nation's deeds were sung: 
 
 The place is sacred ! Men who won the trust 
 Of England, and her cause with burning tongue 
 
 Espoused, are lying there. The honoured dead 
 Of all the British realm are there interred: 
 Their tongues are silent, but they still are heard; 
 
 Though low at rest doth lie each sleeping head, 
 Their words the souls of millions still inspire: 
 
 They tread the earth no longer, but their clear. 
 
 Heart-stirring voices countless thousr ^ds hear; 
 
 Their souls are with us; still their thoughts career 
 Throughout the earth, as when, with thoughts on lire. 
 They struck inspiring notes upon their country's lyre. 
 
 Within Westminster, as in ages past. 
 Are gathering the leaders of our race; 
 
 From all the wide-spread nations that the vast 
 And mighty British Empire doth embrace. 
 
 Come leaders of the people to behold 
 The monarch crowned, as, for a thousand years, 
 Has been the wont of Elngland's loyal peers. 
 
 As was King David, in the days of old. 
 Anointed, so does every British king 
 
 Receive anointment: centuries have gone 
 
 Since England's ancient crown was placed upon 
 
 King Edward the Confessor; yet anon 
 The selfsame rites will to the present bring 
 The past. O British race, Ihtni art no lickle thing! 
 
 Ye British nations, Heaven glorify! 
 E/.alt your voices iervently in praise! 
 
 The lot of earthly things is but to die, 
 And naught but Heaven's power ever stays 
 
 The hand of dread Destruction in its course; 
 
The earth is Heaven s footstool, and the might 
 Of earthl\ nations shrivels, when the blight 
 
 Of Heaven's wrath doth touch them with its force. 
 The British Empire, to continue, must 
 To Heaven give the glory, not to man : 
 All ancient empires lell beneath the ban 
 Of Heaven, and their courses quickly ran: 
 The British Empire must in Heaven trust. 
 Or. like proud Babylon, be levelled with the dust. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Ye Britons, wake your country's lyre! 
 
 Evoke sweet music from the strings! 
 May strains of joy your hearts inspire! 
 
 Your paeans rise on soaring wings! 
 From every sea. from every zone, 
 
 Come forward with deep loyalty! 
 The proud and ancient British throne, 
 
 Begird with Britain's chivalry! 
 
 Hail! Hail! Hail! Britannia! 
 Mother of a virile brood. 
 
 Who will from all ills protect thee. 
 Grateful for Ihy motherhood. 
 
 A thousand years that throne has stood, 
 
 I'nshaken by the jars of time. 
 And now a mighty brotherhood 
 
 Of nations, with a faith sublime. 
 Around il stands, a wall august. 
 
 That doth its permanence secure; 
 I'he thrones f)f old are in the dwi. 
 
 The British throne doth vet dure. 
 Hail! Hail! Hail! "Britannia' 
 Wreaths unfading deck thy brow; 
 
 Though a thousand years existent. 
 In the pride of youth art thou. 
 
 The sun surveys our planet's track. 
 Flag after Hag his vision llees; 
 
 Bui in his sight the Inion Jack 
 Doth ever (loat ujx n the breeze. 
 
 Land after land his rays adorn. 
 
 And each the robe of tiight doth wear 
 
 In turn; but il is ever morn 
 
On British soil, his constant care. 
 Hail! Hail! Hail! Britannia! 
 l.ivini* long, but ever young; 
 
 On the waters of all oceans 
 To the breeze thy flag is flung. 
 
 The earth around the sun careers, 
 
 Its sounds commingled sunward float ; 
 Amid them all he ever hears 
 
 The British i)ugle's thrilling note 
 Much land, in turn, doth greet his light 
 
 At daybreak with the beat of drum; 
 'i'he British drum-beat has no night, 
 
 Its echoes to him ever come. 
 
 Hail! Hail! Hail! Britannia! 
 Thou art in the front of lime; 
 
 And the sunlight sheds its glor\- 
 On lh\' sons in everv clime. 
 
 May Britain's children never weep 
 
 Beside their fallen country's grave! 
 May British songs of gladness sweep 
 
 .\r(iund the earth, a swelling wave! 
 A host of loyal Briton.-> now 
 
 Their king with joyous greetings hail: 
 Long live the crown upon his brow. 
 
 And never mav its glorv [)ale! 
 
 Hail! Hail! Hail"! Britannia! 
 May composure mark thy mien; 
 
 "S\n\ the tumults of the nations. 
 May thou ever sit serene. 
 
 .\11 hail the glad, auspicious day 
 
 That marks King lulward's building reign! 
 All hail the light of freedom's ray 
 
 That ghuUiens Britain's vast domain! 
 I'rom peaceful lands, from smiling seas 
 
 I )eep orisons to 1 leaven rise ! 
 ;\ million anthems lade the breeze. 
 
 And sweep in concert to the skies. 
 Hail! Hail! Hail! Britannia! 
 (llorify the I.ord ol Hosts; 
 
 I'Acry nation falls in ruin. 
 That its (»wn achievement boasts. 
 
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