Songs Of The Road

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Title: Songs Of The Road
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Release Date: June 8, 2007 [EBook #21769]
Language: English
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SONGS OF THE ROAD
OTHER BOOKS?BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Return of Sherlock?Holmes, The Green Flag, The Great Boer?War, Adventures of Gerard, Sir Nigel, The?Hound of the Baskervllles, Through?the Magic Door, Songs of Action,?Round the Fire Stories, The?Croxley Master, The?Crime of the Congo,?The Last Galley.
SONGS OF THE ROAD
By Arthur Conan Doyle
Garden City New York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1911
J. C. D.
THIS-AND-ALL
February, 1911
FOREWORD
If it were not for the hillocks
You'd think little of the hills;?The rivers would seem tiny
If it were not for the rills.?If you never saw the brushwood
You would under-rate the trees;?And so you see the purpose
Of such little rhymes as these.
Crowborough
1911
I. -- NARRATIVE VERSES AND SONGS
SONGS OF THE ROAD
A HYMN OF EMPIRE
(Coronation Year, 1911)
God save England, blessed by Fate,
So old, yet ever young:?The acorn isle from which the great
Imperial oak has sprung!?And God guard Scotland's kindly soil,
The land of stream and glen,?The granite mother that has bred
A breed of granite men!
God save Wales, from Snowdon's vales
To Severn's silver strand!?For all the grace of that old race
Still haunts the Celtic land.?And, dear old Ireland, God save you,
And heal the wounds of old,?For every grief you ever knew
May joy come fifty-fold!
Set Thy guard over us,
May Thy shield cover us,
Enfold and uphold us
On land and on sea!
From the palm to the pine,
From the snow to the line,
Brothers together
And children of Thee.
Thy blessing, Lord, on Canada,
Young giant of the West,?Still upward lay her broadening way,
And may her feet be blessed!?And Africa, whose hero breeds
Are blending into one,?Grant that she tread the path which leads
To holy unison.
May God protect Australia,
Set in her Southern Sea!?Though far thou art, it cannot part
Thy brother folks from thee.?And you, the Land of Maori,
The island-sisters fair,?Ocean hemmed and lake be-gemmed,
God hold you in His care!
Set Thy guard over us,
May Thy shield cover us,
Enfold and uphold us
On land and on sea!
From the palm to the pine,
From the snow to the line,
Brothers together
And children of Thee.
God guard our Indian brothers,
The Children of the Sun,?Guide us and walk beside us,
Until Thy will be done.?To all be equal measure,
Whate'er his blood or birth,?Till we shall build as Thou hast willed
O'er all Thy fruitful Earth.
May we maintain the story
Of honest, fearless right!?Not ours, not ours the Glory!
What are we in Thy sight??Thy servants, and no other,
Thy servants may we be,?To help our weaker brother,
As we crave for help from Thee!
Set Thy guard over us,
May Thy shield cover us,
Enfold and uphold us
On land and on sea!