The Englishman and Other Poems

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0. START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE
ENGLISHMAN AND OTHER POEMS ***
Transcribed from the 1912 Gay and Hancock edition by David Price,
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THE ENGLISHMAN AND OTHER POEMS
Contents:
Preface--the Queen's last ride
The Englishman
Canada
The Call

Coronation Poem and Prayer
Two Voices
A Ballade of the
Unborn Dead
The Truth Teller
Just You
Reflection
Songs of
Love and the Sea
Acquaintance
In India's Dreamy Land
Rangoon

Thoughts on leaving Japan
On seeing the Diabutsu--at Kamakura,
Japan
The Little Lady of the Bullock Cart
East and West
The
Squanderer
Compensations
Song of the Rail
Always at Sea
The
Suitors
The Jealous Gods
God Rules Alway
The Cure
The
Forecast
Little Girls
Science
The Earth
The Muse and the Poet

The Spinster
Brotherhood
The Tavern of Last Times
The Two
Ages
If I Were
Warned
Forward
In England
Karma
The
Gossips
Together
Petition
A Waft of Perfume
The Plough

Go
Plant a Tree
Pain's Purpose
Memory's Mansion
Old Rhythm and
Rhyme
All in a Coach and Four
Songs of a Country Home

Worthy the name of "Sir Knight"
PREFACE--THE QUEEN'S LAST RIDE
(Written on the day of Queen Victoria's funeral)
The Queen is taking a drive to-day,
They have hung with purple the
carriage-way,
They have dressed with purple the royal track
Where
the Queen goes forth and never comes back.
Let no man labour as she goes by
On her last appearance to mortal
eye;
With heads uncovered let all men wait
For the Queen to pass
in her regal state.
Army and Navy shall lead the way
For that

wonderful coach of the Queen's to-day.
Kings and Princes and Lords of the land
Shall ride behind her, a
humble band;
And over the city and over the world
Shall the Flags
of all Nations be half-mast-furled,
For the silent lady of royal birth

Who is riding away from the Courts of earth,
Riding away from the
world's unrest
To a mystical goal, on a secret quest.
Though in royal splendour she drives through town,
Her robes are
simple, she wears no crown:
And yet she wears one, for widowed no
more,
She is crowned with the love that has gone before,
And
crowned with the love she has left behind
In the hidden depths of
each mourner's mind.
Bow low your heads--lift your hearts on high -
The Queen in silence
is driving by!
THE ENGLISHMAN
Born in the flesh, and bred in the bone,
Some of us harbour still
A New World pride: and we flaunt or hide
The Spirit of Bunker Hill.
We claim our place, as a separate race,
Or a self-created clan;
Till there comes a day when we like to say,
'We are kin of the Englishman.'
For under the front that seems so cold,
And the voice that is wont to storm,
We are certain to find, a big,
broad mind
And a heart that is soft and warm.
And he carries his woes in a lordly
way,

As only the great souls can:
And it makes us glad when in truth we
say,
We are kin of the Englishman.'
He slams his door in the face of the world,
If he thinks the world too bold.
He will even curse; but he opens his
purse
To the poor, and the sick, and the old.
He is slow in giving to woman
the vote,
And slow to put up her fan;
But he gives her room in the hour of
doom,
And dies--like an Englishman.
CANADA
England, father and mother in one,
Look on your stalwart son.

Sturdy and strong, with the valour of youth,
Where is another so lusty?

Coated and mailed, with the armour of truth,
Where is another so
trusty?
Flesh of your flesh, and bone of your bone,
He is yours
alone.
England, father and mother in one,
See the wealth of your son.

Forests primeval, and virginal sod,
Wheat-fields golden and splendid:

Riches of nature and opulent God
For the use of his children
intended.
A courage that dares, and a hope that endures,
And a soul
all yours.
England, father and mother in one,
Hear the cry