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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341309" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Royal Home-Coming</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Welcome, right welcome home, to these blest Isles,<br>Where, unforgotten, loved Victoria sleeps,<br>But now with happy pride your Father smiles,<br>Your Mother weeps.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You went as came the swallow, homeward draw<br>Now it hath winged its way to winters green;<br>But never swallow or wandering sea-bird saw<br>What You have seen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For You have circled the earth with pinions fleet,<br>The seasons through, and everywhere a throng<br>Of glowing hearts your coming trooped to greet<br>With flowers and song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Over the unchanging sea eight changeful moons<br>Have moved from shield to sickle, seed to sheaves,<br>And twice a hundred dawns, a hundred noons,<br>A hundred eves,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Waned to their slumber in the star-lit night,<br>And ever from land or lake, from wave or crag,<br>From fixed or floating fort, You had in sight<br>The British Flag.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And wider, further, onward round the world,<br>Scouring the field or furrowing the sea,<br>You found that Emblem, which, where'er unfurled,<br>Floats o'er the Free:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So that on man, and man's laborious hand,<br>Nor manacle nor hindrance shall be laid,<br>But mind with mind, and strand with generous strand,<br>Contend and trade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, though the shade of treasonable strife<br>Falls on our homes and theirs, You, wandering, saw,<br>Young Commonwealths You found, surging with life,<br>Yet ruled by Law:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whose blood, infused in ours in War's emprise,<br>To vindicate one Sceptre, sword, and tongue,-<br>As ours perchance may help to keep them wise,-<br>Hath made us young.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fountain of Youth England in mellower years<br>Hath found and drained, so that She ne'er need know<br>What Nature feels when Autumn stacks and seres,<br>Or Yule-gusts blow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You sailed from us to them, from them to us,<br>Love at the prow and wisdom at the helm,<br>August Ambassadors, who strengthen thus<br>Her Rule and Realm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Round You to-day a People stand arrayed,<br>That fain with Peace two wedded worlds would dower,<br>Therefore rejoicing mightier hath been made<br>Imperial Power.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Austin">Alfred Austin</a><div class=q>
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Where, unforgotten, loved Victoria sleeps,
But now with happy pride your Father smiles,
Your Mother weeps.

You went as came the swallow, homeward draw
Now it hath winged its way to winters green;..."></div>
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