<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396015" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Welcome</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prince of the race whose Empire is the Sea,<br>We welcome thee!<br>Thy ensign floats above our harbour-mouth.<br>A fairy’s hand<br>Has decked the great Queen City of the South.<br>By arch and roof, in bannered street and stand,<br>The vast crowd waits.<br>The cannon thunder greeting from the strand.<br>But in our hearts a deeper note vibrates—<br>The loving welcome of a loyal land. <br>’Tis the same race that from the iron North<br>Went faring forth,<br>Flying the flag of England at the fore;<br>Nor saw again<br>The masted city, with its ceaseless roar,<br>The flower-flecked meadow and the leafy lane,<br>The steepled hill,<br>Or ivied ruin rising from the plain,<br>But for a sign that they remembered still,<br>Built Greater Britains over all the main. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For thee, and her who comes with thee to grace<br>Our land and race,<br>Five million hearts beat with a welcome leal,<br>North, South and West.<br>Not in a day was built this Commonweal!<br>Slow, with our lives, we built it; nor confes’t<br>How stern our fears,<br>Thro’ drought and flood, in fever and unrest.<br>Its tale: the courage of laborious years.<br>And for a seal: the life-blood of our best. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is she not fair whose morning thrills the East?<br>Youngest, not least,<br>Of all those Britains that one isle has sown,<br>One faith impearled<br>In world-wide union. We can hold our own—<br>’Gainst us in vain all envious shafts are hurled<br>If still we be<br>The Sons of Freedom, ’neath one flag unfurled,<br>Co-heirs of Fame and Wardens of the Sea,<br>One tongue, one race, one heart before the world!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Essex+Evans">George Essex Evans</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396015" data-title="Welcome de George Essex Evans" data-description="Prince of the race whose Empire is the Sea, We welcome thee! Thy ensign floats above our harbour-mouth. A fairy’s hand Has decked the great Queen City of the South. By arch and roof, in bannered street and stand, The vast crowd waits. The cannon..."></div> </div> </div>

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