<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396944" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Voyage Of The 'Ophir</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men of our race, we send you one<br>Round whom Victoria's holy name<br>Is halo from the sunken sun<br>Of her grand Summer's day aflame.<br>The heart of your loved Motherland,<br>To them she loves as her own blood,<br>This Flower of Ocean bears in hand,<br>Assured of gift as good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Forth for our Southern shores the fleet<br>Which crowns a nation's wisdom steams,<br>That there may Briton Briton greet,<br>And stamp as fact Imperial dreams.<br>Across the globe, from sea to sea,<br>The long smoke-pennon trails above,<br>Writes over sky how wise will be<br>The Power that trusts to love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A love that springs from heart and brain<br>In union gives for ripest fruit<br>The concord Kings and States in vain<br>Have sought, who played the lofty brute,<br>And fondly deeming they possessed,<br>On force relied, and found it break:<br>That truth once scored on Britain's breast<br>Now keeps her mind awake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Australian, Canadian,<br>To tone old veins with streams of youth,<br>Our trust be on the best in man<br>Henceforth, and we shall prove that truth.<br>Prove to a world of brows down-bent<br>That in the Britain thus endowed,<br>Imperial means beneficent,<br>And strength to service vowed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Meredith">George Meredith</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=396944" data-title="The Voyage Of The 'Ophir de George Meredith" data-description="Men of our race, we send you one Round whom Victoria's holy name Is halo from the sunken sun Of her grand Summer's day aflame. The heart of your loved Motherland, To them she loves as her own blood, This Flower of Ocean bears in hand, Assured of g..."></div> </div> </div>

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