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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By George EdgarMontgomery

1266 England

I

THE VOICE of England is a trumpet tone

When that inviolate Mother wills it so:

Nations may rise and fall, and tyrants go

Upon their devious, darkened paths: alone

England preserves her people and her throne,

Her ancient freedom, her perpetual flow

Of broad and brightened life; time shall not show

This mighty Nation pitiful and prone.

II

It is the Saxon soul that speaks in her,

The stanchest soul that earth has ever wrought

To guide humanity in faith and light.

The shivering slave has been her worshipper,

And with defiant courage she has taught

Red Tyranny to cringe before the Right.