25 AUGUST 1917, Page 10

THE TRUE SPIRIT OF EMPIRE. [To Tun EDITOR or Tan

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Sin,—A friend sent me recently the following quotation from Claudian " Haec est in gremium rictus qune solo recepit, Humanuinspe genus communi nomino fovit, Matris non detainee ritu, civesque recant

Quos domain, nexuque pie longinqua revinsit." The spirit expressed is on appropriate to present times that I have struggled to make a translation, which I now venture to submit to your readers:—

" She alone to friendship drew the tribes that vanquished came; She as mother, not as lord, gave all a common name, Linking far-off lands with love a son would feel for home, Greeting newly conquered foes as citizens of Rome."

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