The Archbishop of Canterbury in his speech in the House
of Lords on April 18th quoted Frederic Myers's charming schoolboy poem on the Prince of Wales at the grave of Washington. We will quote the concluding stanzas from the "Letter from Newport" by the same beautiful poet As even more appropriate and more moving :—
" Ah, what imperial force of fate Links our one race in high emprize Nor aught henceforth can separate Those glories mingling as they rise ; For one in heart, as one in speech,
At last have Child and Mother grown,—
Fair Figures ! honouring each in each A beauty kindred with her own.
Spread then, great land ! thine arms afar, Thy golden harvest westward roll ; Banner with banner, star with star, Ally the tropics and the pole ;- There glows no gem than these more bright From ice to fire, from sea to sea ; Blossoms no fairer flower to light Through all thine endless empery."
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