28 DECEMBER 1889, Page 15

THE SPANISH ARMADA AND THE ENGLISH CATHOLICS.

A" SPANISH fleet affront our English shores !

It must not be ; it shall not ! Sink or swim Our cause, our lamp of hope burn bright or dim, Long as o'er English cliff the osprey soars, Long as on English coasts the breaker roars, No threatening flag shall scale our blue sea-rim, No smoke from Spanish gun our skies bedim, No foot from Parma stain our household floors !

Good Sirs, we question not your fair intent To prop true Faith, and Queens in wedlock born ; But alien aid and arms and arts we scorn : To native hands and hearts we trust the event : The Right is ours : with God the arbitrament :

At worst, beyond His night remains His morn.