ts of the needful standard ture still wanted for the Koyal Navy."—Vide Service Press.
List Yo landsman of Britnin—Aye, and Genter Britain too—To the plaintive sung of a Sailor, sung by a British blue, Yo're "li of the stock ut the Vikings, sons of w onniq'ring race, Possessed of a royal heritage, across the whole enrth's face 5 Kings of the limitless ocean, Lords of unmeasured domain, Dove remember the secret, Your strength lies on the main Descended from tough old seamen who roumed to every strand, Wrestled with nature's wrath agvat, and human weath on Iand 5 Who spun the yarn—warp and weft—and wove on field and flood The fabric of your Empire, with shuttles filled wiet blood.
Who gained ye the title dominant race,"
by bloosly battles fought Are ye teaching your youngsters to know and think of them as they ought It not, your guilt is portioned by the measure of your might, For to risk the loss of our Empire is not within your right Handed down to you as an heirloom—held it is on loan—You must pass it on to your offspring, improved, enriched and grows Or the curses of your descendant: iN not in vigour lack Are ye doing the best you're able, to hold those curses back A grizzled man-o'-war's man isa teacher not well armed, But thoughts born of his roaming will end in nothing harmed, If with deference becoming, and in words he best commands, That you'll teach your naval children, he demands.
Sot L bid ye ists tell it, in words thav'll pierce like darts, And your favorite poets sing it, in songs that'll touch their hearts, Let it fill their hearts with rapture, thrill and throb through their frames, Raise pride of pluck and muscle, and envy of famous names 5 Hang history up in their schoolrooms, by maps that are dotted red At every spot beneath the sun, where our old sea-tuthers b Yes put itt!
it them Let them bei of their grand old sires.
Then shall oar Empire ring again with praises of the sea, Its quickened pulse bent high ones more, as champion of the free.
For who so strong to help the weak, as men of the Viking steam Who ao able to help oppressed us those who rule the main Who s" ready to thrash at need the hordes of conscript slaves, As a rice that mans with volunteers the noblest fleet on the waves, T. Houma
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.