With tears that none will scorn—

O Keepers of the House of old,

Or ever we were born!

One service more we dare to ask—

Pray for us, heroes, pray,

That when Fate lays on us our task

We do not shame the Day!

[6]

THE DECLARATION OF LONDON

JUNE 29, 1911

CONTENTS

('On the re-assembling of Parliament after the Coronation, the Government have no intention of allowing their followers to vote according to their convictions on the Declaration of London, but insist on a strictly party vote'—Daily Papers.)

We were all one heart and one race

When the Abbey trumpets blew.

For a moment's breathing-space

We had forgotten you

Now you return to your honoured place

Panting to shame us anew.

We have walked with the Ages dead—

With our Past alive and ablaze,

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