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GKONG GOVT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, 5TH MAY, 1886.

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Ode on the opening of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition

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by Lord TENNYSON, Poet Laureate.

Welcome, welcome, with one voice In welfare we rejoice,

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Sons and brothers, that have sent From Isle, and Cape, and Continent, Produce of your field and flood, Mount, and mine, and primal wood, Works of subtle brain and hand, Splendours of the morning land, Gifts from every British zone.

Britons hold your own.

May we find, as ages run, The mother featured in the son; And

may yours for ever be That old strength and constancy, Which has made your fathers great In our ancient Island State; And, where'er her flag may fly,. Glorying between sea and sky, Makes the might of Britain known.

Britons hold your own.

Britain fought her sons of yore, Britain failed, and never more Careless of our growing kin Shall we sin our fathers' sin; Men that in a narrower day (Unprophetic rulers they) Drove from out the mother's nest. That young eaglet of the west, To forage for herself alone.

Britons hold your own.

Sharers of our glorious past, Brothers, must we part at last? Shall not we, through good and ill,

Cleave to one another still?

Britain's myriad voices call,

Sons, be wedded each and all

Into one Imperial whole;

One with Britain heart and soul;

One life, one flag, one fleet, one throne;

Britains hold your own, And God guard all.

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Printed and Published by NORONHA & Co., Printers to the Hongkong Government, Nos, 5, 7, and 9 Zetland Street,

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