The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-15
BRlTIsH-NoT ENGLISH.
recent poem by Rudyard Kipling
contains these boastful lines:
What is the flag of England?
Winds of the world declare?''


Winds of the world declared
Well-grounded exception has been
taken to the idea that England is
everything and the rest OF Great
Britain nothing-that all credit for
noteworthy accomplishments is due
to England and none to Scotland, Ire
land and Wales. The most forcible
protest yet registered is in verse
form from the pen Of Robert A. An
derson, bard of the Caledonian society
of Edmonton. Alberta, Canada. The
lines which follow are not only time
/ ly and truthful, but are possessed OF
real literary merit as we'll:
Flag Of the English is it? Ay, 1t is
yours to say.
Your fathers went to the conquest and
your fathers died in the fray.
But We've are also British, and our
fathers also bled,
/ And we ask you to look at the three
cross flag that f1oateth above your
head.
You have given YOUR boast to the
world winds, and the winds have
sent it back
1--WE have followed the flag of Empire
far on the great ships track.
Der the barren grounds of the North
land full many league We've
i blown,
But never the flag of the English have
we noticed flying alone
1--WE have followed the trail Of Mack
enzie to the slopes of the north
ern sea;
: We have been on the paths of Fraser,
and we know what paths they be-
We have been through the western
passes and over the mountain
' flood,
3 And we know that these men were
4 British-but not of the English
!. blood
Where the mighty ice-pack closes o'el
: the seas where the Ross sailed,
: Our breath hath spoke of the North
.. land, till the boldest mariner quail
9 ed.
: We have ratified their ice-sheathet
. canvas, and dropped the flag t.
9 the mast,
;, But never we noticed that English
# ships were the only ships tina
a passed"
q The keels of Mcclure and McClintocl
8 broke into the frozen west,
:. The great lean bear hath seen them
3 but the musk-ox knew them best
W. Ne hn 1nno night a
# they saw it time and again,
e They never knew that the flag be
e longed to, exclusively, English
* men.
Of Never was land SO mighty, and neye
IN was sea SO broad
v But on Keeling deck or sandy shore
British foot hath trod.
at Ask of the winds of Africa that blo'
Sc where the sands are spread,
lie If they ever heard of a Mungo Par
ly with an English tongue in hi
g. head.
n Ask We also the hot winds by Hangar
" yisa's shore
le- If Livingstone, Moffat, or Anderson
to were names the English bore.
ry We will give to the English glad
III what justice itself DEGREES,
DIT But never we give to the Southror
is proud such Northern names
So these.
re Winds Of the world make answer
d. Ye are clustering to and fro.
le, What should they know about Coo
lct rane who only the English know
~ What must the title of "E.nglisl
n Ms hold? Where endeth the boa
~ and brag?
s., And what do they know Of BIRTHS
~ fleet who cant of an English flas
LIZ, Id Flag of the English is it?-Nay, f
20 the years have shown
- That more than the English ha'
= fought for the flag that more tia
10 the English own.
on. Fling out it's folds to the breezes, al
ma grant 1t an honored place,
IN But never more vaunt that the En-
The lish flag is the flag Of the Briti
nix race.
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