The poetical works of Robert Stephen Hawker Edited from the original manuscripts and annotated copies together with a prefatory notice and bibliography by Alfred Wallis |
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AN ELECTION SONG.
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Written when Sir Salusbury Trelawny contested the county in 1832, against my impulses and judgment, but I was subdued by Lady Trelawny in her peremptory way.—R.S.H.
And do they scorn Tre, Pol, and Pen?
And shall Trelawny die?
Here's twenty thousand Cornish men
Will know the reason why!
And shall Trelawny die?
Here's twenty thousand Cornish men
Will know the reason why!
The former spirit is not fled,
Where Cornish hearts combine,
We bow before the noble dead,
And laud their living line!
Where Cornish hearts combine,
We bow before the noble dead,
And laud their living line!
Be chainless as yon rushing wave,
Free as your native air;
But honour to the good and brave,
And homage to the fair!
Free as your native air;
But honour to the good and brave,
And homage to the fair!
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Think on the warrior's waving hand,
The patriot's lasting fame,
And follow o'er the Rocky Land,
The old Trelawny name!
The patriot's lasting fame,
And follow o'er the Rocky Land,
The old Trelawny name!
Up with your hearts, Tre, Pol, and Pen!
They bid Trelawny die:
But twenty thousand Cornish men
Will know the reason why!
They bid Trelawny die:
But twenty thousand Cornish men
Will know the reason why!
1832.
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