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WRITTEN IN RED.
Spread the Empire further, faster,
Spread the justice and the law,
Let the countries know their master—
British peace and awe;
Let the strife for ages rife
Cease and sword and cannon rust,
And the nations firm foundations
Root in settled trust;
Write the map a broader red
Over field and over flood,
In the life so bravely shed
By our English blood.
Spread the justice and the law,
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British peace and awe;
Let the strife for ages rife
Cease and sword and cannon rust,
And the nations firm foundations
Root in settled trust;
Write the map a broader red
Over field and over flood,
In the life so bravely shed
By our English blood.
Rolls the tide that as the ocean
Sweeps away the wrong and ill,
Leaving triumphs of devotion—
Quarried mine and mill;
As our race in royal place
Built upon its creed,
Pushes forward, southward, nor'ward,
Still with iron deed;
While before our progress path
Chartered by the Holy Page,
Fall the tyrannies of wrath
For our heritage.
Sweeps away the wrong and ill,
Leaving triumphs of devotion—
Quarried mine and mill;
As our race in royal place
Built upon its creed,
Pushes forward, southward, nor'ward,
Still with iron deed;
While before our progress path
Chartered by the Holy Page,
Fall the tyrannies of wrath
For our heritage.
Spread the Empire onward ever
With the faith its sure ally,
Piloted by great endeavour
Forth to fairer liberty:
Let the prate of ethnic hate
Hold its bitter stream at length,
While from prison lands arisen
Stay upon our strength;
Write the map a deeper red
Over flood and over field,
Till the peoples safely tread
Under England's shield.
With the faith its sure ally,
Piloted by great endeavour
Forth to fairer liberty:
Let the prate of ethnic hate
Hold its bitter stream at length,
While from prison lands arisen
Stay upon our strength;
Write the map a deeper red
Over flood and over field,
Till the peoples safely tread
Under England's shield.
Ours the word that more than charters
Binds the kingdoms into one,
Sealed by service of the martyrs
Grandly dared and done;
Ours the lot without a spot
To control the future fate,
And by splendid doom attended
Earth to educate;
Ours the destiny and thought
All for others and to save,
If the brighter world be wrought
Only of our grave.
Binds the kingdoms into one,
Sealed by service of the martyrs
Grandly dared and done;
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To control the future fate,
And by splendid doom attended
Earth to educate;
Ours the destiny and thought
All for others and to save,
If the brighter world be wrought
Only of our grave.
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