And gracious Charity remains
To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract
For Intellect or Will, And men are free to think and act
Life is worth living still.
Not care to live while English homes
Nestle in English trees, And England's Trident-Sceptre roams
Her territorial seas ! Not live while English songs are sung
Wherever blows the wind, And England's laws and England's tongue
Enfranchise half mankind ! So long as in Pacific main,
Or on Atlantic strand, Our kin transmit the parent strain,
And love the Mother-land; So long as flashes English steel,
And English trumpets shrill, He is dead already who cloth not feel
Life is worth living still.
��Austin.
��cxv THEOLOGY IN EXTREMIS
OPT in the pleasant summer years, Reading the tiles of days bygone,
I have mused on the story of human tears, All that man unto man has done,
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