I
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by the Queen
Welcome, welcome with one voice!
In your welfare we rejoice,
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,
And splendours of the morning land,
Gifts from every British zone;
Britons, hold your own!