Britain fought her sons of yore—

Britain fail’d; and never more,

Careless of our growing kin,

Shall we sin our father’s sin,

Men that in a narrower day—

Unprophetic rulers they—

Drove from out the mother's nest

That young eagle of the West

To forage for herself alone;

Britons, hold your own!

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