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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS FROM 'AMERICA AND ENGLAND IN DANGER OF WAR': 3, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the strength of england, and her pride
Last Line: What is it that giveth her immortal breath?
Variant Title(s): America And England
Subject(s): England; English
First Line: What is the strength of england, and her pride
Last Line: What is it that giveth her immortal breath?
Variant Title(s): America And England
Subject(s): England; English
WHAT is the strength of England, and her pride
Among the nations, when she makes her boast?
Has the East heard it, where her far-flung host
Hangs like a javelin in India's side?
Does the sea know it, where her navies ride,
Like towers of stars, about the silver coast,
Or from the great Capes to the uttermost
Parts of the North like ocean meteors glide?
Answer, O South, if yet where Gordon sank,
Spent arrow of the far and lone Soudan,
There comes a whisper out of wasted death!
O every ocean, every land, that drank
The blood of England, answer, if ye can,
What is it that giveth her immortal breath?
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