England and Her Colonies

William Watson 1858 (Burley in Wharfedale) – 1935 (Rottingdean)



SHE stands, a thousand-wintered tree,  
 By countless morns impearled;  
Her broad roots coil beneath the sea,  
 Her branches sweep the world;  
Her seeds, by careless winds conveyed,          
 Clothe the remotest strand  
With forests from her scatterings made,  
New nations fostered in her shade,  
 And linking land with land.  
 
O ye by wandering tempest sown          
 ’Neath every alien star,  
Forget not whence the breath was blown  
 That wafted you afar!  
For ye are still her ancient seed  
 On younger soil let fall—          
Children of Britain’s island-breed,  
To whom the Mother in her need  
 Perchance may one day call.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 06, 2023

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Scheme ABABBBBBB CDCDBEBBE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 640
Words 99
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 9, 9

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