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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Song of the Flag + A National Ode + +Author: Eric Mackay + +Release Date: May 12, 2008 [EBook #25455] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SONG OF THE FLAG *** + + + + +Produced by K Nordquist, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) + + + + + + + + + +[Illustrated Cover: THE SONG OF THE FLAG BY ERIC MACKAY] + + + + + THE + SONG OF THE FLAG + + + A National Ode + + + _BY_ + + ERIC MACKAY + + _Author of "Love Letters of a Violinist," "Vox Amoris," &c._ + + + LONDON + Lamley & Co., Exhibition Road, S.W. + + 1893. + + + + +THE SONG OF THE FLAG. + + +I. + + Up with the country's flag! + And let the winds caress it, fold on fold,-- + A stainless flag, and glorious to behold! + It is our honour's pledge; + It is the token of a truth sublime, + A thing to die for, and to wonder at, + When, on the shuddering edge + Of some great storm, it waves its woven joy, + Which no man shall destroy, + In shine or shower, in peace or battle-time. + Up with the flag! + The winds are wild to toss it, and to brag + Of England's high renown,-- + And of the throne where Chivalry has sat + Acclaimed in bower and town + For England's high renown!-- + And of these happy isles where men are free + And masters of the sea, + The million-mouthed sea, + That calls to us from shore to furthest shore-- + That fought for us of yore,-- + The thunder-throated, foam-frequented sea + That sounds the psalm of Victory evermore! + + +II. + + For England's sake to-day,-- + And for this flag of ours which, to the blast, + Unfurls, in proud array, + Its glittering width of splendour unsurpassed,-- + For England's sake, + For our dear Sovereign's sake,-- + We cry all shame on traitors, high and low, + Whose word let no man take, + Whose love let no man seek throughout the land,-- + Traitors who strive, with most degenerate hand, + To bring about our country's overthrow! + + +III. + + The sun reels up the sky, the mists are gone, + And overhead the lilting bird of dawn + Has spread, adoring-wise, as for a prayer, + Those wondrous wings of his, + Which never yet were symbols of despair! + It is the feathery foeman of the night + Who shakes adown the air + Song-scented trills and sunlit ecstasies. + Aye! 'tis the lark, the chorister in gray, + Who sings hosannas to the lord of light, + And will not stint the measure of his lay + As hour to hour, and joy to joy, succeeds; + For he's the morning-mirth of English meads, + And we who mark the moving of his wings, + We know how sweet the soil whereof he sings,-- + How glad the grass, how green the summer's thrall, + How like a gracious garden the dear Land + That loves the ocean and the tossed-up sand + Whereof the wind has made a coronal; + And how, in spring and summer, at sun-rise, + The birds fling out their raptures to the skies, + And have the grace of God upon them all. + + +IV. + + Up with the flag! + Up, up, betimes, and proudly speak of it; + A lordly thing to see on tower and crag, + O'er which,--as eagles flit, + With eyes a-fire, and wings of phantasy,-- + Our memories hang superb! + The foes we frown upon shall feel the curb + Of our full sway; and they shall shamed be + Who wrong, with sword or pen, + The Code that keeps us free. + For there's no sight, in summer or in spring, + Like our great standard-pole, + When round about it ring + The cheers of Britons, bounden, heart and soul, + To deeds of duty, dear to Englishmen; + And he who serves it has a name to see + On Victory's muster-roll; + And he who loves it not, how vile is he! + For 'tis the Land's delight,-- + Our ocean-wonder, blue and red and white; + Blue as the skies, and red as roses are, + And white as foam that flashed at Trafalgar; + The Land's delight! + The badge and test of right, + Girt with its glory like a guiding-star! + + +V. + + The wind has roared in English many a time, + And foes have heard it on the frothy main, + In doom and danger and in battle-pain; + And yet again may hear, + In many a sea-ward, sun-enamoured clime; + For all the hearts of traitors ache with fear + When our great ships go forth, as heretofore, + Full-armed from the shore,-- + And Boreas bounds exultant on the seas, + To bid the waves of these,-- + The subject-waves of England and the Isles,-- + Out-leap for miles and miles, + As loud as lions loosed on enemies! + + +VI. + + Oh, may no mean surrender of the rights + Of our ancestral swords, + Which made our fathers pioneers and lords, + And victors in the fights,-- + May no succession of the days and nights + Find us or ours at fault, + Or careless of our fame, our island-fame, + Our sea-begotten fame,-- + And no true Briton halt + In his allegiance to the Victory-name + Which is the name we bow to in our thought, + Where English deeds are wrought, + In lands that love the languors of the sun, + And where the stars have sway, + And where the moon is marvelled at for hours! + The flags of nations are the ocean-flowers, + And ours the dearest, ours the brightest one, + That ever shimmered on the watery way + Which patriots call to mind + When they remember isles beyond the dawn + Where our sea-children dwell. + For there's no flag afloat upon the wind + Can wave so high, or show so fair a front, + Or gleam so proudly in the battle-brunt, + Or tell a tale of conquest half so well + As this we doat upon! + + +VII. + + The storm is our ally, the raging sea + Is our adherent, and, to make us free, + A thousand times the full-tongued hurricane + Has bellowed forth its menace o'er the deep; + And when dissensions sleep, + When sleep the wrought-up rancours of the age + We shall again inscribe, and yet again, + On History's glowing page + The story of the flag,-- + For 'twas our Nelson's flag + Which none in all the world shall put to shame, + Or vilify, or blame,-- + The story of the glory of the flag + Which waved at Waterloo, + And was, from first to last, the symbol true + Of Wellington's pure fame! + + +VIII. + + High, high the flag, for England's sake and ours, + Who know its vested powers, + And what it means, in war time, and in peace + When fierce dissensions cease,-- + High, high the flag of England over all + Which nought but good befall! + High let it wave, in triumph, as a sign + Of Freedom's right divine,-- + Its glorious folds out-fluttering in the gale, + Again to tell the tale + Of deeds heroic, wrought at Duty's call! + The wind's our trumpeter; and east and west, + And north and south, all day, as on a quest + Of mirth and marvel,--all the live-long day + It bears the news about + Of all we do and dare, in our degree, + And all the land's great shout, + And all the pomp and pageant of the Sea! + + +[Decoration] + + +[Printer's Device: _Printed by R. Folkard & Son, 22, Devonshire St., +Queen Sq., London._] + + + + +JUST READY: _Author's Edition, Crown 8vo., Price 5s. nett._ + + +LOVE LETTERS OF A VIOLINIST + +By ERIC MACKAY + +LONDON: LAMLEY & CO., EXHIBITION ROAD, S.W. + + +"'LOVE LETTERS OF A VIOLINIST.'--Letters to make the ordinary writer +envious, and to awaken in lovers thanks to the poetical pen that has +given forth utterances so suited to their good health or malady. Here a +verse to cheer the almost hopeless; a stanza to teach the refraining a +lesson in charge and capture; lines to fall in love with the memory, to +charm the darkness, and be another light to rule the day. London was +yawning behind her giant hand. The moment was propitious, and any strain +of beauty was sure of an audience. At this felicitous moment a pipe of +splendour sounded. London ceased to yawn. A violinist was communicating +the passions of his heart to those who would listen, and amid great +interest he went from house to house a-singing.... Eric Mackay is one of +those wise men who have no immature volumes to haunt them. He first +asked right of way on the road to Parnassus with a bundle of melodies +which have never lost their appeal. While youth seeks the pink cheek, +these Love Letters will command the homage of lovers. Your Petrarchs are +not as common as sparrows.... These outpourings from a burning heart +will always compel the student of our literature to weigh them, sift +them, and establish them in some very honourable position. The charm of +this early book is its freedom from drag. It moves on always. The reader +is hastened along; he has wonderful and unexpected views, which ravish +him as the abrupt magnificences of the Pyrenees ravished Gautier. +Perhaps you expect a tree, but you see a stream. Now, at last, it must +be a great green hill, and behold! you peep down into an echoless mossy +depth of glen. At the next break in the quick, up towers a height of +fancy and simile! Thus the everlasting surprise goes on enchanting. From +wild to wild, from passion to passion, from cavern to star, are we +borne, and as we travel there is music about us--music of the true tone, +ringing with all the natural pathos of lyrical carelessness. There have +been instances in literature of the music mastering the thought, but in +the case under notice the proportions are justly ministered to. There is +thought and witchery of measure. The ice of craftsmanship is mingled +with the wine of passion."--NORMAN GALE, in _The Literary World_, March +10th, 1893. + + * * * * * + +"We are indebted to Eric Mackay for the latest ode to the lark, one of +peculiar gracefulness and impassioned beauty. In my opinion, this is a +better production than either of Wordsworth's, superior to Hogg's, and, +though not so intellectual as Shelley's, rivals it in truth. Mackay's is +the lark itself, Shelley's is himself listening, with unwearied ears and +tightly-stretched imagination, to the lark. Who is surprised that Eric +Mackay's lyric, 'The Waking of the Lark,' sent a thrill through the +heart of America? This poem, which appeared in the _New York +Independent_, is undoubtedly the lark-poem of the future. From the +opening to the closing stanza there is not an imperfect verse, not a +commonplace. The sentiment is pure, and the fancy glowing. It is, +indeed, an exquisite ode."--_Wintringham's_ "_Birds of Wordsworth._" +Edition, 1892. + + * * * * * + +"He (the lecturer) ventured to call the author of the 'Love Letters' a +new poet. His published volume is a work of immense promise. His fancy +is splendid.... The 'Love Letters' are twelve poems, separate, and yet +intrinsically one. It is a compound lyric, with an epic theme and +somewhat of an epic cast. The theme is the triumph of woman's love. It +is the story of love's redemption. It has something of the tone, colour, +and luxuriance of Solomon's Song; both, too, have the same theme, +though treated in a different way.... The form is charming--as if the +sonatas of Beethoven had been translated into poetry! The _denouement_ +is reached when Beethoven himself-- + + 'The giant-singer who did storm the gates + Of Heaven and Hell'-- + +is introduced in a vision. The lecturer gave a number of quotations to +illustrate his points."--_Lecture on_ ERIC MACKAY, _by the Rev. Elvet +Lewis, at the Hull Literary Institute._ + + * * * * * + +"The 'Love Letters' of Eric Mackay are the handiwork of a brilliant +metrical artist and poet born.... A beautiful and passionate work; its +beauty that of construction, language, imagery,--its passion, +characteristic of the artistic nature, and, while intensely human, free +from any taint of vulgar coarseness.... The poem is quite original, its +manner Elizabethan.... Eric Mackay is a lyrist with a singing faculty +and a novel metrical form such as few lyrists have at command. With the +very striking poem of 'Mary Arden,' we have at last something new said +of Shakespeare, and it is said sweetly and imaginatively."--E. C. +STEDMAN, in "_Victorian Poets_," 21st Edition, 1893. + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note, whilst + significant amendments have been listed below. + + P. 10, 'ecstacies' amended to _ecstasies_. + + P. 19, 'langours' amended to _languors_. + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Song of the Flag, by Eric Mackay + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SONG OF THE FLAG *** + +***** This file should be named 25455.txt or 25455.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/4/5/25455/ + +Produced by K Nordquist, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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