Painting by Abel Boye 



the: daughter op a race of empirE-buieders 



An English girl, hers is the language of two hundred millions of the world's inhab- 

 itants ; her forefathers were the champions of liberty, winning the Magna Charta on the 

 field of Runnymede; her brothers of the British Isles, of North America, of Australia, New 

 Zealand, and South Africa do now and will keep the faith — defending the weak, succoring the 

 needy, maintaining order, and advancing the day of which her poet laureate sang: 



"One God, one law, one element, 

 And one far-off divine event, 

 To which the whole creation moves." 



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