April 20, 1916 
L A N i) & W A T E R 
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The New Dominion 
"And thou shalt have Dominion."— Genesis, Chap. I 
These verses, written by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu in 1910 for the Christmas number of " The Car," show a 
remarkable insight into the possibilities of the aeroplane, of which recent events have afforded a striking demonstration. 
Mai Qaeitlom thi Atroplam The Wind Answers 
BRING you War on your widespread pinions, or the Ask the bird that wheels above yon if I bear nol with 
Peace compelled by Fear ? tenderest care, 
Will j'ou shatter armies in battle, or travellers Ask the oak I have kissed ten lifetimes, though I stripped 
onward bear ? his br.inches bare, 
There is fate beyond our foresight in your planes and Ask the sea whom I stir ivith my breathings, how my ordered 
your tight-strung wires, cyclones blow, ■, 
Will you weld the hearts of nations, or kindle their Ask the seed wafted on to its seedbed to shelter under the 
racial fires ? snow. 
Rising, soaring, swooping, a speck in the open sky. 
Through clouds and windstorms daring the thunder ^^'"' ''^'''" Q-'-'t'o"' "" Aeroplane 
itself to defy. 
Wonderful, fragile, unstable, that harder might be the 
test. 
You have killed our sons without pity, taking the lives 
of the best. 
Ths Aeroplani Answers 
I destroy not in sport or error, but I kill inv pilots who 
fail 
For an instant to gauge my temper, or I leave them maimed 
by the gale. 
In the element last to b: conquered, shall my heart b2 easy 
to gain. 
Shall I let fools guess my problems, or make r.iy meaning 
plain '' 
Min Qaestiont ths Wind 
Thou Sphinx of the middle ;cther poised lone 'twixt 
the clouds and the sun, 
The falcon and swift are conquered by thy magic speed 
outdone, 
Cans't thou reach the fleecy cirrus where Paradise opens 
its gate ? 
Thou symbol of man striving upward, seeking ever his 
freedntn from Fate. 
The Aeroplane Answers 
The God that sent you knowledge, and made your iyes to 
see. 
He ordered the timi of my coming, and Power he gave to 
I me ; 
Ths youngest child of Motion in ths cave of the winds was 
I bjrn. 
The Spirit of Speed was my father, my mother the Goddess 
of Dawn. 
\\md of the land, now tell me, scent laden with clover Thus doth He send ms for Warfare, for Peace, for the 
and rose. ultimate good 
Wmd of the sea, brine laden, knowest thou how the sea- Of the nations willing to woo me and fathom my every 
gull goes ? 
mood. 
Wmd oi the Day, in thy fullness, declare the charms That the end may bs won by courage, as it was since the 
that can save, a,o,^;^ 5_.^^„_ 
Wmd of the night, in thy softness, thy secret reveal to To give the New Dominion of the wayward air to man. 
the brave. Christmas, 1910. Montagu of Beaulieu. 
Shakespeare To-day 
Si 
By Sir Sidney Lee 
UNDAY next is 
the 300th anni- 
versary of Shake- 
speare's death. 
It is also the day of 
the patron saint of 
.^ England, St. George. 
' '^ The obsession of the 
war, and the imperative 
need of concentrating 
the national energy on 
'1 its prosecution to as- 
sured victory give no 
just ground for denying 
to -Shakespeare's name 
the commemorative 
honours which are due 
to him on so auspicious 
an occasion as the 
tercentenary of his death. Rather, the national crisis 
enjoins us to dwell on Shakespeare's heroic achievement, 
even more earnestly than in a season of normal calm. 
A fit appreciation of a country's past triumphs stimu- 
lates confidence in the future. A slight acquaintance 
with the recent intellectual history of the world makes 
it clear that Shakespeare constitutes the high water 
mark of our country's achievement in the sphere of 
mind. To focus public attention on the dominion which 
he has exercised and is exercising over the intelligence of 
his fellow-countrymen and fellow-countrywomen — to re- 
mind ourselves at this juncture of the sway which this 
Englishman wields over the thought of the civilised 
world — can only tend to strengthen our faith in our 
country's cause, and to confirm us in our resolve to pre- 
serve it from every peril. 
II. 
There is no touch of insulaj-ity about Shakespeare. He 
was accessible to all mannen.- of foreign influences ; he 
sought his plots as often as not in foreign fiction, Itahan, 
French and Danish. He .gives his leading characters 
foreign names — Othello, Prospero, Miranda, Polonius, 
Imogen, Hcnuione, lago, Rcmeo, and himdreds of others 
Much foreign sent.'xncnt lives in his pages. His aler 
