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Alfred Austin - A Voice From The West
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What is the voice I hear
 On the wind of the Western Sea?
 Sentinel, listen from out Cape Clear
 And say what the voice may be.
 ```Tis a proud, free people calling loud to a people proud and free.

 ``And it says to them, `Kinsmen, hail!
 We severed have been too long.
 Now let us have done with a worn—out tale—
 The tale of an ancient Wrong;
 And our friendship last long as Love doth last,
 and be stronger than Death is strong!```

 Answer them, ``Sons of the self—same race,
 And blood of the self—same clan,
 Let us speak with each other face to face,
 And answer man to man;
 And loyally love and trust each other as none but free men can.

 ``So fling them out to the breeze,
 Shamrock, Thistle, and Rose!
 And the Star—Spangled Banner unfurl with these,
 A message to friends and foes,
 Wherever the sails of peace are seen and wherever the war—wind blows.

 ``A message to bond and thrall to wake:
 For wherever we come, we twain,
 The throne of the tyrant shall rock and quake,
 And his menace be void and vain;
 For you are lords of a strong, young land, and we are lords of the main.``

 Yes, this is the voice on the bluff March gale:
 ``We severed have been too long.
 But now we have done with a worn—out tale,
 The tale of an ancient Wrong;
 And our friendship shall last long as Love doth last, and be stronger than Death is strong!``
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