VA MADRIGAL [Written for Choral Songs in Honour of Queen Victoria, 1899, and set to music by Sir HUBERT PARRY.] WHO HO can dwell with greatness! Greatness is too high; Flowers are for the meadow, suns are for the sky ; Ah! but there is greatness in this land of ours, QUEEN, of thee the fable! LADY, thine the fate! Royal, and yet lowly, lowly, and yet great;— Great in far dominion, great in bannered years, Greater still as woman, greatest in thy tears! O RANK AND FILE (SOUTH AFRICA, 1900-1) UNDISTINGUISHED Dead! Whom the bent covers, or the rock- Shows to the stars, for you I mourn,-I weep, None knows your name. Blacken'd and blurr'd in the wild battle's brunt, Hotly you fell . . . with all your wounds in front: This is your fame! |