Gibraltar And Its Sieges With a Description of Its Natural Features
Gibraltar And Its Sieges With a Description of Its Natural Features
Frederic George Stephens
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" England ! we love thee better than we know; And this I learned when, after wanderings long 'Mid people of another stock and tongue, I heard again thy martial music blow, And saw thy gallant children to and fro Pace, keeping ward at one of these huge gates Which like twin giants watch the Herculean straits. When first I came in sight of that brave shore. It made my very heart within me dance To think that thou thy proud foot shouldst advance Forward so far into the mighty sea. Joy was it and e...xultation to behold Thine ancient standard's rich emblazonry, A glorious picture by the wind unroUed. " It is, doubtless, with such feelings as these de- scribed by the poet that most Englishmen will gaze upon the famous Rock ; though there are not want- A POLITICAL STRONGHOLD. 141 ing philanthropists to remind us that it rightfully belongs to Spain, and that our possession of it is an insult to a friendly power. Had we surrendered it, however, it would probably have been seized by France ; and it is not so much for our own interests we hold it as for those of Europe.
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