“Britons, ye

Who guard the sacred outpost, not in vain

Hold your proud peril! Freemen undefiled

Keep watch and ward! Let battlements be piled

Around your cliffs; fleets marshalled, till the main

Sink under them; and if your courage wane,

Through force or fraud, look westward to your child.”

BRITAIN:

“Now fling them out to the breeze,

Shamrock, Thistle and Rose,