From the dear old Mother Country.

* * * * * *

Then a pause; and then he shouted,

Shouted loudly Drop o' Wather:

"Southward! Southward! now then, Southward!"

And the ship went sailing forward

On her way of trust and promise,

Southward, southward; Drop o' Wather

Looking steadfastly before him,

As confronting firm the future.