Would your Coolies and your Kroomen and your Arabs and Chinese;
Whilst the tars on whose assistance
May depend the land’s existence
In the day of sore extremity, which it too soon may know,
Will be found prepared no longer
England’s Navy to make stronger,
Or to volunteer for service, with a “Yo, heave ho!”
Aye, the new crews may be cheaper, but I’d ask you was it Lascars
And John Chinamen and such like that first England’s Empire made?
Was it furriner’s devotion sailed her ships o’er every ocean,