<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">India to England</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">O <span class="smallcaps">England</span>! in thine hour of need,</p><p class="line">When Faith's reward and valor's meed</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Is death or glory,</p><p class="line">When Faith indites, with biting brand,</p><p class="line">Clasped in each warrior's stiffening hand,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">A nation's story;</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Though weak our hands, which fain would clasp</p><p class="line">The warrior's sword with warrior's grasp</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">On victory's field;</p><p class="line">Yet turn, O mighty Mother! turn</p><p class="line">Unto the million hearts that burn</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">To be thy shield.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Thine equal justice, mercy, grace</p><p class="line">Have made a distant alien race</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">A part of thee.</p><p class="line">'Twas thine to bid their souls rejoice</p><p class="line">When first they heard the living voice</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Of Liberty.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Unmindful of their a ancient name,</p><p class="line">And lost to honor -- glory -- fame,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">And sunk in strife,</p><p class="line">Thou found them, whom thy touch hath made</p><p class="line">Men, and to whom thy breath conveyed</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">A nobler life.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">They, whom thy love hath guarded long;</p><p class="line">They, whom thy care bath rendered strong</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">In love and faith,</p><p class="line">Their heartstrings round thy heart entwine,</p><p class="line">They are, they ever will be, thine</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">In life -- in death.</p></div><p class="byline">-- Nizamat Jung.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/>(Native Judge of the High Court of Hyderabad.)</p></body></html> · Great War