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The world has crowned a thousand kings: / But destiny has kept / Her weightiest hour of kingly power / To offer England's son. / The rising bell of Progress rings; / And Truths which long have slept, / Like prophets strange, predicting change, / Before Time's chariot run.
The greatest Empire of the Earth. / Old England proudly stands. / Like arteries her Colonies / Reach out from sea to sea. / She clasps all races in her girth; / Her gaze the world commands; / And far and wide where strong ships ride, / The British Flag floats free.