VIII.

But those found fit to love her,

Whose love has root in faith,

Who hear, though darkness cover

Time's face, what memory saith,

Who seek not the service of great men or small men

But the weal that is common for comfort of all men,

Those yet that in trust have beholden

Truth's dawn over England grow golden

And quicken the darkness that stagnates

And scatter the shadows that flee,

Shall reply for her meanest as magnates

And masters by sea.

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