PATRIOTIC SONG

A BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE

Being an Anthology of the Patriotic Poetry of the
British Empire from the Defeat of the Spanish
Armada till the Death of Queen Victoria

SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY

ARTHUR STANLEY

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE

RIGHT REVEREND J. E. C. WELLDON

LORD BISHOP OF CALCUTTA

LATE HEAD-MASTER OF HARROW SCHOOL

And here the Singer for his Art

Not all in vain may plead

'The song that nerves a Nation's heart,
Is in itself a deed.'

Tennyson.

LONDON

C. ARTHUR PEARSON, Limited