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conga sung in all music halm included "Soldiers of the
Queen" "Another little patch of rech"', "Marching to
Pretoria"
f "Sono of the Empire" and "Our flag". ' The
words summed up a number of the ingredients of
aggressive Imperialism, -'foolings of racial superiority,
unreasoning dislike of foreignere, reliance on force
and belief in expansion almost for its own aako; as in
the a rds of one oong which ran "Thou fearless we can
face the shock, and boast our pride of birth, and tell
the envious foreign stock* our Empire is the oarth. "
And another - "Then take the muzzle off s and let him,
have a go. Is Doer or Briton Going to rule, that's what
we want to know. jrhiaper to hißt )bb juba Hill
i then at
his leash he'll pull, thors's only room for one out
there, and that'o John Bull. " (2)
Poems such an "Wait a week or two" written while
the neige of Mafoking woo still in progress gained an
enthusiastic reception. In Juno at the Tivoli a poem
(1) quoted in th ºr eprinnt Wars 3rd November 1899.
(2) quoted in irbitrntor, October'1899.
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