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Rh "How can I crown thee further? I know whose standard flies

Where the clean surge takes the Leeuwin or the coral barriers rise.

Blood of our foes on thy bridle, and speech of our friends in thy mouth—

How can I crown thee further, O Queen of the Sovereign South?

"Let the Five Free Nations witness!" But the Young Queen answered swift:—

"It shall be crown of Our crowning to hold Our crown for a gift.

In the days when Our folk were feeble thy sword made sure Our lands:

Wherefore We come in power to take Our crown at thy hands."

And the Old Queen raised and kissed her, and the jealous circlet prest,

Roped with the pearls of the Northland and red with the gold of the West,

Lit with her land's own opals, levin-hearted, alive,

And the Five-starred Cross above them, for sign of the Nations Five.