原文 (英語)

p. 3THE DAY IS COMING. Come hither lads, and hearken, for a tale there is to tell, Of the wonderful days a-coming when all shall be better than well. And the tale shall be told of a country, a land in the midst of the sea, And folk shall call it England in the days that are going to be. There more than one in a thousand in the days that are yet to come, Shall have some hope of the morrow, some joy of the ancient home. For then—laugh not, but listen, to this strange tale of mine—