_A Christmas Carol_
_James Russell Lowell_
339

The Barren Lands
_E. B. Osborn_
341

_A Spring Morning_
_William Wordsworth_
345

_Crossing the Bar_
_Alfred, Lord Tennyson_
346




EMPIRE DAY


I want you to remember what Empire Day means. Empire Day is the festival
on which every British subject should reverently remember that the
British Empire stands out before the whole world as the fearless
champion of freedom, fair play and equal rights; that its watchwords are
responsibility, duty, sympathy and self-sacrifice, and that a special
responsibility rests with you individually to be true to the traditions
and to the mission of your race.