#BREXIT!!!

In honour of this momentous occasion, let the Poet-Laureate of the British Empire give tongue to what has happened:

To the Judge of Right and Wrong 

With Whom fulfilment lies 

Our purpose and our power belong, 

Our faith and sacrifice. 

Let Freedom’s land rejoice! 

Our ancient bonds are riven; 

Once more to use the eternal choice 

Of Good or Ill is given. 

Not at a little cost, 

Hardly by prayer or tears, 

Shall we recover the road we lost 

In the drugged and doubting years. 

But, after the fires and the wrath, 

But, after searching and pain, 

His Mercy opens us a path 

To live with ourselves again. 

In the Gates of Death rejoice! 

We see and hold the good— 

Bear witness, Earth, we have made our choice 

For Freedom’s brotherhood! 

Then praise the Lord Most High 

Whose Strength hath saved us whole, 

Who bade us choose that the Flesh should die 

And not the living Soul! 

To the God in Man displayed— 

Where’er we see that Birth, 

Be love and understanding paid 

As never yet on earth! 

To the Spirit that moves in Man, 

On Whom all worlds depend, 

Be Glory since our world began 

And service to the end!