Excerpt from Poems of Loyalty: By British and Canadian Authors

These Poems of Loyalty are chosen, for the most part, as illustrating what true loyalty means, and as inspired by that spirit or influence which prepares for and conduces to true patriotism in the youth of any great nation or people.

True loyalty is essentially a condition or mood of the soul. We must be first of all loyal to God, and to the highest and best ideals and instincts of our race, ere we are fit to be true patriots.

To be really true to the present, we must be faithful both to the past and the future. That people is the greatest which draws its holiest ideals from the highest influences of the past, and founds upon these its chief hopes. Britain, in founding her ethics upon the Hebrew Scriptures and the wisdom and culture of ancient Greece, was supremely true both to the past and the future. Thus, the loyalty of a great modern people to the revelation, spirit, and culture of a great ancient race, means the bearing onward of the divine torch of God's Spirit in humanity throughout the ages.

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