Plate II. Part of a set comprising PAF2157-PAF2161. For further information on the poem see PAF2157. We regret no image is currently available but the text on this plate continues from Plate I as follows, with the 1916 punctuation and repeating the start of the verse there:
[Quaint and crude our Fathers' methods, and their ships and guns the same;
Watch them "warping out of Plimouth" when the Great Armada came ....]
Hear them "give the Duke defiance," all their shot and powder spent
Men in truth, but manning makeshifts still the Duke Medina went.

Went in shame and hopeless ruin, with the fear alone in mind,
Of our Fathers, spent and weary, hanging grimly on behind;
Scant of food, in rags and tatters, "What you have will have to do";
Lacking everything they needed, but the heart that pulled them through.

So they fought, explored, discovered, so they sailed from day to day;
When the Lizard dipped behind them there was none might bid them stay.
With Marconi yet undreamed of, none to call, or heed their prayers,
They had none of our good fortune; we, alas! have none of theirs.

Uncontrolled by standing orders, well they prospered, none the less;
They applied for no instructions, they reported no address,
And the building of the Empire was retarded not a whit,
For its builders, very seldom, "Had the honour to submit."