Our Modern Watchwords
The shadow falls along the shore
The search lights twinkle on the sea
The silence of a mighty fleet
Portends the tumult yet to be.
The tables of the evening meal
Are spread amid the great machines
And thus with pride the question runs
Among the sailors and marines
Breathes there the man who fears to die
For England, Home, & Wai-hai-wai.
poem by Winston Churchill (1898)
Added by Dan Costinaş
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1 Dan Costinas said on 13 June 2021: |
| (*) The only poem known to have been written by Sir Winston as an adult, while serving in the army. |