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Red no longer the footprints of our great explorers
                            Franklin, Cook and Clive,
                          Livingstone, Stanley and Scott,
                   Their adventures still stirring the hearts of men,
                       The sun ne’er setting on their courage
                                 and fortitude.
                              Proud men of stature
                           Enriching the spirit of man.
                          Red no longer their memorial
                              But the blood spilled
 ‘What is this life if full of care  By Man’s inhumanity to Man.
 We have no time to stand and stare’  No longer the footprints of glorious men
                    But the iron fist of barbarous, inglorious men
 ‘Leisure’, W.H. Davies      Forever in the shadows
                          With their wars and revolution,
 Care             Their political and religious strife and insurrection
                           Destroying the spirit of man.
 The World remains full of care though   Famine and poverty God’s vengeance
 not of caring.             On these malevolent men.
 The map remains spattered with red   This poor World – full of care
 though not of daring.        Though not of caring.

 Red no longer the footprints of our great navigators
 The great Elizabethan voyagers
 Drake and Baffin, Hudson and Frobisher.







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