True Hearts Of Oak (Poetry)

True hearts of oak — where are you now?
Do you exist today?
Are you still beating stout and strong —
or lost to Time’s decay?

Is there some ancient secret clan
still loyal to England’s dream? —
Perhaps with plans to resurrect
past glories — some grand scheme

to raise once more a nation built
on patriotic pride
where old traditions have their place —
sit easy side by side

with new ideas well-grounded in
the values of the past —
beliefs that captured mind and soul
and held its people fast.

Oh, hearts of oak — if you survive
act soon — don’t hesitate
your homeland needs the likes of men
who once made England great.

Come, rally to her rescue and
defend our common ground —
Old hearts of oak like heroes rise
to hear the trumpet sound!