Cicely Fox Smith (Сисели Фокс Смит)

The Old Love and the New

To the leaderless party 'twas Bannerman spoke:
"If our sails be not trimmed, there are seats to be broke:
Let us haste, ere too late, our old courses to rue;
It's off with the old love, and on with the new!"

Chorus:

They've done with Oom Paul, they've done with the Boer,
They swallow the words they have spoken before;
Now show them full plainly, you good men and true,
They're off with the old love — not on with the new.

Remember their hopes to give England a fall,
Their Boer Committees, their letters to Paul:
Remember the ends they so loved to pursue,
Ere they fled from the old love to plead with the new.

Chorus: They've done with Oom Paul, etc

His hope to the end, they must topple with Paul,
Their Monds and their Brunners, their Lawtons and all;
They reap as they sowed — and for all they can do,
They're off with the old love, not on with the new.

Chorus: They've done with Oom Paul, etc

So show them your meaning, you good men and true,
Your hearts are true British, your colours True Blue;
When the polling day comes, oh, what will they do,
If they're off with the old love — not on with the new?

1. Old Cob Wall
2. The Tow-Rope Girls
3. The Last Ship
4. Morgan Le Fay
5. Homeward

Edmund Stedman (Эдмунд Стедман) The Old Love and the New ("Once more on the fallow hillside, as of old, I lie at rest")

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