THE CHANNEL TUNNEL.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE .SPECTATOR..] Stn,—The enclosed lines "from "The Gathered Poems of Ernest Myers" may be of interest to your readers in con- nexion with the proposed Channel Tunnel,—I am, Sir, Ac,,
N. M.
" FOLKESTONE Curs% 'Let there be Sea,' God said, and there was Sea; And in the midst thereof an Island set, Wherein the roving strength of nation.s met, And reared a rugged fortress of the free. Take back thy Sea,' men say, if men they be Who thus their fathers' perilous years forget, Nor reek the gathering thunder-cloud, which yet Looms large from many an envious tyranny.
Gropers for gold, come forth ! Let be awhile The stifling dark of your disloyal mine: Here where no feverish fumes the sense beguile, Where rainless waves race by in endless line, Here stand ! Behind you lies the guarded Isle, And on your brows beats free the guardian brine"
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