Hands across the sea,
Feet on English ground,
The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round.


'Hands across the Sea' (1860), in Burton Stevenson The Home Book of Quotations (1967 ed.)


Hands across the sea, Feet on English ground, The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round.

Hands across the sea, Feet on English ground, The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round.

Hands across the sea, Feet on English ground, The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round.

Hands across the sea, Feet on English ground, The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round.