The Bunting and the Crown

Great British tribes and traders all the sovereign state declares
 Go back across your border wall and count remaining wares
 For we did trade whilst kings were made, exalting in our union
 But now is gentle autumn sent for respite and communion
 So lay away your livery
 Forsake and cut them down
 The colours of our rivalry
 The bunting and the crown
 The great and strong we muse upon in legend and libation
 The proud and fond who court beyond the boundaries of nations
 Now history does welcome thee, take leave to be a lover
 And [cleave?] the sea in unity with sister and with brother
 Now china's maid does stitch and braid with torchlight in her eye
 And babes from bow to bangalore from deprivation cry
 See how our greed with mortal speed does build the poor a pyre
 We might have forged the world anew in gold olympic fire
 The white and black and the union jack may be to some a saviour
 But dreams are laid in every shade, I pray to fortune's favour
 If what we had did make us glad when we did race together
 Let stories run in every tongue and love shall live forever