From the recording Yours for Eternity
Emily Hobhouse, known as the 'Angel of Love' in South Africa, was villified in the British Press.
Lyrics
EMILY STANDS STRONG
Written & Performed by Steve Dagleish
© 2016 All Rights Reserved
When the angel of love meets the sword of the Lord
And Kitchener’s blade so clean
When Albion’s papers pour down their scorn
On this traitor of Empire, of country and Queen
Emily stands strong
Comforting strangers we won’t have belong
Truth on the scaffold, wrong on the throne
When Parliament sit on their hands
Mothers in death camps, children in chains
Rattled by lords with no shame