Looks like it's a made up phrase.

It could be ironic - the English being proverbally cold, stiff upper-lipped and all of that?

Pete

God is our guide! from field, from wave, From plough, from anvil, and from loom; We come, our country's rights to save, And speak a tyrant faction's doom: We raise the watch-word liberty; We will, we will,we will be free!