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A National Hymn
FROM our Dominion never | |
| Take Thy protecting hand! | |
| United, Lord, for ever | |
| Keep Thou our fathers’ land! | |
| From where Atlantic terrors | 5 |
| Our hardy seamen train, | |
| To where the salt sea mirrors | |
| The vast Pacific chain. | |
| Ay one with her whose thunder | |
| Keeps world-watch with the hours, | 10 |
| Guard Freedom’s home and wonder, | |
| This Canada of ours. | |
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| Fair days of fortune send her, | |
| Be Thou her Shield and Sun! | |
| Our land, our flag’s Defender, | 15 |
| Unite our hearts as one! | |
| One flag, one land, upon her | |
| May every blessing rest! | |
| For loyal faith and honour | |
Her children’s deeds attest.
Ay one with her, &c. | 20 |
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| No stranger’s foot, insulting, | |
| Shall tread our country’s soil; | |
| While stand her sons exulting | |
| For her to live and toil. | |
| She hath the victor’s guerdon, | 25 |
| Hers are the conquering hours, | |
| No foeman’s yoke shall burden | |
This Canada of ours.
Ay one with her, &c. | |
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| Our sires, when times were sorest, | |
| Asked none but aid Divine, | 30 |
| And cleared the tangled forest, | |
| And wrought the buried mine. | |
| They tracked the floods and fountains, | |
| And won, with master-hand, | |
| Far more than gold in mountains, | 35 |
The glorious Prairie-land.
Ay one with her, &c. | |
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| O Giver of earth’s treasure, | |
| Make Thou our nation strong; | |
| Pour forth Thine hot displeasure | |
| On all who work her wrong! | 40 |
| To our remotest border | |
| Let plenty still increase, | |
| Let Liberty and Order | |
Bid ancient feuds to cease.
Ay one with her, &c. | |
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| May Canada’s fair daughters | 45 |
| Keep house for hearts as bold | |
| As theirs who o’er the waters | |
| Came hither first of old. | |
| The pioneers of nations! | |
| They showed the world the way; | 50 |
| ’Tis ours to keep their stations, | |
And lead the van to-day.
Ay one with her, &c. | |
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| Inheritors of glory, | |
| O countrymen! we swear | |
| To guard the flag whose story | 55 |
| Shall onward victory bear. | |
| Where’er through earth’s far regions | |
| Its triple crosses fly, | |
| For God, for home, our legions | |
Shall win, or fighting die!
Ay one with her, &c. | 60 |
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