A National Hymn
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, March 1880.
From our Dominion never
Take Thy protecting hand,
United, Lord, for ever
Keep Thou our fathers’ land!
From where Atlantic terrors
Our hardy seamen train,
To where the salt sea mirrors
The vast Pacific chain.
Aye one with her whose thunder
Keeps world-watch with the hours,
Guard Freedom’s home and wonder,
“This Canada of ours.”
Fair days of fortune send her,
Be Thou her Shield and Sun!
Our land, our flag’s Defender,
Unite our hearts as one!
One flag, one land, upon her
May every blessing rest I
For loyal faith and honour
Her children’s deeds attest
Aye one with her, &c.
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,
Her’s are the conquering hours,
No foeman’s yoke shall burden
“This Canada of ours.”
Aye one with her, &c.
Our sires, when times were sorest,
Asked none but aid Divine,
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,
The glorious Prairie-land.
Aye one with her, &c,
O Giver of earth’s treasure,
Make Thou our nation strong;
Pour forth Thine hot displeasure
On all who work our wrong!
To our remotest border
Let plenty still increase,
Let Liberty and Order,
Bid ancient feuds to cease.
Aye one with her, &c.
May Canada’s fair daughters
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;
Tis ours to keep their stations,
And lead the van to-day.
Aye one with her, &c.
Inheritors of glory,
O countrymen! we swear
To guard the flag whose story
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!
Aye one with her, &c.