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.