A National Hymn. - Government House, March 1880. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDACAC AEAEAFAGH IJIJECECH GEGEKGKGH ALALAMAMH CGCGKNKNH HAHAKFKFH| From our Dominion never | A |
| Take Thy protecting hand | B |
| United Lord for ever | A |
| Keep Thou our fathers' land | B |
| From where Atlantic terrors | C |
| Our hardy seamen train | D |
| To where the salt sea mirrors | C |
| The vast Pacific chain | D |
| Aye one with her whose thunder | A |
| Keeps world watch with the hours | C |
| Guard Freedom's home and wonder | A |
| This Canada of ours | C |
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| Fair days of fortune send her | A |
| Be Thou her Shield and Sun | E |
| Our land our flag's Defender | A |
| Unite our hearts as one | E |
| One flag one land upon her | A |
| May every blessing rest I | F |
| For loyal faith and honour | A |
| Her children's deeds attest | G |
| Aye one with her c | H |
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| No stranger's foot insulting | I |
| Shall tread our country's soil | J |
| While stand her sons exulting | I |
| For her to live and toil | J |
| She hath the victor's guerdon | E |
| Her's are the conquering hours | C |
| No foeman's yoke shall burden | E |
| This Canada of ours | C |
| Aye one with her c | H |
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| Our sires when times were sorest | G |
| Asked none but aid Divine | E |
| And cleared the tangled forest | G |
| And wrought the buried mine | E |
| They tracked the floods and fountains | K |
| And won with master hand | G |
| Far more than gold in mountains | K |
| The glorious Prairie land | G |
| Aye one with her c | H |
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| O Giver of earth's treasure | A |
| Make Thou our nation strong | L |
| Pour forth Thine hot displeasure | A |
| On all who work our wrong | L |
| To our remotest border | A |
| Let plenty still increase | M |
| Let Liberty and Order | A |
| Bid ancient feuds to cease | M |
| Aye one with her c | H |
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| May Canada's fair daughters | C |
| Keep house for hearts as bold | G |
| As theirs who o'er the waters | C |
| Came hither first of old | G |
| The pioneers of nations | K |
| They showed the world the way | N |
| Tis ours to keep their stations | K |
| And lead the van to day | N |
| Aye one with her c | H |
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| Inheritors of glory | H |
| O countrymen we swear | A |
| To guard the flag whose story | H |
| Shall onward victory bear | A |
| Where'er through earth's far regions | K |
| Its triple crosses fly | F |
| For God for home our legions | K |
| Shall win or fighting die | F |
| Aye one with her c | H |
John Campbell
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