Our Nation's Birthday. July 1st, 1867 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDAD AEDEEFGF HDEDAEIE AJEJKECE EDDDDLML| Ring out your glad peals of rejoicing | A |
| Wake Music's enlivening strain | B |
| Let the sound float abroad o'er your waters | C |
| And echo through valley and plain | B |
| From the shores of the far distant Fundy | D |
| To the lakes of the limitless West | D |
| Let the sound of a People's exulting | A |
| Go forth in its joyous unrest | D |
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| For a great Christian Nation this morning | A |
| From fragments disjointed made one | E |
| With the laws and the speech of old England | D |
| Looks up to the new risen sun | E |
| And scarce conscious as yet of her mission | E |
| Of the wealth of her young earnest life | F |
| Starts out in the march of the nations | G |
| To a future with perils how rife | F |
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| Yet who shall not hope for that future | H |
| God's wide open Book in her hand | D |
| With her sturdy and truth loving yeomen | E |
| Her broad spreading acres of land | D |
| And who does not welcome the rising | A |
| Of a new star of promise this morn | E |
| Whose beams shall illumine the darkness | I |
| Of millions that yet are unborn | E |
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| Then hail we in songs of rejoicing | A |
| Our father land over the sea | J |
| Britannia pride of the ocean | E |
| The home of the gallant and free | J |
| Hail Queen of dominions that girdle | K |
| The world like an emerald zone | E |
| VICTORIA Head of three Empires | C |
| Meek Sovereign of Earth's proudest throne | E |
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| And hail to our new born Dominion | E |
| Hail Canada happy and blest | D |
| May thy flag ever wave o'er the freest | D |
| Most glorious clime of the West | D |
| Be freedom thy watchword and Onward | D |
| Thy motto still cherished and true | L |
| And ever abroad on the breezes | M |
| Float thy time honored RED WHITE AND BLUE | L |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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