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A YEAR'S CAROLS.
Not the waters that gird her are purer, nor mightier the winds that
her waters know.
But America, daughter and sister of England, is praised of them,
far as they flow:
Atlantic responds to Pacific the praise of her days that have been
and shall be.
So from England westward let the watchword fly,
So for England eastward let the seas reply;
Praise, honour, and love everlasting be sent on the wind's
wings, westward and east,
That the pride of the past and the pride of the future
may mingle as friends at feast,
And the sons of the lords of the world-wide seas be one
till the world's life die.
