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THIS CANADA OF OURS.
A NATIONAL SONG.
Let other tongues in older lands
Loud vaunt their claims to glory,
And chaunt in triumph of the past,
Content to live in story.
Tho' boasting no baronial halls,
Nor ivy-crested towers,
What past can match thy glorious youth,
Fair Canada of ours?
Fair Canada,
Dear Canada,
This Canada of ours!
We love those far-off ocean Isles,
Where Britain's monarch reigns;
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