There Canada that sleeps in snow
Has left red drops of patriot blood,
And far Australia sent her gift of faith
Across three oceans' rolling flood.
Has left red drops of patriot blood,
And far Australia sent her gift of faith
Across three oceans' rolling flood.
And there we went; our far-flung flags
Gleaned all the winds for songs of love,
Our shield, undented and unstained,
We hold your bleeding breast above.
Gleaned all the winds for songs of love,
Our shield, undented and unstained,
We hold your bleeding breast above.
For with its throbbing pledge of peace,
With all its radiant hope unfurled,
You hold it like a captured bird—
Heart o' the world, O France,
Heart o' the world!
With all its radiant hope unfurled,
You hold it like a captured bird—
Heart o' the world, O France,
Heart o' the world!
GOING TO FRANCE
I HOLD his hand and look into his eyes—
My son grown to a man;
The gulf of time back to his babyhood
My swift thoughts span.
My son grown to a man;
The gulf of time back to his babyhood
My swift thoughts span.
I reared him to his splendid youth,
Playing my game with Chance,
And now—dear Lord, hold close my faith!
He goes away to France.
Playing my game with Chance,
And now—dear Lord, hold close my faith!
He goes away to France.
I know that France is fair and wide,
A land of wonder dreams,
But just an altar white and cold
Unto my soul it seems—
A land of wonder dreams,
But just an altar white and cold
Unto my soul it seems—
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