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fmigmrl's Sang.
HoKB of our hearts, our fa then' home!
Land of the brave and free!
The keel ia ftashing through the fOAm
That bean us far from thee.
We aaek a wild and distant shore,
Beyond the Atla.ntic m~n;
We leave thee to return ne more,
Nor Tiew thy olift'e agaia.
13nt may dishonour blight our f:\me,
And quench our honsehold tirea,
When we or o~ forget thy na.me,
Green island of OO.T aires I PRUHlL£ltbt ~o&t .of (D~.AlfD ther-e before her where abe stands,
The mountains rise, the lake exl?&ncla;
Aronnd the terraced 11nmmit twmes
The leafy coronal of vines ;
Withw the watery mirror deep
Nature's calm convene liea asleep,;
Above she sees the sky's blue glow,
The foreat'e·varied green below,
And fl\r ita vaulted vistas through
A distant grove of darker hue,
Where mounting high from clumpt of o~~ok
Curls lightly up the thin gee,-smoke ;,
And o'er the bougb.a that ovt>:r-bower
The orag, "' caatle'a turrets tower-
An eaetern casement mantled o'er
With ivy, tlashea back the gleam
Of sun-rise-it was there of yore
She aate to see that sun-riae po~r
Ita splendour round-fib& seee no moTe,
For teiU'S dispe111ed !ihe dream.
Thus seized and •peechleRa ba<l she stood,
Sun·eying m ountain, lake, and wood,
When to her ear came that demand :
"HAd e,he forgot her native land t "
'TW&B but a voice within replled
She had forgotten all beside.