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A
Hymn of Empire and Other Poems
by
Frederick George Scott
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CANADA
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MOTHER
and Queen, from the golden West
We offer in love at the
foot of thy throne
All we can give thee, our dearest and best,
Flesh of our flesh and bone
of our bone.
Take them, Queen of the brave and free;
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come in their love to die for thee.
Mother and Queen, from farm and mart,
From bank and factory,
hill and plain,
They gather in love for a noble heart,
To lighten its sorrow
and share its pain.
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Take
them, Queen of the brave and free;
They come in their love to die for thee.
Mother and Queen, our homes were bright
And pure as the air of
the sunlit north;
But tears have darkened the women’s sight
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Since
the day that the brothers and sons went forth.
Take them, Queen of the brave and free;
They come in their love and die for thee.
Mother and Queen of the spotless throne,
Lady and Lord of the sea
and land,
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Thou
makest our far-born sons thine own
By the tender clasp of a
woman’s hand.
Take them, Queen of the brave and free;
They come in their love to die for thee.
Mother and Queen, from the strong, glad West,
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From
the rivers and plains where our children roam,
We give thee our dearest, our bravest, our best;
Take them, Queen of our
heart and home.
Asking no bounty, favour or fee,
They come in their love to die for thee.
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Quebec, March 1, 1900. |
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