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A
Hymn of Empire and Other Poems
by
Frederick George Scott
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ON
THE RETURN OF OUR TROOPS
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THE
seal set on our nationhood are these
Strong men, returning victors
from the war;
Up to the battle’s
very front they bore
Our country’s honour, till with every breeze
Fame sang their valour round the seven seas.
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For
us they braved death in the cannon’s roar,
For us their comrades died,
and nevermore
Will see the loved homes ’neath our maple
trees.
Throw wide thy gates, O Canada, throw wide
The portals of thy gratitude;
these men
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Have
roused the God in us. Now cast aside
All
littleness of aim. With courage high
And loftier purpose, to thy tasks again,
And
carve thine own illustrious destiny.
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