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In
Divers Tones
by
Charles G.D. Roberts
Edited
by Tracy Ware
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COLLECT
FOR DOMINION DAY
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Father
of nations! Help of the feeble hand!
Strength of the strong! to whom
the nations kneel!
Stay and destroyer, at whose just
command
Earth’s kingdoms tremble
and her empires reel!
Who dost the low uplift, the small make great,
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And
dost abase the ignorantly proud,
Of our scant people mould a mighty
state,
To the strong, stern,—to
Thee in meekness bowed!
Father of unity, make this people one!
Weld, interfuse them in the patriot’s
flame,—
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Whose
forging on thine anvil was begun
In blood late shed to purge the common shame;
That so our hearts, the fever
of faction done,
Banish old feud in our young nation’s
name.
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