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First Line: Halifax sits on her hills by the sea
Last Line: And her thunder but sleeps.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Halifax, Canada; Weapons; Ammunition


HALIFAX sits on her hills by the sea
In the might of her pride,—
Invincible, terrible, beautiful, she
With a sword at her side.

To right and to left of her, battlements rear
And fortresses frown;
While she sits on her throne without favour or fear
With her cannon as crown.

Coast guard and sentinel, watch of the weal
Of a nation she keeps;
But her hand is encased in a gauntlet of steel,
And her thunder but sleeps.





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