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First Line: O mother-country! Of a continent
Last Line: And farthest ages celebrate thy glory!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): England; Patriotism; English


O MOTHER-COUNTRY! Of a continent
The fairest lands and climes we proudly hold;
And flocks, and herds, and corn, and wine, and gold,
And stately cities, of earth's rarest blent,
Are richly ours; and we are well content
With our bright world, our banner's starry fold,
And would not be by other name enrolled —
Yet how we love thee through our one descent,
Our common tongue, our old, immortal story!
Imperial England, throned amid the seas,
Under all suns thy daring bugles blow;
The east winds and the west waft thy decrees; —
Forever light, law, liberty, bestow,
And farthest ages celebrate thy glory!





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