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• The Wearing of the Green

  O PADDY 1 dear, an’ did you hear the news that ’s goin’ round?
  The shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground;
  St. Patrick’s Day no more we ’ll keep; his colors can’t be seen: …

  Anonymous

• My Native Land

  It chanced to me upon a time to sail
  Across the Southern ocean to and fro;
  And, landing at fair isles, by stream and vale …

  John Boyle O'Reilly

• “Bless the dear old verdant land”

  Bless the dear old verdant land!
  Brother, wert thou born of it?
  As thy shadow life doth stand …

  Denis Florence Mac Carthy

• Exile of Erin

  There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin,
  The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill;
  For his country he sighed, when at twilight repairing …

  Thomas Campbell

• Canada Not Last

  At Venice
  lo Venice, gay with color, lights and song,
  Calls from St. Mark’s with ancient voice and strange: …

  William Douw Schuyler-Lighthall

• Canada

  O Child of Nations, giant-limbed,
  Who stand’st among the nations now,
  Unheeded, unadored, unhymned, …

  Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

• “What is the German’s Fatherland?”

  Anonymous translation from the German
  WHAT is the German’s fatherland?
  Is it Prussia, or the Swabian’s land? …

  Ernst Moritz Arndt

• Patriotic Song

  Anonymous translation from the German
  GOD, who gave iron, purposed ne’er
  That man should be a slave: …

  Ernst Moritz Arndt

• Men and Boys

  From the German by Charles Timothy Brooks
  THE STORM is out; the land is roused;
  Where is the coward who sits well housed? …

  Theodor Körner

• The Watch on the Rhine

  Anonymous translation from the German
  A VOICE 1 resounds like thunder-peal,
  ’Mid dashing waves and clang of steel:— …

  Max Schneckenburger

• Proem to the Kalevala

  From the Finnish by John Martin Crawford
  From “The Kalevala” (Land of heroes), the National Epic of Finland
  MASTERED 1 by desire impulsive, …

  Anonymous

• Parting Lovers

  Sienna
  I Love thee, love thee, Giulio!
  Some call me cold, and some demure, …

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Columbia

  Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise,
  The queen of the world, and the child of the skies!
  Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold, …

  Timothy Dwight

• On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America

  The Muse, disgusted at an age and clime
  Barren of every glorious theme,
  In distant lands now waits a better time, …

  George Berkeley

• England to America

  NOR force nor fraud shall sunder us! O ye
  Who north or south, or east or western land,
  Native to noble sounds, say truth for truth, …

  Sydney Dobell

• Our State

  The South-land boasts its teeming cane,
  The prairied west its heavy grain,
  And sunset’s radiant gates unfold …

  John Greenleaf Whittier

• The Republic

  From “The Building of the Ship”
  THOU, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
  Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! …

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Men of the North and West

  [April, 1861]
  men of the North and West,
  Wake in your might. …

  Richard Henry Stoddard

• Our Country’s Call

  lay down the axe, fling by the spade;
  Leave in its track the toiling plough;
  The rifle and the bayonet-blade …

  William Cullen Bryant

• A Cry to Arms

  ho, woodsmen of the mountain-side!
  Ho, dwellers in the vales!
  Ho, ye who by the chafing tide …

  Henry Timrod

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