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Three songs this week in honour of Veteran’s Day (US), Remembrance Day (Canada), and Armistice Day (UK):
- En los Estados Unidos (US)
- A song of Canada (Canada)
- O figlio dinghilterra (UK)
A Song of Canada
A land with glorious sunshine’s light,
where freedom reigns from east to the west,
a land over the world’s edge,
in Canada my home.
There grows the world’s same golden wheat,
there lie the prairie’s same chest wheat,
there mountains, lakes, and forests meet,
in Canada my home.
Still, anew, sunward, today,
all nations we shall proclaim,
a land of wealth and liberty,
whose palms are filled with joy.
Rule, rule with power and might,
the whole hope of the bright,
may peace, the love, and earth unite,
in Canada my home.
Rule, rule with power and might,
the whole hope of the bright,
may peace, the love, and earth unite,
in Canada my home.
May peace, the love, and earth unite,
in Canada my home.
May peace, the love, and earth unite,
in Canada my home.
Still, anew, sunward, today,
all nations we shall proclaim,
May peace, the love, and earth unite,
in Canada my home.
Still, anew, lily and leaf,
still, anew, lily and leaf,
still, anew, lily and leaf,
still, anew, lily and leaf,
turn around the wacky hills in Canada my find.
Still, anew, sunward,
today, all nations we shall proclaim,
May peace, the love, and earth unite,
in Canada my home.
O figlio dinghilterra
O son of England,
beloved of this land,
rule in happiness,
for health and glory smile upon you.
The proudest laurel,
more precious than treasure,
shall be entwined upon your brow
by gratitude and faith.
Can I nurse suspicion
within my breast,
when a thousand hearts exult
in dying for me?
Evil fortune forever hovers
even over the greatest triumph,
in which a hypercritical Fate
conceals an evil end.