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CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS Kitchener.

Weep, waves of England! Nobler clay
 * Was ne'er to nobler grave consigned;

The wild waves weep with us to-day
 * Who mourn a nation's master-mind.

We hoped an honoured age for him,
 * And ashes laid with England's great;

And rapturous music, and the divine
 * Deep hush that veils our Tomb of State.

But this is better Set him sleep
 * Where sleep the men who made us free,

For England's heart is in the deep,
 * And England's glory is the sea.

Leap, waves of England! Boastful be,
 * And fling defiance in the blast;

For Earth is envious of the Sea
 * Which shelters England's dead at last.

Robert J.C. Stead COPYRIGHT, THE MUSSON BOOK CO., LIMITED 139