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CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS The Pioneers

Our fathers toiled, but in a glorious fight,
 * The God of nations led them by the hand;

With pillared smoke by day and fire by night
 * They wrought like heroes in their promised land;

The wilderness was conquered by their might,
 * They made for God the marvel He had planned—

A land of homes where toil could make men free, The final masterpiece of Destiny.

Peter M Arthur. 79