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other tongues in older lands
 * Loud vaunt their claims to glory,

And chaunt in triumph of the past,
 * Content to live in story.

Tho' boasting no baronial halls,
 * Nor ivy-crested towers,

What past can match thy glorious youth,
 * Fair Canada of ours?
 * Fair Canada,
 * Dear Canada,
 * This Canada of ours!

We love those far-off ocean Isles,
 * Where Britain's monarch reigns;

Rh