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Thread #47761   Message #720564
Posted By: CarolC
31-May-02 - 12:00 AM
Thread Name: stories & songs about flags
Subject: Lyr Add: ODE TO NEWFOUNDLAND (Sir Cavendish Boyle)
Ah, what the hell. I'm posting the words because this is such a great song.

"When sun rays crown thy pine clad hills, and summer spreads her hand, when silvern voices tune thy rills, we love thee smiling land." What could be more beautiful than that?

ODE TO NEWFOUNDLAND

When sun rays crown thy pine clad hills,
And summer spreads her hand,
When silvern voices tune thy rills,
We love thee smiling land,
We love thee, we love thee
We love thee smiling land.

When spreads thy cloak of shimm'ring white,
At winter's stern command,
Thro' shortened day and starlit night,
We love thee frozen land,
We love thee, we love thee,
We love thee frozen land.

When blinding storm gusts fret thy shore,
And wild waves lash thy strand,
Thro' sprindrift swirl and tempest roar,
We love thee windswept land,
We love thee, we love thee,
We love thee windswept land.

As loved our fathers, so we love,
Where once they stood we stand,
Their prayer we raise to heav'n above,
God guard thee, Newfoundland,
God guard thee, God guard thee,
God guard thee, Newfoundland.

--The National Anthem of Newfoundland, written by Sir Cavendish Boyle while he was Britain's Governor of Newfoundland between 1901 and 1904