 | Lyrics: By Martin F. Tupper |  |
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The Paris Gathering.
Once more in the tourney of Science and Art
Our chivalrous millions contend;
Ready and willing with head and with heart
To do what we can on Humanity's part
As neighbour, and brother, and friend.
Our chivalrous millions contend;
Ready and willing with head and with heart
To do what we can on Humanity's part
As neighbour, and brother, and friend.
For Commerce and Freedom and Truth to advance,
For growth of the good and the wise,—
In generous rivalry breaking a lance
We go to be guests of magnanimous France,
And tilt for Utility's prize.
For growth of the good and the wise,—
In generous rivalry breaking a lance
We go to be guests of magnanimous France,
And tilt for Utility's prize.
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In generous rivalry,—seeing we must,—
Our armies have gone to the war,
To trample Ambition's brute force to the dust,
And succour the weak in the cause that is just,
And break the proud strength of the Czar.
Our armies have gone to the war,
To trample Ambition's brute force to the dust,
And succour the weak in the cause that is just,
And break the proud strength of the Czar.
In generous rivalry now, side by side,
We conquer by land and by sea,
From Aland to Alma as brothers allied
We fight and we bleed,—we have triumph'd and died—
Together, to set the world free!
We conquer by land and by sea,
From Aland to Alma as brothers allied
We fight and we bleed,—we have triumph'd and died—
Together, to set the world free!
And in the like kindliness, here in the West
As there in the storm-driven East,
We bring for each other the first and the best,
And spread—that the world may be better'd and blest—
Our great international feast.
As there in the storm-driven East,
We bring for each other the first and the best,
And spread—that the world may be better'd and blest—
Our great international feast.
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Give glory to God for such hearty goodwill,
Uniting traditional foes,—
That both our ambitions are satisfied still
With conquests of science and triumphs of skill
And trophies unpurchased by woes.
Uniting traditional foes,—
That both our ambitions are satisfied still
With conquests of science and triumphs of skill
And trophies unpurchased by woes.
How happily better than days that are past
When trophies were bought by the sword,—
When victories rode on the hurricane blast,
And enmities threaten'd for ever to last,
And neighbour his neighbour abhorr'd!
When trophies were bought by the sword,—
When victories rode on the hurricane blast,
And enmities threaten'd for ever to last,
And neighbour his neighbour abhorr'd!
Yes! well to be cherish'd, O brothers and friends,
Is such an alliance as this,—
Where each in forgiveness sincerely extends
The right hand of fellowship, making amends,
And pays for a blow with a kiss.
Is such an alliance as this,—
Where each in forgiveness sincerely extends
The right hand of fellowship, making amends,
And pays for a blow with a kiss.
| Lyrics: By Martin F. Tupper | |