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In a Belgian Garden and Other Poems

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<h3> A Song of the Homeland </h3> I'll sing you a song of the Homeland, Though the strains be of little worth, A song of our own loved Homeland, Of the noblest land upon earth; Where the tide of the sea from oceans three Beats high in its triple might, Where the winds are born in a southern morn And die in a polar night. I'll sing you a song of the Eastland, Of the land where our fathers died, Where Saxon and Frank, their feuds long dead, Are sleeping side by side; Where their sons still toil on the hard-won soil Of the mighty river plain, Where the censer swings and the Angelus rings, And the old faith lives again. I'll sing you a song of the Westland Where the magic cities rise, And the prairies clothed with their golden grain Stretch under the azure skies; Where the mountains grim in the clouds grow dim Far north in the arctic land, And the northern light in its mystic flight Flares over the golden strand. And I'll sing of the men of the Homeland From the north and east and west, The men that go to the Homeland's call, (Ah, God we have given our best!) But not in vain are our heroes slain If under the darkened skies, All hand in hand from strand to strand A sin-purged nation rise. <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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