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Come let us join the tuneful throng / And sing a new Canadian song, / As this great lands of woods and lakes / Sweet melody in us awakes, / For of all land this is the chief / This glorious land of maple leaf.
It is land of streams and rivers / And the land of toiling beavers, / More noble emblems we rely on / Than preying eagle, bear or lion, / True, worthy honours are not brief, / But flourish shall the maple leaf.
For the grand maple wood is strong / And labour ranks high in our song / So let us glory in our soil / Where nature doth reward for toil, / And ever banish all our grief / Rejoicing in our maple leaf.
With gloom we should not be o'ercast / For we have a young empire vast, / Awaiting only for the plough / When all with wealth it will endow, / Then of all lands 'twill be the chief / This glorious land of maple leaf.