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A land o'er flowing with milk and honey / Where the industrious may gather money, / Here men do not rank for wealth they inherit, / The stamp of nobility is one of merit.
Though we cannot boast of antiquities old / We truly can boast of mines of pure gold, / And the discoveries at Fraser River / Hudson Bay monopoly to pieces will shiver.
For Britain at present little would move her / To present to Canada Hudson Bay and Vancouver, / Then she would be a yoang giant empire / As great as a Briton could well desire.
Then with the whole of British America / United by railroad as well as by law, / Proudly we might with banners unfurled / Proclaim her the great highway of the world.