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The future was dark and the past was dead / As they gazed on the sea once more -- / But a nation was born when the immigrants said / ‘Good-bye! ' as they stepped ashore! / In their loneliness they were parted thus / Because of the work to do, / A wild wide land to be won for us / By hearts and hands so few.
The darkest land 'neath a blue sky's dome, / And the widest waste on earth; / The strangest scenes and the least like home / In the lands of our fathers' birth; / The loneliest land in the wide world then, / And away on the furthest seas, / A land most barren of life for men -- / And they won it by twos and threes!