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We rose, a people of the sea, / Nursed by the wind, and rocked by wave. / Our hard, rock-founded history, / Was born from stories of our brave. / And northern ice-blasts steeled our frames / When war was but the best of games.
We saw a Roman Empire fall, / And fell; but falling, learned to rise. / We heard the voice of Progress call, / And in our folly we were wise: / When Briton, Saxon, Norman, Dane, / Bequeathed their progeny the main.