SUBSTITUTE FOE THE WORDS OF THE CANADIAN BOAT (Printable sister poems)

Posted by admin on August 22nd, 2007 filed in Poem


SUBSTITUTE FOE THE WORDS OF THE CANADIAN BOAT SONG.
I heard a voice at the matin chime, Like a trumpet it smote the dull ear of Time ; “Wake Christian wake, unseal thine eye, Far spent is the night, the dawn is nigh ; I see the bright and morning star Wax pale with its watching up, arm for war.
If men speak peace, believe them not,
For the foeman is nigh, and his breath is hot ;
Be Hope thy shield and Love like Death ;
Take the sword of the Spirit and helm of Faith ; Oh, who would fear the hottest fight With a leader like thine clad in arms of light ?”
That voice speaks now as erst it spake,
I hear it at morning, awake ! awake ! Awake ! awake ! Thy Leader is nigh, And He leadeth His soldiers to victory !
What boot the counsels proud men take
If Christ be thy Captain ? awake ! awake !

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