Freedom, God, and Right!

BRITAIN:

Canada, youngest of my daughters, ye send each gallant son forth, a maiden-knight, to earn his spurs. What is thy message?

CANADA (advancing and saluting):

“I give my soldier boy a blade,

In fair Damascus fashioned well;

Who first the glittering falchion swayed,

Who first beneath its fury fell,

I know not; but I hope to know,

That for no mean or hireling trade,