Response like Frontenac’s may yet be given
If foeman’s foot our sacred soil shall tread.
We seek not history’s bloody page to turn,
For us no boastful words aggressive burn,
Forgotten, few, but undismayed we stand,
The guardians of this young Canadian land.
Oh, blessed peace! thy gentle pinions spread,
Until all our battle flags be furl’d,
In the poet’s federation of the world.
For us will dawn no new centennial day ——