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nll Eu thousand miles of horder [ine,
T iOne Iundrred years of pel.ce,
In all the page of history
What parallel to this?
In limnes when warring natio.n. thoughts
Are crazed with hate' hot wilie.
Ilow God must loolk with pleasure down
I pon thai border line.
THE BORDER LINE
From Maine it runs through lake and streanm
To Manitoba's plain,
FrotmnX Win.,nipeg to Kootenay,
And on and on again;
Thrm ngh farmn and ranch and forest range,
()C'er iountain crag and steep,
To far Vancouver's garden home
By broad Paclific's sweep.
Three thousand miles if border line,
Two nations side by side,
Each strong in collll on ancestry,
And Anglo-Saxon pride;
Yet each the haven and ilhe home
Of all of foreign birth.
And each their final fusion point,
The mlciting pot of earth.
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Tihroe tholl.and iles of border line,
N or fort n1or a r...e.t host
(i)n all that Ifrontie] neighhbnr ground,
Prom c ast to western coast;
\ spectacle to conjure with,
\ thouglht to stir the bloo.d,
. liing prod. to all the world
()f faitii in brotherhood.
Threeoe thousand mi iles of border line,
Nor has a century
Seen aught alrg thlt con...in course
But peace and harmon.y.
0 nitions hound l in brotherhohod,
0 faith inll fellow man;
What better way on earth to dwell
Tfian this (God-given plan ?
Three thousand imiles of border line,
One hundred yeasr of peace.
In all tlle page of bistory
What parallel to this?
God speed that sud3uly dawning day,
That coming hour divinc,
When all the nations of the earth
Shall boast suhe, border line.
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