The Heart of Canada (Noyes, set by E. Elgar) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


  July 1912

Because her heart is all too proud
 -- Canada! Canada! fair young Canada --
To breathe the might of her love aloud,
Be quick, O Motherland!
Because her soul is wholly free
-- Canada kneels, thy daughter, Canada --
England, look in her eyes and see,
Honour and understand.

Because her pride at thy masthead shines,
 -- Canada! Canada! -- queenly Canada
Bows with all her breathing pines,
All her fragrant firs.
Because our isle is little and old
 -- Canada! Canada! -- young-eyed Canada
Gives thee, Mother, her hands to hold,
And makes thy glory hers.

Because thy Fleet is hers for aye,
 -- Canada! Canada! -- clear-souled Canada,
Ere the war-cloud roll this way,
Bids the world beware.
Her heart, her soul, her sword are thine
 -- Thine the guns, the guns of Canada! --
The ships are foaming into line,
And Canada will be there.

Authorship

Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Pageant of Empire

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