MHB 899 – LAND of our Birth, we pledge to thee

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1:  LAND of our Birth, we pledge to thee
Our love and toil in the years to be;
when we are grown, and take our
As men and women With our race.

2:  Father in heaven, Who lovest all,
O help Thy children When they call;
That they may build from age to age,
An undefiled heritage.

3:  Teach us to bear the yoke in youth,
With steadfastness and careful truth;
That, in our time, Thy grace may give
The truth whereby the nations live.

4:  Teach us to rule ourselves alway,
Controlled and cleanly night and day;
That we may bring, if need arise,
No  maimed or worthless sacrifice.

5:  Teach us to look, in all our ends,
On Thee for Judge, and not our friends;
That we, with Thee, may walk uncowed
By fear or favour of the crowd.

6:  Teach us the strength that cannot seek,
By deed or thought, to hurt the weak;
That, under Thee, we may possess
Man’s strength to succour man’s distress.

7:  Teach us delight in simple things,
And mirth that has no bitter springs;
Forgiveness free of evil done,
And love to all men ’neath the sun

8:  Land of our Birth, our faith, our Pride,
For Whose dear sake our fathers died;
O Motherland, we pledge to thee,
Head , heart, and hand through the years to be.