The rapt nation bids each neighbour nation

To partake the sacramental feast

And communion of the Federation:

And electrified

Masses, far and wide,

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Thrill to hope and start

Vibrating as with one common heart.

From the perfumed South of amorous France

With her wreath of orange bloom and myrtle,

From old wizard woods of lost Romance

Soft with wail of wind and voice of turtle,

From the roaring sea

Of grey Normandy,

And the rich champaigns

Where the vine gads o'er Burgundian plains;

From the banks of the blue arrowy Rhone,

And from many a Western promontory,

From volcanic crags of cloven stone

Crowned with castles ivy-green in story;

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