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PART I

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THE CHILDREN’S SONG

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Land of our Birth, we pledge to thee

Our love and toil in the years to be;

When we are grown and take our place,

As men and women with our race.

Father in Heaven, who lovest all,

Oh help Thy children when they call;

That they may build from age to age

An undefilèd heritage.

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.

Teach us to rule ourselves alway,

Controlled and cleanly night and day;

That we may bring, if need arise,

No maimed or worthless sacrifice.

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 favor of the crowd.

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 comfort man’s distress.

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!

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.

—Rudyard Kipling.

By permission of the Author.