And full homely is the saying but this story always starts...

And full homely is the saying but this story always starts

An answer from ten thousand times ten thousand kindred hearts.

Then let us pray that as the sun shines ever on the sea

Fair Peace forevermore may smile upon the Splendid Three!

May happy France see purple grapes a-glow on all her hills,

And England breast-deep in her corn laugh back the laugh of rills!

May this fair land to which all roads lead as the roads of Rome

Led to th’ eternal city's gates still offer Man a home —

A home of peace and plenty, and of freedom and of ease,

With all before him where to choose between the shining seas!

May the war-cries of the Captains yield to happy reapers shouts,

And the clover whiten bastions and the olive shade redoubts!