The Land We Love

Land of the gentle and brave!

Our love is as wide as thy woe;

It deepens beside every grave

Where the heart of a hero lies low.

Land of the sunniest skies!

Our love glows the more for thy gloom;

Our hearts, by the saddest of ties,

Cling closest to thee in thy doom.

Land where the desolate weep

In a sorrow no voice may console!

Our tears are but streams, making deep

The ocean of love in our soul.

Land where the victor's flag waves,

Where only the dead are free!

Each link of the chain that enslaves

But binds us to them and to thee.

Land where the Sign of the Cross

Its shadow hath everywhere shed!

We measure our love by thy loss,

Thy loss by the graves of our dead!