Chapter I

Ring out, gay notes! through the brightening blue;
Peal forth o'er the shimmering wave;
Re-echo in souls of the brave;
Bestir the hearts of the loyal and true.

Waft the sweet strains from the dear Mother-land
To the dwellers by far off sea;
Loud anthem the glad Jubilee
From white-robed North unto burnished strand.

Anthem the years of the peaceful decades
When learning asserted its sway,
And poortith revived in its ray;
When science and art illumined our glades.

Broken that power which the conscience would bind,
Base umpire 'twixt God and the soul;
No tyrant free speech doth control;
Loosed are the fetters which burdened the mind.

Rides Progress aloft on triumphal car,
Out-coursing the wings of the wind;
To the gorgeous fanes of Ind
Rich blossoms his path, from the Polar star.

Philanthrophy opeth her gentle hand;
Devotion Heaven's dictate obeys;
Dawns clearly Hope's halcyon days;--
Golden their gleam, as Aurora's bright wand.

Live Commerce, careering the white crested wave,
Quells baneful suspicion and fear;
From high unto lowliest sphere
Blendeth in union--our Empire to save.