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The following is the new version of the National Anthem: God save Victoria! Long live Victoria! God save the Queen! May she triumphantly Reign o'er nation free, Their boundless joy to be - God save the Queen! O Lord, our God, arise, Scatter her…

Farewell - we go! we go! "Brethren, tell us whiter? " Murmuring long and low, In her heathen woe, Asia calls us thither! Sad Afric loads the gale With her prayerful weeping; For the mission sail, Till the stars prevail, Still her lone watch…

Roll on thou joyful day, When tyranny's proud sway Stern as the grave, Shall to the grave be hurled, And freedom's flag unfurled,Shall wave throughout the world, O'er every slave. Trump of glad jubilee; Echo o'er land and sea, Freedom for…

The fair smile of morning, The glory of noon, The bright stars, adorning The path of the moon; The mist covered mountain, The valley and plain, The lake and the fountain, The river and main - Their magic combining, Illume and control, The…

While yet the evening bell with dulcet tongueIn solemn peals upon the breeze is flung,Which sound like holy guardians of the airThat breathes around the house of praise and prayer;Affrightening by their overwhelming strainFar from the hallowed dome…

When Adam, with his blooming rib,By the behest of Heaven,From Paradise, his native home,All sorrowing was driven -The curse primeval, though so hard,A blessing was, I trow,That she should nurse her little babes,While he should guide the PLOUGH!So our…

When liberty first sought a home on the earth, No altar the goddess could find Till art's greatest triumph to printing gave birth, And temper she reared in the mind, The phantoms of ignorance shrunk from the sight, And tyranny's visage grew…

JESUS, I my cross have taken, All to leave and follow thee; Naked, poor, despis'd, forsaken, Thou, from hence, my all shalt be. Perish every fond ambition, All I've hoped, or sought, or known - Yet how rich is my condition, God and heaven are…

'Gentlest of spirits! - not for thee Our tears are shed, our sighs are given: Why mourn to know thou art a free Partaker of the joys of heaven? Finished thy work, and kept thy faith In Christian firmness unto death: And beautiful as sky and…

"Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For lo! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land." - Text of an eloquent…