A NATIONAL SONG.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1921, Page 6

A NATIONAL SONG.

New Zealand has no recognised national song. An effort to remove this reproach has been made by the Rev. A. B. Chappell as follows: DEAR LAND WE LOVE. (Tune: “Land of Hope and Glory.” —Elgar.) Dear land we love, our land renown’d, God well has dower’d thee; In beauty art thou matchless, crown’d, Queen of the Southern Sea. Thy fretted coasts are gemmn’d with spray, Thy hills adorn the sky; Thy forests, gay with cascades play, All lift thy fair feme high. Laud we fair New Zealand, Country of the free; Lovely Southern sea land, Destined great to be. We, thy sons, in duty, Pay thee thus the due; God, who gave thee beauty, Give thee honor, too! God, who gave thee beauty, Give honor, too! Thy fame is ancient as the day ” When ocean formed thy shore, And grew as warriors found a way To cross that ocean o’er; That a land of beauty rare A race of braves might live, And to a land already fair A human glory give. Land of olden story, Compass’d by the sea, Aye will we adore thee, Destined great to be, May here love and duty Evermore endure, God, who gave thee beauty, Make thine honor sure, God, who gave thee beauty, Make thine honor sure.