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The Lily Land of France
With pensive memories
We part the Ocean foam,
To find ‘neath summer skies
A country and a home.
O lily land of France,
Farewell! Farewell, Paris! (Pa-ree)
Farewell to Life’s romance!
Welcome the sounding sea!
Soon, soon, our fading forms
Recede into the sea,
Which, dark with all its storms,
Will veil our hearts from thee.
O lily land of France,
Farewell! Farewell, Paris!
Farewell to Life’s romance!
Welcome the sounding sea!
In vain, in farther climes,
Athwart the sweeping sea,
We seek, in other times,
The heaven we’ve lost in thee.
O lily land of France,
Farewell! Farewell, Paris!
Farewell to Life’s romance!
Welcome the sounding sea!
—A. H. Laidlaw
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