“Then poets will arise and high their lays will soar, + 

Worthy of the muse of a Burns or a Moore,” + 

A Shakespeare and a Milton, the great and the wise, + 

Will sing of the glories of our northern skies, + 

Of its lakes and rivers and its mountains grand, + 

Of its fertile plains and great prairie land, + 

A fit theme for song this empire gigantic, + 

Whose arms stretch from Pacific to Atlantic. + 