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I Vow Thee My Country-C

The document is a poem titled 'I Vow To Thee, My Country' which expresses devotion and loyalty to one's homeland. The poem describes laying everything on the altar for one's country, a love that does not waver and makes the ultimate sacrifice. A second stanza tells of hearing one's country calling across the sea to join in battle. The final stanza speaks of another country that is most dear to those who love her and know her, which has faithful hearts as fortresses and suffering as pride.

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I Vow Thee My Country-C

The document is a poem titled 'I Vow To Thee, My Country' which expresses devotion and loyalty to one's homeland. The poem describes laying everything on the altar for one's country, a love that does not waver and makes the ultimate sacrifice. A second stanza tells of hearing one's country calling across the sea to join in battle. The final stanza speaks of another country that is most dear to those who love her and know her, which has faithful hearts as fortresses and suffering as pride.

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I Vow To Thee, My Country

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Gustav Holst
Maestoso
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I vow to thee, my coun - try, all earth -ly things a - bove, En - tire and whole and

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per - fect, the ser -vice of my love, The love that asks no ques - tion, the love that stands the

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test, That lays up -on the al - tar the dear -est and the best. The love that ne -ver fal - ters, the

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love that pays the price, The love that makes un - daun -ted the fi -nal sac - ri - fice.

2. I heard my country calling, away across the sea,


Across the waste of waters she calls and calls to me.
Her sword is girded at her side, her helmet on her head,
And round her feet are lying the dying and the dead.
I hear the noise of battle, the thunder of her guns,
I haste to thee my mother, a son among thy sons.

3. And there’s another country, I've heard of long ago,


Most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know;
We may not count her armies, we may not see her King;
Her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering;
And soul by soul and silently her shining bounds increase,
And her ways are ways of gentleness and all her paths are peace.

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