(_From King Albert's Book._)
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1. Men of Belgium! Honour's own!
Ye who saved the Holy Grail,
Ye who died for Freedom's Crown,
Hail, ye brave, for ever hail!
2. Wives of Belgium! who to Death
Paid the toll of Mother's wail,
Bound with widowed sorrow's wreath
The brows of Death, ye dear saints: hail!
3. Maids of Belgium! ye who gazed
At worse than sullen Death, and pale
In terror, yet with eyes undazed,
Smiled on at Hope--ye sweethearts--Hail!
Maids of Belgium! Sweethearts, Hail!
4. Land of Belgium! earth and sky
For evermore shall tell thy tale.
The morning comes! Thou shalt not die!
Hail! Thou Sad Immortal: Hail!
Hail! Thou Sad Immortal: Hail!
N.B.--If it is desired to sing this as a simple Hymn, the Melody of
the 3rd verse should be omitted and the words sung to the opening
eight bars, as in the 1st and 2nd verses]