1.

Awake, O happy nation! From town to village-green, With songs of gratulation

Salute our honoured Queen.
For fifty years, unaltering.
She well has filled the throne:
Our reverence still unfaltering,
And all our hearts her own.

O Lord of all creation!
Our prayer with favour hear,
And grant her preservation
For many a coming year.

2.

Our ships on every ocean
With gala-flags are hung,
Beneath them, in emotion,
What loyal lays are sung!
Then Cheers, like rolling thunder,
From deck to deck are hurled,
That shake the skies with wonder
And stir the watery world.

O Lord of all creation!
Our prayer with favour hear,
And grant her preservation
For many a coming year.

3.

From lands of torrid glory,
To north and southern seas,
The self-same joyous story
Is borne on every breeze;
Till all the clanging steeples
Of Christendom rejoice,
And all the banded peoples
Acclaim with one glad voice.

O Lord of all creation!
Our prayer with favour hear,
And grant her preservation
For many a coming year.

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