God of the rivers and lakes,Maker of manifold blooms,Dweller in woodland brakes,Weaver of violet glooms,
Sower of immortelles,Pearly, and grey, and white,Painter of roseate dells,Heart of the heron in flight,
Lord of the torrents that forgeTheir foam-cleft path to the wave,Soul of the deep green gorgeWhose bosom the waters lave,
Builder of bastion tall,Hewn from the rose-red rock,Carver of mystical scrawlCut in the jaspered block,
Keeper of homes that liftBrown thatch to a bright blue sky,Lover of snows that siftTheir glittering powder dry
O'er clearing and farm and field--Guardian of garnered grain,Hope of the Empire, and shield,Heir of the prodigal plain.
