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TO OUR UKRAINIAN PIONEERS
To you who brought our culture to these shores;
Who first transplanted seeds from Ukraine's soil;
To you who toiled and suffered and prevailed
That we may live in honour with our name.
No life of ease and luxury was yours.
Austerities and dire necessities;
Hard work and loneliness your daily guests.
And pain and grief your constant company.
From poverty and humble origin,
You gloriously rose and bravely strove -
With cruel fate and fiercest elements,
To carve anew our "Manifest Destiny".
Today we humbly give our thanks to God
That all your efforts have not been in vain;
That we enjoy the labour of your hands
And reap the golden harvest you have sown.
With love and deep devotion in our hearts -
Imbued with memories of long ago
We gladly pay our homage to the past
And hail a greater future yet to come.
A new horizon opens to our eyes -
Majestic vista, spread from shore to shore:
Our new-found home in a new promised land,
With freedom bordered and fair justice bound.
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