Discours de Sir Georges Cartier
Comme le dit un vieil adage:
Rien n'est si beau que son pays;
Et de le chanter c'est l'usage
Le mien je chante à mes amis.
L'étranger voit d'un oeil d'envie
Du Saint-Laurent le majestueux cours;
A son aspect le canadien s'écrie:
O Canada! mon pays! mes amours.
-G.E. Cartier (1835)
(AKA one of the fathers of Confederation)
(It's much more dramatic without being translated poorly by myself (for one, it actually rhymes in French), but here's the gist of it:)
So goes the old adage:
Nothing is as beautiful as one’s country
And it is commonly sung
As I sing it to my friends.
The stranger looks on with an envious eye
At the Saint Laurence’s majestic current;
Looking at it the Canadian writes:
Oh Canada! My country! My loves.
Rien n'est si beau que son pays;
Et de le chanter c'est l'usage
Le mien je chante à mes amis.
L'étranger voit d'un oeil d'envie
Du Saint-Laurent le majestueux cours;
A son aspect le canadien s'écrie:
O Canada! mon pays! mes amours.
-G.E. Cartier (1835)
(AKA one of the fathers of Confederation)
(It's much more dramatic without being translated poorly by myself (for one, it actually rhymes in French), but here's the gist of it:)
So goes the old adage:
Nothing is as beautiful as one’s country
And it is commonly sung
As I sing it to my friends.
The stranger looks on with an envious eye
At the Saint Laurence’s majestic current;
Looking at it the Canadian writes:
Oh Canada! My country! My loves.