When sun rays crown thy pine clad hills

These 2 verses praise the good qualities of Newfoundland; the fact that the singers' forefathers also noted her good qualities. And finally, calls for God's blessing and guardianship of Newfoundland.Mercer: Bennett 1972:3; Doyle 1955:5, 1966:9; English 1970: 48; Hutton, n.d.:3 (Newfoundland); Johnson, 1937: 221 (Newfoundland); Mills 1968:50; Murphy 1902:1, 1911: [3], 1917:4 (Newfoundland); Nolan 1974:3; Smallwood 1937:454 (NF); AG 1:1 (1945) 31; NF 7:1 (1958) 44; NQ 1:4 (1902)12 (Newfoundland); NQ 8:3 (1908) Special unpaged supplement (Newfoundland); NQ 60:3 (1961) 48