Imagine setting Holland’s people free

from oppression, slavish life, hunger, fear!

Restoring everything that they held dear:

sixty years ago today - liberty!

Cruel the rule! Hated German overlord!

Under threat of death by execution

the people lay in darkness without sun;

inner hope their one defence, their only sword.

Until Canadians sealed the German fate

on dykes, in flooded fields, city and town

defeated the invaders, beat them down!

The Dutch will never fail to celebrate!

The torch of freedom Canada held high

and God rewarded us with victory.