Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart!

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!

There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

'Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can, That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman."