There may be more enchanting climes Within a southern zone; There may be eastern Edens deckt With charms to thee unknown; But thou art fairest unto me, Because thou art mine own, Canada, my land....
Although I'm not unduly proud, Inordinately vain, But humble, as will be allowed, And modest in the main; I must confess to pride of birth, And all detractors warn To let alone one land on earth:...
Could I but strike - a sweeter note Than all from virgin choirs that float, Or harps with cords of gold; A note more soft and more sublime Than she, the sweetest of the Nine, Euterpe's strains unfold!...
And hath he not whereof he needs must sing? And hath he not whereof he well may boast? - He from whose kin so many a one did spring To shape the mighty rocks that guard the coast...
What news to all alike brings startling sorrow? And he is dead, the vigorous chieftain dead? Nor e'en for him would death still brook to-morrow? No more shall followers vaunt and foemen dread;...
Where the purple-vestured mountains Bear their summits crowned with snow, Haughty lords of all the riches In the rocks and streams below; Tow'ring to the azure heavens, Frowning on the sapphire sea:...
Rejoice, O Canada, rejoice, On this thy natal day; In East and West lift up thy voice, And to thy children say: "Behold me now to stature sprung; Acclaim my second birth; A Nation now I stand among...
E'en the fair orb on which I gaze Suggests thy radiance by its rays: That silvery, soft, and dreamy light, So soft, and yet so beauteous bright, Falling in glowing tints so faint, -...
The purple lilac with the dark green leaves A subtle perfume spreads o'er fields wherein The meadow-lark with clear full singing cleaves The choral air. The rossignols begin...
God of mercy without measure! God of all-embracing love! Show'ring in Thy gracious pleasure Countless blessings from above; Bounteous benefits bestowing In a kind, continuous course,...
We see our Father's hand in all around; In summer's sun, and in cold winter's snow, In leafy wood, on grassy-covered ground, In showers that fall and icy blasts that blow....
The fickle sun that had the earth caress'd And quickened all her amorous desire, And brought fresh roses to adorn her breast, Now spurned her in the madness of his ire;...
Titanic craft of many thousand tons, A smaller Britain free to come and go, Relying on thy ten terrific guns To daunt afar the most presumptuous foe; Thick-panoplied with plates of hardened steel,...
How many a man of those I see around Has cherished fair ideals in his youth, And heard the spirit's call, and stood spellbound Before the shrine of Beauty or of Truth, And lived to see his fair ideals fade,...
The street was brisk, an animated scene, And every man was on some business bent, Absorbed in some employment or intent, Pre-occupied, intelligent and keen....
But now the Summer hastens to its close, And soon will Song a different aspect wear, Sweeping terrific, clad in ghostly snows, And lit by the flash of the Boreal glare, Or, but a poet in his easy chair;...