Is there room for the poet, fair Canada's sons. To live his strange life, and to warble his songs, To follow each current of thought as it runs, And to sing of your victories, glories and wrongs? ...
I see the wild and dashing waves Break madly on the shore; With glee I watch their stately course, With joy I hear their roar. The howling of the wildest storm, The shrieking of the gull...
With kindly thoughts full oft we've met, And bow'd at Friendship's sacred shrine; Oh, may we ne'er those thoughts forget, But may they still our hearts entwine.
The morning of a gladsome day in spring Had scarce its freshness brought to weary men, When, o'er the meadows wet, a boy did sing, And whistled o'er a tune, and carroll'd-it, again,...