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TO THE 
 
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 BY 
 
 LIEUT.-COL. W. H. FORREST. 
 
 OF THE 
 3P3eRMitlT:eiTT militia 81:&1FF, QTJ3EBEC, CAITii.r>ii.. 
 
 Composed for an after-dinner speech, when the writer believed that ho was to Itc rcmovoil from tlie District. 
 
 I cannot, will not say, Adieu, 
 
 But rather, Au revoir ; 
 You are not friends of yesterday, 
 
 Nor comrades of a year ; 
 But have, for live and twenty years. 
 
 In camp at home ; abroad ; 
 
 Shouldered with me the bayonet, 
 
 Or buckled on the sword : 
 At mess, or march, in peace or war, 
 
 Together, side by side, 
 We helped to make our little force 
 
 A source of real pride : — 
 We saw it in its infancy, 
 
 A few raw volunteers ; 
 We saw, and marvelled as we saw, 
 
 This Force in later years ; 
 
 II. 
 
 Well disciplined, woll officered ; 
 
 Well generaled, I ween, 
 Fighting its way, like veterans. 
 
 For country and lor Queen ; 
 And, proving to the world abroad, 
 
 That we, in Canada, 
 Have turned our little to account, 
 
 By a wise policy : 
 That the militia system here, 
 
 Is popular, as wise. 
 And well adapted to the wants, 
 
 That do, or may, arise : 
 A system as complete I trow. 
 
 As any, near or far ; 
 All honour to our Minister— 
 
 The Minister of War ! 
 
 III. 
 
 And well is it for Canada, 
 
 That whilst in embryo 
 This Military system moves. 
 
 Beset by friend and foe, 
 Whose misplaced zeal, or factious hate. 
 
 Alike the fabric strains, 
 That Sir George Cartier's mantle falls. 
 
 On men of tact and brains ; 
 Who wisely gauge the ( 'ountry's needs, 
 
 By what it can alford ; 
 And will not needlessly exchange, 
 
 The ploughshare for the sword ; 
 But make the most ol what they have, 
 
 Or can rely upon 
 
 Men like our worthy Minister, 
 
 James Colebrooke Patterson. 
 
 IV. 
 
 And England lent us Generals, 
 
 As you are all aware, 
 Who helped to build the fabric up, 
 
 Or keep it in repair ; 
 For all were clever architects. 
 
 Though one succeeded best. 
 And one found the material less. 
 
 Adhesive than the rest. 
 These Generals, as follows, came : — 
 
 Sir P. Macdougall; then 
 Robertson- Ross ; Sir Selby-Smyth ; 
 
 And Luard ; able men. 
 But still we lacked the confidence. 
 
 Practice alone can yield. 
 Not got from theory, but gained 
 
 Upon the battle-field. 
 
@ 
 
 When lo ! llebellion'is monster head, 
 
 Startled the Great North-West, 
 And, looming' ominously high, 
 
 Gave us the needed test : 
 Then, with a bold, spontaneous shout. 
 
 The people sprang to arms. 
 And volunteered the Force, twice told, 
 
 Needed for war's alarms. 
 On, through the prairie stretch they marched, 
 
 Coming from near and far 
 
 From east and west ; from north and south ; 
 
 On, lo the scene of war ; 
 On, through each couli, creek and marsh. 
 
 All alkali ; on, on. 
 Led by Lieutenant-General, 
 
 Sir Frederic Middleton. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Fain would I close this canto now. 
 
 Whilst shouts oi victory, 
 Re-echoing all around, proclaim. 
 
 That glory crowns the day ; 
 Fain would I drop the veil, nor ask. 
 
 Nor seek to find out why. 
 Our brave commanding officer, 
 
 Bade Canada good-bye : 
 Enough, he did so. Soldiers we, 
 
 To listen ; to obey ; 
 Perchauce to pause, and ponder on. 
 
 Life's mutability : 
 Le Rot est mart ! I^ong live the King ! 
 
 Down with regrets and grief. 
 For Major General Herbert now 
 
 Holds the command-in-chief ; — 
 
 VII. 
 
 The youngest of the Generals 
 
 That yet has held command ; 
 The youngest of the Hrit).sh six 
 
 Loaned by the riothei-land : 
 The first one to proclaim aluud, 
 
 With no uncertain sound, 
 That they who seek promotion now 
 
 In knowledge must abound ■ 
 
 Must stand all equal tests with all ; 
 
 Must feel, with honest pride, 
 Their training and their mettle too, 
 
 Have only to be tried : 
 That by-gone " playing soldier " has 
 
 Become a nobler game, 
 For Canada must take her place 
 
 In the fair field of Fame ! 
 
 ® 
 
 VIIL 
 
 And now to drop this metaphor, 
 
 Nor let the fancy roam. 
 But keep within the District here, 
 
 And speak of those at home. 
 Becomes my pleasing duty as 
 
 The hour is creeping on. 
 And my theme, 'though a fertile one, 
 
 Must not he dwelt upon ; 
 I shall however, lightly touch 
 
 On each and every Corps 
 With its commanding o(licer. 
 
 As time permits no more ; 
 And ask for an indulgent ear 
 
 To listen to my rhyme, 
 And if my halting verse should lag, 
 ^ To bid the Corps '• Mark time." 
 
 # # # # # * * 
 
 IX. 
 
 Colonel Duchesnay, D. A. G., 
 
 Chief of the District Staff, 
 O'ertopping all his officers 
 
 in stature by a half, 
 Posseses all the qualities 
 
 To make one popular 
 
 A kindly friend in time of peace ; 
 
 A tower of strength in war : 
 A Heicules to crush a foe ; 
 
 A leader as of old. 
 When fates of Battles could be turned 
 
 By one man strong and bold : 
 An English-French Canadian, 
 
 Or both in one combined. 
 With liberal, broad ideas » 
 
 An uncoutracted mind. 
 
 X. 
 
 I notice, sitting on my right. 
 
 And visible from far. 
 In all his gorgeous trappings, that 
 
 Invincible Hussar, 
 Lieutenant-Colonel TurnbuU who. 
 
 Without Imperial aid, 
 Dependant on himself alone, 
 
 That noble Corps has made ; 
 And brought it to a standard which 
 
 Outvies the armies round 
 
 No finer lot of Cavalry 
 
 Can anywhere be found ; 
 And oft the Commandant regrets, 
 
 That whilst on Touchwood hill, 
 No enemy had hove in sight 
 
 To test their pluck and skill. 
 
XI. 
 
 I miss around this Festive Board 
 
 The once lamiliar face 
 Of him who was a soldier born, 
 
 Born of a soldier race, 
 I mean the gallant General Strange, 
 
 Our great progenitor 
 Of permanent arlillery. 
 
 That useful arm in war : 
 And in the absent hero's stead 
 
 I note, with honest pride, 
 That Colonel Montizambert has 
 
 The vacancy supplied ; 
 And with an innate zeal and love, 
 
 Sprung from es/nit de corps, 
 He would out-C'jrsar, Ca'sar's self, 
 
 And be a Strange, or more. 
 
 XII. 
 
 And then we have our city corps — 
 
 The city volunteers— 
 The Cavalry ; the Eighth ; the Ninth ; 
 
 Whose praise one daily hears : 
 For well trained horses ; practiced men 
 
 And able shots ; I trow, 
 No better lot of volunteers. 
 
 Can any city show ; 
 Colonels Forsyth, and Roy, and White, 
 
 (Amyot and Prower too,) 
 Can tell us, if they wish it, 
 
 To whom the credit's due : 
 But who knows not the labour. 
 
 The trouble, cost and pains. 
 To keep up such eflitdent corps. 
 
 In money, time, and brains. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 And, the Quebec Field Battery, 
 
 An old and valued corps, 
 Well up in gunnery and drill, 
 
 And always to the fore, 
 In all the evolutions, 
 
 And .shifts, and driving past, 
 If not invariably first, 
 
 Is never, never last. 
 And its commanding olficer, 
 
 A second Bonaparte, 
 Is small in stature ; great in ('.eeds ; 
 
 And large in soul and huart : 
 The gallant Colonel Lindsay. 
 
 Or as he's better known 
 To those who are more intimate 
 
 As " Crawford," stands alone. 
 
 (§?'§) 
 
 XIV 
 
 The Garrison Artillery 
 
 Next I would like to see 
 Formed in a single Regiment 
 
 And numbered " A" to " D," 
 Composed of the four Batteries, 
 
 Quebec and Ijevis too. 
 Which now possess as goodly men 
 
 As any at Review : 
 They have their Senior-Major Roy, 
 
 And Majors Boulanger 
 And Vien and Captain Martineau, 
 
 A Soldierly array. 
 The Gaspe Battery, who.se guns 
 
 Belched forth their fire of yore 
 Re-echoed from Cape Hosier's heights, 
 
 Exists, alas ! no more. 
 
 XV. 
 
 And then we have our Rural Corps. 
 
 Of which we number ten ; 
 All stalwart, healthy, country lads, 
 
 And strong and hardy men : 
 
 The 17th: the 23rd; 
 
 The 55th ; I ween 
 Can shew as line a lot of men 
 
 As ever yet were seen : 
 The 61st; the 70th; 
 
 The 81st one too ; 
 The 87th; 88th; 
 
 All splendid in Review : 
 The 8iJth; and 92nd; 
 
 Now we call a halt. 
 And challenge the inspecting eye 
 
 To point out any fault . 
 
 XVI. 
 
 The ten Lieutenant Colonels, 
 
 In column, line or square. 
 Are Massicotte, and Hudon, 
 
 And Laurin, and Fraser ; 
 Desjardins, Ward, and Landry; 
 
 lirst-while, the late Gouest ; 
 Bignell, and lastly Dnssault ; 
 
 All tit for any test : 
 For these Coiinnanding officers 
 
 Have graduated up 
 Through all the several lower ranks 
 
 Until they reached the top ; 
 And now possess the confidence 
 
 Of all their following. 
 Who yield them, voluntarily. 
 
 Control of everything. 
 
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 XVII. 
 
 A goodly shewing, one and all, 
 
 With " non-coins," rank and file, 
 Selected from the Country round 
 
 For courage, strength and style ; 
 No Jail-birds from the prison drawn ; 
 
 No out-casts from afar ; 
 But all are mon of rectitude, 
 
 'Though fighting men in war. 
 We miss poor Colonel Taschereau, 
 
 Late Major of Brigade, 
 .Whoso bold, stentorian voice was wont 
 
 To order the parade. 
 And now the long Review is o'er, 
 
 Of Military Iriends ; 
 The list of Junior Officers 
 
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 XVIII, 
 
 Let others write thoir history 
 
 When we have passed away, 
 And yielded up our offices 
 
 That each may have his day : 
 And yet, how much we envy youth ! 
 
 To think each well-faught field, 
 Won, at the cost of health or limb, 
 
 To these, at last, we yield ! 
 But, one and all, if not aitieu, 
 
 At least, an au revoir ; 
 
 A soldier's life's a shifting scene 
 
 Of hope and not dispair ; 
 Of hope to meet on duty's path, 
 
 If not in Bower or Hall ; 
 And, taking changes as they come, 
 
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