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THE 
 
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 OF 
 
 KINGSTOI^ SCENES. 
 
 BY 
 
 J, T. BEEEZE, 
 
 PICTON, C. W. 
 
 1864. 
 
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 To John Creighton., Esq., Mayor of Kingston. 
 
 SlE,— 
 
 The undersigned begs, most humbly, the honor to dedi- 
 cate the following pages to your Worship, in view, Sir, of 
 those high endowments of mind, and those qualities of ster- 
 img worth that beam so lustrously in your Worship's cliar- 
 acter, and which have induced the public of Kingston t^ 
 distinguish you as their Mayor, which office your Worship 
 has so admirably filled. Long may you live to evince that 
 nillexible adherence to right and truth that has character- 
 ized .your mmd, till all those noble qualities be called to 
 .sJiine in a world of ineffable bliss and purity. 
 
 I have the honor to subscribe myself 
 
 Your Worship's obedient and humble servant, 
 
 JAMES TIIOS. BREEZE. 
 Kingston, July 19, 1864. 
 
 \% 
 
 To THE Reader, — 
 
 ^ The author of the following pages would beg the read- 
 er s indulgence to the poem, inasmuch as he had only been 
 in the City about three or four days to make his inquiries 
 and complete it. If he haa left any important things out of 
 the work It was not designedly, but owing to eitherliis lack 
 ot mtormation respecting, or utter ignorance of them. 
 
 Yours' truly, 
 
 J. T. BREEZE. 
 
h 
 
 KIJ^GSTON SCENES. 
 
 Did east around its wiM /n^ ? ? ^o^drous maze 
 % sacred song, and all ^ylTto inspire, 
 
 
Tliat I aright may wield ray youthful pen 
 
 To charm some hearts with music once again. 
 
 :Say liret, my eong, of this delightful place, 
 
 How nature's store bestrewed m richest grace, 
 
 And scattered glories with her generous hand 
 
 In bright jirray around this happy land. 
 
 How tliick the isles that stud tnis silvery lake, 
 
 Where billows roar, and wildest surges break ; 
 
 That once a bard immortalized in song, 
 
 And tuned his harp as with an angel tongue. 
 
 And wrought a gem that evermore will shine 
 
 Around their brow in lustre all divine. 
 
 But why, sweet bard, forget the works of man, 
 
 Whose wondrous powers do strive God's work to span, 
 
 And lal)or on some nionuments to raise, 
 
 That Heaven may own, and mortal powers praise ; 
 
 The contrast wide, infinite doth appear, 
 
 'Tween days of yore when Indian Chiefs roamed here, 
 
 And sued the frightened deer in agile race 
 
 Through forest wide, and kept an equal pace ; 
 
 And these bright da3's of art and mental power 
 
 Wliich raise their heads and now so princely towei". 
 
 And would dare climb to the eternal skies 
 
 I>y Babel toM-ere, that in like pride arise. 
 
 Two centuries near, have swept across these shores 
 
 /Sin(?e Frontenac came paddling with his ores ; 
 
 Four hundred men embarked in his canoes 
 
 To affiright his foes, and build here what he choose ; 
 
 A massive fort, those days of strength and might, 
 
 Whei-e stealthy arms had always will to fight ^ 
 
 And lustre threw around the monarch's throne 
 
 Tliat Indian tribes may his gi'eat sceptre own. 
 
 Those days were omens that threw shadows far — 
 
 Forenmners then of the bright glorious star 
 
 Which shone abroad these shores all to apprise, 
 
 And promise fair this land to civilize. 
 
 The growth of mind drew in its lengthened train 
 
 The growth of all that's great on sea or plain. 
 
 How wondrous are, beneath these spacious skies, 
 
 Tiiese mighty domes which dazzle 'fore our eyes, 
 
 That liere remain as monuments of power 
 
 To honor man, and mind for evermore. 
 
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 The Town Hali, 
 
 '''•.niK/,t,Tnd power '„hT^«>''« "yo to apprf, 
 
 And lightnin.r,Tl„r» , - """ ''■,«gn'ent9 fly, 
 
 Yet I.ere, Ztrnfe^ulTV'^ on-battled pla ^ ■ 
 J^ or cause to stol nL "rl™ "'" "'»'="'™ I'al^ ' 
 They stand cotL, iZ ?™. ™'' *" ''""■ 
 Who roamed alTrOTVtl. ' ■'T'^'' ""'"t" 
 That raised o:Sf//;^«'[^;f''^ tods to find- 
 In splendor oreat l,'i 8'?«on8 front to view, 
 
 One flight of'etafiwmWI?' '° *'™- 
 
 To the nVlit Si » "'"'■''"' ^«'-™Ser's feet 
 
 • ^worthies on SfLl'"''''^ P"'"""^^ '"""^ 
 And here embalmeH^ •'^ "8''^' '" P"™'', 
 
 Have left b^^lnd mo^e ^hi^"""^' ^*7^"^ ^^"^e 
 Our rising Gree^p^n u """mortal fame. 
 
 Akin to &TcCLtT- %'\^^^^--^ 
 
 And thine JoJ^; iVor tt ti'- ^'T *^'^"««' 
 
 Upon tliese shores wherf S tif- * "J ^^"^^ ' 
 
 let this thy sliade fj]]lfl^! *^'"^ honored name. 
 
 Of tliy vast power o W f n ^^ T ^'^^ ^P^^^ 
 
 And 1 nger h^erla nvn'f ? ^f^^^^^n heart, 
 
 OWuilowiW^^^^^^^^ % wortl,, 
 
 "wmg too thj various taienta fJrtli. 
 
 THEBARRAQKS. 
 
 Jn front rninp *»-"«y- --, ^ 
 
 Two Barracks rtrm^ Sr'''"*^ ™ g''* ''» "'"e, 
 T..n,i„g in p^i^^-^ SrSSit ^"""""' ^^-^^ 
 
 

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 To Northern States to find Bome enemy ; 
 
 ]»ut (jiuirtered liere tliey may defy tlie storm 
 
 K<i\v nendin^ o'er that lovely land to alarm, 
 
 l^(»r(l Ilnsscli's here, a veteran En<xlish soul, 
 
 Their Lieutenant doth their wide range control, 
 
 InB])irIng deep true-love and loyalty 
 
 To J^ritain's tnrone, that guards our liberty ; 
 
 They gather gems to stud the Eoyal Crown 
 
 That shines afar of lustre all its own. 
 
 May benign heaven e'er bless our British throne, . 
 
 7\iul our loved Queen who stands. there now alone, 
 
 Still to bemoan the loved one of her heart " 
 
 AV^hom heaven, in love, bid from earth's scenes depart. 
 
 To shine above in princely grandeur there, 
 
 "■Mid joys perennial, no song can declare. 
 
 THE COURT IIOUSK 
 
 ^ Al-' 
 
 « 'f k 
 
 And here alike in wide dimensions rear 
 
 A similar wonder 'fore the eye to appear, 
 
 Its vast proportions towering to the sky, 
 
 Lifting its noble brow to scenes on high. 
 
 Spreading its arms to front the dashing tide. 
 
 Their Court House grand in bloom of modern pi'ide ; 
 
 Six pillars rise, supporting its proud head, 
 
 Vv^here England's coat of . "ns in brass is laid. 
 
 Where Horsey's mind of .ji;'.ant portions shined, 
 
 AV^ith lasting fame around his name entwined ; 
 
 AV^ithin its walls the tutored minds of law 
 
 Do wonderings hosts by eloquence here draw. 
 
 And plead aright, or peradventure, wrong. 
 
 In gifted strains worthy some angel tongue ; 
 
 Here inti'igues, vast, unravalled one by one. 
 
 And clouds disperse that hung when they begun. 
 
 And justice laboring finds her clearest way 
 
 From deepest gloom to light of moral day ; 
 
 And praise divine is gained by tafents bright. 
 
 That brought the truth from dark Egyptian night 
 
 To light in povi'er, to lustre all divine, 
 
 Its heavenly truth in lasting glories shine ; 
 
 They well may kn<ow the workings of man's heart. 
 
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 riithread it. twK^ts mysterious eacJi apart 
 Ann Jiave rewards of amaranthine gaT' ' 
 
 lieir laboring pain. 
 
 -^..-. z.avu lywaras of amaraninine e-an. 
 To I)le88 their deed and all ^h • "''-^'''" 
 
 THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE. ' 
 
 And saw there dwell np.n ^he S.'], ? '"'' 
 A Colleo-o Hall that did my bosom tin 
 
 And'?;: ''''^' \ ^,^""'^^ ^^^-"cle lee 
 And ts vast M-ealth of ]vnowle(h.-G wi ! f A i 
 
 c.i^in icpei nor i)rmRely power rpi^»ui 
 
 " '^' ?i""N ana tiion its ten'or«; sbaro . 
 ^ ea, It survives the elements of w^r ' ' 
 
 ■ A,„l bloom immortaP™tH%^'''rf ''" ''"?''*^'' «*^'-. 
 
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 THE HOSPITAL. 
 
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 Xor are those left wlio need compassioiis aM, 
 
 J>ut every care and love'n devotion'^ })aid 
 
 Viy cliristian liearts on whom Christ's truth liatli sliono, 
 
 Wliich power our liearts can toucli, and tliat alone. 
 
 Canadian Ijcarts, like Cliristian England dear, 
 
 Whose child tliou art, M'er't taught to ghed a tear ; 
 
 When human woe did meet thy tender eye 
 
 Thy ready heart their wants did soon supply ; 
 
 And here is raided the hospital, whicii name 
 
 Means every gofxl to poor and blind and lame ; 
 
 These objects once of Jesus' gen'rous soul, 
 
 And while on earth their deep wants did control 
 
 lly that divine benignity Mdiieh said 
 
 " The poor ye have alway" to ask for bread. 
 
 This li(»use doth stand a proof of Kingston's love 
 
 To those coinmands given us by Christ above. 
 
 Who left his throne man's wants once to 8U])ply, 
 
 And deigned for us to suffer bleed anrl die, 
 
 And tangiit us truths still sacred to his throne, 
 
 And to that heart which bled for man alone, 
 
 To teach ours bleed and mitigate the woe 
 
 -.Vnd sorrows grave that rise from sin below. 
 
 Wafhins Wmr/. 
 
 jS'or least will one, when Christ in glory '1 come 
 
 To gather all his ransom'd children home. 
 
 Stand by his side to take a bright reward 
 
 For noble deeds done here for Christ the Lord ; 
 
 Bestrewed o'er earth 'nn'd poverty and woe 
 
 God's people are, with various wants below. 
 
 But thy vast wealth, as some good steward should, 
 
 Is freely given in love to them and God ; 
 
 One thousand pounds, to thee an humble mite, 
 
 Was given in love to build this wing aright. 
 
 Then Watkins live, thy name by thousands blessed, 
 
 And yet by heaven in everlasting rest. 
 
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 fhere bHIows rolJ anS Calaraqii, wave ' 
 
 The Avorlvs of art th-iflZ^ "? ''"'^■'e ^-cnnd 
 {^^trewed that lalftene^^ ^'-"-^• 
 
 ^^iiore watchmen's eyes dH; .^^^"^"^ ^^^^'^^'^ 
 
 And bids j)ure tears form onf "^Poet's heitrt, 
 
 ■Andwaces the breast whTeH^r'^^'^*^ '^^^% 
 As viewina- scenes tlm J. ^"^'^^ ^eep witliin 
 5« tame, i7,v m" se o.?^''?"^""*^ <^*'«in- 
 ,^- --n^^^^^^^^^ passions wild, 
 
 Here daily meet in dreadfifl "^^'^^^ ""'^^^^ 
 Strong .virtue's waves and J '^"^'f ^' ^^'^^^ 
 Y«^;o groan tlie lieam thftT'i"'"^^^^"^"* «de ; 
 A"(} reap rewards detedi^i"'^ «"'"e ^»ath tained 
 Jts central hall doth ra llf '^^ ^''^"^ed. "-''' 
 
 Pillowintr in i,p«l -/^'^^ '*« ^^rae on Jiio.], . 
 
 A'^^I bapT>; too ,m^l' '""^^"* ^'" ^he st> ' 
 Of ''"mii'Cast W?^'r °^ ^^^^ ^oe*^' 
 Jt throws abroad ts^lt'w-'" '^'^^'^ '^^^^^-- 
 ^^ solid mass t},at thr^f T""^' '"^ ^'^^ 
 Unt 1 no more m"^&1v ''" '' ""^'^'^'^ ' 
 .^''elose man's ^nn' t o A Pr'^"' "^^^^ 
 The northern wZ\V '^^ ^"'^ '^''^^ ■'cleed 
 ^^^,H-ht a;;a;S% i:^Tr ^ ^-^en's hon^e, 
 ,y" h's aged brow the luSd fl^^'^^'r^ dome, ^ 
 Those garlands bri.dit !f *'"'^ ^'^^ wove 
 
 Tbo poet's hand ^S^^^^' '""^'^"^ ^-^• 
 Winch It betraved d^ll? H^\^ '^'^'^'^^ glow 
 ^t yet, those S ht^\?'f' ^''^ ^F^'itllow, 
 J^^vealin. clear '^f, J ^^^^^^^^^^^ resolve' 
 
 Jo punish crime thatd'L? " '" ^'evolve 
 ^\";1 va.t experlenerlo, uT l"" ^"'^ ^"'"^ 
 ] et cye^s thit throne wSt''"'" ""^^ ''"^^^• 
 
 ^world;;i,^l^-^e to resign; 
 
 ^^^---i- Wings ^^j^SrSt^^-^ • 
 
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 Have ample room to hold by night or day 
 Eight hundred souls, that sins deluded power 
 -May hither bring to shelter any hour. 
 
 S. G. Murray, Deputy Warden. 
 
 And their's one heart my pen will proudly name 
 Whose gen'rons soul is warm with living 'flame 
 Of sympathies pure to the dejected poor 
 A3 they depart and liberty secure. 
 His hand is open always to supply, 
 And always bless the abject sinner's cry, 
 >Iay heaven reward thy generor cts above 
 "When breaks the light ot everlasiiug love. 
 
 Dr. Dixon and the HosrrrAi., 
 
 And here beneath, your Dr. Dixon's care. 
 The patient convicts every mercies share, 
 And what man's heart for human woe can feel, 
 When strength declines or human reasons reel. 
 When friends of youth have all forsook and gone 
 Ilia noble heart can beat for them alone, 
 When every aid that human skill can give 
 The heart beats slow and they dispair to live, 
 He stays their friend whose profound sympathy 
 Can reach them there Drinking eternity, 
 And point their heart to God's compassioned breast 
 \Vhere sinners may hope there for future rest. 
 Through those dear wounds that open'd from his side 
 Wlien oozed the stream and swelled the purple tide, 
 The deepest sins have here been once forgiven, 
 And rebel man prepared in peace for heaven. 
 This place adorned with beauties perfect style 
 Accommodates below, in them awhile 
 Two dozen souls, whose blasted health may twine, 
 And lingering life beneath its shades repine : 
 Above, twelve more of beautious rooms adorned, 
 A prince may sue and kings would not have scorned ; 
 Their windows hold sweet nature's flowers green, 
 'Tiieir floors superb, and all transparent cleaiL 
 
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 And often % t},eir dvfnf ! f"''^^ «"^art, 
 ^^ 'ien biJlows mn ol'iv? '^•^'''^^ *« hear ' 
 
 ,{.T deatJi's strong arm" nS""f P^^^'^nt's L-'ea 
 
 Tl'Ht roam thy brafn. ar!?] Z ^ »>' 
 
 ■ patient' 
 Tliat roam tliy brain m?cnT . ^fPP->' ^^^^mes 
 ^^ ^'e,i thy sweet Jiarp cCr Uh I ''""""^ ^"^^ ^^e, ' 
 
 ^--^•obeholds'midtCSa^:^-^ 
 
 The Door-Keei>ers 
 ^'e\'::!:nZ>:'^S^ ^^ ^-- ^bl^ keep 
 
 To keep the strong and stS,\ ^'''^ ^"^^ ^'^^^ 
 0!.I Scotia's IsJe canL.f fd' ^ ^^ill. 
 
 ^"^- -they will, t^;t;;:^s^r' 
 
 Deronnn.l^!^7jf ^jP^" ?■» swiftest motion fl;«. 
 
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 Aechitect 1st, Cornal Powers ; 2ni), Mr. Mills : 
 3kd, Mk. Coveedale; 4th, Mr. Horsey. 
 
 Here Cornal Powers, who first designed the plan 
 Is with Mills gone their bright career is run, ' 
 And Coverdule who carried on the same 
 With firm resolve, and gained an honor'd name • 
 But Horsey's here to climax the design, ' 
 
 And gain the wreath that 'round his brow'l entwine. 
 
 Clergy— Mr. JV^ulkins, Pro. ; Mr. Conelard, Catii. 
 
 Two Chaplain's here on Sabbath day do preach 
 G-od s livni^r word. If happily they may reach 
 borne convict's heart, and point him to his God 
 Who 11 wash his crimes in the atoning blood 
 Mulkius defends the Protestant belief. 
 Directs their souls where they may find relief* 
 And Conelard, whose heart can feel their loss ' 
 In Catliolic strains may point his to the cross' 
 Withm those walls the Schoolmaster doth raise 
 Ihe convict's mind to light of learning's rays • 
 How good is God in thus disposing man 
 To give poor souls the welcome aid they can. 
 
 Two hundred hands and nearly fifty more 
 Do work at shoes till labors hours are o'er • 
 The blacksmith too doth wield the hammers blow 
 In workman's style, his labor on must go 
 With those who cut the heavy rugged stone. 
 Uplift the blow and drop it one by one. 
 And also they who make bright furniture 
 That skill designs through distant time to endure. 
 U ! these firm wajls present a sullen gloom 
 Wiiere labor pays the record of their doom ; 
 And better far had crime not stained their hand 
 Ihen could they roam at ease throughout the laud. 
 Let these laint lines that reach the reader's ear 
 Alarm his breast and teach him God to fear. 
 
u 
 
 THE KOCKWOOD WNATTn . 
 
 >Jess of art! I s^eelh^r'"? ^"^^ "«^ 
 
 ^-:>m |is warn, WUo ^te^^^'^ont eve,f i„e 
 f flotli combme within l^= "'!^ i^^" of mine 
 
 ri'at slow and sureC tn^^i''^ of* kind 
 Tliat stems time's tidelTf-' P^J^'ted tho"^ht 
 
 fe.r chores whereCav^\t'?'"'-Peee "°'"- 
 
 «''e lifts supeTb EoT • ''",«»MtJ?,f S- 
 ««• |;>rtter/ng dome aH» "? '«=^ o" %h 
 
 T» ler proud dome t W ™'' " listening ear 
 
 ^« centra] hall presents «^^^ '^.^^^ *« «i«g. ^' 
 J^iiose vvindows dpS ^ ^eautious iace 
 [.^« Piliared do!r t^',?,^ f . the modern ..ace • 
 I resenting tbrm^ n A" ^J ^^^"^s to the 9v2' ' 
 
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 In size mth glass that forms tlie window pain 
 1 or barrs like prisons would their minds enrage 
 Should thej conceive they're there as in a caJ 
 From centreing dome two wings extcndeth wide 
 Like feathered birds that love display their pHdo 
 It their gold wings can shed a lustrous hue ^ ' 
 lo charm the eye and please our passions true 
 Each wmg apace has thirty-ei^ht or more 
 Windows that liHit the traveffer to the shore, 
 bhould some darl. n.glit their troubled bark o'erfike 
 And struggling cry upon the stormy lake • 
 Were they all !it they'd guide the sailor's eye 
 To shores where hearts would listen to their cry 
 And at each end two other massive hails 
 In equal pride do rise their hugious walls, 
 From hence project two other wings beside 
 Ot pondrous size, and rise in graceful pride 
 And heaven dare tell where-where this buildin.. ^oen 
 For I persume no human wisdom knows » ** ^ > 
 
 Its size immense, and tells how great the plan 
 Conceived in thought by that ilfustrious man 
 Whose name will Fast and ring for evermore 
 Kouiid these bright scenes blessed by its pebbled shore 
 Where fifteen more of similar windowsg^ze "^ ' 
 
 lo please the eye and all our powers amaze. 
 The central dome includes a cistern neat 
 in depth one yard across two dozen feet ' 
 
 IWtp'd T''1 *^' ^"^^'^ P"^^ ^^^ter'^ thrown 
 I lojected there by powers of stream alone; 
 One hundred feet and twenty more beside 
 Ihese waters come above the levelling tide 
 And pour m pipes throughout the wiSe domain " 
 To quench their thirst or cool their brow of pafn • 
 A Cliapel too 's enclosed within this wall ^ ' 
 Where ^ immenng mind may for God's mercy call 
 ifn^'^i "S^* t« «^^k that gilead baliS^ ^ ^'' 
 Who! pardon grant, and give an heavenly palm 
 Poor shipwreck'd man, the bard doth drop one^ew 
 ()t crystal tear, if not of nm^le i^,,^ ^ ^ ^^^ 
 And curse foul sin that rained nobi; powers, 
 And blasting bliss round this wide world of ours 
 Proud reason's law deserted her high throne 
 'Mid passion wild in frightful aspelts groan 
 
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 ,&tt«S?;,0'P'V these i„ love, 
 Where ™i„d will ^elgtTd'n'o'i.'^''^ »«'='' "P "hove 
 Nor bhght its joys wien conn,'"^' ""^'- ''^ Peace 
 But supercede! tiis worid ofl''' "P "^'^'^ 
 
 ^-h pr.se that .i„,-:ttrair.o,; 
 % muse affain bv oth«. .7 '^ ^'y/w//i. 
 
 Jt sings of him SrTw rl'P ^^^^^^ ^^^^• 
 ■f^rom abler nn.,r J^ ?^. "cJier sonxr 
 
 «^» ^ails iny soi,/£elp ff ^T^ ^"'^"'^ fortS ' 
 I^eneath i/is eje'dvvell";"- fi "*"/"^^ ^^^^h. ' 
 Of knowledge deei^^^i^^^^^^^ ample store 
 
 Tlie classic streams were I' 'n' i" ^^"^^^ «0^«^e, 
 gj Jii8 vast powers tW f] • 1^,"^ '^ ^^rly youtj/ 
 
 Reside this vUt ttVetTi^ ""'''' ^^"'^' 
 Jseains gentlv fiirti ' 8™"e man so pure 
 
 WUh every vU^^j.^d^Sir'"'' S^ace, 
 
 Tl^e scholar pure thf ^f H *^^^'" ^"^^^^ K^are 
 
 With every lo^d^eased t"^^/ ^'^^ ^^"C' ' 
 
 The perfect ?riend ofToor^SSJi ^T "^"^^^^i'- 
 
 W^iosb tears for woes anH l. ^^^"^ "^^ii, 
 ^[th that pure g7ft and f JT^'^.'^''^^^ ^^n 
 Who can divine thp^o -^^^ ^^«o«i 
 
 The maniacCrnd ^niftb'^ ^^^^^ «'^^ 
 His power wiJi cSa-T^ -t^ '"^^'^^^ ^'«. 
 Whose Bpell may wonder ^!n? '"T P^^^^ wand, 
 H^s gracious ho^r^ettr^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ' 
 
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 'Mid woods that wave, and Biniles at carthqiiakti's shook ; 
 
 Its beautioiis front in majesty <m liidi 
 
 As some grand home beiieatli our Englisli sky, 
 
 With velvet lawns that passions may admire", ' 
 
 Where roams some Lord or titled Sir or Squire, 
 
 Listening to birds whose wings of every hue 
 
 Chant happy songs with strains of music true. 
 
 The poet stray'd with him around tlK)se walks 
 
 Where th' muse took lire and (laught those thoughts it talks ; 
 
 And 1 may tell of power he had to chain, 
 
 And win the heart, its confidence to gain, 
 
 To make you feel you roam with sucTi friend 
 
 Whose manners charm, and grace here ki^ows no end • 
 
 Beneath his roof the bard did liap[>y sing. 
 
 And soar aloft as on eagle's wing. 
 
 And shared a part of hospitality'" 
 
 That freely flows from his benignity. 
 
 1'lie muse would love to be employed to tell 
 
 Of Rockwood scenes that would my poem swell ; 
 
 But other scenes invite the poet's lyre 
 
 Which yields to them that can its muse inspire. 
 
 Dear Doctor live to bless thv fellow-man. 
 
 And carry out thy well projected plan ; 
 
 Already time bestrews around thy head 
 
 Its nuinei'ous streaks of white or silvery thread, 
 
 And when its hand will lay thy gentle" brow 
 
 Low in the tond), and all its lustre bow. 
 
 May angels then conduct thy soul away 
 
 Where breaks the light of heaven's eternal day. 
 
 CRYSTAL PALACE. 
 
 From wheiicc! from whence! thou Crystal Palace i)urc 
 
 Whence thy four wings that doth the eye allure ? 
 
 Did Grecian God's, as wandering in the sky, 
 
 Drop thee by chance from their bright throne on hi<>h i 
 
 Thou stand'st aloof, unlike the homes of earth, "^ 
 
 With soinc pretence to own Immorl 
 
 '"^ ' enchained 
 
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 hy sparkling light 
 
 That from afar is shewn in colors bri'dit. 
 And spreads abroad in all its wild arniy' 
 As birds <>!' wings whose glorious hues disj.lnv 
 
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 Beneath tliy shade the poet's melitul i)oweiN 
 
 i>o soar aloft to tliosc (selestial bowei-B 
 
 Of Eden l>h-ss, where gold and crystal i)nre 
 
 Ut heavenly worth shall evermore endnre 
 
 it thou of earth the mind's celestial fire ' 
 
 i^xpands itself and takes thee with it higher 
 
 O ! ]s it so, these crystal wings of thine 
 
 l>ehide my eye till they appear divine, 
 
 Impressing mind that t am taken far 
 
 lo distant snores, where burns heaven's glorious star,- 
 
 Ihat I forget that I'm m earth or heaven 
 
 Where lasting joys are to each spirit given ; 
 
 And were I here on some fine day of spring 
 
 When bands may chime and juvenile voices sino-, 
 
 ^ow would the bard around this spot rejoice 
 
 And lom the song with an enraptured voice, 
 
 And that fine power that dwells within his mind 
 
 i^onvert the scenes to some celestial kind 
 
 And his young heart, until these scenes were o'er 
 
 Uream it wei-e high on some celestial shore. 
 
 WESLEYAN CHAPEL. 
 
 The intrepid sons of that immortal mind 
 btored with deep m-ace and knowledge of all kind 
 Are here alert, seeking with steady eye ' 
 
 Ihe souls of men, foi' seats of bless on high 
 Where burning truths that glowed in wisley's soul 
 In heavenly flame, and brilliant volumes roll, 
 
 w'iwi,^'''^^-^'' "^i^^ '^ fr^"g^* with knowledge pure 
 With the same truths their minds doth oft allu?c 
 And breaks of light of a celestial flame ' 
 
 % which his sires gained their immortal name; 
 And Clarkson too, whose silvery language pores 
 bom6 heavenly balm to fall on human sores ; 
 Iheir beantious ChiA-ch all decked in work of art 
 Kound other scenes this fain would take the start 
 Kaising on high its bright and sparkling spire, ' 
 1 liat towers aloft abbve all others higher. 
 
 THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. 
 
 Here Scotia's sons of gkmt mental power 
 
 On learning's hill do rise their Avatch-guard tower . 
 
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 To guzo ubruad, and wateli what form tlie toe 
 
 May yet attack God's triitti as long figo ; 
 
 Their hand uplifts the mighty weapon word 
 
 That l)owM strong hearts by this all contpioring sword, 
 
 And struck with might, the infidel withdrew, 
 
 To own its power to be divinely true. 
 
 Tlieir liouse of God is sacredly enclosed 
 
 Where nature's charms are daily their imposed ; 
 
 God's servant too, a lovely homo they give, 
 
 Where he and all his family do live ; 
 
 Rut mourn, my song, that now no more doth swell 
 
 The gifted thoughts that from his tongue oft fell ; 
 
 Yea, those sweet lips that poured on them the dew 
 
 Of heavenly grace in language mild and true, 
 
 It silent lies within the pallid tomb 
 
 Which throws around his home a solenm gloom. 
 
 His mantle fell on Inglis, who doth wear 
 
 Its sacred folds, and doth God's truths declare, 
 
 May his career be bright and lustrous too. 
 
 And feed Christ's floc*k with heavenly pasture j,rue. 
 
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 DISTINGUISHED PERSONAGES. 
 
 John Creiguton, Esq., Mayok. 
 
 Ivind lieaven let fall upon my mental power 
 Thy gracious dew to move my soilg this hour, 
 And ope my eye to read those virtues bright 
 That shine supreme in characters of light 
 Upon thy noble front and tow'ring brow. 
 That claims my strains of inspiration now, 
 I name the Mayor, whose various virtues move 
 [Jpon the mass to gain their heart's of love ; 
 Whose firm resolve, whose industry and strength 
 Of moral force have gained all hearts at length. 
 To raise on high those virtues into power. 
 Where they may bloom, and in new lustre tov/er. 
 This said, may move some kindred minds to deeds 
 Within whose breasts may lie celestial seeds. 
 That by degrees may raise thos )wers on high 
 To thrones aloft, to light the moral sky. 
 And where may sliine their noble, powere of mind 
 
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 lo scatter li.Lt of intdWtuuI kind, 
 lie world improves, it eyen tl.e n.ond wortl, 
 And w<.uld let shine those noble virt.ies Ibr 1 
 To prove .tB love to dignity and truth, 
 
 AV^mto^i'E:''' ^^^"f^'-^F^"'^ '^^"Hl« of youth 
 w '"^'^'\^J'^^ii- ^^''\v by hnn resolve alon.:- 
 Whose deeds are loved and praised bv an-ei\ t*.nL.-ue 
 They honor too, those lustriins parents detr ^ ' 
 
 iNoi t dter auirht m el.nd.in<v to that fame 
 Of value more than an immortal name. 
 A(.eei)t. dear nmn, this trilnite of my son*. 
 Reserving praise from a more gifteif toiurjo • 
 
 Tillf,r-M 'u' ^'''\'^''''' '^'^'^ milffo 'shine 
 1 ' 1 moved to bliss an.l glory all divine, 
 
 Where virtue towers on that^perenuialshore 
 And shine m bliss with God for evermore 
 
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 CiiARLKs Sanostek, tiik Poet. 
 
 Ami Kingston list around thy sa(n-ed shore 
 Ihc son ot song aloft to heaven did soar. 
 And wander d tar beyond the Iimnble' bound 
 WJiere roams thine eye aeross heaven's dome around 
 Ho breaks apace God's palace to survey ' 
 
 Where roam the stars and Hesperus away: 
 His well-Avinged muse ha*h passed the in Iky wav 
 A. d worlds on worlds, to heaven's effulgent da 
 Where God in bliss inefiable doth shiner '' 
 
 Wheix^ stands the thrane and burns the eye divine 
 Lig|it^.g that world where thrones of inillions fa l' 
 And God 111 Cln-ist is crowned there Lord of all 
 Before which throne, in angel lustre rise 
 Ihat seraph form which ravish'd mortal eyes, 
 Jiut passed away into that "silent land " 
 And there remains among that cherub band 
 vy aitiiig awhile to see death's arrow flv 
 
 W ere "silent land" will be a land of song, ^' 
 W ere gvtted souls bo dear, bloom ever voung, 
 And all their poAver m their full orb ""■ ' " 
 
 Reflecting lustre 'round the tl 
 
 will shine 
 
 irone divine. 
 
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 Mwri. Pkof. Wkik. 
 
 Aiul here, porchiinre, may dwoll tliat kiiulrcd houI 
 Witliin whose hreast Btron<; waves of j>ai*sioTis roll, 
 Hetieatli a miiid oft kindled hy tlieir tire, 
 Tliat thrills the harp and sounds th' aolian lyre, 
 And happy snnijj in strains that reacliM the throne, 
 And Majesty did bow her jiowers to own ; 
 Whose an<rei soiiii; stole o'er that royal breast, 
 
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 And hushe<l its woes, and caused its sorrow rest, . 
 And Britain's crown and sceptre moves to hear 
 That sonL!; divine that falls I'rom Mrs. Weir; 
 The nmsic heard feel deep npon the soul. 
 Where troubled waves of dreadful anguish roll. 
 It hushed those storms as did tho#voice of God 
 Genessert's i)Ool and winds that rusli'd abroad. 
 Thy royal mind, in silent hours, will roam 
 Across the sea to view her liappy home. 
 And twine betimes around that beautious mind. 
 Where hap])y thoughts do roam of various kind, 
 So full of I'rilit that liang in yellow hue, « . • 
 
 Right full of sap, nuide ripe by heavenly dew. 
 In fancy then will pluck again that bough 
 That in life's si)ring casts forth its snowy blow. 
 Sweet harp divine, nor stay thy ha])py lay 
 Till heaven may shine on thee immortal day, 
 Then sing aloft with that eternal throng 
 Blooming in beauty that's forever young. 
 
 MiJ. Fkanz Stabu, Music Teacher. 
 
 My nnise would brood o'er such a soul as thine, 
 Where music dwells in power almost divine, 
 And feels the iire that burns within thy soul 
 Fall on my own, where kindred passions roll ; 
 Then swell my song in strains tliat angel's chime 
 As human thought breaks forth in mortal rhyme. 
 Thy master hand that swept along the lyre 
 Becomes sublime as thy breast gathers fire. 
 May not some band from the celestial shore 
 Steal down betimes to hear thine anthems pour 
 Their new-born straiub upon the empassioned breast 
 Akin to song in worlds of blisstiil reat, 
 If so, wil't thou when songs of earth will die, _ 
 And earth's proud harps in crumbling ashes lie. 
 
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 ^iVitftrytij I ask, while witli m l.ci-o 1.. low 
 N;ok Imi^niv F..f)t?s uf Jchu'h love to kiu, 
 Hiiit tl„>u thi. -11 1 in ],o;ivi!n iimy yet employ 
 Wiierc swell the .suii<'s of overhustiiii? iov 
 
 THE CONGREGATIOxXAL CIIirRCH. 
 
 Around the sliade of thy projectin-r wall 
 Dwell sires and sons of siieh'as Robert Hall, 
 yr Dr. Watts, whose towerin<r soul no mind 
 its utmost bound ean fathom or yet iind 
 1 et here are they with mind as pure and rrood 
 1 reachm- the truth that load men to thei? God 
 i^^'uwick whose powers and jmneiples of mind ' 
 i im hallowed lirrlit of some an<j;elie kind 
 iio loves those truths his ancient fathers bou.rht 
 ] eachcs them here as veteran preacher's oii-ht ' 
 1 know these truths, my mother's able soul ^' 
 J^ngraved thorn deep within my powers whole, 
 And m their lic^dit the poet's early days 
 Were spent in bliss beneath their hallowed rays 
 .uid though his mind has other thoughts of powfii- 
 He loudly turns to days of childhood's hour 
 And all the heart doth rise to lovo those men 
 1 hat taught the muse her first faint thoughts to pen • 
 He gladly baas the walls that tower on liHi ^ ' 
 Uimbiijg 111 pride and grace toward the slfy • 
 When finished here, may Fenwick's happy .ni„a 
 And sweetest soul, its gracious virtues find 
 1 V bless again through distant year's afar 
 And shed the light reflecting from his star 
 
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 PRESBYTEHi :^ IHTOCH-REV. F. GRAY 
 
 Here Scotia's sou xviii/: .,>dee effect 'o ^ause 
 Aiid search so decjp tht principles und laws 
 Which govern Gou in his projected plan 
 lo save a world of foul rebellious man. 
 He lifts those truths and principles divine 
 In graphic stroke he makes their glory shine 
 
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 To awe tlie luiiul and how witli cUkjik ucc 
 
 Our i)owcr8 ot'lioart by lloodfitlmt tall from thence, 
 
 Ue'll tako yon far in past eternity, 
 
 Unr.'ivcl triitlis that lianj? myHtcriously, 
 
 A.n(l oj/o them plain to th' enchanted ear 
 
 That we may know and learn that God to fear. 
 
 REV. MR. WILSON. 
 
 Here Wilson too, from the sweet emerald Isle,^ 
 The stranger's hand will grasp with happy smile. 
 And lead those song that from its shores do come 
 To God's own house, and make them feel at home, 
 Wheie those old triiths that sounded ever dear 
 Are heard anew in all their freshness here, 
 To 'jless the heart, and to illume the inind 
 Witli gracious truth, celestial in its kind, 
 His ample love and missionary soul 
 Doth labour on throughout these suburbs all. 
 If happily he may phick some burning brand 
 And guicle his soul to the celestial land, 
 And builds the Clmrch arouiul the country far 
 To honour Christ^ the bright and morning star. 
 The presbyt'ry do look and in him find 
 A servant true in labours of all kind. 
 
 THE POET'S ADIEU. 
 
 To thy bright shores the humble poet came. 
 No hopes beguiled, nor thirsted he for fVmie, 
 But left his muse free to dictate his song. 
 And pen bright thoughts in labor on his tongue ; 
 No emblems ] .urc, of pride or power had he, 
 No jewelled gold to shine refulgently. 
 Nor titled name to introduce to thee 
 His lineage long, or whence his pedigree ; 
 No outward charms that could attract thy tu. j 
 To cause thy love to pour on him its grace ; 
 But yet! thy homes wbre freely made his own, 
 thy tables spread with bounties overflown, 
 
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 And every g-ood that honor t^ould bestoM 
 Were Ireely given. While 'round thy sJ 
 The titled Lord, tlie kniglited Sir or Esc, 
 i>id welcome him around their family fire 
 And nothing saw except some spark of soul 
 Letrajing h^dit throughout his vision whole • 
 As gems m jet do shine the brighter there, ' 
 lliat spark within may with that gem con mare 
 wl '"VS^^'^I' thy grandieur to eStol ^ '' 
 With all the fire of his poetic soul • 
 And now adieu to lovely lake and shore, 
 Thy beautious isles whicli I may see no more , 
 I print a kiss, and fondly say farewell t ' ' 
 
 When wandering far I'll on thy glories dwell 
 Jarewel ye halls of beautious firecian prkle 
 Karewel ! ye towers that breast the billo vin "'tide < 
 
 ! fond adieu, ye glories of the lake, '' ' 
 And every scene that did my song awake • 
 l^arewell ! sweet youth, whose beauties win the he-irt 
 How can the bard from such sweet souls depa f ' 
 le sons of law and learning, each adieu ^ ' 
 
 1 left a thought of fond. regard for you. 
 
 1 he Mayor, farew^3ll! whoso mild benignity 
 ±.nchmned my cong and swelled my poetry 
 
 rin ? f-{f •"? '"^"'"^^ ^'''''^'^ f'-^"' ^ ™-"i Heart 
 Yea, treat it kmd, it cannot do you hurt • 
 
 i^ut, peradventurc may, some harp inspire 
 
 lo sing to thee with deeper bardic fire ' 
 
 boundmg hi. harj> on many a distjint shore 
 but says one truth, and after that, fareweir' 
 lie ovcd thy shore and will thy glories tell 
 Am l_ trusts to meet thee evermore above ' 
 io sing again in everlasting love. 
 
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