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 TO CANADA. 
 
 By Rkv. J. T. 
 
 BREESE. 
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 Royal Letter to Rev. J. T. Breese, Congregational 
 Minister, Alton. 
 
 BucKiNOHAM PAL.4.CE, March 6th, 1879. 
 Lieutenant General Fonsonby has received the Queen'a 
 commands to thank the Rev. James T. Breese for sending 
 hu Poem on Princess Louise, which Her Majesty has been 
 graciously pleased to accept. 
 
 Government House, Ottawa, Jan. 29th, 1879. 
 Sir. — I am desired by Her Royal Highness, Princess 
 Louise, to thank you for|so kindly sending the Poem which 
 ai rived to-day. And at the same time I am desired to say 
 how much touched Her Royal Highness was by it. 
 
 I am, Si" your obedient servant, 
 
 RICHARD MORETON. 
 To Rev. J. T. Breese, Private Secretary. 
 
 Alton, Ont. 
 
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 Welcome, loving gentle Princess, 
 
 To our humble forest shore, 
 Million hearts do throb to greet thee, 
 
 With the love their depths can pour. 
 Leave the throne of ancient glory 
 
 With its glitter and its show, 
 And enthrone thy beauteous nature, 
 
 In the love our bosoms know. 
 
 Come with all thy native graces, 
 
 From the pomp of Euro})e'8 pride, 
 Bring them with thy gifted nature. 
 
 Briskly o'er the ocean's tide. 
 We do need the higher culture. 
 
 To refine our heaiii and soul, 
 Let us read thy finer instincts. 
 
 As they'll on our country roll. 
 
 Rough and rude to thy fine spirit. 
 Will be all around thee here, 
 
 With the absence of a presence, 
 That was always to thee dear. 
 
 
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 Vet our humble hearts will love thee, 
 Rude, unpolished though they be, 
 
 And the streams that will flow from them, 
 Will not be despised by thee. 
 
 [f some genius could ere raise us. 
 It would be thine own so pure. 
 
 Gentle as the holy sunbeam, 
 Thou wilt our rude hearts allure. 
 
 It was thine own soul of lustre. 
 
 Eagle-eyed, undimmed by art. 
 That the royal glories always 
 
 Doth on lower minds impart. 
 It was thine to choose a consort 
 
 For his native worth and light. 
 As his moral natin'e brightened 
 
 With a true sense of the right. 
 
 Blessed be thou for the honor 
 
 Thou didst pay to royal man. 
 Just because truth's holy image 
 
 Through his noble nature ran. 
 Therefore it is meet we welcome 
 
 One so beautiful and true, 
 Who loved nature's high-wrought bearing 
 
 As true manhood d.-izzled through. 
 
 We'll half yield thee our affections. 
 
 As thy mother ruled our heart,' 
 Take her sovereign love and rule ns. 
 
 Never from us more to part. 
 Thou hast placed the soul of empire. 
 
 In the human heart and soul, 
 Not in ivory nor in topaz. 
 
 Shall the sceptre o'er us roll. 
 
 But nobility of genius, 
 
 Robed in beauty of the truth. 
 That shone through a manly natur» 
 
 In the bloom of glowing youth. 
 And humanity sliall prize thee 
 
 As thou didst this honor plaoa 
 On our rank by loving freely 
 
 One for his own many grace. 
 
 Thou hast made it royal ever, 
 
 That our love shall royal be. 
 Flowing in pur bosoms fi'eely 
 
 In i^ richest forms to thee ; 
 Touch our nature, gifted angel. 
 
 Who true art dost represent, 
 Shed upon oiu* souls .the\ beauty 
 
 That thy Qod to thee hath lent. 
 
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 Bring again the lustrious genius, 
 
 Offspring of the father's mind, 
 Vif ith the higher love thy mother 
 
 Sheds on ompii'es vast, so kind. 
 Gome then with the native graces 
 
 That are shining in thy soul, 
 Touch Columbia's sons of freedom, 
 
 Bring them back from Pole to Polf». 
 
 Heaven may have her secret purpose 
 
 In thy matrimonial life 
 In descending from the Royal, 
 
 To become a subject's wife. 
 This will e'er endear thy nature, 
 
 To the great democracy. 
 That their love will echo proudly. 
 
 Back in thunder tones to thee. 
 
 Oome and win them who have wandered, 
 
 Like a truant child away ; 
 Tell them thou wilt gladly welcome 
 
 Them beneath Britannia's sway. 
 And thy own sweet sceptre's |)ower, 
 
 Democratic and alive, 
 To development of genius. 
 
 That may always 'neath it thrive. 
 
 That one language and one people, 
 We might yet sway all the world, 
 
 With Britannia s simple banner, 
 O'er them in pride unfurled. 
 
 'Neath one " vine and fig-tree," freely, 
 
 America and Britain dwell. 
 Giving to earth's tribes the blessings 
 
 They enjoy from heaven so well. 
 Looking forward for the dawning 
 
 Of a sweet Millennial day. 
 When one Sovereign and one Saviouri- 
 
 Will on earth His sceptre swfty. 
 
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 'Twas an error and a 
 
 In them both at first to part ; 
 Time hath healed the wound that errOf 
 
 Fastened in each other's heart: 
 For their Jeffreys and their WebMtM, 
 
 Had our blood flow in thetr^«i&* ; 
 And 'tis highest wisdom in tis 
 
 Both to live beneath one reign. 
 
 It is right that proud Oolumbia 
 Should return with all their store. 
 
 And confess they are our brothers 
 Coming home to roam no more. 
 
 
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 Wit would glndly hail and welcome 
 Them beneath thy mother's throne, 
 
 We would kiss the truant brother, 
 Call him fondly yet our own. 
 
 Come, loved Princess, sway the magic 
 
 Wand of power o'er them now, 
 Like a gentle shepherd lead them 
 
 'Fore their former throne to bow. 
 Be a link to yet unite them 
 
 To Britannia's hallowe<l shore, 
 That one law of true affection 
 
 May rebind thorn one e'er more. 
 
 Touch them with the magic beauty 
 
 That adorns thy gifted mind. 
 That a throne could not allure, 
 
 Nor the proudest sceptre bind. 
 Bring thy high-wrought sense of beauty, 
 
 Chase the rudeness we may know. 
 And, with native polished graces, 
 
 Cause our humble land to glow. 
 
 We are only in embryo, 
 
 Crystalizing to come forth, 
 Come and guide our forms to beauty ; 
 
 Kin to those of higliost worth. 
 Come, direct the eye of Europe 
 
 To our Province, wealth and power. 
 Come, and o'er this vast dominion, 
 
 More than Royal blessing shower. 
 
 Gentle one, O come, and quickly, 
 
 Panting hearts of loyal love 
 Wait to pour their fervour on thee. 
 
 As some child of heaven above. 
 Give us art and strike the rudeness 
 
 Native to our shores away ; 
 Give our habits inspii'ation, 
 
 Of a holier, brighter day. 
 
 We shall then embalm thy memory. 
 
 In our country heart of fire, 
 And Victoria's children's children 
 
 Will be valued higher and higher. 
 So our hearts will long rotain them, 
 
 Gentle in their folds of love 
 Until borne on brighter pinions 
 
 To seraphic thrones above. 
 
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 WEEGK OF THE STEAMER WAUBUNO 
 
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 Georgian Bay, November 22nd, i8yg. 
 
 By Rev. .1. T. Brkessk, ALA. 
 
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 Air : " The Cotta'jt' hii the Sm." 
 
 (/omr* my coiiinideH, stof) the rapturo 
 Of your hiu-rieil footsteps now ; 
 Turn aside while I may tell you 
 How tlu^ VVaubum) did bow ; 
 (Jruel was the fate that struck iier 
 After laboring many a day, 
 Nobly plowing o'er the billows, 
 Through the storm, .so bright and gay. 
 
 Laughing at the whistling fury 
 Of proud nature s angry frown. 
 As she many a stormy hour, 
 Threat before to plunge her down ; 
 But her day of youth and glory 
 Had passed like a cloud away. 
 Leaving nature as she ever 
 Was in one strength and proud array. 
 
 In the wild storms of November. 
 She came in an angry ujood. 
 Like a woman in a passion, 
 Forgetting to be goo«l 
 But broke forth in storm and frenzy 
 Of wild frowns that fatal hour, 
 While the proud Waubuno vessel, 
 Sank beneath her bitter power. 
 
 Captain Burkitt launched her bi-oad sidesi 
 [n the morn 'fore break of day. 
 Waited not for tide or sunshine, 
 He must be in pride away. 
 Darkness hung then o'er the heavens, 
 Like a veil on nature's face, 
 Hiding all the sullen purpose, 
 That would it that hour deface. 
 
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 TliirUwii liiiiv««, li(<i'oi«' Huilorti, 
 Venlurtxi witli liim on tlio (leu|», 
 [ii tlib ]>ruu(l ill-futod vcMHel, 
 Vov which wo thJH momunt woop. 
 Shall wo blaino him, hv waHflarin>; 
 Who (lofitMl th<! stormy sua / 
 lie had fought iii iiumy a liatth^, 
 Aim] rotunu'd to honic in glof. 
 
 So (lid |>i'oud Napoleon also, 
 Ah hu heat down luanv a throne, 
 And at last Hank 'r'ore tlie teri'ors 
 Ke created round hiH own. 
 The incaution and the *larin^° 
 Should then eurit our ruling power, 
 That luay sway the breast the hight'st 
 And enslave us any hour. 
 
 Was the v«!MHel safe to venture ( 
 Was it wise to load so well ( 
 Let t,he eaution iu the future, 
 (.)ther wisfM- sailoi's te/f. 
 Uenius of the sea '. what fury 
 Didst Mion brave, when sea and eltMid 
 < 'oMie iiri'ayed to lireak in battle, 
 And tiiv noble darliii<^ l>owed. 
 
 
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 Kightin.,' with the storm was mighty. 
 But a. stoi'ui rose in each soul, 
 Thnjwing waves upon their spirits, 
 That their wills could not control ; 
 Paiting with the helm had sorrow. 
 Parting wllh the ship had woe, 
 But the |)arting with home loved ones 
 Was to then\ the fatal l)low. 
 
 What I his spirit echoed sadly. 
 Ne^•er see my home and wife. 
 Must I part with them for ever, 
 Leave theni in this world of strife '. 
 Uenius couhl not now manaMivre 
 Any way to find tl:r shore, 
 Though the life boat i.s found has'tly. 
 And strong nerves do ply the oar, 
 
 Down the passengers and crew must 
 fiow before the angry storm. 
 Leaving all so dear and tendei-, 
 Ijoved ones, too, of slender form ; 
 Never will their loving footsteps 
 Echo at their homes again. 
 O ! unhappy memories threaten. 
 Yet to wj-eck the aching bn«u. 
 
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 SVhunt is iiiud our toruli^r fiithei' 
 Who hiiH wimloru, might, and love ! 
 In Hr Hluoping, can he Hee them 
 Thi'ough the dark uloudii from above ? 
 VV here'H the niiniHtry of Angels, 
 Sent us in uuoh evil day ? 
 Why did they not stop tli«M;aplnin 
 Plunging in the foaniiu;; spruy .' 
 
 Why not rush, then, intervening 
 T'ween tho hasty mptain'H plan, 
 To deter his purpoHe starting 
 And check back the daring man ; 
 J£t' luiH love and power and wisdom, 
 And he gives us each a share, 
 Makes responsible our Ronses 
 In this deep and sad atfair. 
 
 (lod will ne'er perform the labor 
 That for us he has assigiKnl, 
 That would not fulfil his purpos<! 
 To bring forth each power of mind ; 
 He must answer from the lieavor;s, 
 I was present there and felt 
 All the keenness of your sorrow 
 As you 'fore My footstool knelt ; 
 
 But the prim'ry laws of nature 
 Were the lirst I had to hear, 
 Or the millions enelosed in them 
 Would, too, shed to me a tear. 
 (Jod has buried them like Moses, 
 No one knows their lonely grave ; 
 Wife nor children cannot gather 
 There to let their tears lave. 
 
 And no weeping willow marks it. 
 Winds that dash'd them down alone 
 Meet to sing their saildest requiem, 
 And on each its passion moan ; 
 In the deep inquiet lieauty, 
 Rests their forms here loved so well, 
 Love cannot awhile ebalm them 
 Where they all in sorrow fell. 
 
 Side tlu^ shore we stand a weeping, 
 Dropping down our tears of woe, 
 Asking the proud waves to pass them 
 On where they our loved ones know : 
 God of wisdom we are folly, 
 We cannot thy purpose read. 
 Thou art 'bove the clouds and reigning 
 Where their spirits all are free'd. 
 
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 Head tlieni in our dreams to tell uft 
 WTiere the mystery of it lies, 
 Our philosophies do fail us 
 And our oldest wisdom dies ; 
 Wo will wait to hear thy lesson 
 With the wisdom God doth know. 
 When it shall in riper glories 
 * >n our higher powers flow. 
 
 God of tenderness and mercy, 
 Break tlie fuiy of the storm, 
 Come and heal the hearts thus broken, 
 Lift their sorrow-beaten form, 
 Kiss them in thy love, and tell them 
 All shall work for future good, 
 When they'll meet them in the morning. 
 Robed and washed in Jesu's Vilood.