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'• f "H.. www CANADA 01. ■\ ., • *" CANADA 'tr:-4 BY JAMES JOSEPH GAHAN J QUEBEC PRINTED BY T. G DILI-LE, I, PORT DAUPHIN J^TREET 1S77 ippiw^^imp DEDICATED TO LOUIS HONORE FRECHETTE ESQ. M. P. BY HIS FRIEND TEIE AUTHOR, 'f^,¥ • " ^^^ '*' ' ':^ f ■'W.-,"?i"'TT ' ^ .1 _1,15IJ - 4H» (,.11» CANADA! Land of my love ! Dear Canada, my home I Land of majestic streams, and mountains grand ! My heart turns ever to thee, though I roam At times far from thee, on a distant strand Land of legend ! Land of hv oes brave, I hail thee, first-born, of the sons of France. May Freedom's arm be ever stretched to save, Thee, Canada, from Slavery's dark trance ! Hi — 8 II % An oxile irom old Erin, thee I clioose To licncef'orth Hhelter all my waning years— A tender mother, thou didst not refuse ^ To shield ; but kissed away my falling tears. With soul refreshed, upon thy soil I stood, A freeman, fvGQ from European thrall ; And then I vowed to give to thee mj. blood, My life, my hopes, my loves, ray future, all ! Ill That vow I gave thoe in ihe summer noon When first 1 ploughed the deep St. Lawrence' tiae, Upon thy festal day in gorgeous June When memories throng to fill thy heart with pride. 1 saw thy sons rejoice in honest glee — Th\ dark-oved daughters smiling as the dawn — And my pent soul burst in an extasy, - ' And leaped with all the lightness of a fawn I '. 9 IV Dear Canada ! Wliat brilliant beauty blooms Upon thy rivers, lakes, and sparkliMg rills ? Thy lovely glades are lader with ])eri'inne&-- Which waft their fragrance o'er thy purple hill^ ♦ Thy lofty pines are waving in the breeze Which sweeps the spaces of tlie mighty West ; While wild-birds fill thy groves with melodies That calm the soul into a happy rest ! tiae, pride. How beauteous beautiful thv loftv dome Where myriad gracefi have perennial birth ? It seems a glimpse of glory, yet to come, In brilliance bathing hospitable earth ! And yet thy beauty is not that alone Which for the moment dazzles, and then dies- Its essence is the spirit that has shone With lustrous light in thy historic sK'ies \" ID — VI For Canada, thy truest beauty beams Ir Freedom's gorgeous, glorious, sacred glow ; Thy holiest light for ever brightly gleams, From Freedom's shrine — the grave of Papineaii ! His was a soul that, fearless, ever sprung Beyond the meaner strifes of petty men : His dauntless heart to Freedom ever clung — Canadians ne'er may see his like again 1 VII In him bright Freedom saw the hope of Trath Dawn freshly o'er this fair Canadian land- In very age his heart was filled with youth, E'er dreaming visions lofty, pure, and grand. With patriot zeal, he wielded patriot power, And compact tyrants felt his mighty spell ; He gave his country. Freedom's holy dower, ^ And vainly, words, his praises seek to tell ! — 11 YTII ail '. Oh I glorious were the patriot hopes of yore — The hopes which thrilled this land in Thirty-Seven, When Liberty, baptised in freemen's gore- ' - Arose, transcendent, like a star of Heaven ! The heroes of that epoch ever live Within the loves of grateful men, and ne'er Can tyrants from our hearts their memories rive, Or from our souls, the reverence due them, teiir ! IX .h L Tis radiant noon -rOrion sheds his ray Upon the river neath me flowing free ; Of flowej'S wild I gather many a spray Amongst the towering hills of old Levis ! I watch the quivering of each leafy grovo, And dream sweet dreamings of the golden past, When Hilda poured the nectar sweet of love In moon-rayed cups, too fondly dear to last t V — 12 X In moon -rayed wine-cups, Hilda gave to me 1 The sweet, delirious, thrilling draught of love — I drank it with a spirit bounding free, >. Nor deemed that e'er our soula apart would rove. Yet, Canada, I bless thee for that hour When, lip to lip, I clasped her in my arms ; And felt the mystic, Witching, wondrous power Of dark-eyed Hilda's ever freyhening charms 1 XI We sought the nooks where the wild roses grow,* And watched the red sun setting in the West : # We sought the glades where crystal streamlets tiow, While, Love, exultant, throbbed within each breast ! We heard the song-birds niaking melody ' Where Echo floats delighted through the vale ; And whispered, soft, Aff'ection's harmony — Ah ! ever dear is true love's tender tale I III VA XII Dear mnhern land— the sweetest of the sweet ! Thy morn is ever bright, thy evening fair- Lethargic is that soul which fails to greet, The balmy freshness of thy fragrant air ! Thou art an Eden, Canada, my home, And when ray spirit quits this garb c^f claj, I ask the Gods that I may ever roam. Amid the beauties of thy Summer day ! XITI For then thy verdant landscapes, fair to view, Doth gently wave in the ambrosial breeze ; Tis.then the amorous day god sips the dew, Which sparkles in each leaflet of the trees ! Tis then the ray lets dance in every stream That lightly leaps its pebbled course along ; Tis then the blue-birds, twittering in the beam Transport the soul with their gay Summer song ^- — 14 — XIY Oh ! sta\ with me forever, ye bright- dreams Of aerial castles and melodious bowers, y '■'■-] -M Where fancy's bark sweeps over laughing streams VYhich kiss banks laden with luxuriant flowers ! Oh ! sta}^ with me, and tip with silver light ^ f ^ ; . The memories sweetest of that lovely maid, ■, Whose eyes, like twin-stars, in the Summer night ^ Illumed my soul, while straying in the glade ! "f; % XV i ..Jil Tis June — the morning o'er our Northern hills : With majesty ascends in golden pride ; A sheet of beauty is upon the rills • -. Which haste to swell the great St. Lawrence' tide. The flowers are spangled with the diamond-dew^ The maples sway in the light, early breeze , . v And melodies, though ancient ever new. Awake the harps of overarching trees 1 r vi- •,/ '•% 15-- XYI Tis morn— and most wondrous fair, the scene, Which greets my vision o'er the spreading plain ; By friends surrounded— hark ! from the village green What strains are those? Ah ! 'tis La Claire Fontaine. Oh 1 dulcet anthem swelling to the skies, Forever echo far from shox^e to shore, While Freedom's star doth lustrously arise To guide the hearts which ever upward soar ! X7II Oh ! Fresh and fair and lovely is the scene. The distant hiUs are decked in glad array ; The flowery vales so richly, deeply green Are clad, like brides, in beauty's garments, gay ! The glorious sun, Jehovah's gorgeous priest, ^ f v Advancing, gilds the mountain and the plain — Behold him, mitred in the golden East, • ^^v With streams of glory in his crimson train*! ' ~ 16— K XVIII i Tis eve — and Phoebus setting in the West Doth linger long beyond the mountains tall ; Upon St. Lawrence, like a spirit blest, > The crystal lights from silvery Luna fall I The vesper bells are stealing gently o'er ., From swelling hill, and deep, secluded glen ; The twinkling orbs in boundless ether soar, And solemn Night assumes her sway again {. XiX Tis pleasant now beneath the beechen boughs Upon the sward to sit with treasured friends ; And pledge once more Af!ection*8 holy vows . : ' While loving Hope with Peace in sweetness blends \ Tiz pleasant now beneath the evening star / Sf To waft our fancies on the dewy breeze ; And watch the rippling wavelets sweeping far, While magic whisperings fill the spreading trees ! — IT — XX Mid scenes like those, dear Poet-friend of miiio My heart firbt opened to thee, as a rose, The sun of which was that kind heart of thino, Which warmly hoam d, and warmer daily grows ; And as the storied flower ever turns Its beauty to the day-star's i^Iorious lirrht So turns my soul to love that strongly burns, To bask beneath thy genius, glowing bright I XXI I met thee in the early morn of life, And joined with gladness Freedom's Spartan band; And, eager, mingled in the sacred strife To sentinel from foes this treasured land ! For, though immortal beauties ever shower - O'er river, vale and mountain tall, their lights Yet, sacreligious men would hail the hour Of Freedom's spasmic death in slavish blights ! — 18 XXI 1 Dftik-miiulod men ! Fanaticism, their (Jod, \V1k), evil Bee in evoiy march of Mind : Wlio long to wield the Incpisition's rod, And scourge the holy rights of human kind ! . Who preach the Wasting creed of " right divine," And lead I obedience passive, to the Crown — ' Those are lliy foes, Freclietto, and those^are mine Wlio seek to tear the flag of Freedom down ! 1.1 XXIII Ik'hold them — hypocritio in their arts, Sporting with Eoligion's sacred name, Like white- washed sepulchres ; their impure hearts Have never felt the glow of Manhood's flame 1 Degenerate sons of hero sires are they, ' ■■' i' With every noble aspiration dead — : ' 1 They see no beauty in the crimson ray - -^ Wiiich ever beams on fields where martvrs bled ! »(■:;■•■■ — 19 XXIV Was it for this Jacques Cartior crossed the sea ? Ten thousand spirit-voices answer : No ! Was it for this they charged at St. Denis, Or, hero-swords surrounded Papineau ? Or, is it now, when Peace is on the hand, And Frank, and Celt, and Saxon, meet as one. With giant strides, advancing hand in hand. Toward the fullest noon of .Veedora's sun-l xxv^ When Science, in her grand triumphal car, With Progress, over leading in the van, Is drawn, magnetic, to the brilliant star Of Learning, beaming o'er awakened man - Is this the time to barrier the flow Of Knowledge, with mere idle creeds and forms Five hundred thousand voices answer : No, ' In tones as sweeping as the sweeping storms ! wiifmmi^mmmim'mmwmiiiM n — 20 — XXYI Is this the time Reaction to invoke — Is this the age to stay the torrent-roll Of Liberty, and with a cunning stroke Of darkling guile to smite the free-born j^oul Is this the time Corruption to enthrone, And basely sell the honor of the land ? " No. I No. ! " exclaim the hero-spirits gone, In accents loud of patriot command ! ? XXYII We hearken to those voices, proud and sage, Eternal moni^>r8 of Truth are they ; . k^ And thougl. ijimortal warfare were to wage, Yet, tirm we stand in Freedom's bright array ! Invincible, we scorn the sordid host, Whose End is Office, and whose God, is Spoil ; And from Atlantic to Pacific coast, To guard the land we hold our proudest toil t i'.-'- 21 xxyiiT Oh, Liher.y! Th„u art our souls' de.ire ■ (iroM (ioddess .' All thy bonison. impart', And fill With purest glow, the patriot tire Un.juenchable in each Canadian heart ! Thy scei.tre, hloometh over as the rod Of Aaron, in the Temple of the free ; And suppliant, we beg of nature's God To bless this land from centre unto sea- XXIX To k( op this land, Victoria's brightest ^em I To guard it erer from Disaster, dire ; To crown it with Truth's radiant diadem, And every soul with Freeiom to inspire ! Oh, Canada ! Adopted land of mine, Accept this humble tribute of mv son^r_ -Afay Peace, dear land, with Happiness be thine, And countless ages all thy joys prolong ! Quebec, lotli September, 1877.