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You named it better than you knew	A
Who called yon little town Lachine	A
Though through the lapse of years between	A
The then and now men jeered at you	A
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You thought by it to find a way	B
Through voiceful woods and shimmering lakes	C
To where the calm Pacific breaks	C
On weedy ledges at Cathay	B
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In fancy you beheld yon tide	D
Upbear a thousand argosies	C
Whose spicy odors filled the breeze	C
And floated far on every side	D
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'Twas but a wish born dream men said	E
And sneered that you were so unwise	C
Blind scoffers Would that they could rise	C
A few short moments from the dead	E
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To see how through the power of man	A
Your vision is no more a dream	F
And learn that this majestic stream	F
Is now the highway to Japan	A
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From year to year with dauntless strides	C
O'er fertile plains your sons have pressed	G
Portaging from the East to West	G
Between the two great ocean tides	C
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And in their trail they drew a chain	A
Of steel across the virgin land	H
Uniting with this slender band	H
The eastern and the western main	A
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Where once the bison roamed and woke	I
The heavens with his thunderous tread	E
The tireless engine speeds instead	E
And tosses high its plumes of smoke	I
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Like spider in a web it creeps	C
On filmy bridge o'er sparkling streams	C
Or chasms where the sunlight gleams	C
Part way and dies amid the deeps	C
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It scales the rugged snow clad peaks	C
And looks afar on East and West	G
Then like an eagle from its nest	G
Darts down and through the valley shrieks	C
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It was not formed by Nature's hand	H
This sun ward highway to Japan	A
O'er mountain range and prairie man	A
Has forced the path his genius planned	H
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And Commerce universal king	J
Has followed with unnumbered needs	C
And scatters everywhere the seeds	C
Of towns that in a night upspring	J
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In tumult strange the air abounds	C
The whirr of birds is dying out	K
The swart mechanic's lusty shout	K
Amid the clang of iron sounds	C
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And streams that once unbroken ran	A
Now on their outspread scroll reveal	L
Written by many a sliding keel	L
The lordly signature of man	A

Arthur Weir

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