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Last of its race beside our college	A
There stands an Oak Tree centuries old	B
Which could it voice its stores of knowledge	C
Might many a wondrous tale unfold	B
It marked the birth of two fair towns	D
And mourned the cruel fate of one	E
Yet still withstands grim Winter's frowns	D
And glories in the Summer sun	E
	-
Jacques Cartier passed its branches under	F
Up yonder mount one autumn day	G
And viewed with ever growing wonder	F
The scene that spread beneath him lay	G
He was the first from Europe's shore	H
To pass beneath the Oak Tree's shade	I
The first whose vision wandered o'er	F
Such boundless wealth of stream and glade	I
	-
Beneath his feet a little village	C
Lay like a field lark in her nest	J
Amid the treasures of its tillage	C
The maize in golden colors dressed	J
Years passed and when again there came	K
A stranger to that peaceful spot	L
Gone was the village and its name	K
Save by a few gray heads forgot	L
	-
But soon beneath the Oak another	F
And sturdier village took its place	M
One that the gentle Virgin mother	F
Has kept from ruin by her grace	M
She saved it from the dusky foes	N
Who thirsted for its heroes' blood	O
And when December waters rose	N
About its walls she stilled the flood	O
	-
What noble deeds and cruel stranger	F
Than aught in fiction ere befell	P
What weary years of war and danger	F
That village knew the Oak might tell	P
Perchance brave Dollard sat of yore	H
Beneath its very shade and planned	Q
A deed should make for evermore	H
His name a trumpet in the land	Q
	-
Perchance beneath its gloomy shadows	N
De Vaudreuil sat that bitter day	G
When round about him in the meadows	N
Encamped the British forces lay	G
And as he wrote the fatal word	R
That gave an Empire to the foe	S
The Old Oak's noble heart was stirred	R
With an unutterable woe	S
	-
The army of a hostile nation	E
Once since hath entered Ville Marie	T
But we avenged that desecration	E
At Chrystler's farm and Chateauguay	U
Peace peace 'tis cowardly to flout	V
Our triumphs in a cousin's face	M
That page was long since blotted out	V
And Friendship written in its place	M
	-
Beloved of Time the Old Oak flourished	W
While at its foot its little charge	C
An eaglet by a lion nourished	W
Grew mighty by the river marge	C
Till where the deer were wont to roam	X
There throbs to day a nation's heart	Y
Of wealth and luxury the home	X
Of learning industry and art	Y
	-
No longer now the church bells' ringing	U
Fills all the little town with life	Z
Its loud tongued startling clangor bringing	U
Young men and aged to the strife	Z
No longer through the midnight air	A2
The savage hordes their war cries peal	B2
As rushing from their forest lair	A2
They meet the brave defenders' steel	B2
	-
Long has the reign of war been ended	O
And Commerce crowned whose stately fleet	C2
Brings ever treasures vast and splendid	O
To lay them humbly at her feet	C2
And now her eager sons to day	G
Have crossed the wild north western plain	D2
And made two oceans own her sway	G
Held captive by a slender chain	D2
	-
What further Time may be preparing	U
For this fair town the years will tell	P
But while her sons retain their daring	U
Their zeal and honor all is well	P
Still as the seasons come and go	U
Long may they spare the Old Oak Tree	T
In age as erst in youth to throw	U
Protection over Ville Marie	T

Arthur Weir

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