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Come now my Muse do thou inspire my pen	A
To sing with worthy strain my country's praise	B
But not to hide the faults within my ken	A
By tricks of art or studied verbal maze	B
To play on him who reads with careless gaze	B
To whom each thought upon a printed page	C
Is gospel truth nor e'er with wile betrays	B
From this oh steer me clear nor let the rage	C
Of prejudic'd and narrow minds my thoughts engage	C
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Oh Canada the land where first I saw	D
The blue of heav'n and bursting light of day	E
Where breezes warm and mild and breezes raw	F
First o'er my boyhood's eager face did play	E
As o'er the hills I stepp'd my joyful way	E
Held by a loving hand I went along	G
Thro' shelter'd wood or by some shaded bay	E
And ever as I went I sang a song	G
With sylvan joy amid a sylvan throng	G
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For birds and bees and e'en the flowers did sing	H
Their cheerful songs with voices pure and sweet	I
Their notes were silent yet those notes did bring	H
A soothing balm amid a calm retreat	I
Protected from the sun's relentless heat	I
Oh wearied men could ye but once divine	J
The healing pow'r of some lone country seat	I
You would not strive to drown your care in wine	J
Or vainly seek relief in any lustful line	J
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But this is not a moralizing lay	E
Of Canada I sing and her alone	K
Her varied progress every passing day	E
Her faults for which in time she must atone	K
By nature's law in every clime and zone	K
Then what are the peculiar common claims	L
Our country has with nations larger grown	K
And the superior things she classes as her own	K
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First let us take her climate who will not	M
Say she is favour'd there o'er other lands	N
The winter's cold indeed and summer's hot	M
But in a robust health the native stands	N
So keen to work with brain or use his hands	N
Where let me ask between the distant poles	O
Is there a clime so mod'rate in demands	N
Where men are not compell'd to live like moles	O
Nor drop with heat on burning barren sandy knolls	O
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A hardy energetic toilsome race	O
Is raised within this favourable clime	P
In physical and mental power apace	O
With those of any land and any time	P
Save in the golden age that age of thought sublime	P
But what I mean is this that her own men	A
Do act their parts they reason or they rhyme	P
Within their bounds with keen far reaching ken	A
For those who late have left the axe to wield the pen	A
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Yes left the axe whose skilful cleaving stroke	Q
Hew'd out a home from 'mid the forest wild	R
Where grew the maple and the lofty oak	Q
Where liv'd the dusky colour'd forest child	R
So sternly fierce in war in peace so mild	R
Yes here the settler met with Nature's force	O
Quite unsubdued she look'd around and smil'd	R
And seem'd to view with scorn the white man's course	O
Of labour slow but yet of wealth the only source	O
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But still the patient white man plodded on	S
He swung his axe and drove his horned team	P
At times he felt despair but soon 'twas gone	T
And gladsome rays of hope would brightly gleam	P
To cheer his path like light on darken'd stream	P
Some saw their hopes fulfill'd some sank to rest	U
Amid their toil but sinking saw the beam	P
Of brighter days to make their children blest	U
And give a rich reward to ev'ry earnest guest	U
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These latter gaz'd on fertile fields and saw	O
The waving grain where stood the forest tree	V
Where prowl'd the bear or wolf with hungry maw	O
Howl'd in the settlers' ears so dismally	V
That children crouch'd near to their mother's knee	V
They saw instead of plain bark roof'd abode	W
A mansion wide the scene of youthful glee	V
And happy Age now resting on his road	W
To pay the debt his sinning kind so long hath ow'd	W
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The organ or piano sounds its tone	K
Where late in darkness cried the whip poor will	X
Or gloomy owl's to whoo to whoo alone	K
Came from the glen or darkly wooded hill	X
These sounds untaught and unimprov'd in skill	X
All round where'er they look they see a change	Y
By rolling lake by river mount or rill	X
Wherever feet may walk or eyes may range	Y
There is a transformation pleasing new and strange	Y
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Schools churches built in costly solid style	Z
Proclaim the fact that here a higher life	A2
Is liv'd than that of seeking all the while	Z
For wealth and pow'r amid ignoble strife	A2
Degrading unto husband son or wife	A2
The scholar's light and blest religion's smile	Z
Ennobles soothes and lends a joy to life	A2
A pow'r which counteracts the trickster's wile	Z
And blunts the edge of slander undeserv'd and vile	Z
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From where the fierce Atlantic waters rage	C
Unto the mild Pacific's fertile shore	B2
Small villages to cities rise and wage	C
A steady war but not a war of gore	B2
A friendly rivalry exists no more	B2
Save in the far North West where savage clan	C2
Ungrateful rise and make a serious sore	B2
Whose pains increas'd as eastward far it ran	C2
And plac'd the British race beneath the Frenchman's ban	C2
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But quickly let us hope the time may come	P
When peacefully the British flag shall wave	D2
And when the rebels' terrorizing drum	P
Shall be as still as Kiel's rebel grave	D2
O'er the wide land whose sides two oceans lave	D2
When demagogues of party shall retire	E2
Or curb their selfish zeal their land to save	D2
From factious feuds and savage rebel fire	F2
And all that tends to raise the patriot's scorn and ire	E2
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From ocean unto ocean runs a band	G2
A double band of hard and gleaming steel	H2
It binds in one this fertile mighty land	G2
In bonds which all should recognize and feel	H2
If anxious to promote their country's weal	H2
A bond which Nature's sympathetic law	H2
Should fasten on our hearts with solid seal	H2
Which factious feuds should ne'er asunder draw	H2
Nor wily traitors cut by selfish treason's saw	H2
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The strange stupendous magic power of steam	P
In works is great as fam'd Aladdin's ring	H
It carries men o'er miles of land and stream	P
And maketh loom and forge with labour sing	H
And o'er the land a busy air doth fling	H
That fluid too that none can well define	J
In active life hath wrought a wondrous thing	H
It speeds our words with lightning flash or sign	J
And maketh glorious light from midnight's darkness shine	J
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Then to our country's future we may gaze	O
With gladden'd eyes and hearts with hope aglow	H2
That our young country still its head will raise	O
And stand 'mid nations in the foremost row	H2
High honour'd there and honour'd not for show	H2
For solid worth and lasting pow'r and fame	P
Will be her portion if her footsteps go	H2
In duty's path and if the ruddy flame	P
Of honor shines within and keeps away all shame	P

Thomas Frederick Young

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