Canadian Cities of RomanceMcClelland and Stewart, 1922 - 191 ページ |
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56 ページ - One midst the forests of the West, By a dark stream, is laid ; The Indian knows his place of rest Far in the cedar shade. The sea, the blue lone sea, hath one, He lies where pearls lie deep, He was the loved of all, yet none O'er his low bed may weep. One sleeps where southern vines are drest Above the noble slain ; He wrapt his colours round his breast On a blood-red field of Spain.
108 ページ - ... Girdled with woods and shod with river foam, Called by a name as old as Troy or Rome, Be great as they, but pure as thine own snow ; Rather flash up amid the auroral glow, The Lamia city of the northern star, Than be so hard with craft or wild with war, Peopled with deeds remembered for their woe. Thou art too bright for guile, too young for tears, And thou wilt live to be too strong for Time ; For he may mock thee with his furrowed frowns, But thou wilt grow in calm throughout the years, Cinctured...
118 ページ - Here in this hive we're all alive,' Good liquor makes us funny ; If you are dry, step in and try The flavor of our honey.
182 ページ - Then the Sagalie Tyee smiled on His Indian children: 'I will make these young-eyed maidens immortal,' He said. In the cup of His hands He lifted the Chief's two daughters and set them forever in a high place, for they had borne two offspring — Peace and Brotherhood — each of which is now a great Tyee ruling this land. "And on the mountain crest the...
84 ページ - When the breadth of scarlet bunting Puts the wreath of maple on, I must cheer too, — slip my moorings With the ships of gray St. John. Peerless-hearted port of heroes, Be a word to lift the world, Till the many see the signal Of the few once more unfurled. Past the lighthouse, past the nunbuoy, Past the crimson rising sun, There are dreams go down the harbor With the tall ships of St.
68 ページ - ... magnificence of it ; the ladies sat down at table, and the gentlemen waited upon them. Among other ornaments, which were altogether superb, there were exact representations of messrs. Hartshorne and Tremaine's new Flour mill, and of the Wind mill on the Common. The model of the new Light house at Shelburne was incomparable, and the tract of the new road from Pictou was delineated in the most ingenious and surprizing manner, as was the representation of our Fisheries, that great source of the...
67 ページ - ... was tenanted by its royal master, and in that brief space how great has been the devastation of the elements! A few years more, and all trace of it will have disappeared for ever. Its very site will soon become a matter of doubt. The forest is fast reclaiming its own, and the lawns and ornamented gardens, annually sown with seeds scattered by the winds from the surrounding woods, are relapsing into a state of nature, and exhibiting in detached patches a young growth of such trees as are common...
52 ページ - Quebec, who accompanied him, describes the church as " long, low. blue wooden building, with square windows, and a little cupola, or steeple for the bell, like the thing on a brewery, placed at the wrong end of the building.
128 ページ - ... electric speech." Dr. Bell's own words tell the story of his coming to Brantford in 1870 — after he had been given six months to live. He says: "I recall the Brantford of those days, the Grand River, my dream-place on Tutela Heights, where the vision came to my eyes. ... I cannot claim to be the inventor of the modern telephone. That is the product of many minds. But I initiated the transmission of sound.
108 ページ - CITY about whose brow the north winds blow, Girdled with woods and shod with river foam, Called by a name as old as Troy or Rome, Be great as they, but pure as thine own snow ; Rather flash up amid the auroral glow, The Lamia city of the northern star, Than be so hard with craft or wild with war, Peopled with deeds remembered for their woe. Thou art too bright for guile, too young for tears, And thou wilt live to be too strong...