Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses

John Douglas Sutherland Campbell

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• Publié le: 08 décembre 2010
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You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved. **Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts** **eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971** *****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!***** Title: Memories of Canada and Scotland Speeches and Verses Author: John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Release Date: January, 2005 [EBook #7212] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on March 27, 2003] Edition: 10 Language: English *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEMORIES OF CANADA AND SCOTLAND *** Produced by Susan Skinner, Tom Allen, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks, and the DP TeamMEMORIES OF CANADA AND SCOTLAND SPEECHES AND VERSES BY THE RIGHT HON. THE MARQUIS OF LORNE K.T., G.C.M.G., &C. DEDICATED WITH RESPECT AND AFFECTION TO THE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA CONTENTS VERSES ON CANADIAN SUBJECTS. CANADA, 1882 QUEBEC PROLOGUE—GOVERNMENT HOUSE, MARCH 1879 CANADIAN NATIONAL HYMN CANADIAN RIVER RHYMES THE CANADIAN ROBIN MILICETE LEGEND OF THE RIVER ST. JOHN THE GUIDE OF THE MOHAWKS THE STRONG HUNTER THE ORIGIN OF THE INDIAN CORN THE ISLES OF HURON THE MYSTIC ISLE OF THE "LAND OF THE NORTH WIND" WESTWARD HO! THE SONG OF THE SIX SISTERS THE PRAIRIE ROSES CREE FAIRIES THE "QU'APPELLE" VALLEY THE BLACKFEET SAN GABRIEL, ON THE PACIFIC COAST NIAGARA ON CHIEF MOUNTAIN CUBA ON THE NEW PROVINCE "ALBERTA" VERSES CHIEFLY FROM HIGHLAND STORIES. GAELIC LEGENDS COLHORN LOCH BÚYTHE HARD STRAIT OF THE FEINNE TOBERMORY BAY, 1588 LOCH UISK, ISLE OF MULL THE LADY'S ROCK THE POOL OF THE IRON SHIRT INVERAWE AN ISLESMAN'S FAREWELL PREFACE TO DIARMID'S STORY GRINIE'S FLIGHT WITH DIARMID THE DEATH OF THE BOAR KING ARTHUR AND THE CAPTIVE MAIDEN SEANN ORAN GAILIC DUNOLLY'S DAUGHTER THE ARMADA GUN CAVALRY CHARGE—KÖNIGGRÄTZ THE IRISH EMIGRANT, 1880 THE IRISH EMIGRANT, 1883 SONG SONNET ON THE DEATH OF LORD F. DOUGLAS SADOWA ON A FOREIGN WAR-SHIP'S SALUTE TO THE QUEEN'S STANDARD SPEECHES AND ADDRESSES. FAREWELL ADDRESS AT INVERARAY EMBARKING AT LIVERPOOL REPLY TO THE LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO THE MUNICIPALITY OF LONDONDERRY AT MONTREAL—TO THE ST. ANDREWS SOCIETY AT MONTREAL—REPLY TO THE CITIZENS' ADDRESS AT OTTAWA—REPLY TO THE CITIZENS' ADDRESS AT OTTAWA—DISTRIBUTION OF SCHOOL PRIZES AT KINGSTON—ON RECEIVING THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF LAWS OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE AT KINGSTON—TO THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE AT KINGSTON—TO THE CADETS OF THE ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE AT MONTREAL—REVIEW ON THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY, 1879 AT MONTREAL—OPENING OF AN ART INSTITUTE AT QUEBEC—REPLY TO ADDRESS OF THE CITY CORPORATION AT QUEBEC—LAVAL UNIVERSITYAT TORONTO—TORONTO CLUB DINNER AT ST. JOHN, N.B. AT ST. JOHN, N.B.—REPLY TO ADDRESS OF THE CITY CORPORATION AT FREDERICTON—REPLY TO ADDRESS OF THE CITY CORPORATION IN KINGS' COUNTY, N.B.—REPLY TO ADDRESS OF THE MUNICIPALITY AT TORONTO—REPLY TO ADDRESS OF THE CITY CORPORATION AT BERLIN, ONTARIO—REPLY TO ADDRESS OF THE GERMAN RESIDENTS AT OTTAWA—EXHIBITION OF 1880 AT OTTAWA—EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN ACADEMY OF ART AT QUEBEC—FESTIVAL OF ST. JEAN BAPTISTE AT HAMILTON—OPENING OF PROVINCIAL FAIR AT MONTREAL—OPENING OF PROVINCIAL FAIR AT MONTREAL—LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE REDPATH MUSEUM OF THE MCGILL COLLEGE AT CHAMBLY—UNVEILING THE STATUE OF COLONEL DE SALABERRY AT ST. THOMAS—GATHERING OF HIGHLANDERS AT WINNIPEG—IMPRESSIONS OF A TOUR IN THE NORTHWEST AT WINNIPEG—SOCIETY OF ST. JEAN BAPTISTE OF MANITOBA AT WINNIPEG—REPLY TO ADDRESS OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF ST. BONIFACE—MANITOBA AT WINNIPEG—REPLY TO ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF MANITOBA COLLEGE AT FORT SHAW, MONTANA—FAREWELL TO THE NORTHWEST MOUNTED POLICE AT OTTAWA—INCEPTION OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA AT SAN FRANCISCO, CAL—REPLY TO ADDRESS OF THE BRITISH RESIDENTS AT VICTORIA, B.C.—SPEECH AT A PUBLIC DINNER AT OTTAWA—MEETING OF THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION AT OTTAWA—SECOND MEETING OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA AT TORONTO—REPLY TO ADDRESSES OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY AND OF THE ONTARIO SOCIETY OF ARTISTS AT OTTAWA—FAREWELL ADDRESS OF THE PARLIAMENT OF CANADA REPLY EXTRACT FROM THE SPEECH FROM THE THRONE APPENDIX. AT TORONTO—EXHIBITION OF ARTS AND MANUFACTURES AT TORONTO—REPLY TO ADDRESS AT THE QUEEN'S PARK AT OTTAWA—REPLY TO ADDRESS OF THE CITY CORPORATION AT MONTREAL—REPLY TO ADDRESS OF THE CITY CORPORATION AT QUEBEC—REPLY, OCT. 20TH 1883, TO ADDRESS OF THE CITY CORPORATIONVERSES ON CANADIAN SUBJECTS. CANADA, 1882. "Are hearts here strong enough to found A glorious people's sway?" Ask of our rivers as they bound From hill to plain, or ocean-sound, If they are strong to-day? If weakness in their floods be found, Then may ye answer "Nay!" "Is union yours? may foeman's might Your love ne'er break or chain?" Go see if o'er our land the flight Of Spring be stayed by blast or blight; If Fall bring never grain; If Summer suns deny their light, Then may our hope be vain! "Yet far too cramped the narrow space Your country's rule can own?" Ah! travel all its bounds and trace Each Alp unto its fertile base, Our realm of forests lone, Our world of prairie, like the face Of ocean, hardly known! "Yet for the arts to find a shrine, Too rough, I ween, and rude?" Yea, if you find no flower divine With prairie grass or hardy pine. No lilies with the wood, Or on the water-meadows' line No purple Iris' flood! "You deem a nation here shall stand, United, great, and free?" Yes, see how Liberty's own hand With ours the continent hath spanned, Strong-arched, from sea to sea: Our Canada's her chosen land, Her roof and crown to be! QUEBEC. O fortress city, bathed by streams Majestic as thy memories great, Where mountains, floods, and forests mate The grandeur of the glorious dreams, Born of the hero hearts who died In founding here an Empire's pride; Prosperity attend thy fate, And happiness in thee abide, Pair Canada's strong tower and gate! May Envy, that against thy might Dashed hostile hosts to surge and break, Bring Commerce, emulous to make Thy people share her fruitful fight, In filling argosies with store Of grain and timber, and each ore, And all a continent can shake Into thy lap, till more and more Thy praise in distant worlds awake. Who hath not known delight whose feet Have paced thy streets or terrace way; From rampart sod or bastion grey Hath marked thy sea-like river greet. The bright and peopled banks which shine In front of the far mountain's line; Thy glittering roofs below, the play Of currents where the ships entwine Their spars, or laden pass away? As we who joyously once rode Past guarded gates to trumpet sound, Along the devious ways that wound O'er drawbridges, through moats, and showed The vast St. Lawrence flowing, belt The Orleans Isle, and sea-ward melt; Then by old walls with cannon crowned, Down stair-like streets, to where we felt The salt winds blown o'er meadow ground. Where flows the Charles past wharf and dock. And Learning from Laval looks down, And quiet convents grace the town. There swift to meet the battle shock Montcalm rushed on; and eddying back, Red slaughter marked the bridge's track: See now the shores with lumber brown, And girt with happy lands which lack No loveliness of Summer's crown. Quaint hamlet-alleys, border-filled With purple lilacs, poplars tall, Where flits the yellow bird, and fall The deep eave shadows. There when tilled The peasant's field or garden bed, He rests content if o'er his head From silver spires the church-bells call To gorgeous shrines, and prayers that gild The simple hopes and lives of all. Winter is mocked by garbs of green, Worn by the copses flaked with snow,— White spikes and balls of bloom, that blow In hedgerows deep; and cattle seen In meadows spangled thick with gold, And globes where lovers' fates are told Around the red-doored houses low; While rising o'er them, fold on fold, The distant hills in azure glow. Oft in the woods we long delayed, When hours were minutes all too brief, For Nature knew no sound of grief; But overhead the breezes played, And in the dank grass at our knee, Shone pearls of our green forest sea, The star-white flowers of triple leaf Which love around the brooks to be, Within the birch and maple shade. At times we passed some fairy mere Embosomed in the leafy screen, And streaked with tints of heaven's sheen, Where'er the water's surface clear Bore not the hues of verdant light From myriad boughs on mountain height, Or near the shadowed banks were seen The sparkles that in circlets bright Told where the fishes' feast had been. And when afar the forests flushed In falling swathes of fire, there soared Dark clouds where muttering thunder roared, And mounting vapours lurid rushed, While a metallic lustre flew Upon the vivid verdure's hue, Before the blasts and rain forth poured, And slow o'er mighty landscapes drew The grandest pageant of the Lord: The threatening march of flashing cloud, With tumults of embattled air, Blest conflicts for the good they bear! A century has God allowed None other, since the days He gave Unequal fortune to the brave. Comrades in death! you live to share An equal honour, for your grave B