A Humble Imitation
JUVENILE VERSES On the Birth of Albert Edward Prince of Wales
THE BIBLE
THE ADIEU TO ELIZA
TO MY VALENTINE
FIRST LOVE
CHILDREN'S SONG
ANSWER TO BURNS' ADDRESS TO THE DE'IL
SEPARATION
TO ANNE ON HER BIRTHDAY
TO ISABEL
ISABEL
THOUGHTS
TO J W
THE ORPHANS GOOD BYE
TO ANNIE ON HER BIRTHDAY
GONE
VERSES AND RHYMES BY THE WAY.
A STORY OF PLANTAGENET.
In the small Village of St Joseph, below the City of Ottawa, still
lives or did live very recently, an ancient couple, whole story is
told in the following lines.
PART I
Lays of fair dames of lofty birth,
And golden hair alt richly curled;
Of knights that venture life for love,
Suit poets of the older world.
We wilt not fill our simple rhymes,
With diamond flash, or gleaming pearl;
In singing of the by-gone times;
We simply sing the love and faith,
Outliving absence, strong as death,
Of one Jow-born Canadian girl.
'Twas long ago the rapid spring
Had scarce given place to summer yet,
The Ottawa, with swollen flood,
Rolled past thy banks, Plantagenet;
Thy banks where tall and plumed pines
Stood rank on rank, in serried lines.
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