The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
The Minister of Education is indebted to Goldwin Smith, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Newbolt, The Earl of Dunraven, Sir W. F. Butler, Frank T. Bullen, Charles G. D. Roberts, W. Wilfred Campbell, Frederick George Scott, Agnes Maule Machar, Agnes C. Laut, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, and S. T. Wood, for special permission to reproduce, in this Reader, selections from their writings.
He is indebted to Lord Tennyson for special permission to reproduce the poems from the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson; to Lloyd Osbourne for permission to reproduce the extract from Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped ; and to C. Egerton Ryerson for permission to reproduce the extract from Egerton Ryerson's The Loyalists of America and their Times.
He is also indebted to Macmillan & Co., Limited, for special permission to reproduce selected poems from the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, Sir F. H. Doyle, Cecil Frances Alexander; to Longmans, Green & Co., for the selections from Froude's Short Studies on Great Subjects and from his History of England ; to Smith, Elder & Co., for the extract from F. T. Bullen's The Cruise of the Cachalot ; to Elkin Mathews for Henry Newbolt's poem from The Island Race ; to Thomas Nelson & Sons for the extract from W. F. Collier's History of the British Empire ; to The Copp Clark Co., Limited, for selected poems from the works of Charles G. D. Roberts, and of Agnes Maule Machar; to the Hunter-Rose Company for the extract from Canniff Haight's Country Life in Canada ; to Morang & Company for selected poems from the works of Archibald Lampman, and for the extract from Roberts' History of Canada ; and to Houghton Mifflin Company for the article from The Atlantic Monthly on British Colonial and Naval Power.
The Minister is grateful to these authors and publishers and to others, not mentioned here, through whose courtesy he has been able to include in this Reader so many copyright selections.
Land of our Birth, we pledge to thee Our love and toil in the years to be, When we are grown and take our place, As men and women with our race.
Ontario. Department of Education
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THE ONTARIO READERS
FOURTH BOOK
AUTHORIZED BY
THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION
TORONTO:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
FOURTH READER
THE CHILDREN'S SONG
OUR COUNTRY
TOM TULLIVER AT SCHOOL
INGRATITUDE
THE GIANT
THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
THE FIRST SPRING DAY
THE BATTLE OF THE PIPES
BEGA
A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
WOLFE AND MONTCALM
CANADA
SCROOGE'S CHRISTMAS
HANDS ALL ROUND
JUDAH'S SUPPLICATION TO JOSEPH
MIRIAM'S SONG
(Read Exodus, XV.)
THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB
(Read II. Kings, XIX. 35)
THE LARK AT THE DIGGINGS
THE ANCIENT MARINER
AT THE CLOSE OF THE FRENCH PERIOD IN CANADA
A HYMN OF EMPIRE
STORY OF ABSALOM
THE BURIAL OF MOSES
(Read Deuteronomy, XXXII. 48-50)
THE CRUSADER AND THE SARACEN
WORK AND WAGES
UNTRODDEN WAYS
THE FIRST PLOUGHING
THE ARCHERY CONTEST
IN NOVEMBER
AUTUMN WOODS
IN A CANOE
AFTON WATER
DAVID COPPERFIELD'S FIRST JOURNEY ALONE
THE BAREFOOT BOY
COUNTRY LIFE IN CANADA IN THE "THIRTIES"
HEAT
THE TWO PATHS
BERNARDO DEL CARPIO
MOSES' BARGAINS
THE MAPLE
THE GREENWOOD TREE
LAKE SUPERIOR
THE RED RIVER PLAIN
THE UNNAMED LAKE
LIFE IN NORMAN ENGLAND
YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND
INSTRUCTION
HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD
THE BELLS OF SHANDON
THE VISION OF MIRZAH
FORBEARANCE
MERCY TO ANIMALS
THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS
OFT, IN THE STILLY NIGHT
THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S HALLS
HUDSON STRAIT
SCOTS WHA HAE
ST. AMBROSE CREW WIN THEIR FIRST RACE
HUNTING SONG
BORDER BALLAD
FOOTNOTES:
THE GREAT NORTHERN DIVER
TO THE CUCKOO
ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET
THE GREAT NORTHWEST
RULE, BRITANNIA
THE COMMANDMENT AND THE REWARD
THE SPACIOUS FIRMAMENT
JUNE
THE FIFTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD THE SAILOR
OCEAN
PONTIAC'S ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE FORT DETROIT
MY NATIVE LAND
MORNING ON THE LIEVRE
EVENING
AN ELIZABETHAN SEAMAN
THE SEA-KING'S BURIAL
MY CASTLES IN SPAIN
ALADDIN
DRAKE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD
THE SOLITARY REAPER
CLOUDS, RAINS, AND RIVERS
FITZ-JAMES AND RODERICK DHU
THE INDIGNATION OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
DICKENS IN THE CAMP
DOST THOU LOOK BACK ON WHAT HATH BEEN
THE PASSING OF ARTHUR
THE ARMADA
FOOTNOTES:
DEPARTURE AND DEATH OF NELSON
WATERLOO
ODE WRITTEN IN 1746
BALAKLAVA
FUNERAL OF WELLINGTON
IN A CAVE WITH A WHALE
THE GLOVE AND THE LIONS
THREE SCENES IN THE TYROL
MARSTON MOOR
LONDON
HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX
AN INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP
BRITISH COLONIAL AND NAVAL POWER
ENGLAND, MY ENGLAND
A GOOD TIME GOING
FOOTNOTES:
GOD IS OUR REFUGE
INDIAN SUMMER
THE SKYLARK
WHAT IS WAR
THE HOMES OF ENGLAND
TO A WATER-FOWL
THE FASCINATION OF LIGHT
DAFFODILS
TO THE DANDELION
TRUE GREATNESS
THE PRIVATE OF THE BUFFS
HONOURABLE TOIL
ON HIS BLINDNESS
MYSTERIOUS NIGHT
VITAÏ LAMPADA
THE IRREPARABLE PAST
A CHRISTMAS HYMN, 1837
THE QUARREL
RECESSIONAL