Fourth Reader: The Alexandra Readers

THE ALEXANDRA READERS
BY W. A. McINTYRE, B.A., LL.D. PRINCIPAL, NORMAL SCHOOL, WINNIPEG JOHN DEARNESS, M.A. VICE-PRINCIPAL, NORMAL SCHOOL, LONDON AND JOHN C. SAUL, M.A. Authorized by the Departments of Education for Use in the Schools of Alberta and Saskatchewan PRICE 50 CENTS TORONTO MORANG EDUCATIONAL COMPANY LIMITED 1908 Copyright by MORANG EDUCATIONAL COMPANY LIMITED 1908 ——— Copyright in Great Britain


God bless our wide Dominion, Our fathers’ chosen land, And bind in lasting union, Each ocean’s distant strand, From where Atlantic terrors Our hardy seamen train, To where the salt sea mirrors The vast Pacific chain.
Our sires when times were sorest Asked none but aid Divine, And cleared the tangled forest, And wrought the buried mine. They tracked the floods and fountains, And won, with master hand, Far more than gold in mountains,— The glorious prairie land.
Inheritors of glory, Oh! countrymen! we swear To guard the flag that o’er ye Shall onward victory bear. Where’er through earth’s far regions Its triple crosses fly, For God, for home, our legions Shall win, or fighting, die! —The Duke of Argyle.
It happened at Bonn. One moonlight winter’s evening I called upon Beethoven, for I wanted him to take a walk, and afterwards to sup with me. In passing through some dark, narrow street, he paused suddenly. “Hush!” he said—“what sound is that? It is from my Sonata in F!” he said, eagerly. “Hark! how well it is played!”
It was a little, mean dwelling, and we paused outside and listened. The player went on; but suddenly there was a break, then the voice of sobbing: “I cannot play any more. It is so beautiful; it is utterly beyond my power to do it justice. Oh, what would I not give to go to the concert at Cologne!”