CONTENTS

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The Children's SongRudyard Kipling[1]
Our CountryAlfred, Lord Tennyson[2]
Tom Tulliver at SchoolGeorge Eliot[3]
IngratitudeWilliam Shakespeare[10]
The GiantCharles Mackay[11]
The Discovery of AmericaWilliam Robertson[12]
The First Spring DayChristina G. Rossetti[17]
The Battle of the PipesRobert Louis Stevenson[18]
BegaMarjorie L. C. Pickthall[24]
A Musical InstrumentElizabeth Barrett Browning[26]
Wolfe and MontcalmFrancis Parkman[28]
CanadaCharles G. D. Roberts[37]
Scrooge's ChristmasCharles Dickens[39]
Hands All RoundAlfred, Lord Tennyson[49]
Judah's Supplication to JosephBible[51]
Miriam's SongThomas Moore[55]
The Destruction of SennacheribGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron[56]
The Lark at the DiggingsCharles Reade[58]
The Ancient MarinerSamuel Taylor Coleridge[61]
At the Close of the French Period in CanadaCharles G. D. Roberts[65]
A Hymn of EmpireFrederick George Scott[74]
Story of AbsalomBible[76]
The Burial of MosesCecil Frances Alexander[80]
The Crusader and the SaracenSir Walter Scott[83]
MercyWilliam Shakespeare[89]
From "An August Reverie"William Wilfred Campbell[90]
Work and WagesJohn Ruskin[91]
Untrodden WaysAgnes Maule Machar[94]
The First PloughingCharles G. D. Roberts[95]
The Archery ContestSir Walter Scott[97]
In NovemberArchibald Lampman[102]
Autumn WoodsWilliam Cullen Bryant[103]
In a CanoeLord Dunraven[105]
Afton WaterRobert Burns[109]
David Copperfield's First Journey AloneCharles Dickens[110]
The Barefoot BoyJohn G. Whittier[118]
Country Life in Canada in the "Thirties"Canniff Haight[122]
HeatArchibald Lampman[128]
The Two PathsBible[130]
Bernardo del CarpioFelicia Hemans[131]
Moses' BargainsOliver Goldsmith[136]
The MapleCharles G. D. Roberts[141]
The Greenwood TreeWilliam Shakespeare[142]
Lake SuperiorMajor W. F. Butler[143]
The Red River PlainMajor W. F. Butler[145]
The Unnamed LakeFrederick George Scott[147]
Life in Norman EnglandWilliam F. Collier[149]
Ye Mariners of EnglandThomas Campbell[154]
InstructionBible[156]
Home Thoughts From AbroadRobert Browning[157]
The Bells of ShandonFrancis Mahony[158]
The Vision of MirzahJoseph Addison[160]
ForbearanceRalph Waldo Emerson[168]
Mercy to AnimalsWilliam Cowper[169]
The United Empire LoyalistsEgerton Ryerson[170]
Oft, in the Stilly NightThomas Moore[173]
The Harp That Once Through Tara's HallsThomas Moore[174]
Hudson StraitAgnes C. Laut[175]
Scots, Wha HaeRobert Burns[179]
St. Ambrose Crew Win Their First RaceThomas Hughes[180]
Hunting SongSir Walter Scott[189]
Border BalladSir Walter Scott[191]
The Great Northern DiverSamuel T. Wood[192]
To the CuckooWilliam Wordsworth[196]
On the Grasshopper and CricketJohn Keats[197]
The Great NorthwestMajor W. F. Butler[198]
Rule, BritanniaJames Thomson[202]
The Commandment and the RewardBible[204]
The Spacious FirmamentJoseph Addison[205]
JuneJames Russell Lowell[206]
The Fifth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor"The Arabian Nights Entertainments" [208]
OceanGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron[216]
Pontiac's Attempt to Capture Fort DetroitMajor Richardson[219]
My Native LandSir Walter Scott[227]
Morning on the LièvreArchibald Lampman[228]
EveningArchibald Lampman[230]
An Elizabethan SeamanJames Anthony Froude[231]
The Sea-King's BurialCharles Mackay[237]
My Castles in SpainGeorge William Curtis[243]
AladdinJames Russell Lowell[247]
Drake's Voyage Round the WorldJames Anthony Froude[248]
The Solitary ReaperWilliam Wordsworth[261]
Clouds, Rains, and RiversJohn Tyndall[262]
Fitz-James and Roderick DhuSir Walter Scott[270]
The Indignation of Nicholas NicklebyCharles Dickens[275]
Dickens in CampBret Harte[287]
Dost Thou Look Back on What Hath BeenAlfred, Lord Tennyson[289]
The Passing of ArthurSir Thomas Malory[290]
The ArmadaThomas Babington, Lord Macaulay[296]
Departure and Death of NelsonRobert Southey[302]
WaterlooGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron[311]
Ode Written in 1746William Collins[315]
BalaklavaWilliam Howard Russell[316]
Funeral of WellingtonAlfred, Lord Tennyson[324]
In a Cave with a WhaleFrank T. Bullen[326]
The Glove and the LionsLeigh Hunt[334]
Three Scenes in the TyrolRichter[336]
Marston MoorWilliam Mackworth Praed[343]
LondonGoldwin Smith[347]
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix Robert Browning[351]
An Incident of the French CampRobert Browning[356]
British Colonial and Naval Power"Atlantic Monthly"[358]
England, My EnglandWilliam Ernest Henley[363]
A Good Time GoingOliver Wendell Holmes[365]
God is Our RefugeBible[367]
Indian SummerSusanna Moodie[369]
The SkylarkJames Hogg[372]
What is WarJohn Bright[373]
The Homes of EnglandFelicia Hemans[375]
To a Water-FowlWilliam Cullen Bryant[377]
The Fascination of LightSamuel T. Wood[379]
DaffodilsWilliam Wordsworth[382]
To the DandelionJames Russell Lowell[384]
True GreatnessGeorge Eliot[384]
The Private of the BuffsSir Francis Hastings Doyle[389]
Honourable ToilThomas Carlyle[391]
On his BlindnessJohn Milton[393]
Mysterious NightJoseph Blanco White[394]
Vitaï LampadaHenry Newbolt[395]
The Irreparable PastFrederick W. Robertson[396]
A Christmas Hymn, 1837Alfred Domett[400]
The QuarrelWilliam Shakespeare[402]
RecessionalRudyard Kipling[409]