Canada, My Land; and Other Compositions in Verse - 1

CANADA, MY LAND

AND OTHER COMPOSITIONS IN VERSE

W. M. MacKERACHER

TORONTO
WILLIAM BRIGGS
1908

CONTENTS.

[CANADA, MY LAND]
There may be more enchanting climes

[FORWARD, CANADA!]
Northland of our birth and rearing

[CANADIAN-BORN]
Although I'm not unduly proud

[KNOW'ST THOU THE LAND!]
Know'st thou the land where the pious and bold

[O MAPLE LEAF!]
Thee best of leaves I love

[DOMINION DAY]
Where the purple-vestured mountains

[CANADA'S EIGHTEEN]
At Paardeberg they fell

[DOMINION DAY, 1900]
Rejoice, O Canada, rejoice

[O CANADA, MON PAYS, MES AMOURS]
O Canada, my country and my love

[SOL CANADIEN, TERRE CHERIE]
O soil Canadian, cherished earth

[MY OWN CANADIAN GIRL]
The demoiselles of sunny France

[THE ST. LAWRENCE]
Though like Ulysses, fam'd of old

[THE QUEBEC EXODUS]
Why should we leave the soil our fathers cleared

[HEAT]
The fickle sun that had the earth caress'd

[INVOCATION TO SUMMER]
Come, Summer, come, nor in the south delay

[SIR SUMMER]
When conquering Summer stalks the street

[THE NIGHT]
A tremor, a quiver, through her ran

[TO BEAUTY]
Beauty, belovèd of all gentle hearts

[THE DOCTOR]
He bent above our darling's bed

[MY VALENTINE]
O Dorothy, sweet Dorothy

[MY FRIENDS]
Some to and fro for converse flit

[NOTHING TOO GOOD FOR THE IRISH]
It's the Emerald Isle is the beautiful land

[AN ENGLISH TOAST]
The English soil!—'tis hallowed ground

[THE SCOT]
That no Scotsman is perfect, we freely confess

[THE ROARIN' GAME]
The roarin' game, the roarin' game

[THE OLD SCOTTISH MINISTER]
A man he was of Scottish race

[THE MACS]
There's a race, or a part of a race, if you will

[THE PARSON AT THE HOCKEY MATCH]
It's very disagreeable to sit here in the cold