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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]

FOURTH READER

THE CHILDREN'S SONG

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.

Father in Heaven who lovest all,
Oh help Thy children when they call;
That they may build from age to age,
An undefilèd heritage.