A Treasury of Canadian Verse, with Brief Biographical Notes - Unknown

Here, re-united, one great race to be.

[A] On the occasion of his poems being crowned by the French Academy.

AS hills seem Alps, when veiled in misty shroud,

Some men seem kings, through mists of ignorance;

Must we have darkness, then, and cloud on cloud,

To give our hills and pigmy kings a chance?

Must we conspire to curse the humbling light,

Lest some one, at whose feet our fathers bowed,