Canada, my Canada;
If for reprisal you would sue,
Just turn your other cheek—please do,
And take a Yankee smack or two,
Canada, my Canada.
The Brooklyn Eagle, U.S.
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The Beautiful Snow.
A correspondent in Chicago writes in reference to this poem (see [page 268]) “there seems little doubt but that it was written by Mr. James M. Watson. Mr. Bryant in his Library of Poetry and Song, and Mr. Coates in his Fire-side Cyclopedia both name him as the author. The last verse, however, which you quote is not a part of the original poem, but added later, and by another hand. Mr. W. F. Fox, of this city, wrote an additional verse to supply the idea of final hope of forgiveness and happiness. It is as follows:—
How strange it should be that the beautiful snow