Only, he tells us, in Canada's latitude
Honour to singers is duly allowed:
Nay, how can Britons be backward in gratitude,
Having Le Gallienne, are they not proud?
Yes, when we Englishmen boast of our national
Glories and deeds, though the scoffers deride,
This is the greatest and really most rational
Source of supreme and legitimate pride—
Not in the struggles or deeds of iniquity
Wrought by our sires in desperate fray,