Canada and Other Poems

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CANADA AND OTHER POEMS.
BY
T. F. YOUNG.
PREFACE.
I introduce the following poetical attempts to the public, with great
diffidence. I am not sure but a direct apology would be in better taste,
but the strength derived from the purpose I had in view, in writing and
publishing them, sustains me without saying anything further by way of
excuse. Like Burns, I wished to do something for my country, and
chose this method of doing it.
The literature of this country is in its infancy. It must not always remain
so, or the expectations we have in regard to making it a great nation,
will never be fulfilled. Literature gives life to a nation, or rather it is the
reflection of a nation's life and thought, in a mirror, which cheers,
strengthens and ennobles those who look into it, and study what is there
displayed. Literature must grow with our nation, and, when growing, it
will aid the latter's progress in no small degree.
Pedantic critics may find fault with my modest productions, and
perhaps justly, in regard to grammatical construction, and mechanical
arrangement, but I shall be satisfied, if the public discern a vein of true
poetry glittering here and there through what I have just written. The
public are the final judges of compositions of this sort, and not the
writer himself, or his personal friends. It is they, therefore, who must
decide whether these humble attempts of my 'prentice hand, shall be
numbered with writings that have been forgotten, or whether their
author shall be encouraged to strike his lyre in a higher key, to
accompany his Muse, while she tries to sing in a loftier strain.

In passing an opinion on my literary venture, of course the youthful
state of our country will be taken into consideration, for it is a state
which necessarily tinges all of our productions, literary or otherwise,
with a certain amount of crudity. Consequently, reasonable men will
not expect that felicity of expression, and that ripeness and happiness of
thought, which would be expected in the productions of an older
country, although they may be aware that true poetry is not the result of
education, or even the refinements of a nation long civilized.
With these words by way of introduction and explanation, I dedicate
this little book of mine to the Canadian public, hoping that whatever
they may think of me as a poet, they will not forget that I am a loyal
Canadian, zealous in behalf of anything that may tend to refine, instruct
and elevate my country, and anxious to see her take an honourable
stand among the other nations of the earth.
THE AUTHOR.
PORT ALBERT, March, 1887.

CONTENTS
Canada
Youthful Fancies
Sunrise
Christmas
New Year's Day

Happiness
Love
Hate
Display
Thought
Purity
Is There
Room for the Poet
Ireland
David's Lamentation over Saul and
Jonathan
A Virtuous Woman
The Tempest Stilled
Nature's Forces
Ours
Man
Life
Ode to Man
The Reading Man
Man and His
Pleasures
Lines in Memory of the Late Archdeacon Elwood, A.M.

Thomas Moore
Robert Burns
Byron
Goderich
Kelvin
Niagara
Falls
Autumn
A Sunset
Farewell
By the Lake
The Teacher

Grace Darling
The Indian
Lines on the North-West Rebellion

Louis Riel
Ye Patriot Sons of Canada
A Hero's Decision

John and
Jane
The Truant Boy
A Swain to his Sweetheart
The Fisherman's
Wife
The Diamond and the Pebble
Temptation
Slander
Woman

Sympathy
Love and Wine.
How Nature's Beauties Should be

Viewed
To a Canary
The School-Taught Youth
A Dream
A
Snow Storm
To Nova Scotia
The Huntsman and His Hound
The
Maple Tree
The Pine Tree
A Sabbath Morning in the Country

Catching Speckled Trout
A Protestant Irishman to his Wife

Memories of School Days
Verses Written in Autograph Albums

POEMS.

NEW YEAR'S DAY.
Hail! joyous morn. Hail! happy day,
That ushers