<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391108" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lake of the Thousand Isles</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(For Music.)<br> Though Missouri'stide may majestic glide,<br> There's a curse on the soil it laves;<br> The Ohio, too, may be fair, but who<br> Would sojourn in the land of slaves?<br> Be my prouder lot a Canadian cot<br> And the bread of a freeman's toils;<br> Then hurrah for the land of the forests grand,<br> And the Lake of the Thousand Isles!<br> I would seek no wealth, at the cost of health,<br> 'Mid the city's din and strife;<br> More I love the grace of fair nature's face,<br> And the calm of a woodland life;<br> I would shun the road by ambition trod,<br> And the lore which the heart defiles;--<br> Then hurrah for the land of the forests grand,<br> And the Lake of the Thousand Isles!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> O away, away! I would gladly stray<br> Where the freedom I love is found;<br> Where the pine and oak by the woodman's stroke<br> Are disturbed in their ancient bound;<br> Where the gladsome swain reaps the golden grain,<br> And the trout from the stream beguiles;<br> Then hurrah for the land of the forests grand,<br> And the Lake of the Thousand Isles.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Evan+MacColl">Evan MacColl</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391108" data-title="The Lake of the Thousand Isles de Evan MacColl" data-description="(For Music.) Though Missouri'stide may majestic glide, There's a curse on the soil it laves; The Ohio, too, may be fair, but who Would sojourn in the land of slaves? Be my prouder lot a Canadian cot And the bread of a freeman's toils; Then ..."></div> </div> </div>

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