<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415999" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Canada Our Home</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The following response to ' Canada, our Home,' was given<br>at a banquet of the Caledonian Society, Ingersoll.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In responding to the sentiment, 'Canada, our Home,'<br>perhaps it would be appropriate to point out the prominent<br>and distinguishing characteristics between the land of our<br>nativity and the land of our adoption. In this Canada of ours<br>we have no bonny blooming heath, no banks and braes covered<br>o'er with daisies and gowans, no fragrant hedges, showering<br>down white spray in the May time, no whin and broom,<br>prodigal in their gayety of yellow flowers ; no hills<br>nor glens, where fairies gambol in pleasent and harmless sport ;<br>no grand ruins of ancient cathedrals and castles, no feathered<br>songsters like the mavis and blackbird.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Full oft we did enraptured hark <br>To heavenly song of the sky lark.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Canada is a young giant in its infancy. With the noblest chain<br>of lakes in the world on its frontier, and the most magnificent river,<br>the St. Lawrence, this land also possesses the largest fertile<br>wilderness on the globe ; but it is one which will, o'er many years<br>have passed away, blossom like a garden, and where naught but<br>grass and flowers now grow in wild luxuriance, soon the<br>husbandman will plow and sow and reap a rich reward in yellow,<br>golden grain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+McIntyre">James McIntyre</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=415999" data-title="Canada Our Home de James McIntyre" data-description="The following response to ' Canada, our Home,' was given at a banquet of the Caledonian Society, Ingersoll. In responding to the sentiment, 'Canada, our Home,' perhaps it would be appropriate to point out the prominent and distinguishing characte..."></div> </div> </div>

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