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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416132" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Thomas Campbell</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As musings on Banks of Canadian Thames doth not necessarily consist of<br>meditations in verse, but the monotony of the cogitations may be relieved by a<br>soliloquy in prose, and as Campbell manifested a deep interest in American subjects,<br>we will give the following anecdote related by that genial American Author Washington<br>Irvine, to Sir Walter Scott. Irvine, while in Britian, visited Campbell, but found him absent<br>and he expressed a regret to Campbells wife that her husband did not write more. She said<br>that he was timid and he felt Byron and Scott o'ershadow him with their great poems. Sir<br>Walter replied, ' I myself produce pebbles, Scottish pebbles, but Campbell is the creator of<br>Diamonds of the first water.' Byron also expressed himself in a similar strain as follows :-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Arise, O Campbell, give thy talents scope ;<br>Who dares aspire if thou has ceased to hope '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Campbell wrote thus of America in the beginning of the century, and by comparing the facts<br>as he describes them it shows the wonderous strides which the United States, especially,<br>have taken on the Banks of Lake Erie, as Lake Ontario seems to be favorite location for<br>Canadian cities.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On Erie's banks were tigers steal along,<br>And the dread Indian chaunts his dismal song.<br>Where human fiends their midnight errand walk ;<br>And bathe in brains the murderous tomehawk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poet then predicts that cities will there arise, but more wonderfully quick they have<br>arisen then poets pen ever imagined. The poet also imagines the time will come when the<br>fleecy flocks will be straying o'er the thymey pastures and the shepherds dancing at early<br>morn and dewy eve, but alas, these predictions have never been verified, for the lands on<br>Erie's shores are too valuable for sheep walks, and it is no Arcadian bower where the<br>romance of the dreamy imaginations of the ancient philosophers are being enacted, but a<br>vigorous, intelligent, and industrious population have arisen, who have built villages,<br>towns and cities along its shores. But the foundation of the whole prosperity is the<br>intelligent, well directed industry of the farming population.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their industry is not in vain,<br>For they have bounteous crops of grain,<br>And you behold on every field<br>Of grass and roots, abundant yield ;<br>But after all the greatest charm<br>Is the snug home upon the farm.<br>And stone walls now keep cattle warm,<br>The cold blast now doth them no harm.</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>
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