<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509961" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jacques Cartier’s First Visit To Mount Royal</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He stood on the wood-crowned summit<br>Of our mountain’s regal height,<br>And gazed on the scene before him,<br>By October’s golden light,<br>And his dark eyes, earnest, thoughtful,<br>Lit up with a softer ray<br>As they dwelt on the scene of beauty<br>That, outspread, before him lay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like a sea of liquid silver,<br>St. Lawrence, ’neath the sun,<br>Reflected the forest foliage<br>And the Indian wigwams dun,<br>Embracing the fairy islands<br>That its swift tide loving laves,<br>Reposing in tranquil beauty<br>Amid its sapphire waves. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To the eastward, frowning mountains<br>Rose in solemn grandeur still,<br>The glittering sunlight glinting<br>On steep and rugged hill;<br>Whilst in the far horizon,<br>Past leafy dell and haunt,<br>Like a line of misty purple,<br>Rose the dim hills of Vermont. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Cartier’s rapt gaze wandered<br>Where, starred with wild flowers sweet,<br>In its gorgeous autumn beauty,<br>Lay the forest at his feet.<br>With red and golden glory<br>All the foliage seemed ablaze<br>Yet with brightness strangely softened<br>By October’s amber haze. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Around him stretched the mountain<br>Ever lovely—ever young—<br>Graceful, softly undulating,<br>By tall forest trees o’erhung;<br>’Twas then his thought found utterance,<br>The words “Mont Royal” came,<br>And thus our Royal Mountain<br>Received its fitting name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rosanna+Eleanor+Leprohon">Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon</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=509961" data-title="Jacques Cartier’s First Visit To Mount Royal de Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon" data-description="He stood on the wood-crowned summit Of our mountain’s regal height, And gazed on the scene before him, By October’s golden light, And his dark eyes, earnest, thoughtful, Lit up with a softer ray As they dwelt on the scene of beauty That, outsp..."></div> </div> </div>

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