Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Canadian Melodies and Miscellaneous Poems
Oi some poor traveller with his load, Though tired and toiling far behind.
The idea of Canadian melodies has been suggested to me by an ever present desire on my part to adapt a Canadian subject to a popular air. To make this more effective several of these pieces are written in the ordinary language, common to youthful Canadians. So far in this country our liter ature has but little in it to attract young minds. In one of those social usuages peculiar to all civilized nations we are ao cused of being singularly undemonstrative I refer to loyalty. This aspect of our char acter has been pressed home to us so per sistently as to lead some to believe that whatever virtues Canadians may possess, loyalty is apparently not one of them. Can ada' s national songs so far are not impres sive. As might be expected, they have not manifested themselves in those national out bursts of feeling for our country's glory.
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