Tag: Old Fort Niagara
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Niagara in 1882 by John Macdonald
Suggested by a day of great quiet and beauty. PEACEFUL is old Ontario, ‡‡Calm does Niagara flow, Where hostile ships were sailing ‡‡Seventy years ago. Peaceful the banks of the river ‡‡To-day compared with then, Now clothed with the coming harvest, ‡‡Then bristling with armed men. Silent is old Mississagua, ‡‡Niagara’s work is done, No…
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Spina Christi by William Kirby
‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡PART I. ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡There is a thorn — it looks so old ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡I‡‡‡‡‡In truth you’d find it hard to say ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡How it could ever have been young — ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡It looks so old and grey . ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡— WORDSWORTH . The city walls of Avignon are built of stone, and high The houses stand with balconies above the…
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Untitled by Claud H. Hultzén, Sr.
All of this historical fact from which we form our individual opinions and prejudices, is only the reflection of the lives and characters of those whose acts brought about the series of circumstances with which we have had to deal. Men of France, men of England, and men of America, each in turn, have served…
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Canada Seventy Years Ago, or, Prince Edward’s Visit to Niagara by J. P. Merritt
Jedediah Prendergast Merritt wrote a long poem on Prince Edward’s visit to Canada in 1860, bound with a number of other poems that he wrote. This page contains the introduction to the poem, and the parts relevant to the Niagara area. The complete book can be viewed here on the Hathi Trust website Introduction Through…
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Rest! by William H. C. Hosmer
A few rods from the barrier-gate of Fort Niagara was the burying-ground. It was filled with memorials of the mutability and brevity of human life, and over the portals of entrance was painted, in large and emphatic characters, the word ‘Rest’ — Judge De Veaux. Earth, upon her ample face, Boasts no sweeter burial-place Than…