English Names on Canadian Thames

England has given us the names / To adorn Canadian Thames, / And charms to them she has lent / In Oxford, Middlesex and Kent, / She Essex kisseth in her mouth, / And Scottish names, one north, one south, / And London now it justly claims / 'Tis capital of vale of Thames, / And her strong castellated tower / Doth on the river frowning lower, / And Chatham is the river's port, / There slaves for freedom did resort, / And they did industrious toil, / And now many own the soil, / Stratford now shall be our theme, / On Avon tributary stream, / And its clear waters it doth launch / Into the Thames northern branch, / Near that substantial stone town / St. Mary's with mills of renown, / Westward it winds past each town, / Growing broader as it flows down, / Onward it glides never weary, / Meandering so soft and cheery.

The sunbeam on the waters glance, / Skipping about in silvery dance, / From morn till eve the cattle feed / 'Neath lofty elms along the mead.