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Lines on the struggles of the early settlers.
Canada hath wealthy yeomen / Whose fathers overcome the foemen, / The enemy they boldly slew / Was mighty forests they did hew, / And where they burned heaps of slain / Their sons now reap the golden grain, / But in the region of Northwest / With prairie farms they are blest.
Though this to them it may seem good / Yet many blessings come from wood, / It shelters you from the fierce storm / And in the winter keeps you warm, / For one who hath his forest trees / He builds his house and barn with ease, / And how quick he gets from thence / Timber for bridge and for his fence.