SALUTATION FROM THE KING OF BEAVERS. 



By George Martin. 



Welcome to the kindly home 

 Where we shape the wattled dome, 

 Where, in moonlight's silver calm, 

 My faithful subjects build the dam ; 

 The land whose maple leaf conveys 

 A prophecy of sweetened days. 



We're grateful for the honor given 

 To beaverhood, since nearer heaven 

 This great Dominion raised our name, 

 Eniblazoned on the scroll of fame ; 

 A choice that to the world attests 

 The base on which its greatness rests, 

 Our one transcendent, special gift : — 

 Persistency of honest thrift." 



