22 REVIEWS CANADIAN POETRY. 



eil of Mr. Sangster. Here, for example, is Mr. Kyan's sketct of the 

 Thousand Isles : — 



Now Fairy Land is- gained — the Thousand I&les — • 



Amid whose cedar shades sweet Nature smiles 



In all the beauty of a seerte unchanged, 



As when the Indian warrior ranged 



From isle to isle, long centuries ago. 



And chased, with swift canoe, the nimble doe. 



Those shady rocks the softest sound prolong, 



As when they echoed to the Squaw's low song,. 



Who dipped her paddle in the dancing, stream^ 



And watched the sun's last lingering beam, 



As he, behind the forests of the west, 



In dazzling glory slowly sank to rest. 



Each isle an emerald, each rock a gem. 



Which forms proud Nature's own bright diadem I 



Those wilds again the Indian ne'er will know, 



STor will those waters, in their joyous flow 



Bear savage forms unto the depths below. 



Niagara is describedj or rather soliloquised. Ontario, the St. LaTf- 

 rencej its Rapids, and the scenes along its banks, all pass in review 

 itere, as in the former poem ; and Canada itself is apostrophised in 

 terms more loving tlian original, and vfith au occasional lameness in. 

 the prosody, here as .elsewhere somewhat detrimental to the music of 

 the verse : — 



Hail ! Canada, my own, mj native land F 

 Land of a thousand fioods sublimely grand I 

 Upon this world, on nation, land, or clime, 

 Has nature lavished gifts more vi^ilci, sublime ; 

 Nor blest with brighter hopes her fertile vales. 

 Or wafted orer hills more healthy gales. 

 ■ Thy boundless wilds as yet untrod, unknown, 

 Industry soon will rear a joyous home ; 

 Those fertile tracts where axe was never heard, 

 Where securely sings the native forest bird ; 

 Where swiftly bounds the deer o'er leagues untold. 

 Wait but for ma:i to yield their hidden gold. 

 Oh ! glorious, happy West fore'er adieu 1 

 Where'er I wander I will turn to you, 

 And, in mem'ry, thy beauties call to view. 



The patriotism is here, certainly preferable to the poetry, even 

 though the latter does recall lines not less patriotic, with which the 

 sixth canto of the "lay of the last Ministrel" is preluded. But, pass- 



