Lines on Canada

A land o’er flowing with milk and honey
Where the industrious may gather money,
Here men do not rank for wealth they inherit,
The stamp of nobility is one of merit.

Though we cannot boast of antiquities old
We truly can boast of mines of pure gold,
And the discoveries at Fraser River
Hudson Bay monopoly to pieces will shiver.

For Britain at present little would move her
To present to Canada Hudson Bay and Vancouver,
Then she would be a yoang giant empire
As great as a Briton could well desire.

Then with the whole of British America
United by railroad as well as by law,
Proudly we might with banners unfurled
Proclaim her the great highway of the world.