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Marie Gourdon - A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence by Maud Ogilvy
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Introduction

I--"Wae's me for Prince Chairlie"

II--"Oh! Canada! mon pays, terre adorée,
Sol si cher à mes amours."

III--"Il y a longtemps que je t'aime,
Jamais je ne t'oublierai."

IV--"Red o'er the forest peers the setting sun,
The line of yellow light dies fast away."

V--"A parish priest was of the pilgrim train;
An awful, reverend and religious man.
His eyes diffused a venerable grace,
And charity itself was in his face.
Rich was his soul, though his attire was poor
(As God hath clothed his own ambassador),
For such, on earth, his bless'd Redeemer bore."

VI--"The love of money is the root of all evil."

VII--"Oh! world! thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn in love
inseparable shall within this hour break out to bitterest enmity."

VIII--TEN YEARS AFTER.
"Oh! wouldst thou set thy rank before thyself?
Wouldst thou be honored for thyself or that?
Rank that excels the wearer doth degrade,
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