With loyal hearts we still abide
Beneath her sheltering wing,--
While with true patriot love and pride,
To Canada we cling.

We wear no haughty tyrant's chain,--
We bend no servile knee,
When to the Mistress of the main
We pledge our fealty.

She binds us with the cords of love,--
All others we disown;
The rights we owe to God above,
We yield to him alone.

May He our future course direct
By his unerring hand;
Our laws and liberties protect,
And bless our native land.




THE APPEAL.


[It will be remembered that 1861 closed with an alarming prospect of
war between England and the United States, growing partly out of the
arrest of Mason and Slidell on board the British steamship Trent. Of
course had war been declared Canada would have been involved. On