Acquired at Margaret Bourgeoys' knee;
He, won to Christ from his own dark creed,
From the trammels fierce of his childhood freed,
Lowly humbled his savage Huron pride,
And amid the pale-faces lived and died.

With each added year grows our city fair,
The steepled church, and spacious square,
Villas and mansions of stately pride
Embellish it now on every side;
Buildings--old land marks--vanish each day,
For stately successors to make way;
But from change like that may time leave free
The ancient towers of Ville Marie!

[* Subjoined are their epitaphs, still to be seen in the tower we
speak of:

Ici reposent
Les restes mortels
de
François Thoronhiongo,
Huron,
Baptisé par le Révérend
Père Brébeuf.

Il fut par sa piété et par sa probité, l'exemple des chrétiens et
l'admiration des infideles; il mourut âgé d'environ 100 ans, le
21 avril 1690.