Musings On The North West

Domestic cattle quiet will graze where now the Buffalos roam, and in spots now covered o'er with Indian Wigwams, where white men never trod, cities will occupy their sites with busy trade, and millions throng from Eastern lands to take possession of the great North-West; then Winnipeg, perchance, may be the capital of the Domin- ion. In the days fortold, when this indeed shall be the 'Greater Britain,' with Ontario's towns for work shops for this vast Prairie land. ' And poets will arise and high their lays will soar, Worthy of the muse of a Burns or a Moore,' A Shakespeare and a Milton, the great and the wise Will sing of the glories of our Northern skies ; Of its lakes and rivers, and its mountains grand, Of its fertile plains and great prairie land. A fit theme for song this empire gigantic Whose arms stretch from Pacific to Atlantic.