Part 1 (1/2)

The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book

by Various

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Minister of Education is indebted to Goldwin S, Henry Newbolt, The Earl of Dunraven, Sir W F Butler, Frank T Bullen, Charles G D Roberts, W Wilfred Canes C Laut, Marjorie L C Pickthall, and S T

Wood, for special permission to reproduce, in this Reader, selections fros

He is indebted to Lord Tennyson for special permission to reproduce the poems from the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson; to Lloyd Osbourne for permission to reproduce the extract froerton Ryerson for pererton Ryerson's ”The Loyalists of America and their Times”

He is also indebted to Macmillan & Co, Limited, for special permission to reproduce selected poe, Sir F H Doyle, Cecil Frances Alexander; to Longmans, Green & Co, for the selections from Froude's ”Short Studies on Great Subjects” and froland”; to Smith, Elder & Co, for the extract from F T Bullen's ”The Cruise of the Cachalot”; to Elkin Mathews for Henry Newbolt's poem from ”The Island Race”; to Thomas Nelson & Sons for the extract from W F Collier's ”History of the British Empire”; to The Copp Clark Co, Limited, for selected poenes Maule Machar; to the Hunter-Rose Coht's ”Country Life in Canada”; to Morang & Company for selected poems from the works of Archibald Lampman, and for the extract frohton Mifflin Company for the article from ”_The Atlantic Monthly_” on ”British Colonial and Naval Power”

The Minister is grateful to these authors and publishers and to others, not h whose courtesy he has been able to include in this Reader so ht selections

Toronto, May, 1909

The Good Land

For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and poranates; a land of oil olives and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thoubrass

And thou shalt eat and be full, and thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which He hath given thee

Deuteronomy VIII

FOURTH READER

THE CHILDREN'S SONG

Land of our Birth, we pledge to thee Our love and toil in the years to be, When we are grown and take our place, As men and women with our race

Father in Heaven who lovest all, Oh help Thy children when they call; That they e

Teach us to bear the yoke in youth With steadfastness and careful truth; That, in our tiive The Truth whereby the Nations live

Teach us to rule ourselves alway, Controlled and cleanly night and day, That we , if need arise, No maimed or worthless sacrifice