MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

By Adam Hood Burwell


 

EULOGY ON SUSSEX VALE IN NEW BRUNSWICK

[A Fragment]



[Scadding’s note]: “‘Erie-us’ was a signature attached to poetical pieces in our local periodicals in and before 1838. I quote part of an ‘Eulogy on Sussex Vale in New Brunswick,’ thus subscribed:” *


                   Fanatic and hypocrite, disfigured in face,
                   Rant, cant, sect and radical, here find no place
                   The social relations to set all ajar,
                   And the sweets of a rational intercourse mar.
                   The politeness of kindness, the confidence fair,

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                   Of integrity meek, unassuming, —the air.
                   The port, manner, habit, and action of truth
                   And true manliness wrought into childhood and youth.
                   The graces of goodness unshackled by art;
                   The large hospitality warm from the heat;

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                   The walk circumscribed by the duties of life;
                   These duties fulfilled without envy and strife.
                   In thy children, the loyal, the happy and free;
                   And I praised the good ways that our forefathers trod,
                   For the building of man in the peace of his God.

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* See Henry Scadding, “Some Canadian Noms-de Plume Identified”, The Canadian Journal of Science, Literature and History, (Toronto), N.S. XV, (April, 1877), 450. [back]