A Year in Canada by Ann Cuthbert Knight - Canadian Poetry Canadian Long Poems - CPP Editions

Editorial Emendations

These notes record all of the editorial emendations to the first edition of A Year in Canada in the present text. Each entry contains the reading of the present text before the "[" and the reading of the first edition after. For example, "Part First, 45 Lead the deep loaded traine, and guide the rapid sleigh.^III ] Lead the deep loaded traine,¹ and guide the rapid sleigh." indicates that the superscript in the first edition has been deleted and a superscript Roman numeral added at the end of the line, one that corresponds to the numbering of entries in Knight’s Notes.

(Because only four of the lines of verse that Knight annotates in her Notes are marked by superscript numerals in the 1816 edition of the poem, the superscript Roman numerals have been added to the present text at the end of each line that Knight expands upon in prose. Only the four lines from which the original superscripts have been deleted are listed below.)

THE POEM

Part First

45 Lead the deep loaded traine, and guide the rapid sleigh.^III ] Lead the deep loaded traine,¹ and guide the rapid sleigh.

49 The wond’ring trav’ller finds a milder clime,^IV ] The wond’ring trav’ller finds a milder² clime,

58 And scarcely through the bush the breezes blow;^V ] And scarcely³ through the bush the breezes blow;

112 Glengary’s scatter’d villages are nigh,^VIII ] Glengary’s⁴ scatter’d villages are nigh,

114 Canadienne ] Canadienne

123 wintry ] wint’ry

Part Second

219 capot ] capot

219 ceinture ] ceinture

220 traine ] train

Part Third

43 to-day ] to day

126 ignis fatuus ] ignis fatuus

137 explore), ] explore,)

Part Fourth

65 Seigneur ] Seigneur

Part Fifth

10 fameuse ] fameuse

11 pommegris ] pommegris

92 Indian Summer ] Indian summer

107 traines ] traines

142 traine ] traine

AUTHOR’S NOTES

Part First

Note II: balises), ] balises,)

Note III: rungs or batons, ] rungs or batons

horses), ] horses,)

Note VI: The bush ] The bush

Note VIII: Glengary’s scatter’d villages are nigh ] Glengary’s scattered villages are nigh

Part Second

Note V: By thongs suspended, and with hoops inclosed ] By thongs suspended and with hoops enclosed

Note VI: ill-nature), ] ill-nature,)

Note VII: C’est pour le bled. C’est pour remercier le bon Dieu pour le bled. ] Ce’st pour le bled. Ce’st pour remercier le bon Dieu pour le bled.

Note VIII: ceinture ] ceinture

Part Third

Note II: The new-fall’n flowers that drank the dew to-day ] The new fall’n flowers that drank the dew to-day

Part Fourth

Note I: half-till’d ] half-till’d,

Note II: "One grateful mite of all they gave," demand ] "One grateful mite of all they gave" demand

Note III: C’est de vieille terre, bonne pour rien ] Ce’st de vielle terre, bonne pour rien

Note V: Abbé ] Abbe

Note VII: ". . . They leave to fight, to bleed, to die for you." ] They leave "to fight, to bleed, to die for you."

Part Fifth

Note I: fameuse ] fameuse

pommegris ] pommegris

Note IV: Of youths and maids, in joyous mood, convene ] Of youths and maids in joyous mode convene
called Harvest-home and ] called, Harvest-home, and

Note V: And bound for southern climes, a faithless drove ] And bound for southern climes a faithless drove

Note VI: Indian Summer ] Indian summer,