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Eos:
An Epic of the Dawn, and Other Poems
By
Nicholas Flood Davin
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SIR JOHN MACDONALD, G. C. B.
COMPOSED IN THE OPERA HOUSE, TORONTO,
DEC. 17, 1884.
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The
child of love and power and fame you came,
An Empire’s sunshine
on your classic brow;
You came to meet a people’s loud acclaim—
The mighty future’s
murmur ’gainst the now:
And when that tide shall rise, with myriad sound,
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Bearing
imperial hopes upon its breast,
Laving full many a margent city-crown’d,
Reflecting many a mountain’s
airy crest;
Then, like some beacon-bearing headland, you
Shall tower on high, far seen across the blue.
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To you,
thro’ lapsing years, shall turn the eyes
Of those who fain would
read the statesman’s chart,
And learn, when torrents roar and tempests rise,
To steer with wary hand
and play a patriot’s part. [Page 127]
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