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Canada. A Satire. (By One of Her Sons).

[Toronto. N.p. c.1879]. Soft cover. 19.5cm, pp.3-24, wraps, lacking title page& front wrapper, internally complete with caption title, "Canada, ASatire." , good, scarce. (N12) A long poem vehemently critical ofCanadian politics and politicians in the 1870's. "Hail Canada! Muchgovern'd, nigh undone,/ By heavy debts and railways, just begun,/ To tiethy scattered provinces together/ Like an interminable iron tether,/Ofthee I sing: nay rather let me mourn,/The ruined prospects, and thyplight forlorn." The back blue wrapper advertises "Ryrie, TheJeweller" 113 Yonge Street, Toronto, listed in the Toronto Directory for1878-79. Item #34272

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