ON THE NEW PROVINCE “ALBERTA.”

In token of the love which thou hast shown For this wide land of freedom, I have named A province vast, and for its beauty famed, By thy dear name to be hereafter known. Alberta shall it be! Her fountains thrown From alps unto three oceans, to all men Shall vaunt her loveliness e'en now; and when, Each little hamlet to a city grown, And numberless as blades of prairie grass, Or the thick leaves in distant forest bower, Great peoples hear the giant currents pass, Still shall the waters, bringing wealth and power, Speak the loved name,—the land of silver springs— Worthy the daughter of our English kings.