Niagara in 1882 by John Macdonald

 

Queen’s Royal Hotel, Niagara-on-the-Lake, where Macdonald wrote this poem undated postcard.
Image courtesy of Niagara Falls Public Library


Suggested by a day of great quiet and beauty.
PEACEFUL is old Ontario,
    Calm does Niagara flow,
Where hostile ships were sailing
    Seventy years ago.

Peaceful the banks of the river
    To-day compared with then,
Now clothed with the coming harvest,
    Then bristling with armed men.

Silent is old Mississagua,
    Niagara’s work is done,
No sound comes from its cannon
    But the peaceful sunset gun.

And silent, too, are the heroes
    Who sleep on either shore,
Who nobly fought for country
    Here in the days of yore.

Here men still read the stories
    Which the mural tablets tell.
Of brave ones who, for England,
    By old Niagara fell.

But the strife is long forgotten,
    And the battles long are o’er;
God grant that these great nations
    May go to war no more.

God grant that these great nations
    In peace may live alway,
As calm and as unruffled
    As river and lake this day.

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