The Maple-Leaf, or Canadian Annual
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Excerpt from The Maple-Leaf, or Canadian Annual: A Literary Souvenir for 1849 Since we last took leave of the readers of "The Maple-Leaf," twelve months have rolled away. During that period, how many stirring - how many touching events have taken place! What changes, both public and private! Assuredly, stern has been the teaching, and solemn the lessons, of the year which is now drawing to a close. The retrospect presents a spectacle, such as the present generation have never before beheld: kingdoms prostrated, or shaken to their centre - empires rocking to their fall, or heaving with unwonted agitation - social systems, the growth of centuries, overthrown - ancient constitutions levelled - all Europe so convulsed by the social earthquake, whose shocks have not yet ceased, that nations beyond the sphere of its present influence tremble, lest ultimately they too should be involved in the wide-spreading ruin; and amidst this scene of wild confusion, our own glorious Parent-State, unshaken, undismayed - the refuge of misery, the haven of peace, the home of Liberty. Well may we rejoice in British connexion - well may we be proud of being united by filial bonds - "To her upon whose ancient hills bright Freedom dwelleth yet - Whose star of empire ruleth still - whose sun hath never set; The shadows of a thousand years have flitted o´er her brow, And the sunlight of the morning bathes her cloudless beauty now." And ah! what sad changes by our own firesides does the eye of mournful memory observe, as it glances back to our last "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year"! Fond hopes crushed - bright prospects darkened - "the household gods shivered on the hearth" - sweet ties, which years had twined all the closer, in an instant and forever torn asunder - "The eyes that shone Now dimm´d and gone - The cheerful hearts now broken!" But we must not allow the sombreness of our own pensive thought to cast a shade upon the feelings appropriate to this joyous season. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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