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 OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS

(CANADIAN PREFERENTIAL TARIFF, 1897)

spoke to a Nation,

A Queen sent word to a Throne:

"Daughter am I in my mother's house,

But mistress in my own.

The gates are mine to open,

As the gates are mine to close,

And I set my house in order,"

Said our Lady of the Snows.

"Neither with laughter nor weeping,

Fear or the child's amaze—

Soberly under the White Man's law

My white men go their ways.

Not for the Gentiles' clamour—

Insult or threat of blows—

Bow we the knee to Baal,"

Said our Lady of the Snows.

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