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Rh But 'twasn't merely this an' that (which all the world may know),

'Twas how you talked an' looked at things which made us like you so.

All independent, queer an' odd, but most amazin' new,

My word! you shook us up to rights. Good-bye—good luck to you!

Think o' the stories round the fire, the tales along the trek—

O' Calgary an' Wellin'ton, an' Sydney and Quebec;

Of mine an' farm, an' ranch an' run, an' moose an' cariboo,

An' parrots peckin' lambs to death! Good-bye—good luck to you!

We've seen you 'ome by word o' mouth, we've watched your rivers shine,

We've 'eard your bloomin' forests blow of eucalip' an' pine;