"The Ships of St. John" and "The Grave Tree", from _Poems_, by Bliss Carman. "Heart of Gold" and "Madame Tarte", from _Later Poems and New Villanelles_, by S. Frances Harrison. {248} "Elizabeth Speaks", and "A Legend of Christ's Nativity", from _Lundy's Lane and Other Poems_, by Duncan Campbell Scott. "The Habitant", "Little Bateese", "De Bell of Saint Michel", and "Little Lac Grenier", from _The Poetical Works_ of W. H. Drummond. "The Song My Paddle Sings", from _Flint and Feather_, by E. Pauline Johnson. "Bega", "The Immortal", "The Shepherd Boy", from _The Complete Poems of Marjorie L. C. Pickthall_. "A Song of Better Understanding", from _The Song of The Prairie Land_, by Wilson MacDonald. "The Shark", from _Newfoundland Verse_, by E. J. Pratt. Speech in Hants, 1844, from _The Speeches and Public Letters of Joseph Howe_, Chap. X. ed. by J. A. Chisholm. "Political Liberalism", Quebec City, 1877, and "Death of Sir John Macdonald", House of Commons, 1891, _Speeches_ by Sir Wilfrid Laurier. _A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs_, by George M. Wrong. {249} AFTERWORD The name of this chapter, Afterword, seems as if it were an ending. But some endings in reality are beginnings. We all know the look of a catalogue of seeds, with its brilliantly coloured flowers. This book, which belongs to you, in one sense is like a seedsman's catalogue. The true delight of gardening is in choosing the seeds, digging, fertilizing and smoothing the garden till it is ready for sowing and planting. Then we look forward to the first green leaves, flowers, and fruits. There is an infinite deal to learn about gardens, and the seedsman's catalogue is only the beginning. This book is the beginning of the voyage of discovery in the world of your own books. Because we have spoken in the preceding chapters almost wholly of writers and books, we should take care not to place too much emphasis on writing as an occupation. The world owes much to the writers of great books,--happiness, inspiration, enjoyment, wisdom which we may take from them if we will, learning, and at all times, unending entertainment. But how many other people there are in the world to whom we owe love and gratitude: soldiers, sailors, explorers, inventors, statesmen, law-givers, physicians, discoverers, scientists, preachers, teachers, evangelists, missionaries, {250} fathers, mothers, all the men and women who make our streets, build our houses, bake our bread, bring us food, make our clothes, sell us what we need, look after the finances of the world, manage our railways and run the trains, fly in airships, and of great importance in their occupation, men and women who grow food as farmers. Still, we dearly love good books and great writers.