"Oui, deux siècles ont fui! La solitude vierge N'est plus là! Du progrès le flot montant submerge Les vestiges derniers d'un passé qui finit. Où le désert dormait, grandit la métropole; Et le fleuve asservi courbe sa large épaule Sous l'arche aux piles de granit. "Plus de forêts sans fin: la vapeur les silonne! L'astre des jours nouveaux sur tous les points rayonne; L'enfant de la nature est évangélisé; Le soc du laboureur fertilise la plaine; Et le surplus doré de sa gerbe trop pleine Nourrit le vieux monde épuisé." Mr. Pamphile LeMay, one of the best known French Canadian poets, has published the following: "Essais Poétiques," Quebec, 1865; "La Découverte du Canada," Quebec, 1867; "Poèmes Couronnés," Quebec, 1870; "Les Vengeances," Quebec, 1875, 1876 and 1888 (also dramatized); "Une Gerbe," Quebec, 1879. He has also written "Fables Canadiennes," Quebec, 1882. A number of his poems have appeared in the 'Trans. Roy. Soc. Can.,' vols i., iii., v., vi., ix. He has also written several stories of Canadian life: "L'Affaire Sougraine," Quebec, 1884; "Le Pèlerin de Sainte-Anne," new ed., Montreal, 1893; and "Rouge et Bleu," comedy. One of his best works was a translation of Longfellow's "Evangeline." The following is a list of other Canadian books of poems, of varying merit, which have appeared within a quarter of a century: "The Songs of a Wanderer." By Carroll Ryan. Ottawa, 1867. Indicated much poetic taste, but the poet has been submerged in the busy journalist. "Songs of Life." By Rev. E. H. Dewart. Toronto, 1867. He was author of the first collection of Canadian poems made in this country. See _infra_. "The Prophecy of Merlin and other Poems." By John Reade. Montreal, 1870. In many respects the best sustained poems written by a Canadian can be read in this book. "Les Laurentiennes." By Benjamin Sulte. Montreal, 1870. "Les Chants Nouveaux." By the same. Ottawa, 1880. "The Legend of the Rose." By Samuel J. Watson. Toronto, 1876. Mr. Watson was a writer of promise who died in the maturity of his power. "The Feast of St. Anne, and other Poems." By P. S. Hamilton. Montreal, 1878; 2nd ed. 1890. Has some interest from its description of the ceremonies at the feast of Sainte-Anne du Canada--the tutelary saint of the Canadian aborigines--which is held by the Micmacs on the 26th day of July in each year on Chapel Island, in the beautiful Bras d'Or Lake of Cape Breton. See Bourinot's "Cape Breton." "Waifs in Verse." (Ottawa, ed. in 1878, 1887 and 1891.) By G. W. Wicksteed, Q.C., for fifty years the able law clerk of the Canadian Commons. "A Collection of Poems." By Miss Williams of Grenville, P.Q., 1879. "The Coming of the Princess, and Other Poems." By Kate Seymour Maclean of Kingston. 1880. "Lyrics, Songs and Sonnets." By A. H. Chandler and C. Pelham Mulvany. Toronto, 1880. "The Times, and Other Poems." By J. R. Newell of Woodstock. 1880.