NORTHERN LIGHTS.
(Contributed,/. While other countries boast ot their “Northern Lights’’ we, too, have our “Guiding Star” whose radiant beams unfortunately serves but to attract attention to itself rather than to illuminate :
Oh! let us sing of “Colonel” Bell, Unused to praise except his own; Relax your throats and with a yell Give voice in no uncertain tone. Once did he sit in Parliament; Rushworth has now usurped his place ; Does this blot out the years he’s spent On schemes to help the human race ? No; not at all, but it does make More keen the gratitude we feel; If he bears trials for our sake Let our kind thoughts his sorrows heal. Long we’ll remember all the plans Acquired by him to brihg us aid; Roads, he declared, were surely man’s Inheritance and must be made. Skyways were boosted by him next, And aerial routes were quickly planned ; No settler could, of course, feel vexed Although all talk of roads was banned. Soon - -and as each “Triumph’s” stated Surely his “worth” ts estimated
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Northland Age, Volume III, Issue 34, 2 September 1931, Page 5
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174NORTHERN LIGHTS. Northland Age, Volume III, Issue 34, 2 September 1931, Page 5
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