POEMS

OF

JAMES McINTYRE.

INGERSOLL:
PUBLISHED AT THE OFFICE OF THE CHRONICLE.
1889.

Registered, according to Act of Parliament,
in the year 1884, by

JAMES McINTYRE,

In the Office of the Minister of Agriculture.

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TO THE PUBLIC.

e received so many kind assurances from friends in thisneighborhood and from gentlemen at a distance whohad taken an interest in our first little work, that theyinduce us to issue this more comprehensive volumecontaining about one hundred new pieces. We have written a numberof dairy odes recently; these and our patriotic songs composed duringthe past year we trust will make the work more interesting. We publisha few short pieces from many letters and poems we received fromfriends. We hope the public will peruse the poems in a friendlyspirit, as a kind feeling towards all of the nationalities forming thisyoung and vigorous Dominion has prompted us to publish these selectionsfrom our poetic works.

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SHORT EXTRACTS FROM POEMS AND LETTERSRECEIVED BY THE AUTHOR.

The following lines were received from Mr. William Murray of Hamilton:

From one of Toronto's well known citizens, S. H. Janes, Esq.,formerly of Oxford:

I wish to express to you my great pleasure in looking over yourmusings on the Banks of Canadian Thames. It seemed to transportmy memory across the chasm of twenty-five years and to call up thescenes, associations and joys of boyhood's happy hour. Literary workof this kind must add greatly to your pleasure and happiness as itcertainly does to that of your friends.

The Editor of the Toronto Globe, after reviewing a number ofother books pronounced our little volume to be the gem of the table.

Col. Denison, Toronto's police magistrate, "found many most interestingpieces on Canadian subjects in the volume."

Joaquin Miller, the American poet, hailed me as "my dear poet ofthe Canadian pasture fields," and he said I did wisely in singing ofuseful themes.

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N. C. Thompson of Rockford, Ill., wrote us a large number ofverses. We select the following: