United By Steel Rails.

When Indian tribes in the Northwest                 Rebelled against the Eastern laws,             Canadian courage it did test,                 All were united in the cause.             But how shall volunteers proceed                 Such distance, several thousand miles,             Will they in their dark hour of need                 Ask Uncle Sam with pleasant smiles             For to allow our volunteers                 To pass o'er their north railroad,             Perhaps subject to doubts and fears,                 Where British soldiers never trod.             But there went up a glad hurrah                 When it was found that in our land,             Almost finished was railway,                 And trains do wait for word command,             To bear away our volunteers                 To those far North distant lands,             But dispelled were all their fears                 When they rode over those steel bands,             Which bound young nation all in one,                 Before detached and all apart,             Shoulder to shoulder now each one                 Feels patriot feelings in his heart,             First time we truly realize                 The value of this great railway,             Its benefits each now doth prize,                 Highway to Japan and Australia.             The policy it has proved wise,                 Which did build this great railway,             The vast Northwest to colonize,                 And bear its products far away.             Canadian flags are now unfurled                 In the ports of the Chinese,             Short route to Oriental world                 Gives Canada her cheap fine teas.