Once a Canadian Lad

by Gilbert DeBenedetti

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Once a Canadian lad, exiled from hearth and 
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home, wandered alone and sad, through alien
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lands unknown.  Down by a rushing stream,
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thoughtful and sad one day, he watched the 
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water pass and to it he did say

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If you should reach my land, my most unhappy
land.  Please speak to all my friends so they
will understand, tell them how much I wish that I could once more in
my beloved land that I will see no more