Bird of the Bush: A Collection of Poems

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Includes the author's autobiography, portraying life in early Middlesex County. See page 18 for reference to Anthony Steel, early pioneer buried in Melrose Cemetery. The author's s ister married Daniel Shoff (pages 23-24) of Flanagan's Corners (Clandeboye) and was involved in the case of the Queen vs. James Donnelly in the 1850s. The poet's work includes obsequies to his deceased daughter, a dialogue between an American refugee of the Civil War and a Canadian, a lament by the last Indian of his tribe, an epitaph to Riel, Niagara Falls, and the sugar bush. Show more