Guard Of The Eastern Gate

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Title:     Guard Of The Eastern Gate
Author: E. Pauline Johnson [More Titles by Johnson]

Halifax sits on her hills by the sea
In the might of her pride,--
Invincible, terrible, beautiful, she
With a sword at her side.

To right and to left of her, battlements rear
And fortresses frown;
While she sits on her throne without favour or fear
With her cannon as crown.

Coast guard and sentinel, watch of the weal
Of a nation she keeps;
But her hand is encased in a gauntlet of steel,
And her thunder but sleeps.

[The end]
E. Pauline Johnson's poem: Guard Of The Eastern Gate

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