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.