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Rudyard Kipling 1897
From: Colombo's All Time Great Canadian Quotations
Date: 19940401
Author:John Robert Colombo
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Rudyard Kipling 1897
"A Nation spoke to a Nation, A Throne sent word to a Throne: "Daughter am I in my mother's house, But mistress in my own. The gates are mine to open, As the gates are mine to close. And I abide by my Mother's House," Said our Lady of the Snows."
The independent yet subordinate relation of the Dominion of Canada to Great Britain, the "mother country," was given dramatic expression by Rudyard Kipling, an Imperialist, in the final stanza of the verse "Our Lady of the Snows." The verse was subtitled "Canadian ...
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