Oh Canada
Oh Canada
Original Text
First published in 1965; then in The New Romans, ed. Al Purdy (Edmonton, AB: M. G. Hurtig, 1968), The Sad Truths (Toronto: Peter Martin Associates, 1974): 37; and now in All the Poems of John Robert Colombo (Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2005).
1Canada could have enjoyed:
2 English government,
3 French culture,
4 and American know-how.
5Instead it ended up with:
6 English know-how,
7 French government,
8 and American culture.
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire, assisted by Ana Berdinskikh
RPO Edition
2009
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Special Copyright
"Oh Canada," from <i>All the Poems of John Robert Colombo</i>, copyright ©2005 by John Robert Colombo. Reprinted by permission of
the author.