When this country it was woody, + 

Its great champion Mrs. Moody, + 

Showed she had both pluck and push + 

In her work roughing in the bush. + 

For there alone she did dwell + 

At time McKenzie did rebel, + 

Outbreak her husband strove to quell, + 

Her own grand struggles she doth tell. + 

Round bush life she threw a glory, + 

Pioneer renowned in story, + 

But her tale it is more cheering + 

When she wrote about the clearing. + 

Her other sister Mrs. Traill + 

Though eighty-seven she doth not fail, + 

She now is writing of wild flowers + 

Grown in Canada’s woody bowers. + 