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"...and my only desire is, if what I have written never does any good, may it never do any harm."
Martin F. Smith was born on February 17, 1840, in Glanford, Ontario. The son of a farmer, he would spend his life as one himself, dying 79 years later in the same township where he was born.
But sometime around 1863, Smith apparently wondered if he might become Canada’s answer to Robert Burns.
That year, in Hamilton, Ontario, he published his only known book, A Book of Canadian and American Poems—a modest volume that suggests that, for a brief moment, this Glanford farmer had literary ambitions reaching well beyond his fields.
He is buried in White Church Cemetery in Hamilton, Ontario, not far from his parents, sister, and generations of family memebers.
His grave is also not far from the grave of Margaret Clark Johnson, the woman who inspired the poem/song “When You and I were Young, Maggie”
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