A Wreath of Canadian Song Containing Biographical Sketches And Numerous Selecti
A Wreath of Canadian Song Containing Biographical Sketches And Numerous Selecti
C M Whyte Edgar
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So child-like, modest, reticent, With head in meditation bent. He walked our streets ! and no one knew That something of celestial hue Had passed along; a toil-worn man Was seen, no more; the fire that ran Electric through his veins and wrought Sublimity of soul and thought. And kindled into song, no eye Beheld until a foreign sky Reflected back the wondrous light, And heralded the poet's might. Though doomed to less of sun than shade, No weak complaint he ever made; But bravely lived, content ...to let The great world roar, and fume, and fret In visions of the davs of eld 75 A Wreath of Canadian Song He revelled, and in joy beheld The glory of the Hebrew sages, Whose utterance has toned the ages. The sacred mount, the cave, the stream Where holy seers were wont to dream. He knew and loved, and summoned thence The agents of Omnipotence ; Fantastic sprites, and buried men To fight gray battles o'er again. Behold dread Samuel's shade appear! Behold Goliath's mighty spear ! And lithe-limbed David's sling and stone, And Saul's fierce madness ; one by one They rise before us, march, or stand, Obedient to the Poet's wand.
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