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amid April autumn eve Autumn Silence back to Canada blue Bourinot Canada's Fallen changed her coverlet chanson gay beginning comrades dancing dark and dreary dawn everlasting night everlasting sleep fields this autumn flowers France FREIBURG CAMP friends of college furled glade grave-yards haunted heart hills of dream hills of rest Holzminden homeward house I know hush laughter Laurentian light lilacs lonely long ago love of beauty love's loveliness of earth low lying hills lure Man's Land mirontaine Mironton MOON THAT SHINES morning mountains neath ness o'er OTTAWA RIVER pale peace pine quiet fields river slowly road sadness shadows shines to-night singing sleep last night SNAKE FENCE softly solitude sorrow swayed sweet swift thee Thou spirit white TREK SONG vesper voice Warm sunlight weary WESTERN HILLS westward white of everlasting wild wilderness winds wings wistful wondrous wood world has changed world of old
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Page 4 - The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
Page 7 - ... during the War, and by them, naturally, impressions have been left. So that we have several very vivid pictures of life in German prisons and of other encampments, but, after all, we like his Canadian poems, such, for instance as "Night on the Ottawa River", which is the first poem in the volume : Down the river slowly drifting, Float the rafts of river-men. While the light is slowly shifting, Backward o'er the hills again. 'Mid the silence rings their singing, Voicing low the old refrain, But...
Page 8 - Oh, life must be immortal for their sake: Oh, earth will rest them gently till they wake. 8 "VITHEN...