This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... Winter's Dawn in Lower Canada O EACH there lives some beauteous sight: mine is to me most fair, I carry fadeless one clear dawn in keen December air, O'er leagues of plain from night we fled upon a pulsing train; For breath of morn, outside I stood. Then up a carmine stain Flushed calm and rich the long, low ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... Winter's Dawn in Lower Canada O EACH there lives some beauteous sight: mine is to me most fair, I carry fadeless one clear dawn in keen December air, O'er leagues of plain from night we fled upon a pulsing train; For breath of morn, outside I stood. Then up a carmine stain Flushed calm and rich the long, low east, deep reddening till the sun Eyed from its molten fires and shot strange arrows, one by one On certain fields, and on a wood of distant evergreen, And fairy opal blues and pinks on all the snows between: (Broad earth had never such a flower as in my country grows, When at the rising winter sun, the plain is all a rose.) Then seemed all nymphs and gods awake--heaven brightened with their smiles, The land was theirs; like mirages, stood out Elysian isles. WINTER'S DAWN IN LOWER CANADA Westward the forests smiled in strength and glory like the plain, Their bare boughs rose, an arrowy flight, and by them sped the train. But dream-crown of that porcelain sea, those plains of sunrise snow, The green woods east, the grey woods west, and molten carmine glow--A light flashed through the sapling wastes and alders nearer by, Where Phoebus worked the spell of spells that ever charmed an eye, His bright spears to the frost-flakes reached, that on their branches lay, And each shot back, as we sped by, a single peerless ray. More bright than starry hosts appeared that vision in the wood And flashed and flew like fire-flies in a nightly solitude, A maze of silver stars, a dance of diamonds in the day: Through many lives though fly my soul as on that pulsing train, That sparkling dawn shall oftentimes enkindle it again. The Loyalists From an unfinished Narrative Poem.) T N NEW York, the Royal Province, generous were the days of yore When the names of...
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Contemporary gift inscription on the front fly, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a few modest tears. Scarce in jacket.
Publisher:
Montreal & Toronto. A.T. Chapman & Musson Book Company. 1922
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16851151344
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Dust Jacket Included. 22.2cm, first edition, 140p., frontis portrait, brown cloth, title labels, uncut, a fine bright copy in fine jacket (lt). A collection of occasional verse by the Canadian author, William Douw Lighthall (1857 1954). Primarily of a patriotic or philosophic nature.