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R, c/o William Tyrrell & Co., Book-sellerst King St. W., Torcmta A4S'P6 f^'X^J Enterwl acoMrdinf to Act of fht Parliament ol Canada in tb« year nineteen hundred and one. by Wiluam Ttrrbix. at the Departoieat of Africultur*. DEDICATION WI1N THB VTMOtT «nPICT AND ADMIHATIOII I DimCATB THIS LITTLI VOLUME. WRITTBII IN MT milF LSnVRB MOURI. TO EDWARD EVANS. JUNIOR. ESQUIRE. LIVERPOOL. ENGLAND. Wao. THOVOH A KUSV BUBINBM MAN OT BX> CBPTIONAt ABILITY, MAK VBT rOUND TIMB, IN HM gUIBT MASTBRrUL WAV. TO DO A ORBAT AND NOBLB WORK IN THB CAUhB OT HUMAN LIBBRTV. A.B.R I THE LAMBNT OP THE SOUL. WHIN tha daak wa* tlowly crMpitif . then tbcy laid ma, Mfiiy waapinf ^ In tha grave which hid my body from their tif ht. O 'twas sad to Iom the laughter and to know that ever after I should paM away .'one into the night. 'Tis a morUl said they crying, we have left so CikJ^-^^ t » quislly lying ; / Just a mortal doomed to crumble and decay. But the soul with all its story has passed awsj- >' glory To t ^ . kingdom of a never ending day. For they knew not of the sadness, nearly verging into madness. Of the haunting and the undisceming dread. Which the soul left lone to languish in its bitter, ^ bitter anguish Pelt when gating on the body lying dead. For my soul stood wildly weeping when I fMssed from out its keeping. Stood and waited by tl\e dre: less empty clod ; Though it knew its Uoly duty not to mourn the empty be«nty Of the grand -.rX lovely Image of its God. But the soul is half a monal till it passes through the portal, Of the gates which He across the hills of care, For it feels the passion crude and the awful solitude Of the human overshadowed with despair. All the quivering emotion in the bosom of the ocean When it beats upon the desolated shore, E'en can scarcely be compared to the soul that hath despaired For the body passed away for evermore. While my soul awaited dreaming, lo ! a brightness swiftly streaming, Like the brightness of a splendid falling star. Burst the fleecy clouds asunder, and my soul in awe and wonder Heard the sound of music floating from afar. Then there sudden swept a singing, sweet as bells of silver ringing, Through the twilight of the softly waking night With a gentle echo falling, 'twas the spirit voices calling To my soul to flee away into the light. And a voice low, sweet and tearful, whispered " Be no longer fearful, But arise and bravely conquer thy despair." Then my soul arose, and slowly with a yearning strong and holy Cried aloud to God in penitential prayer. 6 TO MY WEE WIFE. SIT beside me little cheerer, Whisper •• I am thine," Let me feel thee nearer dearer Sweetheart mine. Let thy love a holy fetter Round my heart entwine, Then my life will be the better Sweetheart mine. All my homage do I render Dear before the shrine Of thy love so true and tender Sweetheart mine. Of the joys we follow after None are so divine. As to hear thy happy laughter Sweetheart mine. Look, the stars are shining brighter. Let us not repine, All our labor groweth lighter. Sweetheart mine. May the God of all grow dearer As the years decline, May we feel His presence nearer. Sweetheart mine. THE QUEEN IS DEAD. SON of BriUin, bow your head ; Listen to the passing beU Echoing in its solemn knell : The Queen, our blessed Queen, is dead. All our joy is turned to gloom, Now we know that she has gone ; She whose life so brightly shone Restetb in the silent tomb. Gentle mother, loving wife. Ever mindful of the right. Humble in her splendid might. Looking to eternal life. Bitter tears the nation shed. For they loved her for herself ; Loved the gentle Lady Guelph, Sleeping with the peaceful dead. Son of Britain, bow your head ; Listen to the passing bell Echoing in its solemn knell : The Queen, our blessed Queen, is dead. TO THE SPARROW. THOU poor despisttd tonglett bird, Scorned member of the common herd, No soul for thee will say a word Of commendation. Thou hast no voice to pipe thy lay. Nor s^audy plumage bright and gay Before thy fellows to display For consolation. But just a wicked mite art thou, Above me I can see thee now So fiercely fighting on the bough For devilment. I hear thy tiny twits of scorn. Alas ! I cannot help but mourn To see thee off to yellow corn On mischief bent. Oh thou who art so st-ong and t'»ve. Thou brown and dirty little knave, Why dost thou ever thus deprave Thy tiny self? And yet I love thee, plump and sleek, I love the noisy, wicked squeak, Which issues from thy dumpy beak Thou naughty elf. 9 THE COLLEENS RETURN. THEV told me .he would come to me no more. Rut lo I 1 waited through the throbbing night And called to her my love, my heart's delight, O Colleen Bawn machree, mine own asthore, Come back to him who waits upon the shore Of life's dark river flowing to the light Of Gods own haven where resplendent, bright. An angel thou art dwelling evermore. And while I waited oh so patiently, And called until my trembling lips were dry, I heard the sound of running feet, and she In breathless eager haste drew swiftly nigh. No solemn ghostly thing she came to me. But ;aughing with a glad and happy cry, Was folded to my heart in ecstacy. 10 I i I TO BERNARD McEVOY. WB bless thee.kiod and generous-hearted friend, For many weary souls hast thou bade rise, With cheerful heart and struggle for the prixe Which patient labour gaineth in the end— The sad unknown thou ever didst defend. The gentle smile from out thy kindly eyes, The God of all will surely recognize, And let His blessing on thy head descend. True poet art thou ; thy cheerful happy song Uplifts the soul beyond the scoffing cry Of those who oft would make the right seem wrong, The wrong seem right. Thy brave and sweet reply Reminds us how on earth the Master trod, And straight the longing soul of man sees God. Chtistmas, 1900. It I I TO W. WILFRED CAMPBELL. HAIL I to thM poet, intorprator of touls. In splondottr liko a metaor from the tky Flash thy glorious melodios, swift they ffy From sphere to sphere and wondering^ man beholds A new poet risen, who like a ffod controls The hearts of all, and lo I we gladly cry Th rath shall live for trath can never die WhL- poetry, God's unwritten law, unfolds. The sacred thoughu of one trae poet will save His fellows from the taint of sordid gain Which they so madly follow to the grave, The golden shadow with its ugly stain Called greed ; but when the poet his message sings The shadow melts before eternal things. 12 11 .'I 'S A VISION AT SEA. FiiOM out tb« waters that g rMt host aroM Of m«n and woman lost upon the saa» Chained souls who had regained their liberty Forever from their unbesought repose. But as I gased my very heart strings frose* For on those faces wan there seemed to be No light of joy as one might hope to see Upon a face that dreams no more but knows. In blinded eyes methought I did behold Strange secrets wrested from the silent deep. Ah me ! when God His purpose doth unfold, And we shall wake, if wake we do from sleep Shall we be happier when the truth we know Than when we were but children here below 1 it -> 13 ,1' THE UNKNOWN GOD. FROM tittman souls there ringfs a bitter cry Quivering in a broken-hearted tone "O, hear our longing prayer thou Great Unknown." It shivers trembling to the far blue sky, Then slow and mournful fades away to die Echoing into space a weeping moan. Is God then cold and cruel as a stone Just looking on our woe and passing by? Perhaps He grieves He cannot now undo Old Nature's weary pain and ancient wrong. Perhaps He grieves when He beholdeth you And me so weak yet striving to be strong, As blindly through the dark we struggle on With fainting hearts, and faces woebegone. U GOLDEN HAIR. BmiOHT trestet of hair, shining golden hair, Soft clinging round a stately form laid low lu death. Cold and still, never more to know Ufe's joy and sorrow and its endless care. Her wide blue eyes that did so wildly stare I closed, dear eyes, Ah God ! they hurt me so, Pleading in their dark, unutterable woe. So helpless in their anguish and despair. I had cursed her in my angry madness. And weeping at my feet she prayed in vain, Thei at last to desperation driven She arose and with a lingering sadness Left me with a black and everlasting sUin Upon my soul forever unforgiven. 1ft A STORM. A SOUND tb«r« lay a vast and mtdlmn Ma, HaadlMt it awapt with hareulaaa mifht Naatli tlia sbadowy moonbaaias' lurid light, Deep in its lonely haart thara Mamad to ba Endless pain and awfulest misery. As a lion wounded in a deadly fif ht, Moaning it rolled in anguish through the night, Ever restless in its lone immensity. Earth trembling quaked in hushed and faarsome dread Last it should burst the chains which held it bound} And devastation o'er her valleys spread, And leave her but a barren lifeless mound. Strewn with the helpless dying and the dead. Hushed in eternal silence all around. THB REPLY. Yi atk UM do I lev* the* dMrMt bMrt, Alas i BO word« my ttroag cat lovo ean tell i I loT« **-*»€ more than hoaven itself, and bell !• but an empty fear, for where thoi. art There lie* my heaven, and should we, dearest, part, There, there indeed, would be my hell, to dwell Without thee. God Himself, could ne'er dispel The anguish from my soul, mine own sweetheart. Wert thott no longer here to shyly glance Into .nine eyes ind hold me with thy love i Wert thou, oh little sweetheart, really gone, Tne God of Mercy, would I hope perchance Take pity on my woe from hea en above And grant me death's sweet hushed oblivion. IT I ! ! ! REALIZATION. To knew I lui'cr can b« what I would b«, To know tho inmost long ing ■ of my Hfo Aro hufhod in tiloneo. AJI tbo deadly ■Irifo Of thouf hu in anguish, tacking to ba fraa Ara chained, imprisonad a« tha lonaly taa EndoMd by jaggad rocki, and wildly rifa With holy paaca. No gantia noothing Ufa Can lull my mourning soul's daspondancy. But I must thus ramain unknown, unhaard, Tha wistful hopa, unfashionad into word Of song, on muta, anfattarad lips must sti*/. And folded in my breast my stricken voice, In broken accents striveth to rejoice That I at last in humbleness can pray. 18 A WOMAN'S DEVOTION. MY b«lov«d, why art thou so w«»ry and Md ? On« hMrt thou dott always mak* joyous and irl*d. Tho light of th]' presence is dearer to me, Than the gold of the earth, or the pearls of the sea. My beloved, I care not what ill may betide, So I can be near thee and watch by thy side t We will conquer together the pain and the strife. So be not down hearted then, life of my life. My beloved, I give thee my soul and my all ; I am thine, I am thine till Death's Angel shall call : And should God in heaven forbid thee to dwell, I will follow thee down to the shadows of Hell. 19 TO PARNELL. SADLY we mourn thee our penitent chief, O sadly we think of the close of thy years, Our hearts are o'erladen with passionate ^rief Which lieth too deep for the shedding .>f tears. T'was not for thy sin we condemned thee the most. We loved thee, we loved thee in spite of it all, And fiercely we hated the clamouring host Who brutally cheered at thy terrible fall. Alas, 'twas to know thou wert only a slave, To know that our idol had crashed from its height. We looked to thy leadership dauntless and brave To help us, so helpless to win in the fight. For we trusted thee, hoped in thee, e'en to the end, A Saviour, we called thee to raise the oppressed. The cause of thy people to staunchly defend, And lo! thou wert human and weak as the rest. O God, it was bitter to think of thee soiled, To hear thee condemned as a creature of lust, O willingly, willingly, would we have toiled To save thee from dragging thy name in the dust. But there ! thou art dead and forever ha^ past Away from thy people who mourn thy decease, O Chief, we forgive thee, are glad that at last Thy heart wi' its sorrow is resting in peace. 20 A TRIBUTE. [While the Bourffoyne w«m sinkinK three Roman Catholic priesta stood unmoved on her deck vrMUag abwdution to thoee who aouvht it.] H BROBS they died at their post, Brave and true till the last ; Helping the weak to abide Tilt the darkness had past. Alone they stood and were strong When the Angel swept by ; Comfort they gave to the souls Who were waiting to die. Nobly they offered their lives To the God they loved best. And humbly awaited the end, Then sank to their rest.