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 A Hytnn for the Canadian Provinces. 
 
 In Mount Royal Vale. 
 
 A Christmas Canticle. 
 
 Saint Alphege's Day. 
 
 The Last Orison. 
 
 A Night Blooming Cereus. 
 
 Saint Lucia's Day. 
 
 On a Page of Polyeucte. 
 
 Clearing Port 
 
 The Funeral of John Wesley. 
 
 Vermilion Bay. 
 
 An Eastern Legend. 
 
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 Inscribed with profound respect to the Hon, Sir Oliver Motvat^ K.C.B.^ 
 
 Prime Minister of Ontario. 
 
 O Watcher of the Ages, with reverent words we call, 
 Who saw Time's golden Empires in grandeur rise and fall; 
 .,0 God to whom the Races in fear or triumph pray, 
 Call to a nation's glory the flower of Canada. 
 
 With noble pride enfold us, make brave the people's heart, 
 With might and truth undaunted to play a Nation's part ; 
 Till shines the dawn and splendor of daring empery, 
 O Canada, my Country, forever true to thee 
 
 Reared to an ampler freedom upon thy rock- bound shore; ' 
 An iron race of heroes a race of heroes bore ; 
 Champlain is still remembered on Stadacona's rock, ' 
 The battle smoke of Queenston, and sacred grave of Brock. 
 
 For Canada our fathers in war and famine died, 
 For Canada Iheir children are marshalled side by side ; 
 While warrior blood is flowing within Canadian veins, 
 Deep in thy heart, my Country, their memory remains. 
 
 The prairie winds are sweeping beyond Saskatchewan, 
 Saint Lawrence, rolling seaward, is shining in the dawn, 
 From mountain peaks of silver a sound of voices comes, 
 Along our coasts and rivers there is a roll of drums. 
 
 Oh ! gather now about her, as in her day of need. 
 
 In the old love of country eternally agreed; 
 
 While from each tower and bastion the flag of England waves 
 
 Above thee, O my Country, and o'er thy heroes' graves. 
 
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 So much is lost from all I liad— 
 The hope to make your hearts so glad- 
 So much is unfulfilled ! 
 And yet I know that you are near, 
 For through the midnight watch I hear 
 The voices that are stilled. 
 
 Upon your graves in Maytime yet 
 Unfolds the vestal violet, 
 
 And through the early spring, 
 When blossoms, drenched with shining rain, 
 Pour odours down the vale again, 
 
 The gypsy robins sing. 
 
 They sing above unopened eyes. 
 And lips that murmured lullabies 
 
 In musky summer's calm ; 
 While from the city, far away, 
 Booms deeply, at the close of day, 
 
 The bell of Notre Dame. 
 
 The river winds that southward blow 
 Down from the dusky Ottawa, 
 
 Are with a presage filled; 
 And through the midnight watch I hear 
 Those sweet companions very near. 
 
 The voices that are stilled ! 
 
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 Darkly through the awful gloom 
 Thunders now a nameless doom; 
 On the hills the camp fires glare 
 Wildly in the blackened air, 
 And the Old Fear all have known 
 Hisses in our ears alone. 
 
 From the temple's dark alcove 
 Men of Athens cry to Jove, 
 By the Nile's most sacred wall 
 Frantic priests to Isis call ; 
 Only back through countless years 
 Mocks the music of the spheres. 
 
 Out on pastures far away. 
 Kneeling shepherds sadly pi ay. 
 When, behold! a golden sar 
 Rolls in molten light afar. 
 And along the sylvan hills 
 Night undimmed with glory fills. . 
 
 Gathering while on Heaven's rampires. 
 Sweetly sing celestial choirs, 
 For to-day, sublimely born, 
 Christ has sanctified the morn: 
 From their thrones our tyrants hurled, 
 Soothed our woe, and saved the world. 
 
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 A Ballad 
 
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 Our Danish bands, ten thousand deep, 
 
 Surrounded Canterbury's wall. 
 
 We heard the watch, from keep to keep, 
 
 Arouse the town with call on call; 
 As we that raven flag of ours 
 Unrolled before their old watch towers. 
 
 Our battle trumpets blew a blast 
 Across the freshly trampled fields. 
 With cries and curses gathered fast, 
 Line upon line, our blazing shields, 
 
 As in the clouds of dust swept down 
 Our host, advancing on the town. 
 
 Their ringing arrows filled the air. 
 Oar Danish bolts shot back again, 
 And many a Dane fell dying there 
 Before the mailed Englishmen. 
 
 The armour's clash and battlers roar 
 I shall remember evermore. 
 
 All day, before the iron gate. 
 We fought till all the ground was red ; 
 All day we heard the yells of hate, > 
 And stones hurled down from overhead. 
 
 The gates were broken down that night, 
 For we had fought as Danes can fight. 
 
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 A cry swept through the city then 
 The which my heart shrinks to recount; 
 In Saint Augustine's Church our men 
 Dashed down Alphege before tlie fount, 
 And in the rage of death the Danes 
 Fast bound him with the altar chains. 
 
 We killed the warriors on the stair, 
 
 And caught their torches burning bright— 
 
 The temple, in a smoky glare, 
 
 Lay wrapped in roaring flames all night. 
 
 And through the town rose awful 
 
 shrieks, 
 And women prayed with whitened 
 
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 Alphege we sle • wit reckless haflO; 
 
 And blood and gold 'lilled in the street; 
 
 He did not curse us, but ih« h^d 
 
 Soon wrought ns ruin more complete- 
 broken, but not by man undone, 
 A tew came back, and 1 iini one. 
 
 Our Danish bands, ten thousand deep 
 
 Returned not to the ocean shore ; 
 
 Our ships are sunk, our warriors sleep 
 
 In Kentish meado.v^s evermore; 
 
 But some shall tell what Go.1 has done, 
 A few came back, and I am one. 
 
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 Shaper of breathing lives, and Lord of all above, 
 Thy name I learned beside my mother's knee ; 
 
 She drew me to her arms, and said that Thou wert Love- 
 Oh art Thou Love to me ! , 
 
 I cannot rear my thoughts amid the golden spheres, 
 Where roll the stars about Thy throne on high. 
 
 But here in lowly wise I call on Thee with tears, 
 And teel Thy presence nigh. 
 
 Childlike to Tbee I looked when came the night of fear. 
 
 On Thee I laid my sorrows of the day ; 
 The whole earth spake of One who seemed to be so near, 
 
 It was not hard to pray. 
 
 The bo ted doors that lock the corridors of Time, 
 
 And bar the av/ful avenues of Space, 
 My soul at last shall pass, and then, Oh dream sublime I 
 
 I shall gaze on Thy face. 
 
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 The desert stoic, silent of its power, 
 Looms with bare cactus fronds, a form austere ; 
 Its blossoms dream their beauty all the year, 
 Both through the still heats and the sandy shower. 
 
 But once each year, and at the midnight hour, 
 The censer leaves shake loose their rich perfume, 
 And paling petals, full of golden bloom. 
 With majesty unfold into a flower. 
 
 Even so have hearts, with vacillation sweet, 
 Thrilled into momentary love, as when 
 Stars briefly gleam, without a cloud between; 
 
 Even so have dark souls, murdered by defeat. 
 Glowed with pure prayer, who never spake again. 
 Flowers of the desert midnight ! Who hath seen ? 
 
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 The twinkling: i ipples of the summer sea 
 Beneath the crimson sun la> all unrolled, 
 
 And from their rondure odorous Sicily 
 Lifted her crown of gold. 
 
 The laurel branches and the sycamore 
 Pel fumed the soft air with their dreamy tinct, 
 
 And starry cassia buds drooped lightly o'er, 
 Ensphered and indistinct. 
 
 In night's cool purple Lucia came forth 
 With shining eyes and sweet unsmiling mouth, 
 
 And while the soft airs sought the silent north. 
 Her eyes turned ever south. 
 
 A vestal, vowed to heaven's bright cynosure. 
 Her soul and body were diversely given ; 
 
 The last a lover claimed, though no less pure. 
 The first she pledged to heaven. 
 
 But when her lover called her, passionate hearted, 
 She sought again the treasure of her troth, 
 
 And told him all; whereon his love departed. 
 And hatred came, and wrath. 
 
 And this he told, and this accused her of, 
 That, being a Christian, she had been forsworn 
 
 But love of Christ suppressed all human love. 
 And even conquered scorn. 
 
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 A victim, given to Cyprian votarici 
 To pine for long and live the life of loath, 
 
 The worid seemed wanton, and her life its prize, 
 And Lucia hated both. 
 
 But when they came to lead her to her prison, 
 They could not move her, made immovable. 
 
 About the praying virgin had arisen 
 A weird and subtle spell. 
 
 They tried to drag her with an oxen yoke ; 
 
 In fury poured the boiling oil above her; 
 The cords that would have forced her strained and 
 broke, 
 
 The oil marred no part of her. 
 
 Then through her bosom, dreading what had been. 
 They dashed a sharp sword, and her bosom bled ; 
 
 And veiling her soft eyes as death crept in. 
 She raised her lovely head. 
 
 An Empire's fall, the maiden prophesied, 
 And Romans trembled at the words she said; 
 
 Then growing still, death made her heaven's bride. 
 For she was dead. 
 
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 The soft regret. The beauty on the cheek 
 Of Syrinx, in the vale of Arlcady ; 
 Pan's mellow pipe beneath the myrtle tree. 
 When love in lyric numbers learned to speak : 
 
 The calm sublime. Below Hymettus peak 
 The marble stage and choral melody, 
 Borne through Athenian gardens towards the sea ; 
 The purity of the divinely Greek : 
 
 Such hymns of matin, through long garish years 
 Rolled with auroral light, and after long, 
 Pealed back the vespers night may not retrench. 
 
 Attuning to the music of the spheres, 
 
 Sweet Truth awoke, and the old world's aftersong 
 
 Swelled with the sad perfection of the French. 
 
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 'Tis sweet to linger on the quay 
 While the black ships put out to sea 
 
 With ensigns to the wind; 
 And sweet to hear the brazen bell, 
 And minified voices of farewell, 
 
 Ere all is left behind. 
 
 Alone and silently I gazed 
 
 As the great anchors were upraised 
 
 And sails lashed to the spars; 
 Alone saw England's sinking shore, ' 
 As westward bound we smoothly bore 
 
 Between the sea and stars. 
 
 Ah, mighty splendor unsurpassed— 
 Yet sight of land is sweet at last, 
 
 And sweet at early morn 
 To wake, and from the crowded deck 
 Behold the proud walls of Quebec, 
 
 And land where I was born. 
 
 Death is such putting cait to sea, 
 Death such a clearing port; may we 
 
 When clangs the harbour bell. 
 Though long upon the ocean tossed. 
 Be not on sandy barrens lost, 
 
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 A stir of footsteps in the morning darlc 
 Was heard, and redly glared a smoking torch ; 
 
 The city still slept on, but on the silence, hark ! 
 Faint strains of music from the chapel porch. 
 
 Still hung the night gloom over London spires, 
 The mists of Marcii lay cold in City Road, 
 
 While stole a melody of slowly singing choirs, 
 Down through the darkened aisles where Death 
 abode. 
 
 Then came the preacher's measured monotone, 
 The sad, sweet hymn of mourning at the bier, 
 
 And solemn Litanies for one forever gone ; 
 The man's mute sorrow, and the woman's tear. 
 
 No hearse and no escutcheon honoured him ; 
 
 Six poor men, only, bore him to the ^rave 
 With heavy steps, and slow, while every eye grew dim 
 
 With tears, for tears were all that he would have. 
 
 Six poor men bore his coffin to the tomb, 
 Who the awlul thunderbolts of Truth had hurled, 
 
 Catching that light serene, still shining in the gloom; 
 Ten thousand shout his warning to the world. " 
 
 So passed a great soul to its lasting sleep; 
 
 So, at life's limit, all shall separate, 
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 Above the eastern woods, the glistering waves 
 
 Melt to rose colour, and at Eventide, 
 
 When the sun's slowly sloping car descends 
 
 Into the violet vapours of the west, 
 
 The shining waters swim in crimson light: 
 
 Map-makers call it the Vermilion Bay. " 
 
 From the brown se:ge and lilies on the shore 
 Loose flights of waterfowl sometimes start up 
 And swiftly slant their course above the pines. 
 With sharp discordant screams, and flapping wings, 
 While silent bitterns on the weedy bar 
 Wade with slow splashing feet. Sometimes the deer 
 Come fearlessly to drink at break of day, 
 Brushing the bright dews from the embroidered ferns, 
 And with their delicate antlers tearing loose 
 The hanging foliage of the forest boughs. 
 
 From solitude to solitude the birds 
 Parley in Ariel's golden melodies. 
 And day-winds, garmented in summer smells, 
 With tremulous whispers crisp the shining pools, 
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 And cloistered violets in hollows dank 
 Fill with soft blue the grasses faintly .^unned ; 
 The Past, with lettered scrip of silver rime, 
 Conies back and breathes her fables in my ear. • 
 
 For in this place, in unrecorded days, 
 The desperate Algonquins closed in v/ar ; 
 Here fell their flinty arrows, here, perhaps. 
 Beneath the golden autumn's scarlet dies 
 Coy meetings of primeval Pastoral ; 
 When in the grove of spruce and juniper 
 A dusky virgin listened by the re^^ds, 
 Await'ng the familiar paddle stroke. 
 And the canoe, that on the waters calni 
 Unrolled a trail of silver, and tiie tread 
 Of moccasins, when the soft harvest moon 
 Floated amid her shining mists asleep, 
 With one white arm across her pillow bent, 
 And golden locks upon her rosy cheek — 
 Titania in a bed of cygnet down. 
 
 Or, peradventure, on these banks encamped 
 Some of those bands that searched the farther west 
 For China and the realms of Prester John, 
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 Brought to the west the Roman Breviary. 
 Or when the missionary* by the rocks 
 A century after, moored his lone canoe, 
 And looked out in the golden afternoon, 
 And saw the silent prairies sweeping far 
 Westward, and from the old Portage du Chien, 
 Footsore and famished, brought the Bible first: 
 And in the wigwams by the river stayed, 
 Thereafter called Negick, among the tribes. 
 The ottw^r, for no red man swam so well. 
 
 Witch of the Past, in forests sibylline, 
 How are thy scrolls of wisdom scattered now ! 
 The breathless hopes and plans imperial- 
 England and France— democracy and Rome— 
 While the fond deities of nature wrap 
 About each vestige their thick raimenting, 
 And the mild races of the forest flowers 
 Forever at the freshening of May 
 Spring into colour, swinging censers sweet, 
 And dropping starry dust, and the dim rocks 
 And fuming brooks, and purple shining lakes, 
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 Where halts the desert caravan 
 There came a worn and thirsty man, 
 Who at a running fountain's brink 
 In silent prayer stooped to drink. 
 And restful was it there to wait 
 An hour beneath the palm and date. 
 
 But when the earthen cup he raised, 
 So bitter was the water's taste 
 That, scarcely moistening his lip, 
 He let the jar of water slip ; 
 And to those ears that hear on high 
 Cried, " Water, Heaven, or I die ! " 
 
 Whereon a spirit voice replied, 
 " Oh, cast the drinking cup aside. 
 For it is moulded of the clay 
 Of one long dead and lost to- day : 
 Of one whose sin is writ in Heaven ; 
 A sin forever unforgiven." 
 
 With locked hands drinking from the pool, 
 The water then seemed sweet and cool ; 
 And thus refreshed, with bended head. 
 The traveller reverently said, 
 *' My life from such sin, Allah, bless, 
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 That eastward stands eternally ajar, 
 And far from ways of men a traveller, 
 In wildernesses black, was wandering late. 
 
 Perhaps to pray he paused, perhaps to wait 
 The fortunate coming of the northern star. 
 Or lady moon, when, weirdly from afar. 
 The will o' the wisp allured him to his fate. 
 
 So error forever at our gate encamps. 
 The sky was ever full of evil lamps. 
 And life of ill philosophies and creeds. 
 
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 In patience wait uritil the break of day, 
 Though long in coming, for it truly leads. 
 
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 With those proprieties of phrase 
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 Impatient for my land affairs, 
 Of Kipling tired and passengers. 
 
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 When I slipped my moorings to depart. 
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