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 THE MEADOW. 
 
 Here when the cloudless April days begin, 
 
 And the quaint crows flock thicker day by day. 
 
 Filling the forests with a pleasant din, 
 
 And the soiled snow creeps secretly away, 
 
 Comes the small busy sparrow, primed with glee. 
 First prcncbor in tb(^ nakod wilrlcrness, 
 Pipinjr an end to all the long distress 
 
 From every fence and every leafless tree. 
 
 Now with soft slijiht and viewless artiflce 
 
 Winter's iron work is wondrously undone ; 
 
 In all tlie little hollows cored with ice 
 
 The clear brown pools stand sin^merinj? in the sun 
 
 Frail lucid worlds, upon whose tremulous floors 
 All day the wandering' water-bugs at will, 
 Shy mariners whose oars are never still. 
 
 Voyage and dream about the heightening shores . 
 
 The bluebird peeping from the gnarled thorn 
 Prattles ujjon his frolic flute, or flings, 
 
 In bounding flight across the golden morn, 
 An azure gleam from oft" his splendid wings. 
 
 Here the slim pinioned swallows sweep and pass 
 Down to the far oiT river ; the black crow 
 With wise and wary visage to and fro 
 
 Settles and stsilks about the withered grass. 
 
 Here when the murmurous May-day is half gone 
 The watchful lark before my feet takes flight. 
 
 And wheeling to some lonelier fleld far on. 
 
 Drops with obstreperous cry ; and here at night, 
 
 When the flrst star precedes the great red moon, 
 The shore lark tinkles from the darkening fleld, 
 Somevvliere we know not in the dusk concealed, 
 
 His little creakliug and continuous tune. 
 
 Here too the robins, lusty as of old. 
 
 Hunt the waste grass for Ibrage, or prolong 
 From every quarter of these flelds the bold, 
 
 Blitho pbrasps of their never flnished sonir. 
 The white-throat's distant descant with slow stress, 
 
 Note after note upon tlie noonday falls, 
 
 Filling the leisured air at intervals 
 With his own mood of piercing pensiveness. 
 
 Often, how often, from this uphuid perch, 
 
 Mine eyes have seen the forest break in bloom, 
 
 The rose-red maple and the golden birch. 
 The dusty yellow ot the elms, the gloom 
 
 Of the tall poplar hung with tasseled black, 
 
 Ah, I have watched, till eye and ear and brain 
 Grew full of dreams as they, the moted plain, 
 
 The sun-steeped wood, the marshland at its back, 
 
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 The valley where the river wheels and fills, 
 Yon city ^'limmerinK in its smoky shroud. 
 
 And out at the Inst misty rim the hills 
 
 Blue and far off and mounded like a cloud, 
 
 And here the noisy rutted road that goes 
 
 Down the slope yonder, flanked on either side 
 
 With the smooth -furrowed fields flung hlack and wide. 
 
 Patched with pale water sleeping in the rows 
 
 So as I watched the crowded leaves expand, 
 
 The bloom break sheathe, the summer's strength uprear 
 In earth's great mother's heart already planned 
 
 The heaped and burgeoned plenty of tlie year, 
 Even as she from out her wintered hearse 
 
 My spirit also sprang to life anew, 
 
 And day l)y day as the spring's bounty grew, 
 The fabrle'd dream unlocked the fount of verse. 
 
 In reverie by day and midnight dream 
 
 I sought these upland fields and walked apart, 
 Musing on nature, till my tiiought did seem 
 
 To read the very secrets of her heart ; 
 In mooded moments earnest and sublime 
 
 I stored the themes of many a future song. 
 
 Whose substance should be nature's clear and strong, 
 Bound in^asket of majestic rhyme. 
 
 Brnvp bud-like plans tluit never reached the fruit, 
 Like her's our mother's who with every hour, 
 
 Easily replenished from the sleepless root. 
 
 Covers her bosom with fresh bud and flower ; 
 
 Yet I was happy as 3'oung lovers be, 
 
 Who in the season\ of their passion's birth 
 
 Deem that they have their utmost worship's worth. 
 
 If love be near them, just to hear and see. 
 
 SUNSET AT LES EBOULEMENTS. 
 
 Broad shadows fall. On all the mountain side 
 The scythe-swept fields are silent. Slowly home 
 By the long boach the high -piled lipy carts come. 
 Splashing the pale salt shallows. Over wide 
 Fawn coloured wastes of mud the slipping tide, 
 Round the dun rocks and wattled fisheries, 
 
 Creeps murmuring in. And now by twos and threes. 
 
 O'er the slow-spreading pools with clamorous chide, 
 
 Belated crov/s from strip to strip take flight. 
 
 Soon will the first star shine ; yet ere the night 
 
 Reach onward to the pale green distances. 
 
 The sun's last shaft beyond the grey sea-floor 
 
 Still dreams upon the Kamouraska shore, 
 
 And the long line of golden villages. 
 
 Archibald Lampman,