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Title: Song-waves

Author: Theodore H. Rand

Release Date: October 14, 2008 [EBook #26916]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: Theodore H. Rand. _After a painting by J. W. L. Porter_]

SONG-WAVES

BY

THEODORE H. RAND

D. C. L.

_Author of "At Minos Basin and other Poems," "A Treasury of Canadian
Verse."_

TORONTO

WILLIAM BRIGGS

1900

Entered according to Act of the
Parliament of Canada, in the year
one thousand nine hundred, by
EMELINE A. RAND, at the
Department of Agriculture.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

To EMELINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

SONG-WAVES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
A bird on sudden, as I write . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Above the scarred cliff's iron brow . . . . . . . . 23
Across the hills the cattle call . . . . . . . . . . 39
After the winds there is surcease . . . . . . . . . 24
All day an ashen light serene . . . . . . . . . . . 55
A quiet breath distils in calm . . . . . . . . . . . 33
As on a hill-top near the sun . . . . . . . . . . . 46
As turns my heart its crimson leaves . . . . . . . . 53

Break into flower, O garden fair . . . . . . . . . . 93

Calm soul, unkindled by the sight . . . . . . . . . 36
Celestial sweetness swift outstrips . . . . . . . . 61

Dimly beheld, thou excellent . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Doubt flies before the truth that's quired . . . . . 28

Fair as the light on fire-tipt hills . . . . . . . . 58
Far off and veiled it seems to me . . . . . . . . . 34
Far up the brook, beyond the lin . . . . . . . . . . 78
Filled oft with portents, oft withdrawn . . . . . . 25
Frail Lucia of a mutual love . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Fresh sprig of greenest southernwood . . . . . . . . 49

Green tracery of fern to rust . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Hail, Mary, honored of the race . . . .