Fleurs De Lys, and Other Poems

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ARTHUR WEIR, B.A. Sc.
He only is a poet who can find In sorrow happiness, in darkness light, Love everywhere; and lead his fellow-kind By flowery paths towards life's sunny height.
The name FLEURS DE LYS has been chosen for the Canadian Poems in the early portion of this book, because the scenes and incidents they describe belong to the Monarchial, or Fleur de Lys, period of France in Canada. The royal crest during the seventeenth century is depicted upon the cover.
Many of these poems have already appeared in the columns of the Carnival and Jubilee Star , the Toronto Week , the University Gazette , and the Montreal Gazette , as well as in the Daily and Weekly Star , and it is the kindly reception which they met with that has led the author to publish them in this more permanent form.
Some of the poems were written at twenty, and the latest at twenty- three, so that the author hopes the critics will consider this volume rather as a bud than as a flower, and will criticize it with the view to aiding him to avoid faults in the future rather than to censuring him for errors of the present and past.
To Mr. George Murray, of this city, the author is deeply indebted for encouragement when encouragement was most needed, and for much valuable assistance in the selection and revision of these verses for publication.
It is hoped that the notes at the end of this book will throw sufficient light upon the verses to make them perfectly intelligible to the reader.
December, 1st, 1887.
Ode for the Queen's Jubilee
The Captured Flag Père Brosse L'Ordre de Bon Temps Champlain The Priest and the Minister Pilot The Secret of the Saguenay Jules' Letter The Oak Nelson's Appeal for Maisonneuve