At Minas Basin, and Other Poems

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THEODORE H. RAND D.C.L.
TORONTO: WILLIAM BRIGGS WESLEY BUILDINGS. Montreal: C. W. COATES.Halifax: S. F. HUESTIS. 1897
Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, by Theodore H. Rand, at the Department of Agriculture.
To E.
SHARER OF PERFECT SUMMER DAYS AT PARTRIDGE ISLAND BASIN OF MINAS
Toronto, Canada, 1897

A body of beauty is mine. O poet, moulder of me, Withhold not the breath divine, The soul of truth that makes free.
Fair form in repose for a day (The body of beauty of me) With the pulse-beats of life all away, Is well, for beauty and thee.
Yet give to me life all aglow,— Not a demon of darkness to blight, But a love-lit soul pure as snow,— Beckon me an angel of light.
A body of beauty is mine. O poet, moulder of me, Inbreathe with breathings divine, Or body alone let it be.