Wayside Weeds

W. H. Ellis Emery Walker Ph.sc.
BY WILLIAM HODGSON ELLIS
TORONTO: PUBLISHED BY J. M. DENT & SONS LTD. MCMXIV
The verses in this volume have been collected by a few of Dr. Ellis’s friends, and in this form are presented to him by them as a New Year’s gift
1 January, 1914
BY MAURICE HUTTON, LL.D., Principal of University College, Toronto
In that seraphic choir see Ellis sit!
With that Elys-ian light his numbers glow:
The scholar’s seriousness, the scholar’s wit,
Studious and silent he has read life’s page,
As Aaron’s rod the rods of Phara-oh,
Our evening smoke curls bluer as we read,