Lundy's Lane, and Other Poems

by Duncan Campbell Scott

To the Memory of My Daughter
ELIZABETH DUNCAN SCOTT
1895-1907

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CONTENTS

• THE BATTLE OF LUNDY'S LANE[13]
• VIA BOREALIS—
• • Spring on Mattagami[25]
  • An Impromptu[36]
  • The Half-Breed Girl[38]
  • Night Burial in the Forest[41]
  • Dream Voyageurs[44]
  • Song: Creep into My Heart[45]
  • Ecstasy[46]
• LYRICS, SONGS AND SONNETS—
• • Meditation at Perugia[49]
  • At William MacLennan's Grave. Near Florence[53]
  • The Wood-Spring to the Poet[56]
  • The November Pansy[63]
  • The Height of Land[68]
  • New Year's Night, 1916[77]
  • Fragment of an Ode to Canada[79]
  • Fantasia[84]
  • The Lover to His Lass[86]
  • The Ghost's Story[90]
  • Night[92]
  • The Apparition[94]
  • At Sea[96]
  • Madonna with Two Angels[98]
  • Mid-August[100]
  • Mist and Frost[105]
  • The Beggar and the Angel[110]
  • Improvisation on an Old Song[117]
  • O Turn Once More[121]
  • At the Gill-Nets[124]
  • A Love Song[126]
  • Three Songs:
    • Where love is life[128]
    • Nothing came here but sunlight[129]
    • I have songs of dancing pleasure[129]
  • The Sailor's Sweetheart[131]
  • Feuilles d'Automne[133]
  • To the Heroic Soul:
    • Nurture thyself, O Soul![135]
    • Be strong, O Warring Soul![136]
  • Retrospect[138]
  • Frost Magic:
    • Now in the moonrise, from a wintry sky[139]
    • With these alone he draws in magic lines[140]
  • In Snow-Time[142]
  • To a Canadian Lad Killed in the War[143]
• THE CLOSED DOOR—
• • By a Child's Bed[147]
  • Elizabeth Speaks[149]
  • A Legend of Christ's Nativity[154]
  • Willow-Pipes[163]
  • Angel[164]
  • Christmas Folk-Song[165]
  • From Beyond[166]
  • The Leaf[167]
  • A Mystery Play[168]
• LINES IN MEMORY OF EDMUND MORRIS[179]

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THE BATTLE OF LUNDY'S LANE

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THE BATTLE OF LUNDY'S LANE

Rufus Gale speaks—1852

Yes,—in the Lincoln Militia,—in the war of eighteen-twelve;