Lundy's Lane, and Other Poems

by Duncan Campbell Scott

Where even the frail spirits of trees and flowers

Pause, and reach out, and pass from height to height.

Here will we claim for thee another fief,

An upland where a glamour haunts the meadows,

Snow peaks arise enrobed in rosy shadows,

Fairer the under slopes with vine and sheaf

And shimmering lea;

The paradise of a simple old belief,

That flourished in the Islands of the Sea.

A snow-cool cistern in the fairy hills