PREFATORY NOTE

By the kind courtesy of Messrs. D. Lothrop Company, I am permitted to reprint in this collection seven sonnets from my volume entitled ‘In Divers Tones.’ This is done to complete the series of sonnets dealing with aspects of common outdoor life. The sonnets reprinted are ‘The Sower,’ ‘The Potato Harvest,’ ‘Tides,’ ‘In September,’ ‘Dark,’ ‘Rain,’ and ‘Mist.’ The Ode for the Centenary of Shelley’s Birth was first published by the Williamson Book Company, of Toronto, in December 1892, in a limited edition of two hundred copies.

C. G. D. R,

Kingscroft, Windsor, N.S., Canada:
May 1893.

CONTENTS

PAGE
[‘ACROSS THE FOG THE MOON LIES FAIR’][1]
SONNETS
[THE FURROW][2]
[THE SOWER][3]
[THE WAKING EARTH][4]
[THE COW PASTURE][5]
[WHEN MILKING-TIME IS DONE][6]
[FROGS][7]
[THE SALT FLATS][8]
[THE FIR WOODS][9]
[THE PEA-FIELDS][10]
[THE MOWING][11]
[BURNT LANDS][12]
[THE CLEARING][13]
[THE SUMMER POOL][14]
[BUCKWHEAT][15]
[THE CICADA IN THE FIRS][16]
[IN SEPTEMBER][17]
[A VESPER SONNET][18]
[THE POTATO HARVEST][19]
[THE OAT-THRESHING][20]
[THE AUTUMN THISTLES][21]
[INDIAN SUMMER][22]
[THE PUMPKINS IN THE CORN][23]
[THE WINTER FIELDS][24]
[IN AN OLD BARN][25]
[MIDWINTER THAW][26]
[THE FLIGHT OF THE GEESE][27]
[IN THE WIDE AWE AND WISDOM OF THE NIGHT][28]
[THE HERRING WEIR][29]
[BLOMIDON][30]
[THE NIGHT SKY][31]
[TIDES][32]
[THE DESERTED CITY][33]
[DARK][34]
[RAIN][35]
[MIST][36]
[MOONLIGHT][37]
[O SOLITARY OF THE AUSTERE SKY][38]
POEMS
[AUTOCHTHON][39]
[THE TIDE ON TANTRAMAR][42]
[THE VALLEY OF THE WINDING WATER][51]
[MARSYAS][52]
[THE FORTRESS][54]
[SEVERANCE][55]
[EPITAPH FOR A SAILOR BURIED ASHORE][56]
[THE SILVER THAW][57]
[THE LILY OF THE VALLEY][60]
[THE NIGHT-HAWK][61]
[THE HERMIT-THRUSH][63]
[THE WILD-ROSE THICKET][65]
[MY TREES][66]
[THE HAWKBIT][67]
[GREY ROCKS AND GREYER SEA][68]
[A SONG OF CHEER][69]
[A SONG OF GROWTH][71]
[TO G. B. R.][73]
[THE BIRD’S SONG, THE SUN, AND THE WIND][74]
[OH, PURPLE HANG THE PODS][75]
[BRINGING HOME THE COWS][76]
[THE KEEPERS OF THE PASS][78]
[NEW YEAR’S EVE (After the French of Fréchette)][81]
[A CHRISTMAS-EVE COURTIN’][84]
[THE SUCCOUR OF GLUSKÂP][91]
[HOW THE MOHAWKS SET OUT FOR MEDOCTEC][95]
[THE WOOD FROLIC][100]
[CANADIAN STREAMS][105]
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[AVE! AN ODE FOR THE CENTENARY OF SHELLEY’S BIRTH][111]

ACROSS THE FOG THE MOON LIES FAIR

Across the fog the moon lies fair.
Transfused with ghostly amethyst,
O white Night, charm to wonderment
The cattle in the mist!