The kindly strength of open fields,

The faith of eve, the calm of air,

They lift my spirit close to thee

In memory and prayer.



[CONTENTS]

[I. THE BOOK OF THE NATIVE]Page
Kinship[11]
Origins[16]
An April Adoration[19]
An Oblation[21]
Resurrection[25]
Afoot[27]
Where the Cattle come to Drink[31]
The Heal-All[32]
Recompense[35]
An Epitaph for a Husbandman[37]
The Little Field of Peace[40]
Renewal[43]
The Unsleeping[45]
Recessional[48]
Earth’s Complines[52]
Two Spheres[55]
The Stillness of the Frost[58]
A Child’s Prayer at Evening[59]
[II. LYRICS]
The Frosted Pane[63]
The Brook in February[64]
Beside the Winter Sea[65]
The Quest of the Arbutus[67]
The Jonquil[70]
The Trout Brook[72]
A Wake-up Song[75]
Butterflies[77]
July[78]
An August Wood Road[81]
Apple Song[84]
The Cricket[87]
The Train among the Hills[89]
The Lone Wharf[90]
The Witches’ Flight[92]
Three Good Things[95]
Trysting Song[98]
Love’s Translator[100]
Ebb[103]
Twilight on Sixth Avenue[105]
Mothers[107]
Up and Away in the Morning[108]
Home, Home in the Evening[110]
Sleepy Man[112]
[III. BALLADS]
The Wrestler[117]
The Ballad of Crossing the Brook[120]
Whitewaters[124]
The Forest Fire[136]
The Vengeance of Gluskâp[142]
The Muse and the Wheel[145]
The “Laughing Sally”[150]