A Treasury of Canadian Verse, with Brief Biographical Notes

by Unknown

From realms beyond our mortal reach,

The utterance of Eternal Thought,

Of which all nature is the speech.

And high above the seas and lands,

On peaks just tipped with morning light,

My dauntless spirit mutely stands

With eagle wings outspread for flight.

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VAN ELSEN

GOD spake three times and saved Van Elsen's soul;