SONNETS

AND OTHER VERSE

BY

W. M. MacKERACHER

Author of "Canada, My Land"

TORONTO
WILLIAM BRIGGS
1909

Copyright, Canada, 1909, by
W. M. MacKERACHER.

CONTENTS.

[The Old and The New]
[How Many a Man!]
[The Saddest Thought]
[The House-Hunter]
[On Moving Into a New House]
[Literature]
[A Library]
[On Charles Lamb's Sonnet, "Work."]
[Work]
[The Joy of Creation]
[Adam]
[A Shallow Stream]
[A Faithful Preacher]
[A Wish Rebuked]
[The Sabbath]
[Milton]
[The Three Hundredth Anniversary of Milton's Birth]
[Burns]
[A Late Spring]
[Autumn]
[An Autumn Walk]
[November]
[November Sunshine]
[Short Days]
[The Beginning of Winter]
[The Winter and the Wilderness]
[The Immigrants]
[Wolfe]
[Montcalm]
[The Coming of Champlain]
[The Montagnais at Tadoussac]
[Champlain's First Winter and Spring in Quebec]
[Idleness]
[Success]
[The Exclusion of Asiatics]
[The People's Response to Heroism]
[An Aristocrat]
[In Warehouse and Office]
[H.M.S. "Dreadnought"]
[The Revolution in Russia]
[Tea's Apologia]
[A Wish]
[Alone with Nature]
[The Works of Man and the Works of Nature]
[A Day Redeemed]
[Outremont]
[The New Old Story]
[Recreation]
[Paestum]
[Rondeau: An April Day]
[Autumn]
[My Two Boys]
[My Old Classical Master]
[The Gold-Miners of British Columbia]
[War-ships in Port]
[On Finding a Copy of Burns's Poems in the House of an Ontario Farmer]
[The Ideal Preacher]
[The Wheel of Misfortune]
[Tim O'Gallagher]