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Old Year Leaves

Being Old Verses Revised: By H. T. Mackenzie Bell ... New Edition

Bell, Mackenzie (1856-1930)

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[The leaves which in the autumn of the years]

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.

SONNETS ON THE POWER OF THOUGHT.

IN MEMORY OF The gallant men who fell fighting at Isandhlwana, South Africa, in a surprise by the Zulus, 23d January 1879.

VIOLET.

HEART ECHOES.

THE POET'S POWERLESSNESS.

THE OMNIPRESENCE OF POETRY.

FRAGMENT FOR MUSIC.

AN EVENING LANDSCAPE.

THE GUERDON OF TRIBULATION NOT INCURRED BY GUILT.

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AFTER SUNSET OFF PAUILLAC, FRANCE.

April 18th, 1879.

Day hath departed, save a few faint streaks
Of light that fleck the bosom of the sky;
These, and these only, stay to testify
Of proud Night's conquest. Hark! that sound bespeaks
Our nearness to the Ocean, and I see
Its ripples at my feet;—a soft clear song
Is brceze-borne from a vessel's deck along.
The crew with musical monotony
Raise anchor swiftly, and the ship doth glide
In silence, save for the chant growing low
Wave-wafted landwards. Little doth she know
If calms will come, or fiercest storms betide:—
Alas, o'er life's strange sea we all must sail
Like her, nor know if calm or tempest will prevail.