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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]
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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.
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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.
  
THE TRUE TREASURE.
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EDGAR VANNING:
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VERSES OF TRAVEL.
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SONGS AND LYRICS.
  
THE LATE AUTUMN IS DYING.
  
UNFULFILLED YEARNINGS.
  
GLAD DREAMS OF THE FUTURE COME O'ER US.
  
A SONG OF HOPE.
  
HOW OFT ARISE TO SOOTHE OUR WOE.
  
HAPPINESS HERE.
  
A SONG IN THE SOUTH.
  
TWILIGHT MEMORIES.
  
A WINTRY MOOR AT NIGHT.
  
A SEA SONG.
  
WHY DO I TRACE.
  
A PRACTICAL THEORY OF LIFE.
  
EVENING THOUGHTS.
  
THOUGHT-LINKS.
  
JOY AND GRIEF.
  
AFTER FIVE YEARS.
  
MATERNAL LOVE.
  
PARTING WORDS.
  
HOMEWARD.
  
AN OCEAN GLOAMING.
  
A SUMMER SCENE.
  
SUMMER SORROW.
  
A SUMMER EVENING IN THE WOODS.
  
TWILIGHT THOUGHTS.
  
A LESSON IN THE GLOAMING.
  
MEADOW MUSINGS.
  
FLOWER-GATHERING.
  
GARDEN MUSINGS.
  
A COMPARISON.
  
IN TENEBRIS LUX.
  
A MORNING MEDITATION.
  
THE WARBLERS' MISSION.
  
MIDNIGHT MUSINGS.
  
“'TIS GONE.”
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ACROSTICS.
  
A LIFE-CHRONICLE.
  
A DREAM OF LONG AGO.
  
IMAGINATION'S HARVEST.
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HISTORICAL PIECES.

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THOUGHT-LINKS.

Mysterious are the links that firmly bind
Our trains of thought together. First we brood
On some small trivial matter—tiny germ
Of somewhat grander musings—then we find
A thread is woven with our thought, and lo
It leads to higher themes!—vast vistas new
For serious contemplation:—and we gain
Sublimest heights, while God-reflected thoughts
Transcending Reason flood our human mind.
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