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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.

THE BATTLE OF LOUDONHILL.

AN EPISODE IN THE BATTLE OF FUENTES D'HONORE.

DEVOTION OF PRINCE PONIATOWSKI.

DUTY STRONGER THAN PAIN.

A SEA ENCOUNTER.

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SUMMER SORROW.

Each season hath its sadness, and for me
Summer not least of all. I know not why,
But though its sylvan beauty soothes my soul
Into delicious reveries; while birds,
Discoursing music, fill my dreamy mind
With melodies, and thoughts, and deep delight,
I never felt before—yet still there lurks
Within my heart a strange unfathomed grief,
Which, even amidst harsh Autumn's ravages,
Or grim old Winter's storms, I rarely feel.