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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.
THE RIVER OF THOUGHT.
WHISPERING WINDS.
HELPFULNESS.
THE SOURCE OF SONG.
A STORM SONG.
A SONG FOR POLAND IN 1878.
WHAT ALL MAY DO.
REWARD OF PARLIAMENTARY DOCILITY.
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.
EDGAR VANNING:
VERSES OF TRAVEL.
SONGS AND LYRICS.
HISTORICAL PIECES.
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Old Year Leaves
BURNS.
Born
of the people with a dower of song;—
Unlearnt in academic lore, yet strong;
Ranging each chord of lyric minstrelsy
'Neath genius-tutored fingers grandly free;
Still sweet and clear thy tones for Time eterne shall be.
Old Year Leaves