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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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COWPER.

Calm and clear-toned the music of thy song,
Of depths diviner than to bards belong,
Who scale Parnassian heights with sordid aim:—
Pure as a ray of brightly flashing flame
Eradiating from Truth's torch to show
Rash Man a heavenward path amid Life's woe.