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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.

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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VERSES OF TRAVEL.

A BISCAYAN SUNSET.

AFTER SUNSET OFF PAUILLAC, FRANCE.

ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF THE PYRENEES.

A DIRGE OF DECAY.

LINES ON LOOKING UP THE VALE OF BARÉGES FROM ST. SAUVEUR, HAUTES PYRÉNÉES, FRANCE.

FROM LA RAILLÈRE TO PONT D'ESPAGNE AND LAC DE GAUBE.

THE ESCORIAL, 1879.

LINES ON PASSING IN AN EXPRESS TRAIN THROUGH BADAJOZ,

CINTRA in 1879.

A LESTÉ SUNRISE IN MADEIRA.

MADEIRA—MOONLIGHT.

AT SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE.

THE CERTOSA OF PAVIA;

SONGS AND LYRICS.

HISTORICAL PIECES.

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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.