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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.
  
BURNS.
  
COWPER.
  
THE ELDER HOOD.
  
KIRKE WHITE.
  
A LIFE-CHRONICLE.
  
A DREAM OF LONG AGO.
  
IMAGINATION'S HARVEST.
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HISTORICAL PIECES.

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238

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.
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