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The Comrades

Poems Old & New: By William Canton
Canton, William (1845-1926)
  
[dedication]

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The Comrades
  
Under two Trees
  
Natura Nutrix
  
Winnie in the Pool
  
The Feather
  
The Choir Boy
  
Heights and Depths
  
Ringed with Blue Mountains
  
Parting
  
How Should You?
  
The Woodwele
  
The New Day
  
Karma
  
Moonlight
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Proverbs
 1. 
1. All But
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2. The Hedge
  
3. By-and-By
  
4. At the End of the Day
  
5. The Lark
  
The Robin's Song
  
The Cry of the Wood
  
To a Thrush
  
April Voices
  
The Water-Mill
  
The Kingfisher
  
Autumn
  
He Changeth the Times and the Seasons
  
Pearls and Simples
  
The Isle of Dream
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The Legend of Childhood
  
Laus Infantium
  
Any Father
  
Any Mother
  
A Philosopher
  
A Poet
  
Apple-Bloom and Apple
  
In the Corner
  
The Winter Sleep
  
An April Grief
  
The Great World
  
A New Poet
  
The Ladder
  
The Upward Look
  
Birth and Death
  
Kozma the Smith
  
The Death of Anaxagoras
  
The God and the Schoolboy
  
Suspirium
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Through the Ages
 I. 
I
 II. 
II
 III. 
III
  
An Indian Cowrie
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The Latter Law
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I
 II. 
II
 III. 
III
 IV. 
IV
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Vignettes
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The Wanderer
 I. 
I
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II
  
The Stone Age
  
The Haunted Bridge
  
The Scarecrow
  
January and June
  
Green Pastures
  
A Bird's Flight
  
Fairy Heavens
  
Day-Dreams
  
The Weir
  
On the Shore
  
The Foreigner
  
Woodland Windows
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Sea Pictures
 I. 
I
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II
  
Love and Labour
  
A Russian Gun
  
The Brook
  
Pine and Palm
  
Twilight Memories
  
In the Shadow
  
Green Sky
  
In the Fall
  
The Little Dipper
  
In the Hills
  
Nature's Magic
  
Flower Fancies
  
Beyond
  
The Crow
  
By Moonlight
  
Cockcrow
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Anno Domini
  
The Shepherd Beautiful
  
“Trees of Righteousness”
  
At St. Gall, A.D. 850
  
The Door in Heaven
  
The Sleep
  
Earth-Bound
  
John Calvin's Dream
  
Spring-Water
  
The Moss
  
Easter Dawn
  
Rocks of Offence
  
“In the Shadow of Thy Wings”
  
Luther's Trust
  
A Carol
  
When Snow Lies Deep
  
Bethlehem
  
The Nativity
  
The Shepherd
  
Life and Death
  
“Talitha Cumi”
  
A Child's Prayer
  
Envoi

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No sail. No wink of wings.
No haze of land.
Look! who comes wafted here—
What lone yet all unfearful mariner?
You cannot see him? No; he mocks the sight—
Mid such immensities so mere a mite.
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Look close! That tiniest speck of brownish red,
Perched on his single subtle spider-thread!
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