Songs of the Wilderness: Being a Collection of Poems, Written in Some Different Parts of the Territory of the Hudson's Bay Company, and in the Wilds of Canada, on the Route to that Territory in the Spring and Summer of 1844; Interspersed with Some Illustrative Notes |
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beneath Bishop BISHOP'S COLLEGE blessing called Canada canoe CANTO Christian Church Missionary Society crew dead Diocese Diocese of Quebec Divine Edom Ev'n faith fall feel flowers French French River glory God's hand heart heaven holy hope HUDSON'S BAY HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY Hylas Indian islets John journal journey kind Lady's slipper Lake Superior LENNOXVILLE Lord Lost Child Lower Canada Luke Matt mind Notes o'er once pass passage poems poetical poetry portage prompt prophecy Quebec rainbow Rainy Lake Red River Red River Settlement RIVINGTON rock roses rude Rupert's Land sail scene seen shrubs small 8vo song soul speak spot stand stream territory thee thence thine things thou thought tion toils trace trees truth verse voyageurs waters whence wild wilderness woods xvii XVIII
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Page 150 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts : knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Page 86 - When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Page 65 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 29 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 110 - Quab's populea rnaerens philomela sub umbra Amissos queritur fetus, quos durus arator Observans nido implumes detraxit ; at ilia Flet noctem, ramoque sedens miserabile carmen Integrat, et maestis late loca questibus implet.
Page xvii - My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing the fire kindled : and at the last I spake with my tongue...
Page x - I have transcribed these lines in the hope that they may meet the eye of some of those...