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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... pictures , or the expansion , gene- rally , of ideas conceived in the mind , can I venture to think that I resemble those writers who appear to render the spirit and fancy of the age . I shall not undertake here to write xii PREFACE .
... pictures , or the expansion , gene- rally , of ideas conceived in the mind , can I venture to think that I resemble those writers who appear to render the spirit and fancy of the age . I shall not undertake here to write xii PREFACE .
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... pictures , what can trivial make ? Stray through the peaceful fields ; roam on and tread The heath , the mountain - wilds , the rocks : stand still , And gaze upon the deep ; lift up your head , Trace the starr'd vault of night and take ...
... pictures , what can trivial make ? Stray through the peaceful fields ; roam on and tread The heath , the mountain - wilds , the rocks : stand still , And gaze upon the deep ; lift up your head , Trace the starr'd vault of night and take ...
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... picture of the stout guide , and will acknowledge his other and com- plete qualifications for the task . Among the expedients to which our people had recourse , as described in the ninth stanza , to pass through obstructed places in the ...
... picture of the stout guide , and will acknowledge his other and com- plete qualifications for the task . Among the expedients to which our people had recourse , as described in the ninth stanza , to pass through obstructed places in the ...
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... picture true Of heavenly faith ! is lost to human view . Shine out , O Sun of righteousness , shine out On humble souls , who strive in depths of doubt , Broken in penitence and toss'd with fears ; Beam , in thy brightness , on their ...
... picture true Of heavenly faith ! is lost to human view . Shine out , O Sun of righteousness , shine out On humble souls , who strive in depths of doubt , Broken in penitence and toss'd with fears ; Beam , in thy brightness , on their ...
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... picture in their harmless sport Full many a scene where loftier figures stand In scheming world , gay circle , princely court . Men , to a proverb , shadows vain pursue , For nothing strive , and false confound with true . XIII . On ...
... picture in their harmless sport Full many a scene where loftier figures stand In scheming world , gay circle , princely court . Men , to a proverb , shadows vain pursue , For nothing strive , and false confound with true . XIII . On ...
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