100
Mist and Frost 105
The Beggar and the Angel 110
Improvisation on an Old Song 117
O Turn Once More 121
At the Gill-Nets 124
A Love Song 126
Three Songs:
I Where love is life 128
II Nothing came here but sunlight 129
III I have songs of dancing pleasure 129
The Sailor's Sweetheart 131
Feuilles d'Automne 133
To the Heroic Soul:
I Nurture thyself, O Soul! 135
II Be strong, O Warring Soul! 136
Retrospect 138
Frost Magic:
I Now in the moonrise, from a wintry sky 139
II With these alone he draws in magic lines 140
In Snow-Time 142
To a Canadian Lad Killed in the War 143

THE CLOSED DOOR--
By a Child's Bed 147
Elizabeth Speaks 149
A Legend of Christ's Nativity 154
Willow-Pipes 163
Angel 164
Christmas Folk-Song 165
From Beyond 166
The Leaf 167
A Mystery Play 168

LINES IN MEMORY OF EDMUND MORRIS 179

THE BATTLE OF LUNDY'S LANE

THE BATTLE OF LUNDY'S LANE

Rufus Gale speaks--1852

Yes,--in the Lincoln Militia,--in the war of eighteen-twelve;
Many's the day I've had since then to dig and delve--
But those are the years I remember as the brightest years of all,
When we left the plow in the furrow to follow the bugle's call.
Why, even our son Abner wanted to fight with the men!
"Don't you go, d'ye hear, sir!"--I was angry with him then.
"Stay with your mother!" I said, and he looked so old and grim--
He was just sixteen that April--I couldn't believe it was him;
But I didn't think--I was off--and we met the foe again,
Five thousand strong and ready, at the hill by Lundy's Lane.
There as the night came on we fought them from six to nine,
Whenever they broke our line we broke their line,
They took our guns and we won them again, and