Lundy's Lane

and Other Poems

By

Duncan Campbell Scott

Author of "The Magic House," "In the Village of Viger," etc., etc.

McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart
Publishers :: :: :: :: Toronto

Copyright, 1916,
By GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

To the Memory of My Daughter
ELIZABETH DUNCAN SCOTT
1895-1907

CONTENTS

• THE BATTLE OF LUNDY'S LANE13
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• VIA BOREALIS—
  
  • Spring on Mattagami25
  • An Impromptu36
  • The Half-Breed Girl38
  • Night Burial in the Forest41
  • Dream Voyageurs44
  • Song: Creep into My Heart45
  • Ecstasy46
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• LYRICS, SONGS AND SONNETS—
  
  • Meditation at Perugia49
  • At William MacLennan's Grave. Near Florence53
  • The Wood-Spring to the Poet56
  • The November Pansy63
  • The Height of Land68
  • New Year's Night, 191677
  • Fragment of an Ode to Canada79
  • Fantasia84
  • The Lover to His Lass86
  • The Ghost's Story90
  • Night92
  • The Apparition94
  • At Sea96
  • Madonna with Two Angels98
  • Mid-August100
  • Mist and Frost105
  • The Beggar and the Angel110
  • Improvisation on an Old Song117
  • O Turn Once More121
  • At the Gill-Nets124
  • A Love Song126
  • Three Songs:
    
    • Where love is life128
    • Nothing came here but sunlight129
    • I have songs of dancing pleasure129
  • The Sailor's Sweetheart131
  • Feuilles d'Automne133
  • To the Heroic Soul:
    
    • Nurture thyself, O Soul!