SONNETS

AND OTHER VERSE

BY

W. M. MacKERACHER

Author of "Canada, My Land"

TORONTO
WILLIAM BRIGGS
1909

Copyright, Canada, 1909, by
W. M. MacKERACHER.

CONTENTS.

The Old and The New
How Many a Man!
The Saddest Thought
The House-Hunter
On Moving Into a New House
Literature
A Library
On Charles Lamb's Sonnet, "Work."
Work
The Joy of Creation
Adam
A Shallow Stream
A Faithful Preacher
A Wish Rebuked
The Sabbath
Milton
The Three Hundredth Anniversary of Milton's Birth
Burns
A Late Spring
Autumn
An Autumn Walk
November
November Sunshine
Short Days
The Beginning of Winter
The Winter and the Wilderness
The Immigrants
Wolfe
Montcalm
The Coming of Champlain
The Montagnais at Tadoussac
Champlain's First Winter and Spring in Quebec
Idleness
Success
The Exclusion of Asiatics
The People's Response to Heroism
An Aristocrat
In Warehouse and Office
H.M.S. "Dreadnought"
The Revolution in Russia
Tea's Apologia
A Wish
Alone with Nature
The Works of Man and the Works of Nature
A Day Redeemed
Outremont