Reduced fac-simile of original of page 34.AT MINAS BASIN
And Other Poems
BY
THEODORE H. RAND
D.C.L.
TORONTO:
WILLIAM BRIGGS
WESLEY BUILDINGS.
Montreal: C. W. COATES.Halifax: S. F. HUESTIS.
1897
Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year onethousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, by Theodore H. Rand,at the Department of Agriculture.
To E.
SHARER OF PERFECT SUMMER DAYS
AT PARTRIDGE ISLAND
BASIN OF MINAS
Toronto, Canada,1897
(POESY SPEAKS.)
A body of beauty is mine.
O poet, moulder of me,
Withhold not the breath divine,
The soul of truth that makes free.
O poet, moulder of me,
Withhold not the breath divine,
The soul of truth that makes free.
Fair form in repose for a day
(The body of beauty of me)
With the pulse-beats of life all away,
Is well, for beauty and thee.
(The body of beauty of me)
With the pulse-beats of life all away,
Is well, for beauty and thee.
Yet give to me life all aglow,—
Not a demon of darkness to blight,
But a love-lit soul pure as snow,—
Beckon me an angel of light.
Not a demon of darkness to blight,
But a love-lit soul pure as snow,—
Beckon me an angel of light.
A body of beauty is mine.
O poet, moulder of me,
Inbreathe with breathings divine,
Or body alone let it be.
O poet, moulder of me,
Inbreathe with breathings divine,
Or body alone let it be.