St. Lawrence and the Saguenay
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TH F. ST. LAWRENCE AND THE SAGUENAY, BY C H A R L E S SANGSTER. KINGSTON, C. W. JOHN CREIGHTON AND JOHN DUFF. NEW YORK: MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN. 1856. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hun : dred and fifty-six, BY MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN, In the Clerk'. Office of the District Court for the Northern Distrtct of New-York. AUBURN: MILL.h:R, ORTON dr: .MULLJUA:'oi, STEREOTYPERS A...~D PRD\'"TERS. TO J 0 H N SIN C L A'I R, MY FRIEND AND CORRESPONDENT OF MANY YEARS, t!rlJfs 'Volume Is 'JlIlelJftatelJ, BY HIS FRIEND, CHARLES SANGSTER. KINGSTON, C. W., JWM, 1856. COKTE~TS, - ----- Tbe tit. Lawrence anI.! tba Sagu~llay, ................... Spring, ............................................. .!. Poet'e Love, .......... .......•...........• ..... &6 Light In Darkness,............ ..................................... 1T Ridean Lakf',............ .......................................... 7~ Aurelia,' ...... ,' .......•..........•....•.••...........•....•.•.... 81 eODDe~,............ ................................................ 66 Evening Scene, ..... ............ .................................... 81 Gentle Mary Ann, ........ ........... , .. ... 90 D~ath at the Old Year,. .. .................................... n Despondency, ........ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .... .. .. .. .. .. .. 94 The Voice of God, . .. .. ..... 9;; The FiDe Old Woods,................ .............................. 98 Elegy In Memory or Rev, Robert D. Cartwright, ...................... 101 .l{orning in Summer, ............. .. ..............•.... .. 102 Paasword-urrruth"1s Mighty," ...................................... 110 The Whirl~'i.nd, •............................................ , ...... 112 Elizabeth's Birtll,... ........................................... 113 Henry's GraTe, .. • ..... 115 Snow Drops,. .. ............................... ........ 116 Pretty Faces,.... ......................... ....... ..... 111 Beyond the G1'8'\'e,.... ... ................... ..... 118 Canadian Sleigh Song, , .... , .. .., .. " ........ ,... ",.,...... ....• 119 Pity's Tear Drop,.... .. .... ....................................... 119 Annie by my Side a Sitting, .......................................... 120 The Name of Mary, ................................................ 122 The Kneeling Heart,. .. .• . .... .•.... , ................. 124 Autumn, ............ , ........ , ..... " ............... , ,., . 125 Bemem bnnces, ... , . '. '.' .... ...... 129 1.lttlp Annft'. lRO fi CONTENTS. PAGE• ...... 13-3 Sl~ll, Moon and Stars, 136 The CbiL'ftaill's Lust ~i:;h, ... 137 lIoly Ground,., .... 139 Pleasnut ~Icm()rit-s, _ 145 My Kitten, ... The Frost King's Rcvel, .. ...........................•...... 147 England and America,. ." ................. 154 The Wreck, ........ ............................ 153 'rlle Lofty a.nd the Lowly, . _...... , .... , ........... 159 I Dreamed I Met Tlll"l', ................................ 161 The Changes of a Night,. 162 166 To l~('\' .•James (;. WittctJ, ., Edith to Ilnrold, .. ;(j~ li2 Song of till' Nt'\\' Y car, .. Soul, Thou art Lonely,. .... n5 Pe:tre, Fond Soul, .. li6 Merry L'ilri"tltlfL<; .. ...... 178 A Plea for tho \\T oods, . .......... 180 LIttle Libby, ... ......... 182 The Y cHow Curl, . 18G Let them Boast as tlle)" will,. ... 188 Limerick Cathedral I~dJ:.;, . ........ 190 LO\'l'"s Guidin~ ~t:l1', . ... 192 The Angel's Gift, .. .. 193 Lo,c's Si:;nct lUng, .' .. 195 ~br)"~ Twentieth Birthday, .......................... ...... 196 Lo,c's Morning Lark........................... ... 197 Song-The Banner of Old England, ............ ........ 198 Song-The 1I0roes of the Alma,. ...... 199 Tho Twofold Victory-An Alma. Lyric, .. , ..... ......... 201 Bong of tile British Mariner,. ...... 202 Tho Indian Summer, .... ....... 204 The Betrayal, ....... .. ...• 205 The Impatient Lonr, ..................................... ..... 206 The Grape, ....... ..• 207 A 'l'housand Faces, ........... , .. , ............................. .. 208 The Pa:--t, . .............................. 209 Imaginatiou, .... ... ................ ............. 210 Tbe SpIrit of the Woods, .. .....................................• 212 Love's Ne~ Era.,. CONTENTS. 7 PA.GE. Faith, ................................... _......................... 216 From Queenstou Heigbts, .........................................• 21T FaDny, ...........................•..................... ,., , .......• 220 Lament of Shingwakonce ............................................ 222 Absence, ........................................................... 231 Festus, ............................................................. 231 80nnet, ............................................................ 232 Hope, .............................................................. 233 The Trio, .................... .. .. .. .. .... ......................... 288 The One Idea,.. .. .. .. .... .............................. .......... 234 Uncurbed PassioD, ............. _.................................•. 285 Peaes, ............................................................. 235 Bertram and Lorenzo-A Dramatic Fragment, ........................ 237 CORRECTION. Stanza XXVIII U The St. Lawrence and the Saguenny," first, line fu1' u you queenly Moon," read "yon queenly Moon." POEM S. THE ST. LAWRENCE AND THE SAGUENAY. I. THERE is but one to whom my hopes are clinging, As clings the bee unto the morning flower, There is but one to whom my thoughts are winging Their dove-like passage through each silent hour: One who has made my heart her summer bower. Feeling and passion there forever bloom For her, who, by her lovtl's mysterious power, Dispels the languor of my spirit's gloom, And lifts my dead heart up, like Lazarus from the tomb. II. Maiden! from whose large, intellectual eyes, My soul first drank love's immortality, Plume my weak spirit for its chosen skies, 'T wonld falter iri its mission without thee. Conduct its flight j and if its musings be Oft'ner of earth than heaven, bear awhile With what is native to mortality: • A* 10 TIlE 5T. LAWRENCE It dare not err exulting in thy smile: Look on it with thine eyes, and hep it frpe from guile. III. The bark leaps love-fraught from the land; the SPII Lies calm before us. Many an isle is there, Clad with soft verdure; many II stately tree Uplifts its leafy branches through tbe air; The amorous currcnt bathes the islets £'lir, As we skip, youth-like, o'er the limpid waves; White cloudlets speck the golden atmosphere, Through which the passionate sun looks down, and graves His image on the pparls that boil from the deep caves, IV. And bathe the vcssd's prow. Isle after isle Is passed, as we glide tortuously through The opening vistas, that uprise and smile Upon us from the ever-changing view. Here nature, lavish of her wealth, did strew Her flocks of panting islets on the breast Of the admiring River, where they grew, Like shapes of Beauty, formed to give a zest To the charmed mind, like waking Visions of the Blest. v. The silver-sinewed arms of the proud Lake, Love-wild, embrace each islet tenderly, ,a:,I) TIlE S.1.GlJENAY. 11 The zephyrs kiss the flowers when they wake At morn, flushed with a rare simplicity; See how they bloom around yon birchen tree, And smile along the bank, by the sandy shore, In lovely groups-a fair community! The embossed rocks glitter like golden ore, And here, the o'erarching trees form a fantastic bower. VI. Red walls of granite rise on either hand, Rugged and smooth; a proud young eagle soars Above the stately evergreens, that stand Like watchful sentinels on these God-built towers; And near yon beds of many-colored flowers Browse two majestic deer, and at their side A spotted fawn all innocently cowers; In the rank brushwood it attempts to hide, While the strong-antlered stag steps forth with lordly stride, VII. And slakes his thirst, undaunted, at the stream. Isles of o'erwhelming beauty! surely here The wild enthusiast might live, and dream His life away. No Nymphic trains appear, To charm the pale Ideal Worshipper Of Beauty; nor N eriads from the deeps below; Nor hideous Gnomes, to fill the breast with fear: But crystal streams through endless landscapes flow, And o'er the clu§tering Isles the softest breezes blow_ 12 THE ST. LAWRENCE L YRle TO THE ISLES. Here the Spirit of Beauty kcepcth Jubilee for evermor~; Here the Voice of Gladness leapeth, Echoing from shore to shore. O'er the hidden watery valley, O'er each buried wood and glade, Dances our delighted galley, Through the sunlight and the shade Dances o'er the granite cells, Where the Soul of Beauty dwells: Here the flowers are ever springing, While the summer breezes blow; Here the Hours are ever clinging, Loitering before they go; Playing round each beauteous islet, Loath to leave the sunny shore, Where, upon her couch of violet, Beauty sits for evermore- Sits and smiles by day and night, Hand in hand with pure Delight. Here the Spirit of Beauty dwelleth In each palpitating tree, In each amber wave that welleth From its home, beneath the sea; In the moss upon the granite, In each calm, secluded bay, AND THE SAGUENAY. 13 With the zephyr trains that fan it ·With their sweet breaths all the day On the waters, on the shore, Beauty dwelleth evermore! vrn. Yes, here the Genius of Beauty truly dwells. I worship Truth and Beauty in my soul. The pure prismatic globule that upwells From the blue deep; the psalmy waves that roll Before the hurricane; the outspread scroll Of heaven, with its written tomes of stars; The dew-drop