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Les diagrammes sulvants illustrent la m6thode. 1 2 3 32X 1 2 3 4 1 5 6 ni 1^^ ^i^Kf" 1^ ^ iu jF ■ i *\. t ', \ ). 'f ADDITIONAL POEMS. '^i I KY EDWARD HARTLEY DFAVART, D.D, I •I- ^ 96431 # ■ i ":'■:;''''■ '"-f '.V-i-'.i1>^ :^.l, (.'.. v,l 4. .... A' >y . ■•i'- 1"-. V ,^ ■■-'■i-':\ .iv..4. ! :-.-''^>'^:- i. I » ADDITIONAL POEMS. BY ED WA KD HA R TL E Y DE WA R T, D. D. OUR DEAR DEAD BOY. In loving memory of Albert Ernest Dewart, who died suddenly on the 9th of january, 1877, aged 5 years, i month, and 12 days. HE beamed upon our path of life Like golden star from heaven, (jilding Earth's dark and toilful strife With hopes as blessings given ; A type of ail things fair and bright, Whose love gave rare and sweet delight. A blossom on the brow of Spring — A limpid, gladsome stream — A bird that sang on joyous wing^ — A love-sent, sunny beam. Which Christ-like calmed the waves of care, And made life beautifully fair. His love, like blessed sunshine, fell Upon Earth's wintry gloom ; •X I •258 SO.\GS OF LIFE. And in each bleak and cheerless dell Made flowers of hope to bloom. He knew not that his sott caresses Had peerless power to cheer and bless us. Hut Death has hushed our song-bird's strain — i The gladsome stream is dry ; The star that brightened gloom and pain Has vanished from our sky ; , The sweetest blossom in Love's bower Has withered in life's dewy hour ! I left my blue-eyed boy at morn, ' Without a shade of fear ; O'ercasting heart or brain, to warn Of fateful danger near ; And in a few short hours he lay A pallid, lifeless form of clay. «|\ I reel beneath the sudden blow — And yet, though hope has fled, 4 My heart cannot believe its woe — I cannot think him dead — Nor that this loving heart of thine Shall never more respond to mine I t At times I think the struggle o'er ; I strive to trust and pray — ' Then comes his image back once more — I hear his voice at play, And chide my heart, as if it slept Upon the sacred watch it kept. | t 1 ■ ■ ' I \ I OUH DEAR DKAD HOY When wailing winds o'er vale and hill On wings of darkness ride, It startles with a piercing thriH, To think our joy and pride, On whom such wealth of love was shed, Lies cold and silent with the dead. 1 close my eyes in dream-like thought, And trace with mournful joy 'I'he form and features, ne'er forgot, Of my sweet angel boy. That cherished vision still shall be ■ Dear as a glimpse of heaven to me. He still is with us, not less dear ; Our love shall ever shrine A mystic, loving presence near His mother's heart and mine : In spite of Death, through all life's hours Our darling Albert still is ours. Around his name sweet memories throng His childish toys bring tears ; And sweeter than a seraph's song Each hymn he loved appears : All that recalls our dear, dead boy Gives sorrow thoughts akin to joy. Yet, not in vain the gift was given, Though brief his stay below, He was a teacher, sent by Heaven Love's deathless power to show. H&Q 280 SOyOS OF LIFE. Our chastened hearts through loss shall gain A keener sym; athy with pain. Oh, blissful thought ! thy gentle breast j Shall feel no aching pain ; ' No storm can break thy tranquil rest, ! No sin thy spirit stain ; No sigh of grief— no tears shall flow ^, For ills that darken life below. i T Father, forgive our tears of grief ! ' The stroke is hard to bear ; i No earthly power can give relief, Or brighten our despair. i Take Thou our trembling hands in Thine ; •{ Soothe earthly grief with balm divine. ^. Shed light upon my darksome path, \ Breathe hope into my heart ; And teach me, though it seems hke wrath, How merciful Thou art. ! From bitter seeds of grief and gloom Let flowers of faith and patience bloom. Teach my faint heart to trust Thy love, Through Sorrow's darkest night ; And wait till — in the world above Where Death can never blight — Forever safe from grief and pain, I meet my darling boy again. Toronto, yawttary, 1877. k THEN AND NOW. 2«1 THEN AND NOW. w I A* Supplemental Response to Lord Tennyson's "LocKSLEY Hall Sixty Years After." j 'T^ HOUGH the poet peer of England, in a sad despond- I X ent strain, A Sings of dark and baleful evils which o'ercast the people's reign. Men of hopeful faith forget not how our century has out- grown Cruel wrongs and heartless customs that were once on fashion's throne. y Why in every clime and period have the fearful and the old, \ Glorified the vanished ages as the Eden age of gold ? ) Change and progress, larger freedom, which the tide of time ; has brought, Are but signs of blight and ruin, by the rash and reckless i wrought. y^^ ;> * , Forms of life and truth must vary with the spirit of the years ; Fairest blossoms of the springtime wither ere the fruit appears. Every age moulds thought and action by its free and living mind — ^' Should we cast away the kernel for the roughness of the rind ? 382 THEN AND NOW. When the hopes of youth are buoyant, and the pulse of life keeps time To the glad, inspiring music of love's melodies sublime, All the world is bathed in brightness ; hope pours balm on every smart ; And the bleakest scenes are goldened by the sunshine in the heart. When the fires of life burn dimly, and the false and selfish world Chills our hopeful trust and courage till the flags of faith are furled, Then the world without grows darker; things which once seemed good and fair The despondent spirit colors with the hues of its despair. Looking backward through the ages of which timid croakers | boast. They are black with wrongs and falsehoods, that are now a vanquished host ; For the "good old times" embosomed brainless follies, social crimes, ' ' That we would not brook a moment in these kindlier, belter times. Who that shares the light and freedom, which like blessed sunlight falls On the peasant's lowly cottage freely as on lordly halls. Would go back to times of darkness ere the sun of freedom rose. And renounce the wealth of blessing which this latest age bestows? .1 SONOS OF LIFE. 'i6:i ^ Then the vast and mystic forces God through nature had diffused Were, alike by sage and savage, undiscovered and unused : Now these powers, like living creatures have been taught by human skill — Wear man's yoke and bear his burdens, faithful servants to hi. will. Learning then was Fortune's favor, to the poor by fate denied : Now the gates of 'l>uth and Knowledge unto all stand open wide; And the poor man's boy, with only honest heart and active brain. May evince his native kingship and the highest place attain. Then the toiling and the lowly were each petty tyrant's scorn, Doomed to stay with dumb submission in the sphere where they were born : Now the sons of toil are honored, while their selfish despots cower ; For the voice of honest I^bor has become a voice of power. Then the multitude, unthinking, blindly drank the potion given ; Took the words of human teachers as the very words of Heaven. Only few with faith and courage Truth herself supremely prized, While the slaves of custom worshipped what the past had canonized. f .y I, .1' 284 THEN AND NOW. Now o'er Truth's vast sea exploring, Thought's free pennons are unfurled ; There's a mental resurrection like the springtime of a world. Creed and teacher must be tested as by fire in fiercest light; For the question of the age is, "Is it true and is it right?" Law, so long the rich man's weapon, keeping pelf and power secure, . < Now extends its strong protection to the feeble and the poor. Lonely souls through other ages wrought and battled in the van; . m.,„,^,... ./ ,.. ., . ., ^.^ ;■■ ^-z \._^ ' Now the range of deeds heroic spans the brotherhood of man". ju ; . Then, like soulless beasts of burden, men and women bought I with gold I Were by heartless Christian brothers into life-long bondage sold; • - ,1, ,.c- ,'^^ Now through every clime and country rings the jubilant decree, -. > ■..■■..■: ':t:^^,vi. That, in spite of race and color, every human soul is free. Christless multitudes, unpitied, down to deeper thraldom swept ; Left alone in guilt and darkness while the Church supinely slept ; Now to every tribe and nation, where God's name was never ' named, - i Messages of free salvation are with living power proclaimed. Is it right, because past evils do not thwart our present aims, . o make light of them and cover cruel wrongs with pleasant names ? it I SOXaS OF LIFE. 26:» And to slight the fruits of freedom, now to rich and poor suppHed, Which through all those vaunted ages were unrighteously denied ? - , . - Why bewail the strife and struggles that disturb this restless time As the signs of coming chaos, which presage decay and crime ? All the cherished light and progress that have lifted up the race Have been won by throes and conflicts which to better things gave place. Picture not as Sons of Anak, every wrong that Truth must slay; Vou can win no crown of triumph dreaming dreams that breed dismay. Faithless doubt will crush the courage, that the victor strength imparts. We must face life's ills and conflicts with unquailing, hope- ful hearts. Brood not over stormy passions surging round some chronic wrong ; High above the noi?e of battle Faith may hear the victor's song. Toil yields rest, and beauty blossoms from a dark, " un- sightly root ; " ■ • Summer's sourness holds the propise of the Autumn's ruddy fruit. ,L 266 THE X AND NOW. In the. lives of men and nations, comes no crown of bliss supreme To the stolid and slow-hearted who have floated with the stream. Hottest fires of painful trial, heavy burdens, fiercest strife, ,. , Lift the struggling spirit higher, nerve and beautify the life. ■ ■ ^ Men who meekly cringe and pander to advance some cher- '' [ ished cause, ' - May be counted wise and prudent, win the shallow world's applause ; Yet I'd rather brave its hatred, standing lonely in the fight, And be loyal to my conscience and to what is true and right. Ignorance, Injustice, Folly, linger still, while myriads wait Till the valleys are exalted and the crooked paths made straight. But the direst ills and follies which becloud the world to-day Are but shades of darker evils that have almost passed away. Doubtless Prejudice and Passion may unthinking crowds unite; And the blind may lead the blind while they trample on the right; Bitter feuds of creeds and classes find no cure in human code; In true and Christly brotherhood, men must bear each other's load. Rough and steep the path of progress; slowly earth's oppres- sions die : . -^ SOXOS OF LIFfC. 28'; Yet the world is rising higher as the burdened years go by. Truth and Righteousness, unconquered, in this warfare shall prevail ; This the God of Truth h promised, and His Word can never fail. Toronto, February^ 1888. LINES ON THE DEATH OF AEFRED, ,,^,,,, J.ORI) TENNYSON. THE brightest star in Britain's sky of fame Has passed beyond the range of mortal sight ; But on the hearts of men a deathless name Is graved in characters of golden light. The Bard whose peerless songs of lif'^ and love \ Have charmed the ills of hearts by care opprest, Has "crossed the bar" — is havened safe above, ; Where life is love and service joyous rest. We render thanks, not tears or mournful lays, For him who with a manly, stainless life. Filled up the circle of his lengthened days, And nerved his fellows in their fateful strife. Beauty and truth unseen by other eyes His touch unveiled and clothai in living fire ; Nature's unuttered music found a voice In the sweet tones of his melodious lyre. 2«8 ALFRED, LOUD TEXNYSON. The knightly souls of Albion's mythic youth Upon his page live o'er their lives again : His seer-like thought reflects the light of truth On the great problems of the heart an^ brain. He loved Old England ; of her glory proud , Her weal and woe were of his life a part ; Oft as his bugle-blast rang clear and loud, - It stirred the blood in every patriot heart. His ashes rest with England's kings of song ; But his freed spirit chants a loftier strain, And his great thoughts and scorn of selfish wrong- His truer self — shall evermore remain. Though the wide ocean spreads its stormy sway Between us and the land he held so dear, These maple leaves in grateful love I lay With English roses on his honored bier. Toronto, October^ 1892. >\ Ta ^O^ ^--A // .;: U, . '% c^