SONGS OF THE COMMON DAY AND AVE!

AN ODE FOR THE SHELLEY CENTENARY BY CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS TORONTO WILLIAM BRIGGS Montreal: C. W. COATES. Halifax: S. F. HUESTIS 1893 {v}{iv} TO BLISS CARMAN FRIEND, KINSMAN, AND FELLOW CRAFTSMAN

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PREFATORY NOTE

By the kind courtesy of Messrs. D. Lothrop Company, I am permitted to reprint in this collection seven sonnets from my volume entitled ‘In Divers Tones.’ This is done to complete the series of sonnets dealing with aspects of common outdoor life. The sonnets reprinted are ‘The Sower,’ ‘The Potato Harvest,’ ‘Tides,’ ‘In September,’ ‘Dark,’ ‘Rain,’ and ‘Mist.’ The Ode for the Centenary of Shelley’s Birth was first published by the Williamson Book Company, of Toronto, in December 1892, in a limited edition of two hundred copies.

C. G. D. R,

Kingscroft, Windsor, N.S., Canada: May 1893.

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AUTOCHTHON

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THE TIDE ON TANTRAMAR

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THE KEEPERS OF THE PASS

[When the Iroquois were moving in overwhelming force to obliterate the infant town of Montreal, Adam Daulac and a small band of comrades, binding themselves by oath not to return alive, went forth to meet the enemy in a distant pass between the Ottawa river and the hills. There they died to a man, but not till they had slain so many of the savages that the invading force was shattered and compelled to withdraw.]

HOW THE MOHAWKS SET OUT FOR MEDOCTEC

[When the invading Mohawks captured the outlying Melicite village of Madawaska, they spared two squaws to guide them down stream to the main Melicite town of Medoctec, below Grand Falls. The squaws steered themselves and their captors over the Falls.]

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AVE! AN ODE FOR THE CENTENARY OF SHELLEY’S BIRTH

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