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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of William Henry Drummond With nature as with man at home, he loved The silent forest and the birches' flight Down the white peril of the rapids' rush, And the cold glamour of your Northern night. Some mystery of genius haunts his page. Some wonder secret of the poet's spell Died with this master of the peasant thought. Peace to your Northland singer, and farewell! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
This volume collects the poetry of William Henry Drummond, a Canadian physician and writer. His poetry celebrates rural life and the French-Canadian community. A charming and evocative collection, with a distinctive voice. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Excerpt from William Henry Drummond In 1902 he went back for the first and only time to visit the motherland. After spending some time in England and Scotland, he crossed to Dublin, but went back to Glasgow and came home to Canada without revisiting his boyhood haunts in county Leitrim, the object that had led him to take the trip. His friend, the Scottish novelist, Neil Munro, explains that in Dublin something came to Drummond, an apprehension possibly of the fact that the actual Ireland was not the Ireland of his warm imagination, and apparently he preferred to leave the land of his boyhood a far-off thing of glamour in his memory. It is an illuminating and pathetic little incident. About ...