Manitoba Memories: Leaves from My Life in the Prairie Province, 1868-1884W. Briggs, 1897 - 364 páginas |
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Página 246 - VOYAGEUR. OUT and in the river is winding The links of its long, red chain Through belts of dusky pine-land And gusty leagues of plain. Only, at times, a smoke-wreath With the drifting cloud-rack joins, — The smoke of the hunting-lodges Of the wild Assiniboins ! Drearily blows the...
Página 246 - The tones of a far-off bell ? " The voyageur smiles as he listens To the sound that grows apace ; Well he knows the vesper ringing Of the bells of St. Boniface. " The bells of the Roman Mission, That call from their turrets twain, To the boatman on the river, To the hunter on the plain.
Página 256 - Thus the Birch Canoe was builded In the valley, by the river, In the bosom of the forest ; And the forest's life was in it, All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of the birch-tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's supple sinews ; And it floated on the river Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water-lily.
Página 2 - Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand...
Página 26 - The' apostles of my Lord, To whom it first was given., They could not speak a greater word, Nor all the saints in heaven.
Página 247 - And when the Angel of Shadow Rests his feet on wave and shore, And our eyes grow dim with watching And our hearts faint at the oar. Happy is he who heareth The signal of his release In the bells of the Holy City, The chimes of eternal peace ! KENOZA LAKE.
Página 245 - Boniface on the eve of my late anniversary. I was at the time quite unable to respond, but I feel that I should be wanting in due appreciation of such a marked compliment if I did not, even at this late hour, express to thee my heartfelt thanks. I have reached an age when literary success and...
Página 194 - The first telegraphic message from the heart of the continent may appropriately convey, on the part of our people, an expression of devout thankfulness to Almighty God for the close of our isolation from the rest of the world. This message announces that close, as its receipt by your Excellency will attest it. The voice of Manitoba collected this morning on the banks of the Assiniboine will be heard in a few hours on the banks of the Ottawa, and we may hope before the day closes that the words of...
Página 340 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.