Duncan Campbell Scott
Who is Duncan Campbell Scott
Duncan Campbell Scott (August 2, 1862 – December 19, 1947) was a Canadian civil servant and poet and prose writer. With Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Archibald Lampman, he is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets.A career civil servant, Scott served as deputy superintendent of the Department of Indian Affairs from 1913 to 1932. He supported the government's assimilationist policy toward Canada's First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. Today he is known more for his implementation of this policy, especially the mandatory education of children, than for his poetry. Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission has characterized this policy as cultural genocide.
Life and legacy
Scott was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of Rev. William Scott, a ...
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Duncan Campbell Scott Poems
- A Mystery Play
CHARACTERS
The Father. The Child. Death. Angels.
Two Travellers.
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- Retrospect
This is the mockery of the moving years;
Youth's colour dies, the fervid morning glow
Is gone from off the foreland; slow, slow,
Even slower than the fount of human tears
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- The Battle Of Lundy's Lane
Rufus Gale speaks--1852
Yes,--in the Lincoln Militia,--in the war of eighteen-twelve;
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- The Violet Pressed In A Copy Of Shakespeare
Here in the inmost of the master's heart
This violet crisp with early dew
Has come to leave her beauty and to part
With all her vivid hue.
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- The Wood By The Sea
I DWELL in the wood that is dark and kind
But afar off tolls the main,
Afar, far off I hear the wind,
And the roving of the rain.
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