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Here is the height of land	A
The watershed on either hand	A
Goes down to Hudson Bay	B
Or Lake Superior	C
The stars are up and far away	B
The wind sounds in the wood wearier	C
Than the long Ojibwa cadence	D
In which Pot n the Wise	E
Declares the ills of life	F
And Chees que ne ne makes a mournful sound	G
Of acquiescence The fires burn low	H
With just sufficient glow	H
To light the flakes of ash that play	B
At being moths and flutter away	B
To fall in the dark and die as ashes	I
Here there is peace in the lofty air	C
And Something comes by flashes	J
Deeper than peace	K
The spruces have retired a little space	L
And left a field of sky in violet shadow	H
With stars like marigolds in a water meadow	H
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Now the Indian guides are dead asleep	M
There is no sound unless the soul can hear	C
The gathering of the waters in their sources	I
We have come up through the spreading lakes	N
From level to level	O
Pitching our tents sometimes over a revel	O
Of roses that nodded all night	P
Dreaming within our dreams	Q
To wake at dawn and find that they were captured	R
With no dew on their leaves	S
Sometimes mid sheaves	S
Of bracken and dwarf cornel and again	T
On a wide blueberry plain	U
Brushed with the shimmer of a bluebird's wing	V
A rocky islet followed	W
With one lone poplar and a single nest	X
Of white throat sparrows that took no rest	X
But sang in dreams or woke to sing	V
To the last portage and the height of land	A
Upon one hand	A
The lonely north enlaced with lakes and streams	Q
And the enormous targe of Hudson Bay	B
Glimmering all night	P
In the cold arctic light	P
On the other hand	A
The crowded southern land	A
With all the welter of the lives of men	T
But here is peace and again	T
That Something comes by flashes	J
Deeper than peace a spell	Y
Golden and inappellable	Y
That gives the inarticulate part	Z
Of our strange being one moment of release	K
That seems more native than the touch of time	A2
And we must answer in chime	A2
Though yet no man may tell	Y
The secret of that spell	Y
Golden and inappellable	Y
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Now are there sounds walking in the wood	B2
And all the spruces shiver and tremble	Y
And the stars move a little in their courses	I
The ancient disturber of solitude	C2
Breathes a pervasive sigh	D2
And the soul seems to hear	C
The gathering of the waters at their sources	I
Then quiet ensues and pure starlight and dark	E2
The region spirit murmurs in meditation	F2
The heart replies in exaltation	F2
And echoes faintly like an inland shell	Y
Ghost tremors of the spell	Y
Thought reawakens and is linked again	F2
With all the welter of the lives of men	F2
Here on the uplands where the air is clear	C
We think of life as of a stormy scene	F2
Of tempest of revolt and desperate shock	G2
And here where we can think on the brights uplands	H2
Where the air is clear we deeply brood on life	F
Until the tempest parts and it appears	I2
As simple as to the shepherd seems his flock	G2
A Something to be guided by ideals	J2
That in themselves are simple and serene	F2
Of noble deed to foster noble thought	K2
And noble thought to image noble deed	L2
Till deed and thought shall interpenetrate	L2
Making life lovelier till we come to doubt	L2
Whether the perfect beauty that escapes	M2
Is beauty of deed or thought or some high thing	V
Mingled of both a greater boon than either	C
Thus we have seen in the retreating tempest	L2
The victor sunlight merge with the ruined rain	F2
And from the rain and sunlight spring the rainbow	H
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The ancient disturber of solitude	L2
Stirs his ancestral potion in the gloom	N2
And the dark wood	L2
Is stifled with the pungent fume	N2
Of charred earth burnt to the bone	F2
That takes the place of air	C
Then sudden I remember when and where	C
The last weird lakelet foul with weedy growths	O2
And slimy viscid things the spirit loathes	O2
Skin of vile water over viler mud	L2
Where the paddle stirred unutterable stenches	O2
And the canoes seemed heavy with fear	C
Not to be urged toward the fatal shore	C
Where a bush fire smouldering with sudden roar	C
Leaped on a cedar and smothered it with light	L2
And terror It had left the portage height	L2
A tangle of slanted spruces burned to the roots	O2
Covered still with patches of bright fire	C
Smoking with incense of the fragment resin	F2
That even then began to thin and lessen	F2
Into the gloom and glimmer of ruin	F2
'Tis overpast How strange the stars have grown	F2
The presage of extinction glows on their crests	O2
And they are beautied with impermanence	O2
They shall be after the race of men	F2
And mourn for them who snared their fiery pinions	O2
Entangled in the meshes of bright words	O2
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A lemming stirs the fern and in the mosses	O2
Eft minded things feel the air change and dawn	F2
Tolls out from the dark belfries of the spruces	O2
How often in the autumn of the world	L2
Shall the crystal shrine of dawning be rebuilt	L2
With deeper meaning Shall the poet then	F2
Wrapped in his mantle on the height of land	L2
Brood on the welter of the lives of men	F2
And dream of his ideal hope and promise	O2
In the blush sunrise Shall he base his flight	L2
Upon a more compelling law than Love	P2
As Life's atonement shall the vision	F2
Of noble deed and noble thought immingled	L2
Seem as uncouth to him as the pictograph	P2
Scratched on the cave side by the cave dweller	C
To us of the Christ time Shall he stand	L2
With deeper joy with more complex emotion	F2
In closer commune with divinity	L2
With the deep fathomed with the firmament charted	L2
With life as simple as a sheep boy's song	Q2
What lies beyond a romaunt that was read	L2
Once on a morn of storm and laid aside	L2
Memorious with strange immortal memories	O2
Or shall he see the sunrise as I see it	L2
In shoals of misty fire the deluge light	L2
Dashes upon and whelms with purer radiance	O2
And feel the lulled earth older in pulse and motion	F2
Turn the rich lands and inundant oceans	O2
To the flushed color and hear as now I hear	C
The thrill of life beat up the planet's margin	F2
And break in the clear susurrus of deep joy	R2
That echoes and re choes in my being	V
O Life is intuition the measure of knowledge	S2
And do I stand with heart entranced and burning	V
At the zenith of our wisdom when I feel	Y
The long light flow the long wind pause the deep	M
Influx of spirit of which no man may tell	Y
The Secret golden and inappellable	Y

Duncan Campbell Scott

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