E. J. Pratt Life Poems

• 1. The Toll Of The Bells
  I
  
  We gave them at the harbour every token-
  The ritual of the guns, and at the mast
  ...
• 2. The Sea-cat
  It's not for us to understand
  How life on earth began to be,
  How forms that lived within the sea
  Should leave the water for the land;
  ...
• 3. The Return Of The Cat
  Time-morning
  
  A half-point Nor'ard from the West,
  A bluish-tinted spot of light,
  ...
• 4. Newfoundland
  Here the tides flow,
  And here they ebb;
  Not with that dull, unsinewed tread of waters
  Held under bonds to move
  ...
• 5. Inventory Of Hades
  1. Statesmen and apothecaries,
  Poets, plumbers, antiquaries,
  Premiers with their secretaries,
  Home and foreign missionaries,
  ...
• 6. Defensive Measures
  According to the witches' plan,
  All life whose blood did not run true
  Must be excluded from the brew;
  Each earthly thing from snail to man,
  ...
• 7. An Hour Later
  Not since the time the sense of evil
  Caught our first parents by surprise,
  While eating fruit in Paradise,
  One fateful morning, had the Devil,
  ...

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