William Wilfred Campbell Death Poems

• 1. The Winter Lakes
  Out in a world of death far to the northward lying,
  Under the sun and the moon, under the dusk and the day;
  Under the glimmer of stars and the purple of sunsets dying,
  Wan and waste and white, stretch the great lakes away.
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• 2. An October Evening
  1 The woods are haggard and lonely,
  2 The skies are hooded for snow,
  3 The moon is cold in Heaven,
  4 And the grasses are sere below.
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• 3. The Last Prayer
  MASTER of life, the day is done;
  My sun of life is sinking low;
  I watch the hours slip one by one
  And hark the night-wind and the snow.
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• 4. Not Unto Endless Dark
  Not unto endless dark do we go down,
  Though all the wisdom of wide earth said yea,
  Yet my fond heart would throb eternal nay.
  Night, prophet of morning, wears her starry crown,
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• 5. Langemarck At Ypres
  This is the ballad of Langemarck,
  A story of glory and might;
  Of the vast Hun horde, and Canadaâ??s part
  In the great grim fight.
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• 6. Out Of Pompeii
  1 She lay, face downward, on her beaded arm,
  2 In this her new, sweet dream of human bliss,
  3 Her heart within her fearful, fluttering, warm,
  4 Her lips yet pained with love's first timorous kiss.
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• 7. Snow
  Down out of heaven,
  Frost-kissed
  And wind driven,
  Flake upon flake,
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• 8. Spring In Canada
  SEASON of life's renewal, love's rebirth,
  And all hope's young espousals; in your dream,
  I feel once more the ancient stirrings of Earth.
  
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• 9. The Avenging Angel
  1 When the last faint red of the day is dead,
  2 And the dim, far heaven is lit
  3 With the silvern cars
  4 Of the orient stars,
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