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Walter Seymour Percy
b. 1867
A Canadian-born minister and poet, he wrote warm, reflective verse that moves easily from family life and nature to faith and moral thought. His best-known collection, Muse and Mint, gathers poems that often feel intimate, gentle, and meant to be read aloud.
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Muse and Mint
by Walter Seymour Percy
About the author
Born in Ontario in 1867, Walter Seymour Percy was a poet and clergyman who later served churches in New England and Pennsylvania. Available records also place his death in 1935, and his work is now remembered mainly through surviving editions and public-domain archives.
Percy is best known for Muse and Mint, published in 1914. The collection ranges across nature, home life, memory, philosophy, humor, and religious themes, and a number of the poems were written for his children. That mix gives his writing a friendly, personal tone even when he turns to larger spiritual or civic subjects.
Although he is not widely known today, Percy’s poems have remained accessible through projects like Project Gutenberg and LibriVox. His work offers a window into an older tradition of devotional and family-centered verse: sincere, readable, and often quietly uplifting.