
A gentle, soaring voice guides listeners through a tapestry of verses that celebrate love’s timeless quest beyond the ordinary world. The poet invites us to drift over “mountains of sleep” and “hills of dream,” where memories mingle with imagined realms, offering moments of quiet wonder and heartfelt longing. As the imagery shifts from golden valleys to scarlet woods, the language paints a landscape where past affections and future hopes meet in a quiet, almost mystical harmony.
The collection then moves to a stark, reflective episode set amid the ruins of an ancient city, where a solitary figure’s tender reverie contrasts with the sudden, looming darkness of catastrophe. This juxtaposition of fragile intimacy and sweeping historical echo deepens the meditation on how love endures even when the world crumbles. Listeners will find themselves carried between the soft glow of sunrise and the haunting shadows of forgotten eras, all bound by a lyrical promise of renewal.
Language
en
Duration
~1 hours (104K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Larry B. Harrison, Ian Crann and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2017-03-28
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

d. 1918
A major voice in early Canadian poetry, he wrote about nature, faith, and public life with a lyrical, reflective touch. Alongside his writing, he also built a long career in Ottawa as a civil servant.
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