Bliss Carman

Bliss Carman

Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics

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“Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics”, is a work by Bliss Carman. It explores elements such as English Statute, Low Tide and Grand Pré.

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Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics

“ Till the last fine fleck of the world is finished,
And Freedom shall walk alone by the sea.
"Who is thy heart's lord, who is thy hero?
Bruce or Cæsar or Charlemagne,
Hannibal, Olaf, Alaric, Roland?
Dare as they dared and the deed's done again!
"Here where they come of the habit immortal,
By the open road to the land of the Name,
Splendor and homage and wealth await thee
Of builded cities and bruited fame.
85"Let loose the conquering toiler within thee;
Know the large rapture of deeds begun!
The joy of the hand that hews for beauty
Is the dearest solace beneath the sun." ”

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Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics

“ Love, the vagrant, wanders home.
Love, that died so long ago,
As we deemed, in dark and snow,
Comes back to the door again,
Guendolen, Guendolen.
32In his hands a few bright flowers,
Gathered in the earlier hours,
Speedwell-blue, and poppy-red,
Withered in the sun and dead,
With a history to each,
Are more eloquent than speech. ”

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Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics

“ Moves in sleep and cannot rest.
From that dark beyond my doorway,
Silent the unbidden guest
Came and tarried, fearless, gentle,
Vagrant of the starlit gloom,
One frail waif of beauty fronting
Immortality and doom ”

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Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics

“ Then with a smile from the hearthstone of childhood
Bade thee farewell when thy heart bade thee roam?
87"Ah, my wide-wanderer, thou blessed vagrant,
Dear will thy footfall be nearing my door.
How the glad tears will give vent at thy coming,
Wayward or sad-heart to wander no more!" V
Morning and midday I wander, and evening,
April and harvest and golden fall;
Seaway or hillward, taut sheet or saddle-bow,
Only the night wind brings solace at all. ”

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Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics

“ About the heart of that dear land.
111 THE VAGABONDS "Such as wake on the night and sleep on the day, and haunt customable taverns and alehouses and routs about, and no man wot from whence they came, nor whither they go."—Old English Statute.
We are the vagabonds of time,
And rove the yellow autumn days,
When all the roads are gray with rime
And all the valleys blue with haze. ”

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Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics

“ They are variations on a single theme, more or less aptly suggested by the title, Low Tide on Grand Pré. It seemed better to bring together between the same covers only those pieces of work which happened to be in the same key, rather than to publish a larger book of more uncertain aim.
B. C. By Grand Pré, September, 1893.
vii CONTENTS
ixTO
S. M. C.
Spiritus haeres sit patriae quae tristia nescit.
11 LOW TIDE ON GRAND PRÉ
The sun goes down, and over all
These barren reaches by the tide
Such unelusive glories fall,
I almost dream they yet will bide
Until the coming of the tide. ”

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