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Come down from the heights, my bird, And warble thy lays to me! I shall pine and droop in my grassy nook For the passionate song that my spirit shook, And the low, sad voice of the grieving brook Will murmur all night of thee.

I shall sit alone--alone, While the noontide hours steal by; And mournful the woodland's music will be,-- Mournful the blue, calm heavens to me,-- Mournful the glory on earth and sea,-- And mournful the sunset sky.

O voice of exulting song!-- O bright, unwavering eye!-- O free wing soaring in fetterless flight Up to the Fountain of quenchless Light! O, Earth that darkenest in sudden night, I shudder, and faint, and die!

NOTES OF AUTHORS

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2 Mrs MARGARET H. ALDEN, born at Caledonia, Ontario, 1863--now resident in Saginaw, Michigan. Sister of Edward William Thomson (p. 403). Has published booklets of verse.

2 Rev. JOSEPH ANTISELL ALLEN, b. at Arbor Hill, Ireland, February 27, 1814. Came to Canada, 1842. Published (anonymously), 1854, _Day Dreams by a Butterfly_ (a booklet from which the extract in the text is taken); _The Lambda-nu-Tercentenary Poem on Shakespeare_, 1864; _The True and Romantic Love Story of Colonel and Mrs Hutchinson_, a drama in verse, 1884; and several prose works. Resides at "Alwington," Kingston, Ontario.

3 GRANT ALLEN, son of the preceding, b. at Alwington House, Kingston, Ontario, February 24, 1848. Educated at Merton College, Oxford. A distinguished naturalist, and author of many scientific works and novels. Published, in 1894, _The Lower Slopes_, a volume of poems. Died October 25, 1899, at Hazelmere, Surrey, England.

5 WILLIAM TALBOT ALLISON, b. at Unionville, Ontario, December 20, 1874. Educated at Victoria University. He has published occasional verse in the Magazines. Resides in Toronto.

9 Mrs SOPHIE M. ALMON-HENSLEY, b. at Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, May, 1866,--a direct descendant of Cotton Mather. Educated largely in England and Paris. Published, in 1895, a volume of verse entitled _A Woman's Love Letters_. Now resident in New York, where she devotes much time to philanthropic work, but spends her summers at Brighton, Nova Scotia.

11 Rev. DUNCAN ANDERSON, b. in Rayne, Scotland, 1828. Educated at King's College and University, Aberdeen. For many years chaplain to the Imperial troops stationed at Lévis, Quebec. An expert ornithologist. Author of _Lays of Canada_, 1890, and of a prose work, _Scottish Folklore, or Reminiscences of Aberdeenshire_, 1895. Resides at "Monymusk," Chaudière Basin, Quebec.

22 ISIDORE G. ASCHER, b. in Glasgow, Scotland, 1835. Educated in Montreal, and called to the bar, 1862. Author of _Voices from the Hearth, and Other Poems_, 1863. Removed to England, 1864, where he has published several novels. One of his comediettas was produced at the Crystal Palace.

20 ALICE M. ARDAGH ("Esperance"), b. in Monmouthshire, Wales, July 15, 1866. Writer of occasional verse. Resides at Barrie, Ontario.

23 SAMUEL MATHEWSON BAYLIS, b. in Montreal, September 3, 1854. Published, in association with W. H. Whyte, _Our City and Our Sports_, 1894; and, in 1897, a volume of prose and verse entitled _Camp and Lamp_. Resides in Montreal.

26 JOHN WILSON BENGOUGH, b. in Toronto, April 5, 1851. Printer, caricaturist, lecturer, and poet. Author of several works, among them _Motley: Verses Grave and Gay_, 1895. Resides in Toronto.

28 CRAVEN LANGSTROTH BETTS, b. in St John, New Brunswick, April 23, 1853. Educated at St John Grammar School, and Fredericton Normal School. Most of his life has been given to business pursuits, but he has done a variety of literary work. Besides contributions to _Harper's Weekly_, the New York _Independent_, the _Youth's Companion_, _Puck_, and _Judge_, he edited for a year a New York magazine. Author of _Songs from Berenger_ (in the original metres), 1888; _The Perfume Holder, a Persian Love Poem_, 1891. For some years he held the office of secretary to the American Authors' Guild. Resides in New York.

31 BLANCHE BISHOP, b. at Greenwich, Nova Scotia, and educated at Acadia Seminary, and Acadia University. After study and travel in Europe, she taught five years in Moulton College, Toronto. Writer of occasional verse. Resides at Harding Hall, London, Ontario.

33 EDWARD BLACKADDER, b. at Wolfville, Nova Scotia, 1871. Educated at Acadia University. Author of _Poems, Sonnets, and Lyrics_, 1895. Since 1894 has been engaged as a public lecturer on Temperance, under the direction of the Sons of Temperance of Nova Scotia. Resides in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

33 Mrs JEAN BLEWETT, b. at Scotia, Lake Erie, Ontario, November 4, 1862 (Janet M'Kishney). Educated at St Thomas Collegiate Institute. She has written much prose for the public press. Author of _Songs of the Heart_, 1897. Resides in Toronto.

36 JOHN BREAKENRIDGE, b. at Niagara, Ontario, February 13, 1820; d. July 18, 1854, at Belleville, Ontario. Educated at Upper Canada College. Barrister at Law. Author of _The Crusades, and Other Poems_, 1846.

38 JOHN HENRY BROWN, b. in Ottawa, Ontario, April 29, 1859. A member of the Civil Service. Author of _Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic_, 1892. Resides in Ottawa.

40 EDWARD BURROUGH BROWNLOW ("Sarepta"), b. in London, England, November 27, 1857; d. in Montreal, September 8, 1895. In 1896 The Pen and Pencil Club of Montreal published _Orpheus and Other Poems_, a collection of his verse.

41 GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON, b. in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, September 24, 1854. He was editor of the Kingston, Ontario, _News_ at the time of his death, September 1885. _Lyrics on Freedom, Love, and Death_, edited by his brother Charles J. Cameron, appeared in 1887.

45 BLISS CARMAN, b. at Fredericton, New Brunswick, April 15, 1861. Educated at the Collegiate School there and at the University of New Brunswick, and with subsequent study at Edinburgh and Harvard Universities. In 1890 was literary editor of the New York _Independent_, and was also connected with the _Cosmopolitan_ and _Atlantic Monthly_ Magazines. In 1894 he established the _Chap Book_. Author of _Low Tide on Grand Pré, A Book of Lyrics_, 1893; _Songs from Vagabondia_ (in conjunction with R. S. Hovey, Boston), 1894; _A Sea-Mark_, 1895; _Behind the Arras: a Book of the Unseen_, 1895; _More Songs from Vagabondia_, 1896; and _By the Aurelian Wall, and Other Elegies_, 1898. Moves back and forth freely between the Maritime Provinces and the United States. His present address is _Independent Office, 114 Nassau Street, New York_.

59 AMOS HENRY CHANDLER, M.D., son of the late Governor Chandler, b. at Dorchester, New Brunswick, August 8, 1837. Author of _Lyrics, Songs, and Sonnets_ (conjointly with the late Rev. C. P. Mulvaney), 1880. Resides at Dorchester, New Brunswick.

60 EDWARD J. CHAPMAN, Ph.D., F.C.S., b. in England. Professor of Mineralogy in University College, Toronto, for many years. He recently resigned his professorship. Author of _A Song of Charity_, 1857.

63 Mrs ANNIE ROTHWELL CHRISTIE, b. in London, England, 1837. Came to Canada when four years of age, living with her family on Amherst Island, near Kingston, Ontario. Some of her best poems are to be found in the _Magazine of Poetry_. The examples given in the text were written at the time of the Half-Breed Rebellion. She has published no volume of poems, but is the author of four novels of much interest. Resides at The Rectory, North Gower, Ontario.

67 GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE, b. at Gravesend, England, August 27, 1873. Educated at Woodstock College, and M'Master University. Has published occasional verse in the Magazines. He is Assistant Editor of the _Baptist Union_ of Chicago, where he at present resides.

70 HUGH COCHRANE, for some time City Editor of the Montreal _Witness_. Author of booklets _Rhyme and Roundelay_, and _Ideal and Other Poems_. For the past two years he has been employed on the _Literary World_, London, England,--which is his present address.

70 HEREWARD K. COCKIN, b. at Frizing Hall, near Manningham, Yorkshire, England. Author of _Gentleman Dick o' the Greys, and Other Poems_, 1889. Present occupation is divided between journalism and prospect mining in the Michipicoten district, on the north-east shore of Lake Superior. Resides in Guelph, Ontario.

72 Mrs SARA JEANETTE DUNCAN COTES, b. at Brantford, Ontario, 1862, and educated at the Collegiate School there. Has published very occasional verse, but since 1890 has issued many popular books, travels and novels. Resides in Calcutta, India, since her marriage in 1891.

73 ISABELLA VALANCY CRAWFORD, b. near Dublin, Ireland, December 25, 1851. Came to Canada when five years of age, living with her father, Stephen Crawford, M.D., in Peterboro, Ontario. Removed to Toronto, where she died February 12, 1887. Author of _Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and Other Poems_, 1884, and much occasional verse.

78 FRANCIS BLAKE CROFTON, b. at Crossboyne, Ireland, 1842, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He is librarian of the Parliamentary Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Writer of occasional verse, and author of several works, among them _Haliburton, the Man and the Writer_, and _The Imperialism of Haliburton_. Resides in Halifax.

81 JOHN ALLISTER CURRIE, b. at Nottawa, Ontario, February 25, 1862. Was for thirteen years engaged as a journalist on the Toronto _Mail and Empire_ and the Toronto _News_. Is now engaged in the brokers' business. Author of _A Quartette of Lovers_, 1892. Resides in Toronto.

81 Mrs MARGARET GILL CURRIE, b. at Lower St Mary's, New Brunswick, June 14, 1843. Author of _John Saint John and Anna Gray_, 1897, a colonial romance in verse. Resides in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

83 Mrs SARAH ANNE CURZON, b. near Birmingham, England, 1833. Came to Toronto in 1862; d. at Toronto, October 6, 1898. Was a frequent contributor in prose and verse to the Canadian press. Author of _Laura Secord, the Heroine of 1812_, a drama, 1887. The issue of this volume led to the formation of several historical societies. Since 1887, Mrs Curzon's literary work was chiefly on historical subjects.

87 NICHOLAS FLOOD DAVIN, Q.C., M.P., b. at Kilfinane, Ireland, January 13, 1843. Connected himself with the press in Toronto, 1872, and established the Regina _Leader_ in 1883,--the first newspaper issued in Assiniboia. Published in 1889, _Eos: an Epic of the Dawn_; and subsequently several works in prose. Resides at Regina, N.W.T.

89 A. B. DE MILLE, son of the following, b. in Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 7, 1873. Recently appointed professor of English Literature in King's College, Windsor. Has published occasional verse in the Magazines. Resides at Windsor, Nova Scotia.

92 JAMES DE MILLE, b. in St John, New Brunswick, August 23, 1836; d. in Halifax, Nova Scotia, January 28, 1880. Writer of occasional verse. The extract in the text is taken from a posthumous publication issued by Allan & Co., of Halifax, Nova Scotia,--a poem entitled _Behind the Veil_. Mr De Mille was professor in Acadia College, and subsequently in Dalhousie College. He is the author of numerous works in prose, among them _Helena's Household: a tale of the First Century_; _The Dodge Club_; and _Elements of Rhetoric_. (See note under Richard Huntington.)

96 EDWARD HARTLEY DEWART, D.D., b. in the Co. Cavan, Ireland, 1828. Came to the County of Peterboro, Ontario, with his family in 1834. For twenty-five years he was Editor of the _Christian Guardian_, Toronto. Author of _Selections from Canadian Poets_, 1864; _Songs of Life_, 1869; _Essays for the Times_ (including later poems), 1898. Resides in Toronto.

98 FREDERICK AUGUSTUS DIXON, b. in England, May 7, 1843, and came to Canada in the early seventies. He was tutor at Rideau Hall during Earl Dufferin's Governor-Generalship. He is now Chief Clerk of correspondence, Department of Railways and Canals. Is the author of several dramas, among them _The Mayor of St Brieux_, and _A Masque of Welcome_, the latter in honour of the arrival in Canada of the Marquis of Lorne and the Princess Louise. A contributor of occasional verse to the Magazines. Resides in Ottawa.

101 WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND, M.D., b. at Currawn House, Co. Leitrim, Ireland, April 13, 1854. Author of _The Habitant, and Other French-Canadian Poems_, 1898. Resides in Montreal.

104 JOHN HUNTER DUVAR, b. August 29, 1830; d. January, 1899. Of Scoto-English birth and education. He lived the greater part of his life in Canada, serving as Lt.-Col. of the 3rd Brigade Halifax Garrison Artillery, and later in command of Prince County, Prince Edward Island Battalion of active militia. For ten years he was Dominion Inspector of Fisheries for the Province of Prince Edward Island. Author of _The Enamorado_, a drama, 1878; _Roberval_, a drama, 1888; _The Emigration of the Fairies_ and _The Triumph of Constancy_, a romaunt. He has written other works, also: _The Judgment of Osiris_, _The Enchanted Mooress_, and _Annals of the Court of Oberon_. His characteristic is very marked,--the romantic with a bias towards the mystic. Respecting the poem in the text, beginning "In the Rheingan standeth Aix," it may be remarked that it is a matter of history that the crowned corpse of Charlemagne sat in the crypt of the Cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle, until 1166, when the tomb was opened and the chair taken away by the Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa. Mr Duvar resided at "Hernewood," Fortune Cove, Prince Edward Island.

109 Rev. ARTHUR WENTWORTH HAMILTON EATON, b. at Kentville, Nova Scotia. A graduate of Harvard University. Author of _Acadian Legends and Lyrics_, 1889; and of several prose works, among them _The Church of England in Nova Scotia, and the Tory Clergy of the Revolution_; and _Tales of a Garrison Town_ (collaborated with C. L. Betts). He has in preparation a _History of the People of Nova Scotia_. Resides in New York.

116 Sir JAMES DAVID EDGAR, Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada, b. at Hatley, Quebec, August 10, 1841. Author of _This Canada of Ours, and Other Poems_, 1893; and of _Canada and its Capital_, prose, 1898. Died July 31, 1899, at Toronto.

117 CONSTANCE FAIRBANKS, b. at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, May 10, 1866. She edited, in conjunction with Mr H. Piers, the volume of the poems of the late Mrs Lawson. Writer of occasional verse in the Magazines. Resides at Halifax, Nova Scotia.

118 JOSEPH KEARNEY FORAN, b. at Aylmer, Quebec, 1857. Educated at the University of Ottawa. A journalist. Author of _Poems and Canadian Lyrics_, 1895, also of a prose work, _The Spirit of the Age; Faith and Infidelity_. Resides in Montreal.

120 WILLIAM HENRY FULLER, b. at Ramsgate, England. Came to Canada in the early seventies. Author of a local burlesque, _H.M.S. Parliament_, and other plays; _Ye Ballad of Lyttel John A_; and several essays and _brochures_. Resides at Ottawa.

121 Rev. ALEXANDER RAE GARVIE, b. at Vilcoy Estate, Demerara, British Guiana, January 6, 1839; d. at Montreal, March 5, 1874; buried at Chatham, New Brunswick. He was of Scotch parentage. His ministerial service was rendered chiefly, if not wholly, in the Maritime Provinces. A singularly interesting man. _Thistledown_, a posthumous volume of Poems and Essays, 1875.

123 PIERCE STEVENS HAMILTON, b. in, or near, Truro, Nova Scotia, 1826; d. in Halifax, February 1893. A journalist and versatile political writer. Author of _The Feast of St Anne and Other Poems_, 1890.

126 Mrs S. FRANCES HARRISON ("Seranus"), b. in Toronto upwards of thirty years ago, and educated in Toronto and Montreal. She is a musical critic, and has written widely for the Magazines, in prose and verse. Author of _The Canadian_ _Birth-Day Book_, 1887; _Pine, Rose and Fleur-de-Lis_, 1891. Resides in Rosedale, Toronto.

129 THEODORE ARNOLD HAULTAIN, b. at Kannanur, Madras Presidency, November 3, 1857. A graduate of Toronto University. Author of _Versiculi_, 1893; and of several prose publications. A contributor to many well-known Magazines. Resides in Toronto.

131 CHARLES HEAVYSEGE, b. in Huddersfield, England, 1816; d. at his residence in Bleury St., Montreal, July 14, 1879. He was a cabinetmaker by trade,--and a journalist. Author of _Saul_, a tragedy, 1857; _Jephthah's Daughter_, 1865; _Count Filippo; or the Unequal Marriage_, 1860. _Saul_ was first published by Mr John Lovell, Montreal; a second edition was issued in Boston. Mr Heavysege was a powerful dramatic writer. The _North British Review_ for August, 1858, characterizes _Saul_ as "one of the most remarkable English poems ever written out of Great Britain." There is an unfinished work in the hands of his widow, who resides at Winnipeg, Manitoba.

133 JOHN FREDERIC HERBIN, b. in Windsor, Nova Scotia, February 8, 1860. His mother was an Acadien (Robichau), and his father French. Educated at Acadia University. Author of _Marshlands_, a volume of Poems. Also of _Grand Pré_, a brief history of the Acadien occupation of Minas. Resides in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

138 ANNIE CAMPBELL HUESTIS, b. in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1876. Writer of occasional verse. Resides in Halifax.

145 Rev. JAMES COBOURG HODGINS, b. in Hamilton, Ontario, 1866. In the past seven years he has resided in the United States; and is at present pastor of the church in Philadelphia formerly in charge of Rev. Samuel Longfellow. Author of _Fugitives_, a booklet, 1891; and _A Sheaf of Sonnets_, printed for private circulation, 1896.

147 Hon. JOSEPH HOWE, b. at North West Arm, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1804; of loyalist parentage; d. in Halifax, June 1, 1873. A most distinguished son of Nova Scotia, and one of the ablest of Canadian Statesmen. He was Governor of his native Province at the time of his death. _Poems and Essays_, a posthumous publication, 1874.

141 WILLIAM EDWARD HUNT ("Keppell Strange"), b. at Brighton, England, of ancient Sussex ancestry. Educated at South Kensington, and at the Berbeck Institute. Is a member of the editorial staff of the Montreal _Witness_, Author of _Poems and Pastels_, 1896. Resides in Montreal.

142 RICHARD HUNTINGTON, b. at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, February 13, 1819; d. at Yarmouth, May 13, 1883. He was for thirty years editor and publisher of the Yarmouth _Tribune_. Mr Huntington was a nephew of the late Hon. Herbert Huntington, and a grandson of Miner Huntington, one of the loyalist settlers of Yarmouth (mentioned in Sabine's History of the Loyalists); and a distant relative of the late Hon. L. S. Huntington, of Quebec. A writer of occasional verse. In Lighthall's _Songs of the Great Dominion_, a poem entitled _The Indian Names of Acadia_ is erroneously attributed to De Mille (the late professor James De Mille). It was written by Richard Huntington.

149 CHARLES EDWIN JAKEWAY, M.D., b. at Holland Landing, Ontario, 1847. Graduated M.D. at Toronto, 1871. Author of _The Lion and the Lilies; a Tale of the Conquest, and Other Poems_, 1897. Resides at Stayner, Ontario.

155 E. PAULINE JOHNSON,--Tekahiońwake--, b. at "Chief's Wood," Six Nations Reserve, County of Brant, Ontario. She is the daughter of the late George Henry M. Johnson, head chief of the Mohawk Indians, by his wife, Emily S. Howells, of Bristol, England. Educated by private tuition, and at the Brantford Model School. She is a frequent contributor to the periodical press. In 1894 she visited England, and while there published _The White Wampum_, a book of poems. She has publicly recited her poems throughout Canada and the United States. Resides at Winnipeg, Manitoba.

160 ROBERT KIRKLAND KERNIGHAN ("The Khan"), b. at Rushdale Farm, near Hamilton, Ontario, April 25, 1857. A journalist, and widely known as the author of many clever songs, and of patriotic and humorous verse. He published _The Tattleton Papers_, prose, 1894; and _The Khan's Canticles_, 1896. Resides at Rushdale Farm, Rockton, Ontario.

162 WILLIAM KIRBY, b. at Kingston-upon-Hull, England, October 13, 1817. Came to Canada with his parents, 1832. A journalist, novelist, and poet. Was Collector of Customs at Niagara (where he settled in 1839) from July 1, 1871, till his retirement from the public service, 1895. Author of _The U. E._, 1859, an epic poem, very valuable as a series of pictures of loyalist personages and times; _Canadian Idyls_ (2nd ed.), 1894. He has published four volumes in prose, the chief of which is _The Golden Dog, a Legend of Quebec_, 1877, and 1896. A new American edition of this work was published in 1898. Mr Kirby resides at Niagara, Ontario.

166 Rev. MATTHEW RICHEY KNIGHT, b. at Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 21, 1854. Educated at Mount Allison University. He has written considerable, in prose and verse. Author of _Poems of Ten Years_, 1887. Present residence, Boistown, New Brunswick.

168 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN, b. at Morpeth, Ontario, November 17, 1861; d. at Ottawa, February 10, 1899. Educated at Trinity University, Toronto. He was a member of the Canadian Civil Service, in the Post Office Department. Elected F.R.S. Can., 1895. Author of _Among the Millet, and Other Poems_, 1888; _Lyrics of Earth_, 1895. Resided in Ottawa. His complete poems, edited with a Memoir, were published under the supervision of Duncan Campbell Scott, March, 1900.

177 Mrs MARY JANE KATZMANN LAWSON, b. at "Maroon Hall," Preston, about five miles from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Her mother--a Nova Scotian--was a granddaughter of Dr Joshua Prescott, of Massachusetts. She was largely self-educated. For two years she edited the _Provincial Magazine_. In 1887 she obtained the Aikin's Historical Prize of King's College for her _History of the Townships of Dartmouth, Preston, and Lawrencetown_,--since published. She died at Halifax, March 23, 1890. In 1893, _Frankincense and Myrrh_ (selections from the poems of the late Mrs Lawson) appeared under the joint editorship of Mr Harry Piers and Miss Constance Fairbanks.

180 Mrs SOPHIA V. GILBERT LEE, author of _Wayside Echoes_, a volume of verse, 1894. Resides at Penetanguishene, Ontario.