Weir, Arthur, 1864-1902 / 2008-05-27 00:00:00
EBOOK FLEURS DE LYS AND OTHER POEMS ***
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FLEURS DE LYS
AND
OTHER POEMS.
BY
ARTHUR WEIR, B.A. Sc.
He only is a poet who can find
In sorrow happiness, in darkness light,
Love everywhere; and lead his fellow-kind
By flowery paths towards life's sunny height.
TO
WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH SOMERVILLE WEIR,
HIS
MOST SEVERE AND KINDLY CRITICS,
THIS VOLUME
IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED BY THEIR SON.
PREFACE
The name FLEURS DE LYS has been chosen for the Canadian Poems in the
early portion of this book, because the scenes and incidents they
describe belong to the Monarchial, or Fleur de Lys, period of France in
Canada. The royal crest during the seventeenth century is depicted
upon the cover.
Many of these poems have already appeared in the columns of the
Carnival and Jubilee _Star_, the Toronto _Week_, the
_University Gazette_, and the Montreal _Gazette_, as well as
in the Daily and Weekly _Star_, and it is the kindly reception
which they met with that has led the author to publish them in this
more permanent form.
Some of the poems were written at twenty, and the latest at twenty-
three, so that the author hopes the critics will consider this volume
rather as a bud than as a flower, and will criticize it with the view
to aiding him to avoid faults in the future rather than to censuring
him for errors of the present and past.
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