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To take his post as sentinel - William Hodgson Ellis "As a Watch in the Night"

To guard until the break of day - William Hodgson Ellis "As a Watch in the Night"

When the signal rockets flare - William Hodgson Ellis "As a Watch in the Night"

When there's powder, cannons play - William Hodgson Ellis "The Bal Poudre"

Weary child of toil and care - William Hodgson Ellis "Consider the Lilies of the Field"

Nor trembles for the coming shower - William Hodgson Ellis "Consider the Lilies of the Field"

Though arrayed in gold and gems - William Hodgson Ellis "Consider the Lilies of the Field"

Phoenicean fabrics far surpass - William Hodgson Ellis "Consider the Lilies of the Field"

With fairy form and rainbow hue - William Hodgson Ellis "Consider the Lilies of the Field"

Brighter than Solomon shone of old - William Hodgson Ellis "The Cowdung Fly"

Who drives with dust and jar - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."

The fickle crowd another woos - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."

For a threefold term to choose - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."

Not Rockefeller's treasure chest - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."

The foghorn booming in his ears - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."

Of all joys the flower and crown - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."

Cards that defy arithmetic - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."

The last spark of Saint Anthony's fire - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"

The scream of the merry blue jay - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"

When trout the glassy surface break - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"

Where the black duck rears her brood - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"

Where the loon's loud laugh rings wild and clear - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"

Whose mouth is the portal of death - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"

The crown and flower of the world - William Hodgson Ellis "The Lyric League"

Remuneration inadequate to our worth - William Hodgson Ellis "The Lyric League"

A fig for the Philistine slander - William Hodgson Ellis "The Lyric League"

Let each man praise the river - William Hodgson Ellis "Magaguadavic and Digdeguash"

Leave the tram-car's jarring jangle - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Bid the dusty streets adieu - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Finds in our canoe no room - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Forest voices fill the air - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Paddling past pebbly beaches - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Where the ancient cedar grows - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Where the scarlet maples blaze - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Past the oily eddies sweeping - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Floating 'neath the alder's shade - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Sweating on the portage trail - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Shall we find him in the rushes? - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Where the waterlilies grow - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Where the roaring torrent gushes - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Proudly with his spoil returning - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Heap his bed with balsam boughs - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Monarch of his new dominion - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Prophets, poets, saints and sages - William Hodgson Ellis "Psychology"

Swift as a shooting star - William Hodgson Ellis "Rhona Adair"

Wintergreen peeps through the snow - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

Bloodroot and wake-robin rest in quiet slumber - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

The violet is sleeping yet - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

Beneath the alders brown and bare - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

Bring to me a thousand visions bright - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

Will sing among the hawthorn blossoms - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

The silvery gleams of leaping trout - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

Soon as the snows of winter yield - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

To strongholds in the thickest woods - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

Across the sea you bore the sacred fire - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."

And bid our lamp burn brighter - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."

A branch from Scotland's shore - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."

The jarring chords of life - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."

The balsam and the hemlock afford us a bed - William Hodgson Ellis "The Wanderer's Song"

And the scream of the night hawk is heard - William Hodgson Ellis "The Wanderer's Song"

Resound with our evening hymn - William Hodgson Ellis "The Wanderer's Song"

Untouched by the axe, and unscathed by the plow - William Hodgson Ellis "The Wanderer's Song"

Roared from Russian ramparts grim - William Hodgson Ellis "When You and I were Young, Adam"

In pre-Archaean periods of elemental stress - William Hodgson Ellis "When You and I were Young, Adam"

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