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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN ADVENTURER'S SONG, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poet's Biography First Line: I have tried the strength of the salt surf where the last Last Line: And the loon's laugh and the gull's shriek and the pale star's swinging. | |||
I HAVE tried the strength of the salt surf where the last sun leaves the world; I have walked Ontario's lilac lanes, in the late May's wistful weather. I have breasted winds off Labrador where the whole seastrength is hurled; I have bound, high up in the Selkirks, blue and gold flowers together. I have roamed in lands where blue lakes gleam like the fallen tears of gods; I have trailed the cold Saskatchewan to the undiscovered places. I have heard the gorse on Beacon Hill breaking their golden pods; I have watched the blue St. Lawrence lave the grim Laurentian bases. I come sun-tanned from a great marauding of wind and wave and tree; And the copper hue of a savage face peers upward through my singing. And all that I love is in my song: the tang of the great West Sea And the loon's laugh and the gull's shriek and the pale star's swinging. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SONG OF LONESOMENESS by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD A SONG OF THE UNRETURNING by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD A SONG OF TWO HOUSES by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD A SONG TO THE VALIANT by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD A STREET SONG by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD AN EVENING SONG by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD AND NO ONE SHALL FORGET by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD AS A WHITE MOON by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD BIRCHES by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD CENTRE STREET by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD |
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