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ACADIENSIS.
troubled waters, an act more suggestive of valor than discretion.
How long ago all this seems! As the years roll by, gradually shrouding such youthful adventures in an almost mythical haze, we feel the force of Virgil's well known line, "Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."
The Glory of God.
The moon have I for shallop; and the stars
My far-off beacons by the which I steer
On sapphire sea past changeful isles and bars
That hoist bright silver banners as I near
Their faery shores. To me the planets sing
Of Art and Arms, of Glory and of Years;
And Earth, the mother unto whom I cling,
Sighs her deep undertone of pain and tears.
And so my boundless vesper dreams are swept
With Star-lanced ether and through veiled eyes
And lids that harbored many tears unwept
I feel, what no man sees or else he dies!
My far-off beacons by the which I steer
On sapphire sea past changeful isles and bars
That hoist bright silver banners as I near
Their faery shores. To me the planets sing
Of Art and Arms, of Glory and of Years;
And Earth, the mother unto whom I cling,
Sighs her deep undertone of pain and tears.
And so my boundless vesper dreams are swept
With Star-lanced ether and through veiled eyes
And lids that harbored many tears unwept
I feel, what no man sees or else he dies!