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Corydon:
An Elegy
by
Bliss Carman
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STIR
The
Critic. Vol. 6, No. 4. Jan 25, 1889.
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A
Canadian house will issue shortly, in a limited
edition of seventy-five copies, numbered, and
printed on large vellum paper, a three part
elegy in commemoration of Matthew Arnold, by
Mr. Bliss Carman. The divisions of the trilogy
are entitled (1) “Death in April,”
(2) “Midsummer Land,” and (3) “Autumn
Guard”; and each is preceded and followed
by a lyric interlude. From advance sheets we
make the following selection, being the introductory
lyric of the first part:
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A
stir on the brink of evening,
A
tint in the warm gray sky,
The sound of loosened rivers;
And
spring goes by.
A stir at the rim of winter,
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A
wing on the crisp midnight;
A herald from dusk to gloaming
In
Northward flight.
A stir in the dawn re-arousing
The
wide undeparted unrest,
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To forth
in the spring time and follow
The
infinite quest.
At stir of the golden April
By
Indian-willow and stream,
The sap goes upward with morning
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death is a dream. |
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