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
I n 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 twentythree,
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.
To Mr. George Murray, of this city, the author is deeply indebted for
encouragement when encouragement was most needed, and for much
valuable assistance in the selection and revision of these verses for
publication.
It is hoped that the notes at the end of this book will throw sufficient
light upon the verses to make them perfectly intelligible to the reader.
December, 1st, 1887.
CONTENTS
Ode for the Queen's Jubilee
FLEURS DE LYS.
The Captured Flag
Père Brosse
L'Ordre de Bon Temps

Champlain
The Priest and the Minister
Pilot
The Secret of the
Saguenay
Jules' Letter
The Oak
Nelson's Appeal for Maisonneuve
RED ROSES.
To One Who Loves Red Roses
Three Sonnets
Long Ago
At
Chateauguay
A Birthday
The Lovers
The Sea Shell
A January
Day
Remembrance
In Absence
Love Guides Us
The Lover's
Appeal
OTHER POEMS.

The Spirit Wife
Rhodope's Shoe
Hope and Despair
Carlotta

Equality
Lachine
De Salaberry at Chateauguay
Tennyson
At
Rainbow Lake
The Race
My Treasure
Welcoming the New Year

A Greater Than He
Life in Nature
Winter and Summer

Dauntless
A Child's Kiss
The Grave and the Tree
A Mother's
Jewels
Notes
FLEURS DE LYS AND OTHER POEMS.
ODE FOR THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE.
1837-1887.
I
_Sailor William is dead. And now
Toll the great bells disconsolate.

Let the maiden have time for tears
Ere you set on her gentle brow

England's glittering crown of state.
Heavy burden for eighteen years.

Grant the maiden some weeping space
Ere on her youthful brow
you place
England's crown.
Once her stately head it presses,
Fifty years it
must rest on her tresses
Till their brown
Turns to white beneath King Time's caresses--
Grant her weeping space._
II.
Set the crown on the maiden's brow,
And silence the bells
disconsolate.
Peal! Ye loud joy-bells, now;
Over city and wold let
your echoes reverberate.
Peal! for the crowning of smiles and the
death of tears,
Peal! for the crowning of hopes and the death of fears,

Peal! for a Queen who shall rule us for fifty years.
The maiden is
crowned with her glorious crown,