Canadian Melodies and Poems by George E. Merkley

Author:George E. Merkley [Merkley, George E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-09-04T22:00:00+00:00

III.

But when from the mind we deign to fling

This shadowy, death-like legion,

Why do our thoughts in ardor cling

To that ghastly peopled region?

There’s a spirit within—the chainless soul—

That points to the world of spirits;

And a destiny great, beyond mortal control,

That the soul itself inherits.

POEMS

A Legend of Dead Man’s Lake.

“Dead Man’s Lake is a lonely sheet of water lying in a desolate region of the Indian Peninsula, between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. It is situated in a forest of dead pines and hemlocks, blighted by bush fires long before the memory of any living man, and this adds materially to the desolation of an already dreary region of swamp and rock. The following legend is based on tradition, and the Indians to this day believe that the body of the murdered chief lies with upturned face at the bottom of the lake.”— Anon.

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