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Across the Sea

Frederick George Scott 1861 (Montreal, Quebec) – 1944 (Quebec City, Quebec)

THE confines of our being are not these
    White limbs of sense. Our true selves broader are
    And higher than the path of furthest star.
Beyond the reach of sense, each hears and sees
And feels. The root alone of giant trees
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    Touches the earth; their branches pierce to heaven.
    "To-day," "Here," "There," are to the body given;
Our spirits watch among the eternities.
Dearest, our beings can mingle, and our lips
    Kiss off the dark world-sadness from the soul;
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        Our hands can clasp, our eyes return love's gaze,
Tho' waste lands moan between, where crimson dips
    The westering sun, and tho' wide oceans roll;
        Tho' being so far, we breathe in different days.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABBAACDDAEFCGEFG
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 688
Words 121
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
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Frederick George Scott

Frederick George Scott was a Canadian poet and author, known as the Poet of the Laurentians. He is sometimes associated with Canada's Confederation Poets, a group that included Charles G. D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman, and Duncan Campbell Scott. Scott published 13 books of Christian and patriotic poetry. Scott was a British imperialist who wrote many hymns to the British Empire—eulogizing his country's roles in the Boer Wars and World War I. Many of his poems use the natural world symbolically to convey deeper spiritual meaning. Frederick George Scott was the father of poet F. R. Scott. more…

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