In Memoriam E.S.

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



HER love was that full love which, like a tide,
    Flows in and out life's smallest gulfs and bays,
    And fills with music through long summer days
Cold hearts that else would stern and dark abide.
Her smile would cheer, her faintest look could chide;
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    No soul too outcast, none too lowly born,
    For her kind ear; and none too high for scorn
Of mean pretence, or wrong, or foolish pride.
She loved all Nature; mountain, stream, and tree
    To her were thoughts or language for the thought
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        She could not utter, signs of truths too high
To set to words. Her love, too, like a tide,
    Flowed daily back with cares its surface brought
        To the still vast beneath eternal sky.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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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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