On being given a piece of edelweiss before visiting switzerland

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



THINE everlasting mountains and their snows
    And awful silence, floweret, know I not;
    I have not wandered to thy native spot
Among the crags, but oft as I repose,
Musing by winter fire at daylight's close,
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    In fancy have I viewed those depths of sky
    And infinite clouded crags, while fronting high,
Peak upon peak, the eternal Alps uprose.
Mysterious power, God-planted in the soul,
    That thus transcends all space and the confined
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        Limits of sense, Imagination hail!
Pledge art thou of that life when death shall roll
    Back our flesh prison-bars, and the freed mind
        Shall grasp the giant truths behind the veil.

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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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