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CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS.

I rose at midnight & beheld the sky
 * Sown thick with stars, like grains of golden sand
 * Which God had scattered loosely from his hand

Upon the floorways of his house on high; And straight I pictured to my spirit's eye
 * The giant worlds, their course by wisdom planned,
 * The weary waste, the gulfs no sight hath spanned,

And endless time for ever passing by.

Then, filled with wonder & a secret dread,
 * I crept to where my child lay fast asleep,

With chubby arm beneath his golden head. What cared I then for all the stars above?
 * One little face shut out the boundless deep;

One little heart revealed the heaven of love.

Frederick George Scott. 127