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CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS On a Child's Portrait.

Deep in the fluted hollow of its shell, Dimly some echo of the ocean dwells.

Still in September's fruitage, mellow-cored, The filtered sweets of golden noons are stored.

And shimmering on a blue-birds migrant wings Some poignant touch of June's lost azure clings.

Still in the rustling sheaf today there gleams The lingering gold of April's vanished dreams.

Still in the cell of the autumnal bee I find lost Summer in epitome.

Arthur Stringer 141