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Frederick George Scott
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“Growing to full manhood now, With the care-lines on our brow, We, the youngest of the nations, With no childish lamentations, Weep, as only strong men weep, For the noble hearts that sleep, Pillowed where they fought and bled, The loved and lost, our glorious dead.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1885 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Memoriam", st. 1, in C. P. Mulvany, The History of the North-West Rebellion (Toronto, 1885), p. 155
“I saw Time in his workshop carving faces; Scattered around his tools lay, blunting griefs, Sharp cares that cut out deeply in reliefs Of light and shade: sorrows that smooth the traces Of what were smiles.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1886 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Time" (1886), in The Soul's Quest and Other Poems (London, 1888), p. 114
“'Is Sin, then, fair?' Nay, love, come now, Put back the hair From his sunny brow; See, here, blood-red Across his head A brand is set, The word — 'Regret.'”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sting of Death", st. 1, in My Lattice, and Other Poems (Toronto, 1894), p. 84
“'How slayeth Sin?' First, God is hid, And the heart within By its own self chid; Then the maddened brain Is scourged by pain To sin as before And more and more, For evermore.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Oh, curses on you hand and head, Like the rains in this wild weather The guilt of blood is swift and dread, Your sister's face is cold and dead, Ye may not part whom God would wed And love hath knit together.'”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Feud", st. 8, in My Lattice, and Other Poems (Toronto, 1894), p. 31
“So often have I met death face to face, His eyes now wear the welcome of a friend's.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dion", in My Lattice, and Other Poems (Toronto, 1894), p. 63
“Clay was I; the potter Thou With Thy thumb-nail smooth'dst my brow, Rolltdst the spittle-moistened sands Into limbs between Thy hands. [...] Strong Thou mad'st me, till at length All my weakness was my strength; Tortured am I, blind and wrecked, For a faulty architect.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Samson", sts. 9, 12, in My Lattice and Other Poems (Toronto, 1894), p. 4
“Give me splendour in my death — Not this sickening dungeon breath, Creeping down my blood like slime, Till it wastes me in my prime.Give me back for one blind hour, Half my former rage and power, And some giant crisis send, Meet to prove a hero's end.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Right hath the sweeter grace, But Wrong the prettier face.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Two Mistresses", st. 1, in My Lattice and Other Poems (Toronto, 1894), p. 88
“Sweet house of God, sweet earth, so full of pleasure, I enter at thy gates in storm or calm; And every sunbeam is a joy or pleasure, And every cloud a solace and a balm.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In the Woods", st. 4, in My Lattice and Other Poems (Toronto, 1894), p. 89
“It sleeps among the thousand hills Where no man ever trod, And only nature's music fills The silences of God.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Unnamed Lake", st. 1, in The Unnamed Lake and Other Poems (Toronto, 1897), p. 7
“The pulse of our life is in tune with the rhythm of forces that beat In the surf of the farthest star's sea, and are spent and regathered to spend.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Dream of the Prehistoric", st. 11, in The Unnamed Lake and Other Poems (Toronto, 1897), p. 14
“The immortal spirit hath no bars To circumscribe its dwelling-place; My soul hath pastured with the stars Upon the meadow-lands of space.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1898 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eothen", in The Canadian Magazine, vol. 11 (May–October 1898), p. 164
“In lonely gorge and over hill and plain, I sowed the giant forests of the world; The great earth like a human heart in pain Has quivered with the meteors I have hurled.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1899 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Burden of Time", st. 7, in The Canadian Magazine, vol. 13 (May–October 1899), p. 327
“One doom waits all — art, speech, law, gods, and men, Forests and mountains, stars and shining sun, — The hand that made them shall unmake again, I curse them and they wither one by one.Waste altars, tombs, dead cities where men trod, Shall roll through space upon the darkened globe, Till I myself be overthrown, and God Cast off creation like an outworn robe.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, linger, little river! Your banks are all so fair, Each morning is a hymn of praise, Each evening is a prayer. All day the sunbeams glitter On your shallows and your bars, And at night the dear God stills you With the music of the stars.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The River", st. 3, in The McMaster University Monthly (March 1903), p. 288
“Something in my inmost thinking Tells me I am one with you, For a subtle bond is linking Nature's offspring through and through.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In the Winter Woods", st. 4, in The McMaster University Monthly (January 1904), p. 192
“They saw the stars in heaven hung, They saw the great Sea's birth, They know the ancient pain that wrung The entrails of the Earth.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Storm", st. 7, in A Hymn of Empire and Other Poems (Toronto, 1906), p. 12
“Ah God, what thunders shook these crags of yore, What smoke of battle rolled about this place, What strife of worlds in pregnant agony! Now all is hushed, yet here, in dreams, once more We catch the echoes, ringing back from space, Of God’s strokes forging human history.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The King's Bastion", in A Hymn of Empire and Other Poems (Toronto, 1906), p. 52
“for me will be five hundred years of catching trains and two thousand years of remembering names.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in , vol. 32, no. 5 (March 1909), p. 460
“The great world's heart is aching, aching fiercely in the night, And God alone can heal it, and God alone give light; And the men to bear that message, and to speak the living word, Are you and I, my brothers, and the millions that have heard.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Our Duty" (May 1909), st. 1, in Poems (London and Toronto, 1910), p. 206
“Like some grey warder who, with mien sedate And smile of welcome, greets the throngs who pour Between the portals of a wide-thrown door, stands guardian at our water gate, And watches from her battlemented state The great ships passing with their living store Of human myriads coming to our shore, Expectant, joyous, resolute, elate.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quebec", quoted in M. O. Hammond, Canadian Footprints (Toronto, 1926), p. 57
“O mighty Soul of England, rise in splendour Out of the wrack and turmoil of the night, And as of old, compassionate and tender, Uphold the cause of justice and of right.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To England", st. 1, in The Streetsville Review and Port Credit Herald (15 October 1931), p. 3