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Title: Shrines old and new, and other poems
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Farmer, Thomas Devey Jermyn
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Publisher: Toronto W. Briggs
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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orner in Westminster Abbey - - - 43 St. Pauls Cathedral ------- 49 Stoke Poges Church and Tomb of Gray - - - 57 Castle Rock, Bridgnorth - 65 The Tore Cascade, Killarney ------ 75 The Forum, Rome --------81 Edinburgh, Princess Street and Castle - - - - 91 San Salvador - - - - 97 Phoenix Park, Dublin ------- 107 Blarney Castle - - - - II3 Paris ----------- 123 The Golden Isles of Hyeres ------ 129 Milan Cathedral - - ^^37 The- Lion of St. Mark, Venice - - - - - - MS The Coliseum, Rome ------- 155 The Shelley and Keats Memorial at Rome - - - 161 Pompeii and Vesuvius ------- 169 2 19 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Falls at Ancaster, Ontario - - - - - -179 The Grave of Keats at Rome ------ 189 The Grave of Shelley at Rome ----- 197 Avenue of Palms, Hyeres ------ 205 Sorrento, Italy --------- 213 Church and Cemetery of San Miniato, Florence - - 221 The Boboli Gardens, Florence ----- 227 The Tomb of Napoleon ------- 239 Arch of Titus, Rome ------- 247 A Marble Tomb in the Campo Santo at Genoa - - 255 20
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Shrines Old and New One glorious evening in bright, sunny May,With verdure bursting on the prairies round— Those unshorn gardens stretching far away, For which the speech of England has not foundA name—I sat me listning to the sound Of preparation for departure from the West.On my first trip to Europe I was bound For pleasure, learning, travel, and that rest Physicians say an ocean voyage gives the best. II. Were off! and in the darkness of the night Pass thro Kenora, hear Keewatins roar.Fort William and Port Arthur loom in sight At morn, fair twins of North Superiors shore. Now waves foam-silverd splash the roadbed oer;Tunnel and cliff in continuity Are hurried by; which interests me the moreI know not, the shores wild sublimityOr contemplation of this mighty inland sea. 23 SHRINES OLD AND NEW III, Then a vast stretch of forest, stream and lake, Which only foot of beast or Indian trod.Here surely man his toil of life may break And dwell alone with solitude and God. These are the

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