MORNING IN THE WEST
OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
Grey Knitting
The White Comrade
The New Joan
Canadian Cities of Romance
Morning in the West
A BOOK OF VERSE
By
KATHERINE HALE
(Mrs. John Garvin)
THE RYERSON PRESS
TORONTO
Copyright, Canada, 1923, by
THE RYERSON PRESS
TO MY MOTHER
Katherine Hale Byard
who means song to me
CONTENTS
Cun-ne-wa-bum
Ballad of Jasper Road
Buffalo Meat
Return of the Trappers
An Old Lady
Spanish Pilots
II. Women
Enchantment
She Who Paddles
Down Near the Glen
The Bolshevik
Pavlowa Dancing
Calvé in Blue
Sign to Trespassers
Silver Slippers
A Fabulous Day
Christmas Eve
To Marjorie Pickthall
I Who Cut Patterns
Poetesses
III. Going North
Going North
Study in Shadows
Northern Graveyards
Stony Lake
Trade
Snake Island
Juniper Ring
White Slumber
Crimson Pool
IV. Miracles
MORNING IN THE WEST
CUN-NE-WA-BUM
Portrait in the Royal Ontario Museum
Cun-ne-wa-bum—"one who looks on stars"—
(Feel the singing wind from out the western hills)
"The tip-end of a swan's wing is her fan,
With a handle of porcupine quills."
Here is the artist's name, Paul Kane;
Painting in forty-seven, at Edmonton, I see.
That was when prairies were untamed,
And untamed this young Cree.
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