Oh, well the world is dreaming
Under the April moon,
Her soul in love with beauty,
Her senses all a-swoon!
Pure hangs the silver crescent
Above the twilight wood,
And pure the silver music
Wakes from the marshy flood.
O Earth, with all thy transport,
How comes it life should seem
A shadow in the moonlight,
A murmur in a dream?
Bliss Carman
LATER POEMS
BY BLISS CARMAN
WITH AN APPRECIATION
BY R. H. HATHAWAY
And decorations by J. E. H. MacDonald A.R.C.A
MCCLELLAND & STEWART
PUBLISHERS — TORONTO
Copyright, Canada, 1921
By MCCLELLAND & STEWART, Limited, TORONTO
First Printing 1921Second " 1922Third " 1922Fourth " 1923
Printed in Canada
Publisher's Note
The present volume is made up of poems from Mr. Carman's three latestbooks, The Rough Rider, Echoes from Vagabondia, and April Airs,together with a number of more recent poems which have not before beenissued in book form.
Bliss Carman: An Appreciation
How many Canadians--how many even among the few who seek to keepthemselves informed of the best in contemporary literature, who areever on the alert for the new voices—realise, or even suspect, thatthis Northern land of theirs has produced a poet of whom it may beaffirmed with confidence and assurance that he is of the greatsuccession of English poets? Yet such—strange and unbelievable thoughit may seem—is in very truth the case, that poet being (to give himhis full name) William Bliss Carman. Canada has full right to be proudof her poets, a small body though they are; but not only does Mr.Carman stand high and clear above them all—his place (and time cannotbut confirm and justify the assertion) is among those men whose poetryis the shining glory of that great English literature which is ourcommon heritage.
If any should ask why, if what has been