Cold pastoral

• Main Author: Duley, Margaret, 1894-1968
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Hutchinson 1939
• Subjects: Newfoundland studies
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns2/id/224970

Cold Pastoral "What ailed thee then to be born?" -- ".the fanciful page and the fairy-tale read but in youth" -- "Fortune's ice" -- "To starve in ice.and there to pine, immovable, infixed, and frozen round periods of time, thence hurried back to fire" -- "Sails ripped, seams opening wide and compass lost" -- "No house without mouse, no throne without thorn" -- "All sails and no ballast" -- "Light quirks of music.make the soul dance upon a jig to Heaven" -- "Dear filial humbug" -- "So young and so untender" -- "A white and rustling sail" -- "Home from the north" -- "Children of a larger growth" -- "Drag on, long night of winter" -- "Destiny will find a way" -- "And stood aloof from other minds" -- "Drunken, but not with wine" -- "Too late to cast anchor when the ship's on the rocks" -- "Desperate pilot" -- "Change, the strongest son of life" -- "Interchange of letters a chief link" -- ".a great stream of people there was hurrying to and fro"