Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke

Archibald Lampman (1861–1899)

Temagami

FAR in the grim North-west beyond the lines

That turn the rivers eastward to the sea,

Set with a thousand islands, crowned with pines,

Lies the deep water, wild Temagami:

Wild for the hunter’s roving, and the use

Of trappers in its dark and trackless vales,

Wild with the trampling of the giant moose,

And the weird magic of old Indian tales.

All day with steady paddles toward the west

Our heavy-laden long canoe we pressed:

All day we saw the thunder-travelled sky

Purpled with storm in many a trailing tress,

And saw at eve the broken sunset die

In crimson on the silent wilderness.