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Title: Shrines old and new, and other poems Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors: Farmer, Thomas Devey Jermyn Subjects: Publisher: Toronto W. Briggs Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: the full development of any smalltalent which might have been inherent in me forliterary study or poetic pursuits, until a very recentperiod, and one usually too late in life to allow ofmuch being accomplished along the present lines. And so, if I have here and there clothed some oldbut imperishable truth in a new dress, or expressedsome simple thought in befitting language, if I mayhave struck some happy expression, some har-monious chord, or if any of my readers may findsomewhere between the covers of this little booksome ennobling or inspiring sentiment, some vividhistorical description, some appropriate word-paint-ing, some high ideal outlined, some chaste or grace- 9 PREFACE ful imagery, or even some faint suggestion of any-thing pertaining to the lofty, the grand or the subHmein Hfe, and will with charity overlook my manyshortcomings for the rest, I will feel with gratitudethat my feeble efforts and aims have not goneentirely unrewarded. T. D. J. F. Winnipeg, November, 1912. 10

Text Appearing After Image: o Q.V r- > V u ^ OJ •^ > c« ,__ !> *^ r— .^j to Cb zii 0 = o CONTENTS PAGE Preface ------------ 5 SHRINES OLD AND NEW. Canada .--------23 North Shore of Lake Superior, Muskoka, etc - - 24Barrie --------- ^S Toronto ---- ^5 Wentworth Scenery ------ 26 The Beauties and Truths of Nature - - - - 30 Ottawa and Montreal ------ 30 Quebec ---------31 The Ocean - - - 32 The Isle of Man -------36 England— --------- 3^ First Impressions from the Train - - - - 37 London ---------37 Its Many Peoples, Attractions and Mighty Commerce 38Westminster Abbey -------39 The Coronation ------- 42 Goldsmith, Johnson and Ye Old Cheshire Cheese Inn 45St. Pauls Cathedral ------- 47 Pope - - --48 13 CONTENTS England (Continued)— page Buckinghamshire -------53 Her Scholars, Martyrs and Statesmen - - - 53The Gunpowder Plot ------ 54 Gray ---------- 55 Cowper and Dryden -------56 Oxford and Blenheim ------ 61 Shakespeare -------- 62 Shropshire --------67 The Wrek

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