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178 KUEAL LIFE IN CANADA 



A true life maj be lived anywhere : 



O Love builds on the azure sea, 



And Love builds on the golden sand, 



And Love builds on the rose-winged cloud. 

 And sometimes Love builds on the land. 



O if Love builds on sparkling sea. 

 And if Love builds on golden strand. 



And if Love builds on rosy cloud. 

 To Love, these are the solid land. 



O Love will build his lily walls. 

 And Love his pearly roof will rear. 



On cloud or land, on mist or sea — 

 Love's solid land is everywhere!* 



And yet — those expert judges in the things of the heart, 

 the Poets, being witness — the country is peculiarly the 

 home of the home. 



Happy the man whose life's full round 



Is passed within his farmstead's bound; 



Who in his elder years may view 



The self-same home that as a boy he knew. 



Fortune upon him has no hold 



With its alarms and tumults manifold; 



He does not flit on fickle wings 



Slaking his thirst at unfamiliar springs. 



Active still and stout of thew 



A hale old man, he lives three ages through. 



Others may seek the changes travel gives: 



They see more life, but he more truly lives.t 



And even the ascetic life — ^when, under Bernard of 

 Clairvaux with his Rule of Charity, it abandoned cities 



* Isabella V. Crawford, " Malcolm's Katie." 

 t Claudian. Translated by George S. Bryan, " Poems of 

 Country Life." 



