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~ About the bar by Alberton.'_

When weary home the reapers go And Hesper s dewy light 18 born,

Or autumn s moonbeams soft and Slow 'Draw dials round the sheaves of .corn Southward o’er innertracts and far Mysterious murmurs wander on, . The sound of waves that fret the bar, The sandy bar at Alberton.

Spent in the misty voice of night

No Western gale that murmur brings,— So pleasures die and dreams of light In clouds decay. The spirit sings

Its sad refrain by life’s dull shOal,

Of many a golden summer gone,

In echoes of the surges’ roar '

About the bar by Alberton.

'It has been wel'lremarked that the poems by Harris “written in many places, in changing circumstances and at different periods of the author’s life, express something of that deep tenderness, sympathy and understanding with which he regarded this fair

, world in which it hasibeen givenrus to .live;”—-—-and, it may be added, this particular‘part of it——-Prince Edward Island.

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'XII——-Hunter' Duvar »

_ Of the poets and poetasters who have lived 1n Prince Edward E < ‘ Island the most considerable and the most valuable of their pub- ' lished products are those of John Hunter Duvar. The poems entitled Enamarado,” “The Triumph of Constancy," “The Emigration of the Fairies,” “The Annals of the Court of Oberon,”

‘ The Judgment of Osiris" and “DeRober-,val ” are all highly 1m- aginative and fanciful; and they contain many lines and stanzas . of rare literary value. . , ‘ * fi 1

. “The Emigration of the Fairies,” is a poem descriptiVe of the I y transportation of a band of fairies from a sweet nook on the i. - .1 g - English coast to a cis-Atlantic home in Prince Edward Island. ' '