OUR ISLAND STORY 153 About the bar by Alberton . When weary home the reapers go And Hesper's dewy light is born, Or autumn's moonbeams soft and slow Draw dials round the sheaves of corn Southward o'er inner tracts 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 well remarked 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 has been given us to live;"—and, it may be added, this particular part of it— Prince Edward Island . XII— Hunter Duvar Of the poets and poetasters who have lived in Prince Edward 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 "DeRoberval," are all highly im¬ aginative and fanciful; and they contain many lines and stanzas of rare literary value. "The Emigration of the Fairies," is a poem descriptive of the transportation of a band of fairies from a sweet nook on the English coast to a cis- home in Prince Edward Island .