Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon Poems

In the hour of grief and sorrow,
When my heart is full of care,
Seeking sadly hope to borrow
From heaven’s promises and prayer;
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Around the castle turrets fiercely moaned the autumn blast,
And within the old lords daughter seemed dying, dying fast ...
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With buoyant heart he left his home for that bright wond’rous land
Where gold ore gleams in countless mines, and gold dust strews the sand;
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“Father!” a youthful hero said, bending his lofty brow
“On the world wide I must go forth—then bless me, bless me, now!
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Earnest and sad the solemn tale
That the sighing winds give back,
Scatt’ring the leaves with mournful wail
O’er the forest’s faded track;
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On proud Mount Royal’s Eastern side,
In view of St. Lawrence’s silver tide,
Are two stone towers of masonry rude,
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The earth was flooded in the amber haze
That renders so lovely our autumn days,
The dying leaves softly fluttered down,
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By the side of a silvery streamlet,
That flowed through meadows green,
Lay a youth on the verge of manhood
And a boy of fair sixteen;
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Soft and holy Vesper Hour—
Precursor of the night—
How I love thy soothing power,
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With what a flood of wondrous thoughts
Each Christian breast must swell
When, wandering back through ages past,
With simple faith they dwell
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