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LEnvoi

...faces,
Yet still we filled the cup and still we talked.

The city street was dimmed. We saw the glitter
 Of moon-picked brilliants on the virgin snow,
And down the drifted canyon heard the bitter,
 Relentless slogan of the winds of woe.
The city was forgot, and, parka-skirted,
 We trod that leagueless land that once we knew;
We saw stream past, down valleys glacier-girted,
 The wolf-worn legions of the caribou.
We smoked our pipes, o'er scenes of triumph dwelling;
 Of deeds o...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Mementos

...ed young, 
And died of grief by slow decay. 

Open that casket­look how bright 
Those jewels flash upon the sight; 
The brilliants have not lost a ray 
Of lustre, since her wedding day. 
But see­upon that pearly chain­ 
How dim lies time's discolouring stain ! 
I've seen that by her daughter worn: 
For, e'er she died, a child was born; 
A child that ne'er its mother knew, 
That lone, and almost friendless grew; 
For, ever, when its step drew nigh, 
Averted was the father's ey...Read more of this...
by Bronte, Charlotte

Performance

...that night, I shone:
I was footwork and firework in one,

a rocket that wriggled up and shot
darkness with a parasol of brilliants
and a peewee descant on a flung bit;
I was blusters of glitter-bombs expanding
to mantle and aurora from a crown,
I was fouéttes, falls of blazing paint,
para-flares spot-welding cloudy heaven,
loose gold off fierce toeholds of white,
a finale red-tongued as a haka leap:
that too was a butt of all right!

As usual after any triumph, I was
of cours...Read more of this...
by Murray, Les

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