Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE TRAIL TO LILLOOET, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON


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THE TRAIL TO LILLOOET, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sob of fall, and song of forest, come you here on haunting quest
Last Line: And call across the cañon on the trail to lillooet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Fraser (river), British Columbia; Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails


SOB of fall, and song of forest, come you here on haunting quest,
Calling through the seas and silence, from God's country of the west.
Where the mountain pass is narrow, and the torrent white and strong,
Down its rocky-throated canon, sings its golden-throated song.

You are singing there together through the God-begotten nights,
And the leaning stars are listening above the distant heights
That lift like points of opal in the crescent coronet
About whose golden setting sweeps the trail to Lillooet.

Trail that winds and trail that wanders, like a cobweb hanging high,
Just a hazy thread outlining mid-way of the stream and sky,
Where the Fraser River cañon yawns its pathway to the sea,
But half the world has shouldered up between its song and me.
Here, the placid English August, and the sea-encircled miles,
There—God's copper-coloured sunshine beating through the lonely aisles
Where the waterfalls and forest voice for ever their duet,
And call across the cañon on the trail to Lillooet.





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