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    Wayside Weeds
    Wayside Weeds
    Wayside Weeds
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    Wayside Weeds

    By William Hodgson Ellis

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Wayside Weeds - William Hodgson Ellis

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Wayside Weeds, by William Hodgson Ellis

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Wayside Weeds

      Author: William Hodgson Ellis

      Release Date: January 21, 2011 [EBook #35033]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WAYSIDE WEEDS ***

      Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Brenda Lewis, Charlie Howard

      and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at

      http://www.pgdpcanada.net

      WAYSIDE WEEDS

      W. H. Ellis

      Emery Walker Ph.sc.

      WAYSIDE

      WEEDS

      BY WILLIAM

      HODGSON

      ELLIS

      TORONTO: PUBLISHED BY

      J. M. DENT & SONS LTD.

      MCMXIV

      NOTE

      The verses in this volume have been collected by a few of Dr. Ellis’s friends, and in this form are presented to him by them as a New Year’s gift

      1 January, 1914

      INTRODUCTION

      BY

      MAURICE HUTTON, LL.D.,

      Principal of University College, Toronto

      W. H. E.

      There is a Heav’n: at least on earth below:

      It is where scholars read and thinkers brood:

      For crowns and halos volumes in a row

      For angels’ wings it has its gown and hood.

      In that seraphic choir see Ellis sit!

      With that Elys-ian light his numbers glow:

      The scholar’s seriousness, the scholar’s wit,

      Twin spirits in alternate ebb and flow.[1]

      Studious and silent he has read life’s page,

      Scholar and chemist he sees part and whole;

      Teaching and thought let loose his noble rage

      And stir the genial current of his soul.

      His golden rod absorbs our meaner staves

      As Aaron’s rod the rods of Phara-oh,

      Or as New Brunswick’s river-name outbraves[2]

      The pious Jordan of Ontario.

      His May-blossoms relieve our strenuous May,

      Our evening smoke curls bluer as we read,

      The earliest pipe of half-awakened day

      Draws a new fragrance from his choicer weed.

      His artless puff-balls have a tale to tell,

      His Flora opens treasures new and old,

      His way-side weeds have been our asphodel[3]

      His dandy lines become our harmless gold.[4]

      [1]Plato (sixth letter—323 c.) speaks of Elysian or Ellis-i-an scholars Swearing with scholarly seriousness and with that playfulness which is seriousness’ twin sister. Thompson’s Gorgias, 41.

      [2]See Weed, p. 37.

      [3]See Weed, p. 43.

      [4]See Lowell on Dandelions:—

      Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold.

      SOME ELUCIDATIONS OF THE INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITORS

      Lines 1. So also,

      ". . . amidst the fairest flowers

      Of the blest isles, Elysium’s blooming bowers."

      Greek inscription on a marble at Rome. Neaves, Greek Anthology, Edin., 1874, p. 62 (blooming, vulgarism, meaning weedy.) 2. Cf. Ezekiel, xxxvii. 1, 2. 3. Academic crowns and halos (cf. Seneca, Naturales Questiones, 1, 2, 1 and 3) must needs, for obvious reasons, be made of paper. Notice also the subtle suggestion that Dr. Ellis is laurea donandus Apollinari, worthy of the laurel (crown) of Apollo. (Horace, Carminum, iv. 2, 9.) 4. Why should the gown and hood be required for angels’ wings? To clothe them withal, of course. The draping of angels with wings and the attachment of wings to the structure of the back of the human figure have presented problems to artists in all ages. The best solution is undoubtedly to cover up the wings, and the gown with its hood is the only appropriate garment. (Cf. Carpenter, Edward, "Angels’

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