Author: Walter A. Ratcliffe

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Published: 2015-07-12

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9781331228028

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Excerpt from Morning Songs in the Night: Poems Within these covers is to be found one of the most notable volumes of verse recently published in Canada, because probably no other deals so intensely yet simply with the everyday problems of the soul and of suffering humanity. The author, Walter A. Ratcliffe, of Listowel, Ontario, has for years been cut off from the ordinary pleasures of life by an unusually heavy affliction - having become almost totally blind and deaf. His only communication with his few friends has been through the ear trumpet and the sympathetic touch and treatment. In the sadness of his life his poetry has been to him a solace and an unburdening, and we catch the heart-throbs in the singing of the caged linnet: "If I should die to-night No terror would affright; No quailing at the billows' ceaseless boom, No boding fear of boundless, rayless gloom, And chill and damp of night. But when the last warm light Of life, a burned-out candle's glow, Shines o'er the fleeted years, what would it show, If I should die to-night?" About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Morning Songs in the Night written by Walter A. Ratcliffe and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Morning Songs in the Night: Poems Within these covers is to be found one of the most notable volumes of verse recently published in Canada, because probably no other deals so intensely yet simply with the everyday problems of the soul and of suffering humanity. The author, Walter A. Ratcliffe, of Listowel, Ontario, has for years been cut off from the ordinary pleasures of life by an unusually heavy affliction - having become almost totally blind and deaf. His only communication with his few friends has been through the ear trumpet and the sympathetic touch and treatment. In the sadness of his life his poetry has been to him a solace and an unburdening, and we catch the heart-throbs in the singing of the caged linnet: "If I should die to-night No terror would affright; No quailing at the billows' ceaseless boom, No boding fear of boundless, rayless gloom, And chill and damp of night. But when the last warm light Of life, a burned-out candle's glow, Shines o'er the fleeted years, what would it show, If I should die to-night?" About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.