Study In Solitude.
By W. M. MacKeracher
‘Tis true, in midst of all, there may arise
For man’s society a sudden thirst,
A sense of hopeless vacancy which dries
The spirit with a loneliness accurst,
A longing irresistible to burst
The branchy brake with other birds to sing,
Or, as, from where in solemn shades immerst,
The beetle comes to wanton on the wing
Around my lamplight flame – alas! poor, foolish thing.
But here thou may’st associate, though alone,
With worthiest men, the best of every age,
Through whom the universe of thought has grown
To what it is – the noble, good, and sage.
How vain the fret, how frivolous the rage
For social rank, when thus e’en monarchs deign
In close communion gladly to engage!
Nay, more than monarchs – Still the Mantuan swain
His fadeless laurel wears – What crowned Augustus’ reign?
A thing of gold – ’tis crumbled in the dust,
The crowns of sovereigns and their sceptres all
Decay and are forgotten. Who would trust
His fame to what fleet ruin must inthral?
Tombs will obliterate and columns fall,
Annals be lost, and nothing have remained
Of dynasties – The Conqueror of Gaul
And Lord of the World may yet have only reigned
By Shakspere’s suff’rance – What hath all the rest attained?
Other Works by William Mackay MacKeracher:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLcqOmaaYeMrZ1FjwuzQyC86Pg2qtkGW9
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A Day Redeemed (45 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWX6cb_9Lsg
A Late Spring (39 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phUD9AUYwAA
A Library (36 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiKsLS7JGXM
A Parting (1 min):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJaCPk9-BhM
A Wish (38 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEcViebQdQw
Ah Happy was I Yesternight (1 min):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgICpeSFnic
Alone with Nature (38 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7-RcHznXnA
An Autumn Walk (40 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKaVOrTHf8I
Before Harvest (1 min):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHTKqTh-B4o
Burns (37 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9TkJDelXW4
Canada My Land (52 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wX_PAp0bls
Canada s Eighteen (50 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKslfZWf3Pg
Could I but Mention but thy Name (40 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH03kmKx6vI
Evening in June (28 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgo7gZv8hFY
Forward Canada (40 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VK8Q1LVCOA
Fragment of a Hymn (32 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njkTFhHLV_M
God in Nature (26 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj-OoJqQ4O0
Heat (1 min):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3j-U2rqjeI
Hope (53 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH6eXqNs1Wk
Literature (37 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSB5fNVC_MU
Milton (36 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQv53kPPVA8
Motive (53 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3wrtk1tc84
My Valentine (44 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS2nn3C88Ak
November (38 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Io6OKIafw
November Sunshine (38 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1m90-L9oYs
On moving into a new House (45 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYibViOfaRw
Recreation (41 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBk-zbG_DrM
Separation (35 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw9tNY__lyM
Short Days (40 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC_KdyKKqrM
Sometimes my Heart by cruel Care Opprest (51 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP6sBvgWPIU
Sonnet to Shelley (39 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hfgWZzFHgw
Study in Solitude (1 min):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qo8XOZLGTI
Success (38 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0be4MCRY_A
The Beginning of Winter (38 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuLgVzFFpT4
The Fever Burns from Morn till Eve (28 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr_MWiHGsuI
The House Hunter (35 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H7CE5mVlyg
The Joy of Creation (35 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZwDuC3v_HQ
The New Old Story (44 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFi7hJRsoo
The Night (47 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc-3N4XeLVo
The Old and the New (38 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBDRM5XBxyM
The Old Year (1 min):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZiBu6Oviqw
The Song of the Summer Cloud (54 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbmhh-bqq9s
The Three Hundredth Anniversary of Milton s Birth (46 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73OSN4UIBoc
The Winter and the Wilderness (36 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2GXbw524TY
The Works of Man and of Nature (36 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL8YkSXgFF4
To a Star (46 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99BqnS4pA_k
To an Umbrella (57 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTJW2gLofSA
Treasured Memories (30 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfVWOb8Twps
Wolfe (33 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3BbbmRqiPI
Work (35 sec):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7gZ9GTYuYw