On the companionship with nature
Archibald Lampman’s poem “On the Companionship with Nature” was first published in his 1900 collection “The Poems of Archibald Lampman”.
Archibald Lampman was born on 17 November 1861 in Morpeth, Upper Canada, and he died on 10 February 1899 in Ottawa, Ontario, at the age of 37.Lampman, according to The Canadian Encyclopedia is “generally considered the finest of Canada’s late-19th-century poets in English.” He is considered one of Canada’s Confederation Poets, a group that includes Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Duncan Campbell Scott.
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Let us be much with Nature; not as they That labour without seeing, that employ Her unloved forces, blindly without joy; Nor those whose hands and crude delights obey The old brute passion to hunt down and slay; But rather as children of one common birth, Discerning in each natural fruit of earth Kinship and bond with this diviner clay. Let us be with her wholly at all hours, With the fond lover’s zest, who is content If his ear hears, and if his eye but sees; So shall we grow like her in mould and bent, Our bodies stately as her blessèd trees, Our thoughts as sweet and sumptuous as her flowers.