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stezajoč svojo glavó,
sedem rac v zrak jutranji
Among the millet and other poems, 21–22, v. 26–30.125

In pesem Midnight:

Yet some wild thing is in mine ear;
    I hold my breath and hark; 
Out of the depth I seem to hear
    A crying in the dark

Vendar v ušesih nekaj divjega zveni;
prisluhnem, zadržim svoj dih;
kakor da se nekje globoko v temi
oglasil je jêk – ali vzdih.
Among the millet and other poems, 37–38.126
Nekateri interpreti so v Lampmanovih napetostih sicer opažali težnjo
k razrešitvi dihotomij,127 vendar o nezmožnosti pomiritve priča dejstvo,
da Lampman v poznejši liriki nemalokrat povsem opusti pastoralo. To
še zlasti velja za njegove zadnje objave v zbirki Alcyone in posthumne
objave (npr. pesmi A vision of Twilight in The Autumn Waste, Winter
Solitude):128

Soon, soon shall fly
The glorious vision, and the hours shall feel
A mightier master; soon from height to height,
With silence and the sharp unpitying stars,
Stern creeping frosts, and winds that touch like steel,
Out of the depth beyond the eastern bars,
Glittering and still shall come the awful night.

125 Pesem je dostopna tudi na http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/confederation/Archi-
ba ld%20La mpma n/a mong _the_millet/morning _on_the_ liev res.htm.

126 Pesem je dostopna na naslovu http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/confederation/Archi-
ba ld%20La mpma n/a mong _the_millet/mid night .htm.

127 Daniells, Confederation to, 391–396; Eric Ball, Life ‚Only Sweet‘: the Significance of the Sequence in
Lampman’s Lyrics of Earth (1), Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 25 (1989), http://www.
uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol25/ball.htm; Eric Ball, Life ‘Only Sweet’: the Signifi-
cance of the Sequence in Lampman’s Lyrics of Earth (2), Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews
26 (1990), http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol26/ball.htm.

128 Archibald Lampman, Alcyone (Ottawa: J Ogilvy, 1899), 28–32, 78, http://www.canadiana.org/
ECO/ItemRecord/09997?id=45c5eda67d88e703; Archibald Lampman, At the Long Sault and Other
New Poems, ur. Duncan Campbell Scott in E. K. Brown (Toronoto: Ryerson, 1943), 21; prim. MacK-
endrick, Al Purdy; Dick Harrison, ’So Deathly Silent’: the Resolution of Pain and Fear in the Poet-
ry of Lampman and D. C. Scott, v: The Lampman symposium, ur. Lorraine McMullen (Ottawa: Uni-
versity of Ottawa press, 1976), 75 isl.
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