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George Murray was a British poet, translator and scholar who lived out most of his life in Canada, where he was a classics master at a Montreal high school. In this collection, intermixed with his own original poetry, are Murray's translations of works by popular French poets like Victor Hugo, Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval and Théophile Gautier, along with selections from Greek, Latin, Swedish and German authors. The volume was edited by "the grand old man of Canadian letters" and Montreal Gazette literary editor John Reade, who also provided the prefatory biographical memoir. - Summary by Tomas Peter (5 hr 56 min)

Chapters

Preface and Biographical Sketch

20:46

Read by Tomas Peter

How Canada Was Saved

7:35

Read by Sonia

Willie the Miner

8:18

Read by Joe Brenneman

To a Humming-bird in a Garden

2:53

Read by Joe Brenneman

The Pardoned Sin

3:32

Read by Larry Wilson

The Thistle: A Legendary Ballad

5:16

Read by Sonia

A Parable

2:13

Read by Jessi McDaniel

An Eastern Judge

1:48

Read by Jessi McDaniel

The Lake

3:23

Read by Tomas Peter

God's Heroes

1:20

Read by Sonia

A Legend of the Child Jesus (Written for a Child)

5:10

Read by Pierre Delcourt

The Time Will Come: Rondeau

0:54

Read by Tomas Peter

A Lesson of Mercy

1:22

Read by Joe Brenneman

The King and the Peasant

1:57

Read by Jessi McDaniel

The Story of Brother Paul

5:29

Read by Sonia

Robert Burns

6:15

Read by Tomas Peter

The Swiss Deserter

1:55

Read by Tomas Peter

A Dream About the Aspen

5:22

Read by Larry Wilson

Brotherly Love; or, The Site of King Solomon's Temple

5:37

Read by Larry Wilson

The Days That Are No More

5:31

Read by Larry Wilson

The Deaf Girl

2:02

Read by Joe Brenneman

The Neapolitans to Mozart

2:51

Read by Tomas Peter

The New Year's Night of an Unhappy Man

4:19

Read by Larry Wilson

The Sower

1:14

Read by Sonia

The Lamp of Hero

2:00

Read by Jessi McDaniel

The Funeral of a Village Girl

1:46

Read by Sonia

The Keeper's Son

3:49

Read by Sonia

Iphigenia at Aulis

2:56

Read by Sonia

After the Battle

4:20

Read by Sonia

The Madonna's Isle

3:18

Read by Jessi McDaniel

A Wild Flower

2:29

Read by Sonia

A Woman's Dream

1:49

Read by Ann Boulais

Remembrance

3:56

Read by Tomas Peter

Perhaps

2:38

Read by Joe Brenneman

If, Darling, with Melodious Lay

1:03

Read by Tomas Peter

The Lily and the Rose

1:23

Read by Sonia

Le muguet et la rose

1:15

Read by Sonia

Sonnet

1:05

Read by Jessi McDaniel

A Week in a Boy's Life

8:35

Read by Tomas Peter

A Fantasy

1:18

Read by Joe Brenneman

Forget Me Not

1:53

Read by Larry Wilson

Jacques

0:59

Read by Sonia

The Maiden of Otaheite

4:19

Read by Sonia

Une femme

1:06

Read by Sonia

A Woman

1:10

Read by Sonia

Delivered

1:58

Read by Tomas Peter

To Ninon

2:58

Read by Tomas Peter

In Futuro

2:02

Read by Joe Brenneman

A Dead Woman

1:37

Read by Tomas Peter

An Evening Scene

1:55

Read by Sonia

Christmas

1:15

Read by Larry Wilson

Memories

1:54

Read by Tomas Peter

Tit-for-Tat

0:56

Read by Jessi McDaniel

The Flower and the Butterfly

2:00

Read by Ann Boulais

To My Old Coat

1:47

Read by Sonia

A Ballad

1:21

Read by Sonia

Rondeau

0:50

Read by Sonia

The Grave and the Rose

0:49

Read by Tomas Peter

Ultima Spes Mortuorum

4:17

Read by Ann Boulais

The Grandmother

2:58

Read by Sonia

The Terrors of Death (Written on the Walls of a Carthusian Monastery)

2:45

Read by Tomas Peter

The Redbreast

1:00

Read by Sonia

The Angel and the Child

1:55

Read by Tomas Peter

What the Swallows Say

3:23

Read by Sonia

An Appeal for the Deaf and Dumb

2:48

Read by Tomas Peter

Gondolied

1:18

Read by Sonia

The Stranger

1:42

Read by Sonia

The Old Year

3:13

Read by Tomas Peter

The Horoscope

1:18

Read by Tomas Peter

The Hare and the Tortoise

1:12

Read by Sonia

'Beauty and the Beast'

1:40

Read by Tomas Peter

Prologue to 'The Merchant of Venice'

3:40

Read by Sonia

Vilikins and His Dinah

1:35

Read by Tomas Peter

Idem Latine Redditum

2:15

Read by Ann Boulais

A Farewell to the 'Guards'

3:20

Read by Tomas Peter

The Silken Sashes

1:57

Read by Tomas Peter

Desolation

0:53

Read by Tomas Peter

A Pauper Poet

1:57

Read by Sonia

A Ballad for Christmas-tide

1:43

Read by Tomas Peter

The Ballad of the Hopeless Man

3:11

Read by Sonia

A Story of King David

3:14

Read by Larry Wilson

At Lake Maholé

1:39

Read by Tomas Peter

From the French of Victor Hugo

0:58

Read by Tomas Peter

Translations from the Odes of Horace

5:44

Read by Kalynda

'For Valour'

1:03

Read by Tomas Peter

The Doves

0:52

Read by Jessi McDaniel

Knight Toggenburg

3:17

Read by Sonia

A Coup d'État: An Incident in the Night of December 4th, 1851

3:36

Read by Tomas Peter

An Old Song of a Youthful Time

1:48

Read by Tomas Peter

Margaret's Song (from 'Faust')

1:21

Read by Kalynda

The Wandering Jew

3:26

Read by Kalynda

The Avenged Crow

2:06

Read by Sonia

The Landlady's Daughter

1:23

Read by Tomas Peter

Two Pictures

1:29

Read by Sonia

Consolation

1:33

Read by Tomas Peter

A Handful of Epigrams

1:42

Read by Jessi McDaniel

Beneath a Picture

2:38

Read by Sonia

The Caravan

1:13

Read by Tomas Peter

Fame and Love

2:31

Read by Tomas Peter

The Spectre of the Rose

1:28

Read by Sonia

Coquetry

1:13

Read by Tomas Peter

Song

0:52

Read by Sonia

The Gentlemen Cricketers' Team

2:29

Read by Sonia

Flowers from the Greek Anthology

6:31

Read by Sonia

The Student's Wife

1:39

Read by cathar maiden

Song

1:12

Read by Tomas Peter

The Toilet of Constance

2:10

Read by Sonia

Le monde est méchant

1:43

Read by Tomas Peter

The Ballad of Jean Renaud

2:24

Read by Sonia

The Cid and the Jew

2:31

Read by cathar maiden

Welcome to Mark Twain

1:26

Read by Tomas Peter

Lord Roberts

1:11

Read by Tomas Peter

The Streamlet

1:38

Read by Sonia

The Eagle and the Kings

1:29

Read by Sonia

The Pilgrimage to Kevlaar

3:05

Read by Tomas Peter

The Leaf

1:03

Read by Sonia

My Neighbour's Curtain

0:49

Read by Tomas Peter

The Strike of the Smiths

12:31

Read by cathar maiden

When Children Sleep

1:32

Read by Sonia

A Thief (A Christmas Story)

5:10

Read by Larry Wilson

The Magic Bow

2:22

Read by Sonia

Noël

2:16

Read by Larry Wilson

The Black Point

0:56

Read by Tomas Peter

Present Help in Trouble

5:41

Read by Larry Wilson

The Blind Man

1:23

Read by Jessi McDaniel

À un passant

2:01

Read by Sonia

Chanson d'automne

1:02

Read by Tomas Peter

The Brook and the Ocean

0:53

Read by Jessi McDaniel

A Withered Nosegay

1:17

Read by Sonia

The Butterfly

0:55

Read by cathar maiden

The Death of Rolla

2:08

Read by Sonia

The Giant

4:42

Read by cathar maiden

For Aye

0:52

Read by Sonia

The Golden Dream

1:47

Read by cathar maiden

Whither?

1:31

Read by Tomas Peter