Paintings by Pam Dallaire

"Forest Inspiration"

Acrylic on Canvas, 24" x 36" with painted edges.

Won the "Yvonne McNeil Memorial" prize at the 52 Juried Exhibition of the NOAA, Sept. 13th/2008.  It will travel throughout Northern Ontario, Canada until Sept./09.

Available through the Northern Ontario Artists Association.

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Here is the wording I took inspiration from:

FRIENDS IN THE FOREST

by Bernard Freeman Trotter, 1906 in Wolfville.

Second Lieutenant, Eleventh Leicesters, Killed in Action, in France, May 7, 1917.
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Give me no crowded city,

When my heart is lone, and sad,

With its countless thronging thousands.--

The tumult would drive me mad.

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In the throbbing life of the city,

Who cares for another's moan?--

Tho' around me the crowd were surging,

I should stand by myself, alone.

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Give me no heaving ocean,

Give me no wind-swept plain;

For there--is but time for brooding,

Nothing to heal the pain.

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But give me the wide-spread forest,

With its hemlock, and beech, and pine,

With its ash, and its oak, and its maple,

And its ferns, and its mosses fine,

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With its rocky glens and streamlets,

And the music of water-falls,

With its birds, and beasts, and flowers,

And its dreamy wild-wood calls.

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Tho'  I wander, alone, through the forest,

There are friends upon every hand:

Tried friends, who comfort and soothe me,

As they whisper "We understand."

© Pamela Dallaire 2007, Painting The North, 

no reproduction of images without express permission.

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