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Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860-1943) was a Canadian poet and prose writer. He is known as the "Father of Canadian Poetry" because he served as an inspiration for other writers of his time. In 1879, he earned a BA from the University of New Brunswick and, in the following year, published his first book of poems, Orion and Other Poems. From 1879 to 1895, he worked as a teacher in Chatham and Frederiction, New Brunswick, as editor of the literary magazine, The Week, and as a professor at the University of King's College. It was during this period that he wrote his two best collections of verse, In Divers Tones (1887) and Songs of the Common Day and Ave! (1893). In 1893, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1897, he moved to New York City, where he turned to fiction, especially stories about animals. He also wrote descriptive text for guide books, such as Picturesque Canada. In 1907, he moved to Paris, later moving to London. He served with the British Army during World War I, then later joined the Canadian War Records Office in London.
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In the Morning of Time CHAPTER I THE WORLD WITHOUT MAN IT lay apparently afloat on the sluggish, faintly discoloured tide a placid, horse-faced, shovelnosed head, with bumpy holes for ears and immense round eyes of a somewhat anxious mildness. The anxiety in the great eyes was not without reason, for their owner had just arrived in the tepid and teeming waters of this estuary, and the creatures which he had already seen about him were both unknown and menacing. But the inshore shallows were full of water-weeds of a rankness and succulence far beyond anything he had enjoyed in his old habitat, and he was determined to secure himself a place here. From time to time, as some new monster came in sight, the ungainly head would shoot up amazingly to a distance of five or ten, or even fifteen feet, on a swaying pillar of a neck, in order to get a better view of the stranger. Then it would slowly sink back again to its repose on the water.
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