2014
Thus By Blue Ontario’s Shore
Composed by 
Jeremy Gill
Jeremy Gill Text by 
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman Whitman Portrait Song Collection
"Thus By Blue Ontario's Shore" is the fifth song of Jeremy Gill's Whitman Portrait. The song is for baritone and piano.
Text
Thus by blue Ontario’s shore,
While the winds fann’d me and the waves came trooping toward me,
I thrill’d with the power’s pulsations, and the charm of my theme was upon me.
And I saw the free souls of poets,
The loftiest bards of past ages strode before me,
Strange large men, long unwaked, undisclosed, were disclosed to me.
—“By Blue Ontario’s Shore,” No. 19
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