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diff --git a/12037-h/12037-h.htm b/12037-h/12037-h.htm index f13f669..e7f9d81 100644 --- a/12037-h/12037-h.htm +++ b/12037-h/12037-h.htm @@ -1,19 +1,42 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE html> -<!DOCTYPE html - PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" > - -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> +<html lang="en"> <head> - <meta content="pg2html (binary v0.17)" name="linkgenerator" /> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <meta content="pg2html (binary v0.17)" name="linkgenerator" > <title> - The Wild Knight, by Gilbert Chesterton + The Wild Knight | Project Gutenberg </title> - <style type="text/css" xml:space="preserve"> - body { margin:20%; background:#faebd0; text-align:justify} + <style> + body { margin:10%; text-align:justify} P { text-indent: 1em; margin-top: .75em; margin-bottom: .75em; } - H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; margin-left: 15%; margin-right: 15%; } +h1, h2, h3, .h2, .h3, .h4, .h5 { + text-align: center; + display: block; + margin-left: 0; + margin-right: 0; + font-weight: bold; +} +.h2 { + font-size: 1.5em; + margin-top: 0.83em; + margin-bottom: 0.83em; +} +.h3 { + font-size: 1.17em; + margin-top: 1em; + margin-bottom: 1em; +} +.h4 { + font-size: 1em; + margin-top: 1.33em; + margin-bottom: 1.33em; +} +h5 { + font-size: .83em; + margin-top: 1.67em; + margin-bottom: 1.67em; +} hr { width: 50%; text-align: center;} .foot { margin-left: 5%; margin-right: 5%; text-align: justify; font-size: 80%; font-style: italic;} blockquote {font-size: 97%; font-style: italic; margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%;} @@ -57,29 +80,29 @@ <body> <div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 12037 ***</div> <div style="height: 8em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br ><br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h1> THE WILD KNIGHT </h1> - <h3> + <div class="h3"> <i>AND OTHER POEMS</i> - </h3> - <h2> + </div> + <div class="h2"> By Gilbert Chesterton - </h2> - <h3> + </div> + <div class="h3"> 1900 - </h3> + </div> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0001" id="link2H_4_0001"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0001"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> NOTE @@ -91,7 +114,7 @@ with a view to unity of spirit than to unity of time or value; many of them being juvenile. </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> <b>CONTENTS</b> </p> @@ -267,13 +290,13 @@ <a href="#link2H_4_0058"> GOOD NEWS </a> </p> <p> - <br /> <br /> + <br > <br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <br /> <br /> + <br > <br > </p> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> <i>Another tattered rhymster in the ring, With but the old plea to the sneering schools, That on him too, some secret night in spring @@ -290,19 +313,19 @@ And made a graven image of Himself.</i> </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0002" id="link2H_4_0002"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0002"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> BY THE BABE UNBORN </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> If trees were tall and grasses short, As in some crazy tale, If here and there a sea were blue @@ -334,19 +357,19 @@ If only I were born. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0003" id="link2H_4_0003"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0003"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE WORLD'S LOVER </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> My eyes are full of lonely mirth: Reeling with want and worn with scars, For pride of every stone on earth, @@ -383,19 +406,19 @@ The vultures have a feast to-night.' </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0004" id="link2H_4_0004"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0004"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE SKELETON </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Chattering finch and water-fly Are not merrier than I; Here among the flowers I lie @@ -406,19 +429,19 @@ It was hid so carefully. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0005" id="link2H_4_0005"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0005"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> A CHORD OF COLOUR </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> My Lady clad herself in grey, That caught and clung about her throat; Then all the long grey winter day @@ -456,19 +479,19 @@ 'The colours I have seen on it?' </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0006" id="link2H_4_0006"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0006"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE HAPPY MAN </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> To teach the grey earth like a child, To bid the heavens repent, I only ask from Fate the gift @@ -485,19 +508,19 @@ Three persons and one god. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0007" id="link2H_4_0007"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0007"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE UNPARDONABLE SIN </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> I do not cry, beloved, neither curse. Silence and strength, these two at least are good. He gave me sun and stars and ought He could, @@ -519,19 +542,19 @@ Before the glory of the face of God. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0008" id="link2H_4_0008"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0008"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> A NOVELTY </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Why should I care for the Ages Because they are old and grey? To me, like sudden laughter, @@ -554,19 +577,19 @@ On this night of carnival. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0009" id="link2H_4_0009"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0009"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> ULTIMATE </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> The vision of a haloed host That weep around an empty throne; And, aureoles dark and angels dead, @@ -578,19 +601,19 @@ For he has said the name of God. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0010" id="link2H_4_0010"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0010"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE DONKEY </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood @@ -612,19 +635,19 @@ And palms before my feet. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0011" id="link2H_4_0011"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0011"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE BEATIFIC VISION </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Through what fierce incarnations, furled In fire and darkness, did I go, Ere I was worthy in the world @@ -641,19 +664,19 @@ The firelight garbing her in gold? </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0012" id="link2H_4_0012"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0012"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE HOPE OF THE STREETS </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> The still sweet meadows shimmered: and I stood And cursed them, bloom of hedge and bird of tree, And bright and high beyond the hunch-backed wood @@ -670,19 +693,19 @@ That all things else are nothing suddenly. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0013" id="link2H_4_0013"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0013"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> ECCLESIASTES </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> There is one sin: to call a green leaf grey, Whereat the sun in heaven shuddereth. There is one blasphemy: for death to pray, @@ -694,19 +717,19 @@ The rest is vanity of vanities. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0014" id="link2H_4_0014"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0014"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE SONG OF THE CHILDREN </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> The World is ours till sunset, Holly and fire and snow; And the name of our dead brother @@ -733,19 +756,19 @@ And hanged him on a tree. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0015" id="link2H_4_0015"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0015"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE FISH </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Dark the sea was: but I saw him, One great head with goggle eyes, Like a diabolic cherub @@ -772,19 +795,19 @@ 'He shall laugh'—the prophet said.) </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0016" id="link2H_4_0016"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0016"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> GOLD LEAVES </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Lo! I am come to autumn, When all the leaves are gold; Grey hairs and golden leaves cry out @@ -806,19 +829,19 @@ When all the leaves are gold. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0017" id="link2H_4_0017"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0017"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THOU SHALT NOT KILL </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> I had grown weary of him; of his breath And hands and features I was sick to death. Each day I heard the same dull voice and tread; @@ -841,19 +864,19 @@ The man that I had sought to slay was I. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0018" id="link2H_4_0018"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0018"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> A CERTAIN EVENING </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> That night the whole world mingled, The souls were babes at play, And angel danced with devil. @@ -880,19 +903,19 @@ And she gave me both her hands. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0019" id="link2H_4_0019"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0019"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> A MAN AND HIS IMAGE </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> All day the nations climb and crawl and pray In one long pilgrimage to one white shrine, Where sleeps a saint whose pardon, like his peace, @@ -964,19 +987,19 @@ The stature of the spirit of a man.' </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0020" id="link2H_4_0020"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0020"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE MARINER </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> The violet scent is sacred Like dreams of angels bright; The hawthorn smells of passion @@ -1003,19 +1026,19 @@ The green wine of the sea. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0021" id="link2H_4_0021"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0021"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE TRIUMPH OF MAN </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> I plod and peer amid mean sounds and shapes, I hunt for dusty gain and dreary praise, And slowly pass the dismal grinning days, @@ -1032,19 +1055,19 @@ Some sunset in the centuries to be. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0022" id="link2H_4_0022"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0022"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> CYCLOPEAN </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> A mountainous and mystic brute No rein can curb, no arrow shoot, Upon whose domed deformed back @@ -1071,19 +1094,19 @@ Earth opened its one eye on me. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0023" id="link2H_4_0023"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0023"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> JOSEPH </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> If the stars fell; night's nameless dreams Of bliss and blasphemy came true, If skies were green and snow were gold, @@ -1105,19 +1128,19 @@ The Virgin Mary by the fire? </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0024" id="link2H_4_0024"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0024"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> MODERN ELFLAND </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> I Cut a staff in a churchyard copse, I clad myself in ragged things, I set a feather in my cap @@ -1159,19 +1182,19 @@ And thou hast looked on it at last.' </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0025" id="link2H_4_0025"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0025"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> ETERNITIES </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> I cannot count the pebbles in the brook. Well hath He spoken: 'Swear not by thy head, Thou knowest not the hairs,' though He, we read, @@ -1188,19 +1211,19 @@ Ere I have thanked my God for all the grass. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0026" id="link2H_4_0026"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0026"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> A CHRISTMAS CAROL </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap, His hair was like a light. (O weary, weary were the world, @@ -1222,19 +1245,19 @@ And all the stars looked down. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0027" id="link2H_4_0027"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0027"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> ALONE </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Blessings there are of cradle and of clan, Blessings that fall of priests' and princes' hands; But never blessing full of lives and lands, @@ -1256,19 +1279,19 @@ That a man blessed beneath an alder-tree.' </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0028" id="link2H_4_0028"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0028"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> KING'S CROSS STATION </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> This circled cosmos whereof man is god Has suns and stars of green and gold and red, And cloudlands of great smoke, that range o'er range @@ -1285,19 +1308,19 @@ Shot such cyclopean arches at the stars?' </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0029" id="link2H_4_0029"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0029"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE HUMAN TREE </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Many have Earth's lovers been, Tried in seas and wars, I ween; Yet the mightiest have I seen: @@ -1331,19 +1354,19 @@ Lest a moth should fall. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0030" id="link2H_4_0030"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0030"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> TO THEM THAT MOURN </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> (W.E.G., May 1898) Lift up your heads: in life, in death, @@ -1382,19 +1405,19 @@ And spring was on the earth. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0031" id="link2H_4_0031"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0031"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE OUTLAW </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Priest, is any song-bird stricken? Is one leaf less on the tree? Is this wine less red and royal @@ -1416,19 +1439,19 @@ Blaze upon an altar high. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0032" id="link2H_4_0032"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0032"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> BEHIND </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> I saw an old man like a child, His blue eyes bright, his white hair wild, Who turned for ever, and might not stop, @@ -1450,19 +1473,19 @@ 'At least, I know why the world goes round.' </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0033" id="link2H_4_0033"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0033"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE END OF FEAR </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Though the whole heaven be one-eyed with the moon, Though the dead landscape seem a thing possessed, Yet I go singing through that land oppressed @@ -1494,19 +1517,19 @@ Laughing with laughter such as shakes the stars. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0034" id="link2H_4_0034"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0034"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE HOLY OF HOLIES </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 'Elder father, though thine eyes Shine with hoary mysteries, Canst thou tell what in the heart @@ -1528,19 +1551,19 @@ Adonai Elohim.' </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0035" id="link2H_4_0035"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0035"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE MIRROR OF MADMEN </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> I dreamed a dream of heaven, white as frost, The splendid stillness of a living host; Vast choirs of upturned faces, line o'er line. @@ -1582,19 +1605,19 @@ A gin-damned drunkard's wan half-witted face. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0036" id="link2H_4_0036"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0036"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> E.C.B. </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Before the grass grew over me, I knew one good man through and through, And knew a soul and body joined @@ -1616,19 +1639,19 @@ Hanging head downwards in the well. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0037" id="link2H_4_0037"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0037"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE DESECRATERS </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Witness all: that unrepenting, Feathers flying, music high, I go down to death unshaken @@ -1650,19 +1673,19 @@ God hath built for sepulchres. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0038" id="link2H_4_0038"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0038"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> AN ALLIANCE </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> This is the weird of a world-old folk, That not till the last link breaks, Not till the night is blackest, @@ -1700,19 +1723,19 @@ The night our son comes home. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0039" id="link2H_4_0039"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0039"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE ANCIENT OF DAYS </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> A child sits in a sunny place, Too happy for a smile, And plays through one long holiday @@ -1732,19 +1755,19 @@ The prophets and the kings. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0040" id="link2H_4_0040"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0040"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE LAST MASQUERADE </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> A wan new garment of young green Touched, as you turned your soft brown hair And in me surged the strangest prayer @@ -1761,19 +1784,19 @@ The mirth of your immortal eyes. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0041" id="link2H_4_0041"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0041"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE EARTH'S SHAME </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Name not his deed: in shuddering and in haste We dragged him darkly o'er the windy fell: That night there was a gibbet in the waste, @@ -1795,19 +1818,19 @@ Hid all their faces from. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0042" id="link2H_4_0042"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0042"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> VANITY </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> A wan sky greener than the lawn, A wan lawn paler than the sky. She gave a flower into my hand, @@ -1829,19 +1852,19 @@ To show the jealous kings in hell. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0043" id="link2H_4_0043"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0043"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE LAMP POST </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Laugh your best, O blazoned forests, Me ye shall not shift or shame With your beauty: here among you @@ -1883,19 +1906,19 @@ Hack him into meat for hounds. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0044" id="link2H_4_0044"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0044"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE PESSIMIST </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go— I know your hoary question, the riddle that all men know. You have weighed the stars in a balance, and grasped the skies in a span: @@ -1923,19 +1946,19 @@ You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0045" id="link2H_4_0045"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0045"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> A FAIRY TALE </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> All things grew upwards, foul and fair: The great trees fought and beat the air With monstrous wings that would have flown; @@ -1965,19 +1988,19 @@ All heaven was a microscope. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0046" id="link2H_4_0046"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0046"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> A PORTRAIT </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Fair faces crowd on Christmas night Like seven suns a-row, But all beyond is the wolfish wind @@ -2004,19 +2027,19 @@ Too loud for us to hear. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0047" id="link2H_4_0047"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0047"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> FEMINA CONTRA MUNDUM </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> The sun was black with judgment, and the moon Blood: but between I saw a man stand, saying, 'To me at least @@ -2043,19 +2066,19 @@ Almost enough.' </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0048" id="link2H_4_0048"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0048"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> TO A CERTAIN NATION </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> We will not let thee be, for thou art ours. We thank thee still, though thou forget these things, For that hour's sake when thou didst wake all powers @@ -2087,19 +2110,19 @@ Who knew thee once, we have a right to weep. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0049" id="link2H_4_0049"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0049"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE PRAISE OF DUST </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 'What of vile dust?' the preacher said. Methought the whole world woke, The dead stone lived beneath my foot, @@ -2136,19 +2159,19 @@ Of dust and nothing more.' </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0050" id="link2H_4_0050"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0050"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE BALLAD OF THE BATTLE OF GIBEON </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Five kings rule o'er the Amorite, Mighty as fear and old as night; Swathed with unguent and gold and jewel, @@ -2290,7 +2313,7 @@ Where the dead heads dropped from the swords that sever, Because His mercy endureth for ever. </pre> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> 'VULGARISED' All round they murmur, 'O profane, @@ -2324,19 +2347,19 @@ Since the first morning of the earth? </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0051" id="link2H_4_0051"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0051"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE BALLAD OF GOD-MAKERS </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> A bird flew out at the break of day From the nest where it had curled, And ere the eve the bird had set @@ -2352,7 +2375,7 @@ Save for a dead man nailed thereon On a hill above a town. - That right the kings of the earth were gay + That night the kings of the earth were gay And filled the cup and can; Last night the kings of the earth were chill For dread of a naked man. @@ -2408,19 +2431,19 @@ And lit on a lemon-tree. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0052" id="link2H_4_0052"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0052"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> AT NIGHT </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> How many million stars there be, That only God hath numberéd; But this one only chosen for me @@ -2429,19 +2452,19 @@ Hold up his head? </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0053" id="link2H_4_0053"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0053"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE WOOD-CUTTER </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> We came behind him by the wall, My brethren drew their brands, And they had strength to strike him down— @@ -2473,19 +2496,19 @@ And I must lay it low. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0054" id="link2H_4_0054"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0054"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> ART COLOURS </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> On must we go: we search dead leaves, We chase the sunset's saddest flames, The nameless hues that o'er and o'er @@ -2502,19 +2525,19 @@ Like roses from the blood of Christ. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0055" id="link2H_4_0055"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0055"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE TWO WOMEN </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Lo! very fair is she who knows the ways Of joy: in pleasure's mocking wisdom old, The eyes that might be cold to flattery, kind; @@ -2526,19 +2549,19 @@ I saw the youngest face in all the spheres. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0056" id="link2H_4_0056"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0056"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE WILD KNIGHT </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> The wasting thistle whitens on my crest, The barren grasses blow upon my spear, A green, pale pennon: blazon of wild faith @@ -2583,19 +2606,19 @@ Burning for ever in consuming fire. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0057" id="link2H_4_0057"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0057"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> THE WILD KNIGHT </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> <i>A dark manor-house shuttered and unlighted, outlined against a pale sunset: in front a large, but neglected, garden. To the right, in the foreground, the porch of a chapel, with coloured windows lighted. Hymns @@ -3348,19 +3371,19 @@ And no good deed. I fear him. Come away. </pre> <p> - <br /><br /> + <br ><br > </p> - <hr /> + <hr > <p> - <a name="link2H_4_0058" id="link2H_4_0058"> </a> + <a id="link2H_4_0058"> </a> </p> <div style="height: 4em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <h2> GOOD NEWS </h2> -<pre xml:space="preserve"> +<pre> Between a meadow and a cloud that sped In rain and twilight, in desire and fear. I heard a secret—hearken in your ear, @@ -3382,7 +3405,7 @@ And shout, 'The daisy has a ring of red.' </pre> <div style="height: 6em;"> - <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + <br ><br ><br ><br ><br ><br > </div> <div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 12037 ***</div> </body> |