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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Landscape and Song + +Author: Various + +Release Date: December 10, 2004 [EBook #14320] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LANDSCAPE AND SONG *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Amanda Cook and the PG Online +Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + [Illustration: LANDSCAPE AND SONG.] + + +[Handwritten note: + +To Annette + from + Uncle Tom. + +Xmas 1887- + Toronto, Canada.] + + + [Illustration: LANDSCAPE AND SONG.] + + + [Illustration] + + *Landscape + and + Song.* + + Selected + and + Arranged + by + E. Nesbit. + + [Illustration.] + + LONDON: + HENRY J. DRANE & CO. + Paternoster Row E.C. + +New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. + + [Illustration.] + + + + I. + + +What dreams the flower cups enfold + Within their fragrant leaves, +Of meadow-ways grown fair with spring, + Soft mists that April weaves; + And cottage gardens where the scent + Of flowers is with the wood-smoke blent. + +The ceaseless ripple of the brook, + Babbling against the broken arch, +The little firwood's tasselled spires, + The cloud of verdure on the larch; + The gold-green glimmer of the woods, + Where tender twilight always broods. + + _C. Brooke._ + + + + II. + + +There is dew for the flow'ret, + And honey for the bee, +And bowers for the wild bird, + And love for you and me. + +There are tears for the many, + And pleasures for the few, +But let the world pass on, dear, + There's love for me and you. + + _Hood._ + + [Illustration] + + + + III. + + + THE ROSE IN OCTOBER. + +O late and sweet, too sweet, too late! + What nightingale will sing to thee? + The empty nest, the shivering tree, +The dead leaves by the garden gate, +And cawing crows for thee will wait, + O sweet and late! + +Where wert thou when the soft June nights + Were faint with perfume, glad with song? + Where wert thou when the days were long +And steeped in Summer's young delights? +What hopest thou now but checks and slights, + Brief days, lone nights? + +Stay, there's a gleam of Winter wheat + Far on the hill; down in the woods + A very heaven of stillness broods; +And through the mellow sun's worn heat, +Lo! tender pulses round thee beat, + O late and sweet! + + + + IV. + + +There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes +Can trace it midst familiar things and through their lowly guise; +We may find it when a hedgerow showers its blossoms o'er our way, +Or a cottage window sparkles forth in the last red light of day. + + _F. Hemans._ + + [Illustration] + + [Illustration] + + + + V. + + +Half covered with last year's leaves, + She peeped from her russet bed; + +The great bare branches of the trees + Were tossed and swayed overhead; + +The hedge looked barren and prickly, + Without the sign of a leaf; +Over the flower there bowed a heart + Grown cold with the snows of grief. + +The violet's fragile petals + Enfolded a heart of gold, +And a deeper wealth of perfume, + Than the tiny cup could hold; +So the great wind roaring above + Sent a tiny zephyr down, +To drift aside the sheltering bloom, + And bereave her of her crown. + +It stole the familiar scent, + To give to the burdened heart +With only a cold north wind + In the world to take its part; +The flower died in the bleak March air, + And the heart went on its way; +The violet's life was blooming there, + And melting the snows away. + + _Caris Brooke._ + + [Illustration] + + [Illustration] + + + + VI. + + +Yet nature holds a gracious hand, + Her ancient ways pursuing; +And spreads the charms we loved of old, + To aid the heart's renewing. + +Here her long crests of fringed crag + Allure the skyward swallows; +Here the still dove's low love-note floats + Above her leafy hollows. + +Here its calm strength her hillside rears, + From heaving slopes of clover; +Here still the pewit pipes and flits + Within his furzy cover. + +Here hums the wild-bee in the thyme, + Here glows the royal heather; +And youth comes back upon the breeze, + And youth's unclouded weather. + + _F.T. Palgrave._ + + [Illustration: Here hums the wild bee in the thyme] + + [Illustration] + + + + VII. + + + AN APPEAL. + +Dear, do not die! +Of cypresses and grassy graves sing I-- +I hang with wreaths of song death's grief-grown cross, +And weep, to music, for Life's infinite loss, +And make the sweetest verse of bitterest woe, +--I know the way because I love you so; +But I have written griefs that I have known +In other's heart's blood, never in my own. +If _you_ died what more could be sung or said? +I could not sing of Death if you were dead. + +Dear, do not love! +Do not love _me_, keep still aloof, above! +While you and Love in far-off glory stand +Clear sounds the voice, and harp responds to hand. +But if you loved me--if you came quite near +And set Love 'mid life's common things and dear-- +Mute would the voice be, Love would be too fair +To waste upon the wide world's empty air, +And, songless, I should droop and vainly pine-- +I could not sing of Love if you were mine! + + _E. Nesbit._ + + [Illustration.] + + + + VIII. + + +I know the way she went + Home with her maiden posy, +For her feet have touch'd the meadows + And left the daisies rosy. + + _Tennyson._ + + [Illustration] + + [Illustration] + + + + IX. + + +A golden radiance shines, + And day declines; +Red in the dying sun, + Day's course is run; +And weary labourers have homeward gone, + Their day's work done. + +The cornfield now is still, + To-morrow will +Bring back the men who reap: + But now asleep +The woods and fields and meadows seem to lie-- + Restful as I. + + _E. Nesbit._ + + [Illustration] + + + + X. + + +As a twig trembles which a bird + Lights on to sing, then leaves unbent, +So is my memory thrilled and stirred; + I only know she came and went. + +As clasps some lake, by gusts unriven, + The blue dome's measureless content, +So my soul held that moment's heaven;-- + I only know she came and went. + +As at one bound, our swift Spring heaps + The orchard full of bloom and scent, +So clove her May my wintry sleeps;-- + I only know she came and went. + +An angel stood and met my gaze + Through the low doorway of my tent; +The tent is struck, the vision stays;-- + I only know she came and went. + + [Illustration] + +Oh, when the room grows slowly dim, + And life's last oil is nearly spent, +One gush of light these eyes will brim, + Only to think she came and went. + + _J.R. Lowell._ + + [Illustration] + + + + XI. + + + EVENING SONG. + +Waking, I dream of thy life that shall be + Never by sorrow made weary; +Earth shall be soft with love for thee, + Down-lined the nest of my dearie. +Millions of flowers to gladden thy way, +Springing from seeds that my heart sets to-day. + Sleep, darling baby, baby! + +Sleeping, dream thou of the Spirit of Spring-- + Of sweets and of scents she is bringing; +Just for the flowers' sake thrushes will sing, + Flowers blow for love of the singing. +In the world's harmony take thou thy part, +So shall the springtide bloom in thy heart! + Sleep, darling baby, baby! + + _E. Nesbit._ + + [Illustration] + + [Illustration] + + + + XII. + + +Now comes the first chill whisper of the end, + While yet the woods are green and skies are blue; +While under loads of corn great waggons bend, + And sunshine makes us glad the whole day through. +The trees are full of leaf and of delight, + Yet through them sighs the forecast of the time +When the lean branches shall be wondrous, white + With winter's lovely radiant frost and rime. + +The fallen leaves as yet are hardly missed, + The rest will fade--until the woods are bare, +And the dim glades where summer lovers kissed, + Forget how leafy and divine they were. +And in our souls come whispers of despair, + "Failure again--failure for evermore! +Leaves only for one summer's space are fair, + No flower can live to see the fruit it bore." + +Yet every spring millions of flowers have birth, + And every autumn brings its fruits and sheaves; +But when the fruit and grain make glad the earth, + Dead are the flowers, and falling are the leaves. +Though all our lives we see our dear dreams die,-- + Each noble dream brings fruit. It may not be +The fruit we hoped it would be followed by, + But the fruit lasts to all eternity. + +No seed is lost--in earth's brown bosom cast; + No deed is lost--of all the deeds we do; +Each grows to fruit--is harvested at last, + Haply in shape undreamed of, fair, and new. +And, though we die before the end be won, + Our deeds live on; and other men will cry, +Seeing the end of what we have begun, + "Still lives the fruit for which the flowers had to die!" + + _E. Nesbit._ + + [Illustration] + + [Illustration] + + + + XIII. + + +Birds, joyous birds, of the wandering wing! +Whence is it ye come with the flowers of Spring? +"We come from the shores of the green old Nile, +From the land where the roses of Sharon smile, +And each worn wing hath regained its home +Under peasants' roof-trees or monarch's dome." + +And what have ye found in the monarch's dome, +Since last ye traversed the blue sea's foam? +"We have found a change, we have found a pall, +And a gloom o'ershadowing the banquet's hall, +And a mark on the floor as of life-drops spilt,-- +Naught looks the same, save the nest we built." + + [Illustration] + +O joyous birds! it hath still been so; +Through the halls of kings doth the tempest go! +But the huts of the hamlet lie still and deep, +And the hills o'er their quiet a vigil keep: +Say, what have ye found in the peasant's cot, +Since last ye parted from that sweet spot?-- + +"A change we have found there--and many a change! +Faces and footsteps, and all things strange! +Gone are the heads of the silvery hair, +And the young that were, have a brow of care. +And the place is hushed where the children played-- +Naught looks the same, save the nest we made." + + _F. 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