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diff --git a/20404.txt b/20404.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8f6e917 --- /dev/null +++ b/20404.txt @@ -0,0 +1,839 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of All Round the Year, by +Edith Nesbit and Saretta Nesbit (AKA Caris Brooke) + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: All Round the Year + +Author: Edith Nesbit + Saretta Nesbit (AKA Caris Brooke) + +Illustrator: Hugh Bellingham-Smith + +Release Date: January 20, 2007 [EBook #20404] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALL ROUND THE YEAR *** + + + + +Produced by Louise Hope, David Edwards, Marilynda +Fraser-Cunliffe and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from +images generously made available by the International +Children's Digital Library at +http://www.childrenslibrary.org) + + + + + + [Illustrated text: + + ALL ROUND + THE YEAR] + + + [Illustration] + + + [Illustrated text: + + ALL ROUND + THE YEAR + + By + E. NESBIT + and + CARIS BROOKE. + + Drawings by + H. BELLINGHAM SMITH + and others. + + LONDON: von PORTHEIM & Co. + Paternoster Row E.C. + + Printed in Germany] + + + + + All round the year the changing suns and rains + Beat on men's work--to wreck and to decay-- + But nature builds more perfectly than they, + Her changing unchanged sea resists, remains. + + All round the year new flowers spring up to shew + How gloriously life is more strong than death; + And in our hearts are seeds of love and faith, + Ah, sun and showers, be kind, and let them grow. + + + [Illustration] + + + [Illustration] + + +RESURGAM. + + Swift pass the hours, or lengthened by our hearts + Uncertain measurement of time, + And when we dream the year has just awoke, + We wake to find her in her prime. + + We sadden with the dying Autumn leaves, + Yet falling seeds their promise bring; + Through long dark Winter days we only wait + A resurrection in the coming Spring. + + Within each hour the precious minutes lie + Like seeds awaiting Spring's first breath, + God's harvest-time shall show us if they bear + The flowers of life or death. + + _Caris Brooke._ + + + [Illustration] + + + [Illustration] + + + Cold is the earth, the flowers below, + Fearful of Winter's hand, lie curled; + But Spring will come again you know, + And glorify the world. + + [Illustration] + + Dark is the night, no stars or moon; + But at its blackest night is done; + All after hastens to the noon, + The triumph of the sun! + + And life is short, and love is brief-- + Be patient! There will be--they say + New life, divine beyond belief, + Somewhere, somehow, some day! + + _E. Nesbit._ + + + [Illustration] + + +MARCH VIOLETS. + + This busy, dusty wind that blows + Along the cruel streets, + Right to the heart of violets goes, + And robs them of their sweets. + And as along the cruel street + The keen wind robs the flowers, + So the cold kindness that we meet + Blights these poor hearts of ours. + + But if you tend with warmth, you know, + Your violets, they give + Sweet scent again, as if to show + How glad they are to live. + We think if some one loved us too + Our hearts would break to prove + By all that we could say or do, + How glad we were to love! + + _E. Nesbit._ + + + [Illustration] + + + Dream footsteps wandering past us in our sleep, + A restless presence stirring with the light, + The cry of waters where the snow was white, + A violet's whisper where dead leaves lay deep; + The dim wood's music makes a sudden leap, + Broken notes, blending in a wild delight, + And lo! the whole world changes in our sight. + Promise is ended--we must turn and reap + Fulfilment, for the Spring with all her wealth + Is with us, and compels us to her will. + Yet if the sun-dawn we should shun by stealth + Yearning for shadows and the darkened hours, + Sweet Lord, be pitiful, remembering still + One lieth low beneath the budding flowers. + + _Caris Brooke._ + + + [Illustration] + + + Never a hand on the cottage door + To call me forth in the evening light, + My days grow old, and I watch no more + The cowslips gold and the may-buds white. + Primroses nestle beneath the hedge + Where we kissed and wept and said good-bye-- + For twenty years I have watched them bud, + For twenty years I have seen them die. + + Yet now that the Spring once more has turned + The sea to silver, the earth to gold, + I shall watch no more from the primrose lane, + Where I waited and watched in the days of old. + Yet the children weave me their daisy chains, + The woodland music is sweet and clear, + Though the footsteps have wandered beyond recall, + That I watched and waited so long to hear! + + _Caris Brooke._ + + + [Illustration] + + + The swans along the water glide, + Unfettered and yet side by side-- + So should true lovers ever be, + Together ever--ever free. + + A chain upon the white swan's neck, + What were it good for--save to break? + And swans who wear and break a chain + Swim never side by side again. + + + [Illustration] + + + My best beloved, the Spring is fair, + The woods are green and life is good, + Come out with me and let us tread + By field and fold and sweet wet wood-- + The wind-flower blanches all the copse, + With hyacinth the hedge is blue, + And every wakened leaf is fair, + But not so fair as you! + + The black-birds sing on hazel boughs + Beneath the overarching trees, + The cuckoo's distant song is borne + Across the meadow by the breeze, + The thrush's song is sweetest far + But saddens as the hours go by. + You hear? The nightingale's in love, + But not so much as I! + + _E. Nesbit._ + + + [Illustration] + + + Girdled with gold my little lady's bower + Stands at the portals of a world in flower, + And down her ways the changing blossoms mark + How the Spring grows each day from dawn to dark. + + [Illustration] + + When forth she moves, her dainty foot is set, + On cowslip, hyacinth and violet, + And all day long the woodland minstrels sing + Changes of measure for her pleasuring. + + And all night long a passionate music stirs + Without her walls--the darkened belt of firs; + Hushed in their waving boughs the low winds brood, + Murmuring the sea's song for an interlude. + + _Caris Brooke._ + + + [Illustration] + + + The last bright relic of the moon's full gold + Burns on the swiftly flowing river's breast; + No sound but restless dipping of strong oars + To break the charm of nature's perfect rest. + + Far off the town's faint mingled clamours stir, + And through the silence of the nearer light + The incense of the evening mist floats up-- + The day's last lingering love-word to the night. + + A sudden shiver of regretful change + Sighs through the whispering boughs that overhead + Sway in the wind's breath: down the red sun dips, + And in the twilight's arms the day lies dead. + + Then rain, and after, moonshine cold and fair, + And scent of earth, sweet with the evening rain, + And slow soft speech beneath the rain-washed trees, + Ah, that such things should never come again! + + [Illustration] + + Oh listening trees, where are the words we spoke? + Where are our sighs, wind whom those sighs caressed? + Oh! what a fate is ours, too swift, too sad, + If such an hour goes by with all the rest! + + _E. Nesbit._ + + + [Illustration] + + + What o'clock is it, children dear? + Ask of the dandelions here! + Blow, blow, blow, and away they go-- + But they do not tell us the time you know! + + Say, what month is it, children dear? + We think it is August because we hear + The swing of the sickle, restless and slow, + And that's a sign of the month, you know. + + [Illustration] + + Where are you going, children dear? + Where the lane winds deep and the stream runs clear-- + There are plenty of beautiful ways to go-- + But only one way that two only know. + + Where are _we_ going, children dear? + To a beautiful country that's very near, + Hand in hand is the way to go + Up into fairyland you know. + + _E. Nesbit._ + + + [Illustration] + +HOP PICKING. + + Ah me, how pleasant to go down + From the forlorn and faded town + To Kentish wood and fold and lane, + And breathe God's blessed air again; + Where glorious yellow corn-fields blaze + And nuts hang over woodland ways. + + To pick the sweet keen-scented hops, + (See from each pole a dream-wreath drops) + To toil all day in pure clear air, + Laughter and sunshine everywhere-- + With reddening woods and sweet wet soil + And well-earned rest and honest toil. + + + [Illustration] + + + Where do we fly, under deep dark sky? + Over the moors we go, + Over the pool where quiet and cool + Bulrush and sedges grow-- + And what was the loveliest thing we met? + Ah--we forget! + + We remember though all the firelit glow + Of a great hearth's gleam and glare, + And we looked for a space at each happy face + And the love that was written there. + And that, of all we have looked on yet-- + We least forget! + + + [Illustration: Hallowe'en.] + + + Oh what a day! all yellow and gray, + And so dark, so dreary, so foggy and thick, + That if I should meet + In the street + My sweet-- + I might pass her by! + Risk that? Not I! + Take me home out of danger then! Quick, feet, quick. + + + [Illustration] + + + Not Summer's crown of scent the red rose weaves + Nor hawthorn blossom over bloom-strewn grass, + Nor violet's whisper when the children pass, + Nor lilac perfume in the soft May eves, + Nor new-mown hay, crisp scent of yellow sheaves, + Nor any scent that Spring-time can amass + And Summer squander, such a magic has + As scent of fresh wet earth and fallen leaves. + + For sometimes lovers in November days, + When earth is grieving for the vanished sun, + Have trod dead leaves in chill and wintry ways, + And kissed and dreamed eternal Summer won; + Look back, look back! through memories' deepening haze, + See--two who dreamed that dream, and you were one. + + + [Illustration] + + + [Illustration] + + +THE LOVER TO HIS LASS. + + Dearest, the Winter is here! + "It will be sad," so you said, + "When no green leaves overhead + Shadow the paths where we tread!" + I said "It still will be dear + If we still meet, + O my sweet!" + + See how the seasons are kind! + See this December forget + How to be weary and wet! + Hardly our June I regret, + Winter so comely I find + Since you are here, + O my dear! + + Sweetheart, I sometimes believe, + Love, not the sun, makes us glad; + Even the mists were not sad + If your soft hand-clasp I had. + Hearts sing, though skies mourn and grieve, + All weather's fair + If you're there! + + Someday a home there shall be, + Love shall be sun of it, sweet! + Joy shall be full and complete-- + Sound of small voices and feet; + While, like the sunshine, for me, + You light up life-- + You--my wife! + + +BEFORE PARTING. + + Now surely is the hour come for farewell, + Now, with the lessened light and darkened days. + Who now would tread the wild hill's pathless ways? + We found so fair when Spring and Summer's spell + Made blind our hearts this parting to foretell. + Yet why, while wan and wintry sunlight stays + On perished gold of Autumn fields, delays + Your heart to speak, while both our hearts rebel? + Together we have gathered through the year + All that the year could give us of its best, + Is it not meet our parting should be here, + Now in the season drear of death and rest? + Yet since together we its joys have known + How shall each meet the strange New Year alone. + + _Caris Brooke._ + + [Illustration] + + + [Illustration] + + + [Illustration: The End] + + + [Illustration] + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of All Round the Year, by +Edith Nesbit and Saretta Nesbit (AKA Caris Brooke) + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALL ROUND THE YEAR *** + +***** This file should be named 20404.txt or 20404.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/4/0/20404/ + +Produced by Louise Hope, David Edwards, Marilynda +Fraser-Cunliffe and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from +images generously made available by the International +Children's Digital Library at +http://www.childrenslibrary.org) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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