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(This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Kentuckiana Digital Library.) + + + + + + + + + + _An Ode_ + + READ AUGUST 15, 1907, AT THE DEDICATION + OF THE MONUMENT ERECTED + AT GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, IN + COMMEMORATION OF THE FOUNDING + OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY + IN THE YEAR SIXTEEN HUNDRED AND + TWENTY-THREE BY MADISON CAWEIN + + + JOHN P. MORTON & COMPANY, INCORPORATED. + LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY MCMVIII + + + + + _An Ode_ + + _In Commemoration of the Founding of the + Massachusetts Bay Colony in the Year 1623._ + + + I. + + They who maintained their rights, + Through storm and stress, + And walked in all the ways + That God made known, + Led by no wandering lights, + And by no guess, + Through dark and desolate days + Of trial and moan: + Here let their monument + Rise, like a word + In rock commemorative + Of our Land's youth; + Of ways the Puritan went, + With soul love-spurred + To suffer, die, and live + For faith and truth. + Here they the corner-stone + Of Freedom laid; + Here in their hearts' distress + They lit the lights + Of Liberty alone; + Here, with God's aid, + Conquered the wilderness, + Secured their rights. + Not men, but giants, they, + Who wrought with toil + And sweat of brawn and brain + Their freehold here; + Who, with their blood, each day + Hallowed the soil. + And left it without stain + And without fear. + + + II. + + Yea; here, from men like these, + Our country had its stanch beginning; + Hence sprang she with the ocean breeze + And pine scent in her hair; + Deep in her eyes the winning, + The far-off winning of the unmeasured West; + And in her heart the care, + The young unrest, + Of all that she must dare, + Ere as a mighty Nation she should stand + Towering from sea to sea, + From land to mountained land, + One with the imperishable beauty of the stars + In absolute destiny; + Part of that cosmic law, no shadow mars, + To which all freedom runs, + That wheels the circles of the worlds and suns + Along their courses through the vasty night, + Irrevocable and eternal as is Light. + + + III. + + What people has to-day + Such faith as launched and sped, + With psalm and prayer, the Mayflower on its way?-- + Such faith as led + The Dorchester fishers to this sea-washed point, + This granite headland of Cape Ann? + Where first they made their bed, + Salt-blown and wet with brine, + In cold and hunger, where the storm-wrenched pine + Clung to the rock with desperate footing. They, + With hearts courageous whom hope did anoint, + Despite their tar and tan, + Worn of the wind and spray, + Seem more to me than man, + With their unconquerable spirits.--Mountains may + Succumb to men like these, to wills like theirs,-- + The Puritan's tenacity to do; + The stubbornness of genius;--holding to + Their purpose to the end, + No New-World hardship could deflect or bend;-- + That never doubted in their worst despairs, + But steadily on their way + Held to the last, trusting in God, who filled + Their souls with fire of faith that helped them build + A country, greater than had ever thrilled + Man's wildest dreams, or entered in + His highest hopes. 'Twas this that helped them win + In spite of danger and distress, + Through darkness and the din + Of winds and waves, unto a wilderness, + Savage, unbounded, pathless as the sea, + That said, "Behold me! I am free!" + Giving itself to them for greater things + Than filled their souls with dim imaginings. + + + IV. + + Let History record their stalwart names, + And catalogue their fortitude, whence grew, + Swiftly as running flames, + Cities and civilization: + How from a meeting-house and school, + A few log-huddled cabins, Freedom drew + Her rude beginnings. Every pioneer station, + Each settlement, though primitive of tool, + Had in it then the making of a Nation; + Had in it then the roofing of the plains + With traffic; and the piercing through and through + Of forests with the iron veins + Of industry. + Would I could make you see + How these, laboriously, + These founders of New England, every hour + Faced danger, death, and misery, + Conquering the wilderness; + With supernatural power + Changing its features; all its savage glower + Of wild barbarity, fierce hate, duress, + To something human, something that could bless + Mankind with peace and lift its heart's elation; + Something at last that stood + For universal brotherhood, + Astonishing the world, a mighty Nation, + Hewn from the solitude.-- + Iron of purpose as of faith and daring, + And of indomitable will, + With axe and hymn-book still I see them faring, + The Saxon Spirit of Conquest at their side + With sword and flintlock; still I see them stride, + As to some Roundhead rhyme, + Adown the aisles of Time. + + + V. + + Can praise be simply said of such as these? + Such men as Standish, Winthrop, Endicott? + Such souls as Roger Conant and John White? + Rugged and great as trees, + The oaks of that New World with which their lot + Was cast forever, proudly to remain. + That world in which each name still stands, a light + To beacon the Ship of State through stormy seas. + Can praise be simply said + Of him, the younger Vane, + Puritan and patriot, + Whose dedicated head + Was laid upon the block + In thy name, Liberty! + Can praise be simply said of such as he! + Needs must the soul unlock + All gates of eloquence to sing of these. + Such periods, + Such epic melodies, + As holds the utterance of the earlier gods, + The lords of song, one needs + To sing the praise of these! + No feeble music, tinklings frail of glass; + No penny trumpetings; twitterings of brass, + The moment's effort, shak'n from pigmy bells, + Ephemeral drops from small Pierian wells, + With which the Age relieves a barren hour. + But such large music, such melodious power, + As have our cataracts, + Pouring the iron facts, + The giant acts + Of these: such song as have our rock-ridged deep + And mountain steeps, + When winds, like clanging eagles, sweep the storm + On tossing wood and farm: + Such eloquence as in the torrent leaps,-- + Where the hoarse canyon sleeps, + Holding the heart with its terrific charm, + Carrying its roaring message to the town,-- + To voice their high achievement and renown. + + + VI. + + Long, long ago, beneath heaven's stormy slope, + In deeds of faith and hope, + Our fathers laid Freedom's foundations here, + And raised, invisible, vast,-- + Embodying naught of doubt or fear, + A monument whose greatness shall outlast + The future, as the past, + Of all the Old World's dynasties and kings.-- + A symbol of all things + That we would speak, but cannot say in words, + Of those who first began our Nation here, + Behold, we now would rear! + A different monument! a thought, that girds + Itself with granite; dream made visible + In rock and bronze to tell + To all the Future what here once befell; + Here where, unknown to them, + A tree took root; a tree of wondrous stem; + The tree of high ideals, which has grown, + And has not withered since its seed was sown, + Was planted here by them in this new soil, + Who watered it with tears and blood and toil: + An heritage we mean to hold, + Keeping it stanch and beautiful as of old.-- + For never a State, + Or People, yet was great + Without its great ideals;--branch and root + Of the deep tree of life where bud and blow + The dreams, the thoughts, that grow + To deeds, the glowing fruit. + + + VII. + + The morn, that breaks its heart of gold + Above the purple hills; + The eve, that spills + Its nautilus splendor where the sea is rolled; + The night, that leads the vast procession in + Of stars and dreams,-- + The beauty that shall never die or pass:-- + The winds, that spin + Of rain the misty mantles of the grass, + And thunder-raiment of the mountain-streams; + The sunbeams, needling with gold the dusk + Green cowls of ancient woods; + The shadows, thridding, veiled with musk, + The moon-pathed solitudes, + Call to my Fancy, saying, "Follow! follow!" + Till, following, I see,-- + Fair as a cascade in a rainbowed hollow,-- + A dream, a shape, take form, + Clad on with every charm,-- + The vision of that Ideality, + Which lured the pioneer in wood and hill, + And beckoned him from earth and sky; + The dream that cannot die, + Their children's children did fulfill. + In stone and iron and wood, + Out of the solitude, + And by a forthright act + Create a mighty fact-- + A Nation, now that stands + Clad on with hope and beauty, strength and song, + Eternal, young, and strong, + Planting her heel on Wrong, + Her starry banner in triumphant hands.... + Within her face the rose + Of Alleghany dawns; + Limbed with Alaskan snows, + Floridian starlight in her eyes,-- + Eyes stern as steel yet tender as a fawn's,-- + And in her hair + The rapture of her rivers; and the dare, + As perishless as truth, + That o'er the crags of her Sierras flies, + Urging the eagle ardor through her veins, + Behold her where, + Around her radiant youth, + The spirits of the cataracts and plains, + The genii of the floods and forests, meet, + In rainbow mists circling her brow and feet: + The forces vast that sit + In session round her; powers paraclete, + That guard her presence; awful forms and fair. + Making secure her place; + Guiding her surely as the worlds through space + Do laws sidereal; edicts, thunder-lit, + Of skyed eternity, in splendor borne + On planetary wings of night and morn. + + + VIII. + + Behold her! this is she! + Beautiful as morning on the summer sea, + Yet terrible as is the elemental gold + That cleaves the tempest and in angles clings + About its cloudy temples.--Manifold + The dreams of daring in her fearless gaze, + Fixed on the future's days; + And round her brow, a strand of astral beads, + Her soul's resplendent deeds; + And at her front one star, + Refulgent hope, + Like that on morning's slope, + Beaconing the world afar.-- + From her high place she sees + Her long procession of accomplished acts. + Cloud-wing'd refulgences + Of thoughts in steel and stone, of marble dreams, + Lift up tremendous battlements, + Sun-blinding, built of facts; + While in her soul she seems, + Listening, to hear, as from innumerable tents, + Ĉonian thunder, wonder, and applause + Of all the heroic ages that are gone; + Feeling secure + That, as her Past, her Future shall endure, + As did her Cause + When redly broke the dawn + Of fierce rebellion, and, beneath its star, + The firmaments of war + Poured down infernal rain, + And North and South lay bleeding 'mid their slain. + And now, no less, shall her Cause still prevail, + More so in peace than war, + Through the thrilled wire and electric rail, + Carrying her message far; + Shaping her dream + Within the brain of steam, + That, with a myriad hands, + Labors unceasingly, and knits her lands + In firmer union; joining plain and stream + With steel; and binding shore to shore + With bands of iron;--nerves and arteries, + Along whose adamant forever pour + Her concrete thoughts, her tireless energies. + + + + + _On Old Cape Ann_ + + + + _On Old Cape Ann_ + + + I. + + ANNISQUAM + + Old days, old ways, old homes beside the sea; + Old gardens with old-fashioned flowers aflame, + Poppy, petunia, and many a name + Of many a flower of fragrant pedigree. + Old hills that glow with blue- and barberry, + And rocks and pines that stand on guard, the same. + Immutable, as when the Pilgrim came, + And here laid firm foundations of the Free. + The sunlight makes the dim dunes hills of snow, + And every vessel's sail a twinkling wing + Glancing the violet ocean far away: + The world is full of color and of glow; + A mighty canvas whereon God doth fling + The flawless picture of a perfect day. + + + II. + + "THE HIGHLANDS," ANNISQUAM + + Here, from the heights, among the rocks and pines, + The sea and shore seem some tremendous page + Of some vast book, great with our heritage, + Breathing the splendor of majestic lines. + Yonder the dunes speak silver; yonder shines + The ocean's sapphire word; there, gray with age, + The granite writes its lesson, strong and sage; + And there the surf its rhythmic passage signs. + The winds, that sweep the page, that interlude + Its majesty with music; and the tides, + That roll their thunder in, that period + Its mighty rhetoric, deep and dream-imbued, + Are what it seems to say, of what abides, + Of what's eternal, and of what is God. + + + III. + + STORM AT ANNISQUAM + + The sun sinks scarlet as a barberry. + Far off at sea one vessel lifts a sail, + Hurrying to harbor from the coming gale, + That banks the west above a choppy sea. + The sun is gone; the tide is flowing free; + The bay is opaled with wild light; and pale + The lighthouse spears its flame now; through a veil + That falls about the sea mysteriously. + Out there she sits and mutters of her dead, + Old Ocean; of the stalwart and the strong, + Skipper and fisher whom her arms dragged down: + Before her now she sees their ghosts; o'erhead, + As gray as rain, their wild wrecks sweep along, + And all night long lay siege to this old town. + + + IV. + + FROM COVE TO COVE + + The road leads up a hill through many a brake, + Blueberry and barberry, bay and sassafras, + By an abandoned quarry, where, like glass, + A round pool lies; an isolated lake, + A mirror for what presences, that make + Their wildwood toilets here! The road is grass + Gray-scarred with stone: great bowlders, as we pass, + Slope burly shoulders towards us. Cedars shake + Wild balsam from their tresses; there and here + Clasping a glimpse of ocean and of shore + In arms of swaying green. Below, at last, + Beside the sea, with derrick and with pier, + By heaps of granite, noise of drill and bore, + A Cape Ann town, towering with many a mast. + + + V. + + PASTURES BY THE SEA + + Here where the coves indent the shore and fall + And fill with ebb and flowing of the tides; + Whereon some barge rocks or some dory rides, + By which old orchards bloom, or, from the wall, + Pelt every lane with fruit; where gardens, tall + With roses, riot; swift my gladness glides + To that old pasture where the mushroom hides, + The chicory blooms and Peace sits mid them all. + Fenced in with rails and rocks, its emerald slopes,-- + Ribbed with huge granite,--where the placid cows + Tinkle a browsing bell, roll to a height + Wherefrom the sea, bright as adventuring hopes, + Swept of white sails and plowed of foaming prows, + Leaps like a Nereid on the ravished sight. + + + VI. + + THE DUNES + + Far as the eye can see, in domes and spires, + Buttress and curve, ruins of shifting sand,-- + In whose wild making wind and sea took hand,-- + The white dunes stretch. The wind, that never tires, + Striving for strange effects that he admires, + Changes their form from time to time; the land + Forever passive to his mad demand, + And to the sea's, who with the wind conspires. + Here, as on towers of desolate cities, bay + And wire-grass grow, wherein no insect cries, + Only a bird, the swallow of the sea, + That homes in sand. I hear it far away + Crying--or is it some lost soul that flies, + Above the land, ailing unceasingly? + + + VII. + + BY THE SUMMER SEA + + Sunlight and shrill cicada and the low, + Slow, sleepy kissing of the sea and shore, + And rumor of the wind. 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