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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: A Father of Women + and other poems + + +Author: Alice Meynell + + + +Release Date: December 13, 2009 [eBook #30669] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A FATHER OF WOMEN*** +</pre> +<p>Transcribed from the 1917 Burns & Oates Ltd edition by +David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org</p> +<h1>A FATHER OF WOMEN<br /> +<span class="smcap">and other poems</span></h1> +<p style="text-align: center">by<br /> +Alice Meynell</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">BURNS & OATES Ltd<br /> +28 Orchard Street<br /> +London W<br /> +1917</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 4--><a +name="page4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 4</span><i>To</i><br /> +<i>V. L.</i></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 5--><a +name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 5</span>THE +CONTENTS</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>A Father of Women</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">Page <span +class="indexpageno"><a href="#page7">7</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Length of Days: To the Early Dead in Battle</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page9">9</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Nurse Edith Cavell</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page11">11</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Summer in England, 1914</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page12">12</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>To Tintoretto in Venice</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page14">14</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>A Thrush Before Dawn</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page16">16</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Two Shakespeare Tercentenaries</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page18">18</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>To O—, of her Dark Eyes</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page19">19</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Treasure</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page20">20</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>A Wind of Clear Weather in England</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page22">22</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>In Sleep</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page23">23</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Divine Privilege</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page24">24</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Free Will</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page26">26</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Two Questions</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page27">27</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Lord’s Prayer</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page29">29</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Easter Night</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page30">30</a></span></p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<h2><!-- page 7--><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>A FATHER OF WOMEN</h2> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Ad Sororem E. +B.</span></p> +<blockquote><p>“<i>Thy father was transfused into thy +blood</i>.”</p> +<p style="text-align: right"><i>Dryden</i>: <i>Ode to Mrs. Anne +Killigrew</i>.</p> +</blockquote> +<p class="poetry"> Our father +works in us,<br /> +The daughters of his manhood. Not undone<br /> +Is he, not wasted, though transmuted thus,<br /> + And though he left no son.</p> +<p class="poetry"> Therefore +on him I cry<br /> +To arm me: “For my delicate mind a casque,<br /> +A breastplate for my heart, courage to die,<br /> + Of thee, captain, I ask.</p> +<p class="poetry"> “Nor +strengthen only; press<br /> +A finger on this violent blood and pale,<br /> +Over this rash will let thy tenderness<br /> + A while pause, and prevail.</p> +<p class="poetry"> “And +shepherd-father, thou<br /> +Whose staff folded my thoughts before my birth,<br /> +Control them now I am of earth, and now<br /> + Thou art no more of earth.</p> +<p class="poetry"> <!-- page +8--><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 8</span>“O +liberal, constant, dear!<br /> +Crush in my nature the ungenerous art<br /> +Of the inferior; set me high, and here,<br /> + Here garner up thy +heart.”</p> +<p class="poetry"> Like to him +now are they,<br /> +The million living fathers of the War—<br /> +Mourning the crippled world, the bitter day—<br /> + Whose striplings are no more.</p> +<p class="poetry"> The +crippled world! Come then,<br /> +Fathers of women with your honour in trust;<br /> +Approve, accept, know them daughters of men,<br /> + Now that your sons are dust.</p> +<h2><!-- page 9--><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +9</span>LENGTH OF DAYS<br /> +<span class="smcap">to the early dead in battle</span></h2> +<p class="poetry"> There is no +length of days<br /> +But yours, boys who were children once. Of old<br /> +The past beset you in your childish ways,<br /> + With sense of Time untold!</p> +<p class="poetry"> What have +you then forgone?<br /> +A history? This you had. Or memories?<br /> +These, too, you had of your far-distant dawn.<br /> + No further dawn seems his,</p> +<p class="poetry"> The old man +who shares with you,<br /> +But has no more, no more. Time’s mystery<br /> +Did once for him the most that it can do:<br /> + He has had infancy.</p> +<p class="poetry"> And all his +dreams, and all<br /> +His loves for mighty Nature, sweet and few,<br /> +Are but the dwindling past he can recall<br /> + Of what his childhood knew.</p> +<p class="poetry"> He counts +not any more<br /> +His brief, his present years. But O he knows<br /> +How far apart the summers were of yore,<br /> + How far apart the snows.</p> +<p class="poetry"> <!-- page +10--><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +10</span>Therefore be satisfied;<br /> +Long life is in your treasury ere you fall;<br /> +Yes, and first love, like Dante’s. O a bride<br /> + For ever mystical!</p> +<p class="poetry"> Irrevocable +good,—<br /> +You dead, and now about, so young, to die,—<br /> +Your childhood was; there Space, there Multitude,<br /> + There dwelt Antiquity.</p> +<h2><!-- page 11--><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +11</span>NURSE EDITH CAVELL</h2> +<p>Two o’clock, the morning of October 12th, 1915.</p> +<p class="poetry"> To her +accustomed eyes<br /> +The midnight-morning brought not such a dread<br /> +As thrills the chance-awakened head that lies<br /> +In trivial sleep on the habitual bed.</p> +<p class="poetry"> ’Twas +yet some hours ere light;<br /> +And many, many, many a break of day<br /> +Had she outwatched the dying; but this night<br /> +Shortened her vigil was, briefer the way.</p> +<p class="poetry"> By dial of +the clock<br /> +’Twas day in the dark above her lonely head.<br /> +“This day thou shalt be with Me.” Ere the +cock<br /> +Announced that day she met the Immortal Dead.</p> +<h2><!-- page 12--><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>SUMMER IN ENGLAND, 1914</h2> +<p class="poetry">On London fell a clearer light;<br /> + Caressing pencils of the sun<br /> +Defined the distances, the white<br /> + Houses transfigured one by one,<br /> +The “long, unlovely street” impearled.<br /> +O what a sky has walked the world!</p> +<p class="poetry">Most happy year! And out of town<br /> + The hay was prosperous, and the wheat;<br /> +The silken harvest climbed the down;<br /> + Moon after moon was heavenly-sweet<br /> +Stroking the bread within the sheaves,<br /> +Looking twixt apples and their leaves.</p> +<p class="poetry">And while this rose made round her cup,<br /> + The armies died convulsed. And when<br /> +This chaste young silver sun went up<br /> + Softly, a thousand shattered men,<br /> +One wet corruption, heaped the plain,<br /> +After a league-long throb of pain.</p> +<p class="poetry">Flower following tender flower; and birds,<br +/> + And berries; and benignant skies<br /> +Made thrive the serried flocks and herds.—<br /> + Yonder are men shot through the eyes.<br /> + + +Love, hide thy face<br /> +From man’s unpardonable race.</p> +<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry"><!-- page 13--><a +name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 13</span>* * * * *</p> +<p class="poetry">Who said “No man hath greater love than +this,<br /> + To die to serve his friend?”<br /> +So these have loved us all unto the end.<br /> + Chide thou no more, O thou unsacrificed!<br /> +The soldier dying dies upon a kiss,<br /> + The very kiss of Christ.</p> +<h2><!-- page 14--><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +14</span>TO TINTORETTO IN VENICE</h2> +<p><i>The Art of Painting had in the Primitive years looked with +the light</i>, <i>not towards it</i>. <i>Before +Tintoretto’s date</i>, <i>however</i>, <i>many painters +practised shadows and lights</i>, <i>and turned more or less +sunwards</i>; <i>but he set the figure between himself and a full +sun</i>. <i>His work is to be known in Venice by the +splendid trick of an occluded sun and a shadow thrown straight at +the spectator</i>.</p> +<p><i>Tintoretto’s thronged</i> “<i>Procession to +Calvary</i>” <i>and his</i> +“<i>Crucifixion</i>,” <i>incidentally named</i>, +<i>are two of the greatest of his multitude of works in +Venice</i>.</p> +<p class="poetry"> Master, thy +enterprise,<br /> +Magnificent, magnanimous, was well done,<br /> +Which seized, the head of Art, and turned her eyes—<br /> +The simpleton—and made her front the sun.</p> +<p class="poetry"> Long had +she sat content,<br /> +Her young unlessoned back to a morning gay,<br /> +To a solemn noon, to a cloudy firmament,<br /> +And looked upon a world in gentle day.</p> +<p class="poetry"> But thy +imperial call<br /> +Bade her to stand with thee and breast the light,<br /> +And therefore face the shadows, mystical,<br /> +Sombre, translucent, vestiges of night,</p> +<p class="poetry"> <!-- page +15--><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 15</span>Yet +glories of the day.<br /> +Eagle! we know thee by thy undaunted eyes<br /> +Sky-ward, and by thy glooms; we blow thy way<br /> +Ambiguous, and those halo-misted dyes.</p> +<p class="poetry"> Thou Cloud, +the bridegroom’s friend<br /> +(The bridegroom sun)! Master, we know thy sign:<br /> +A mystery of hues world-without-end;<br /> +And hide-and-seek of gamesome and divine;</p> +<p class="poetry"> Shade of +the noble head<br /> +Cast hitherward upon the noble breast;<br /> +Human solemnities thrice hallowèd;<br /> +The haste to Calvary, the Cross at rest.</p> +<p class="poetry"> Look +sunward, Angel, then!<br /> +Carry the fortress-heavens by that hand;<br /> +Still be the interpreter of suns to men;<br /> +And shadow us, O thou Tower! for thou shalt stand.</p> +<h2><!-- page 16--><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +16</span>A THRUSH BEFORE DAWN</h2> +<p class="poetry">A voice peals in this end of night<br /> + A phrase of notes resembling stars,<br /> +Single and spiritual notes of light.<br /> + What call they at my window-bars?<br /> + The South, the past, the day to +be,<br /> + An ancient infelicity.</p> +<p class="poetry">Darkling, deliberate, what sings<br /> + This wonderful one, alone, at peace?<br /> +What wilder things than song, what things<br /> + Sweeter than youth, clearer than Greece,<br /> + Dearer than Italy, untold<br /> + Delight, and freshness centuries +old?</p> +<p class="poetry">And first first-loves, a multitude,<br /> + The exaltation of their pain;<br /> +Ancestral childhood long renewed;<br /> + And midnights of invisible rain;<br /> + And gardens, gardens, night and +day,<br /> + Gardens and childhood all the +way.</p> +<p class="poetry">What Middle Ages passionate,<br /> + O passionless voice! What distant bells<br /> +Lodged in the hills, what palace state<br /> + Illyrian! For it speaks, it tells,<br /> + Without desire, without dismay,<br +/> + Some morrow and some +yesterday.</p> +<p class="poetry"><!-- page 17--><a name="page17"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 17</span>All-natural things! But +more—Whence came<br /> + This yet remoter mystery?<br /> +How do these starry notes proclaim<br /> + A graver still divinity?<br /> + This hope, this sanctity of +fear?<br /> + <i>O innocent throat</i>! +<i>O human ear</i>!</p> +<h2><!-- page 18--><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +18</span>THE TWO SHAKESPEARE TERCENTENARIES:<br /> +<span class="smcap">of birth</span>, <span +class="smcap">1864</span>: <span class="smcap">of death</span>, +<span class="smcap">1916</span>.</h2> +<p style="text-align: center">TO SHAKESPEARE</p> +<p class="poetry"> Longer than +thine, than thine,<br /> +Is now my time of life; and thus thy years<br /> +Seem to be clasped and harboured within mine.<br /> +O how ignoble this my clasp appears!</p> +<p class="poetry"> Thy +unprophetic birth,<br /> +Thy darkling death: living I might have seen<br /> +That cradle, marked those labours, closed that earth.<br /> +O first, O last, O infinite between!</p> +<p class="poetry"> Now that my +life has shared<br /> +Thy dedicated date, O mortal, twice,<br /> +To what all-vain embrace shall be compared<br /> +My lean enclosure of thy paradise?</p> +<p class="poetry"> To ignorant +arms that fold<br /> +A poet to a foolish breast? The Line,<br /> +That is not, with the world within its hold?<br /> +So, days with days, my days encompass thine.</p> +<p class="poetry"> Child, +Stripling, Man—the sod.<br /> +Might I talk little language to thee, pore<br /> +On thy last silence? O thou city of God,<br /> +My waste lies after thee, and lies before.</p> +<h2><!-- page 19--><a name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +19</span>TO O—, OF HER DARK EYES</h2> +<p class="poetry">Across what calm of tropic seas,<br /> + ’Neath alien clusters of the nights,<br /> +Looked, in the past, such eyes as these?<br /> + Long-quenched, relumed, ancestral lights!</p> +<p class="poetry">The generations fostered them;<br /> + And steadfast Nature, secretwise—<br /> +Thou seedling child of that old stem—<br /> + Kindled anew thy dark-bright eyes.</p> +<p class="poetry">Was it a century or two<br /> + This lovely darkness rose and set,<br /> +Occluded by grey eyes and blue,<br /> + And Nature feigning to forget?</p> +<p class="poetry">Some grandam gave a hint of it—<br /> + So cherished was it in thy race,<br /> +So fine a treasure to transmit<br /> + In its perfection to thy face.</p> +<p class="poetry">Some father to some mother’s breast<br /> + Entrusted it, unknowing. Time<br /> +Implied, or made it manifest,<br /> + Bequest of a forgotten clime.</p> +<p class="poetry">Hereditary eyes! But this<br /> + Is single, singular, apart:— <br /> +New-made thy love, new-made thy kiss,<br /> + New-made thy errand to my heart.</p> +<h2><!-- page 20--><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +20</span>THE TREASURE</h2> +<p class="poetry"> Three times +have I beheld<br /> +Fear leap in a babe’s face, and take his breath,<br /> + Fear, like the fear of eld<br /> +That knows the price of life, the name of death.</p> +<p class="poetry"> What is it +justifies<br /> +This thing, this dread, this fright that has no tongue,<br /> + The terror in those eyes<br /> +When only eyes can speak—they are so young?</p> +<p class="poetry"> Not yet +those eyes had wept.<br /> +What does fear cherish that it locks so well?<br /> + What fortress is thus kept?<br /> +Of what is ignorant terror sentinel?</p> +<p class="poetry"> And pain in +the poor child,<br /> +Monstrously disproportionate, and dumb<br /> + In the poor beast, and wild<br /> +In the old decorous man, caught, overcome?</p> +<p class="poetry"> Of what the +outposts these?<br /> +Of what the fighting guardians? What demands<br /> + That sense of menaces,<br /> +And then such flying feet, imploring hands?</p> +<p class="poetry"> <!-- page +21--><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 21</span>Life: +There’s nought else to seek;<br /> +Life only, little prized; but by design<br /> + Of Nature prized. How +weak,<br /> +How sad, how brief! O how divine, divine!</p> +<h2><!-- page 22--><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +22</span>A WIND OF CLEAR WEATHER IN ENGLAND</h2> +<p class="poetry">O what a miracle wind is this<br /> + Has crossed the English land to-day<br /> +With an unprecedented kiss,<br /> + And wonderfully found a way!</p> +<p class="poetry">Unsmirched incredibly and clean,<br /> + Between the towns and factories,<br /> +Avoiding, has his long flight been,<br /> + Bringing a sky like Sicily’s.</p> +<p class="poetry">O fine escape, horizon pure<br /> + As Rome’s! Black chimneys left and +right,<br /> +But not for him, the straight, the sure,<br /> + His luminous day, his spacious night.</p> +<p class="poetry">How keen his choice, how swift his feet!<br /> + Narrow the way and hard to find!<br /> +This delicate stepper and discreet<br /> + Walked not like any worldly wind.</p> +<p class="poetry">Most like a man in man’s own day,<br /> + One of the few, a perfect one:<br /> +His open earth—the single way;<br /> + His narrow road—the open sun.</p> +<h2><!-- page 23--><a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +23</span>IN SLEEP</h2> +<p class="poetry">I dreamt (no “dream” awake—a +dream indeed)<br /> +A wrathful man was talking in the park:<br /> +“Where are the Higher Powers, who know our need<br /> + And leave us in +the dark?</p> +<p class="poetry">“There are no Higher Powers; there is no +heart<br /> +In God, no love”—his oratory here,<br /> +Taking the paupers’ and the cripples’ part,<br /> + Was broken by a +tear.</p> +<p class="poetry">And then it seemed that One who did create<br +/> +Compassion, who alone invented pity,<br /> +Walked, as though called, in at that north-east gate,<br /> + Out from the +muttering city;</p> +<p class="poetry">Threaded the little crowd, trod the brown +grass,<br /> +Bent o’er the speaker close, saw the tear rise,<br /> +And saw Himself, as one looks in a glass,<br /> + In those +impassioned eyes.</p> +<h2><!-- page 24--><a name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +24</span>THE DIVINE PRIVILEGE</h2> +<p class="poetry">Lord, where are Thy prerogatives?<br /> + Why, men have more than Thou hast kept;<br /> +The king rewards, remits, forgives,<br /> + The poet to a throne has stept.</p> +<p class="poetry">And Thou, despoiled, hast given away<br /> + Worship to men, success to strife,<br /> +Thy glory to the heavenly day,<br /> + And made Thy sun the lord of life.</p> +<p class="poetry">Is one too precious to impart,<br /> + One property reserved to Christ?<br /> +One, cherished, grappled to that heart?<br /> + —To be alone the Sacrificed?</p> +<p class="poetry">O Thou who lovest to redeem,<br /> + One whom I know lies sore oppressed.<br /> +Thou wilt not suffer me to dream<br /> + That I can bargain for her rest.</p> +<p class="poetry">Seven hours I swiftly sleep, while she<br /> + Measures the leagues of dark, awake.<br /> +O that my dewy eyes might be<br /> + Parched by a vigil for her sake!</p> +<p class="poetry"><!-- page 25--><a name="page25"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 25</span>But O rejected! O in vain!<br +/> + I cannot give who would not keep.<br /> +I cannot buy, I cannot gain,<br /> + I cannot give her half my sleep.</p> +<h2><!-- page 26--><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +26</span>FREE WILL</h2> +<p class="poetry">Dear are some hidden things<br /> + My soul has sealed in silence; past delights,<br /> +Hope unconfessed; desires with hampered wings,<br /> + Remembered in the nights.</p> +<p class="poetry">But my best treasures are<br /> + Ignoble, undelightful, abject, cold;<br /> +Yet O! profounder hoards oracular<br /> + No reliquaries hold.</p> +<p class="poetry">There lie my trespasses,<br /> + Abjured but not disowned. I’ll not +accuse<br /> +Determinism, nor, as the Master <a name="citation26"></a><a +href="#footnote26" class="citation">[26]</a> says,<br /> + Charge even “the poor Deuce.”</p> +<p class="poetry">Under my hand they lie,<br /> + My very own, my proved iniquities,<br /> +And though the glory of my life go by<br /> + I hold and garner these.</p> +<p class="poetry">How else, how otherwhere.<br /> + How otherwise, shall I discern and grope<br /> +For lowliness? How hate, how love, how dare,<br /> + How weep, how hope?</p> +<h2><!-- page 27--><a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +27</span>THE TWO QUESTIONS</h2> +<p class="poetry"> “A +riddling world!” one cried.<br /> +“If pangs must be, would God that they were sent<br /> +To the impure, the cruel, and passed aside<br /> + The holy innocent!”</p> +<p class="poetry"> But I, +“Ah no, no, no!<br /> +Not the clean heart transpierced; not tears that fall<br /> +For a child’s agony; not a martyr’s woe;<br /> + Not these, not these appal.</p> +<p class="poetry"> “Not +docile motherhood,<br /> +Dutiful, frequent, closed in all distress;<br /> +Not shedding of the unoffending blood;<br /> + Not little joy grown less;</p> +<p class="poetry"> “Not +all-benign old age<br /> +With dotage mocked; not gallantry that faints<br /> +And still pursues; not the vile heritage<br /> + Of sin’s disease in +saints;</p> +<p class="poetry"> “Not +these defeat the mind.<br /> +For great is that abjection, and august<br /> +That irony. Submissive we shall find<br /> + A splendour in that dust.</p> +<p class="poetry"> <!-- page +28--><a name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +28</span>“Not these puzzle the will;<br /> +Not these the yet unanswered question urge.<br /> +But the unjust stricken; but the hands that kill<br /> + Lopped; but the merited +scourge;</p> +<p class="poetry"> “The +sensualist at fast;<br /> +The merciless felled; the liar in his snares.<br /> +The cowardice of my judgment sees, aghast,<br /> + The flail, the chaff, the +tares.”</p> +<h2><!-- page 29--><a name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +29</span>THE LORD’S PRAYER</h2> +<blockquote><p>“<i>Audemus dicere</i> ‘<i>Pater +Noster</i>.’”—<span class="smcap">canon of the +mass</span>.</p> +</blockquote> +<p class="poetry"> There is a +bolder way,<br /> +There is a wilder enterprise than this<br /> +All-human iteration day by day.<br /> +Courage, mankind! Restore Him what is His.</p> +<p class="poetry"> Out of His +mouth were given<br /> +These phrases. O replace them whence they came.<br /> +He, only, knows our inconceivable “Heaven,”<br /> +Our hidden “Father,” and the unspoken +“Name”;</p> +<p class="poetry"> Our +“trespasses,” our “bread,”<br /> +The “will” inexorable yet implored;<br /> +The miracle-words that are and are not said,<br /> +Charged with the unknown purpose of their Lord.</p> +<p +class="poetry"> “Forgive,” +“give,” “lead us not”—<br /> +Speak them by Him, O man the unaware,<br /> +Speak by that dear tongue, though thou know not what,<br /> +Shuddering through the paradox of prayer.</p> +<h2><!-- page 30--><a name="page30"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +30</span>EASTER NIGHT</h2> +<p class="poetry">All night had shout of men and cry<br /> + Of woeful women filled His way;<br +/> +Until that noon of sombre sky<br /> + On Friday, clamour and display<br +/> +Smote Him; no solitude had He,<br /> +No silence, since Gethsemane.</p> +<p class="poetry">Public was Death; but Power, but Might,<br /> + But Life again, but Victory,<br /> +Were hushed within the dead of night,<br /> + The shutter’d dark, the +secrecy.<br /> +And all alone, alone, alone<br /> +He rose again behind the stone.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">printed in +england</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">by w. h. smith & son</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">the arden press</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">stamford street s.e.</span></p> +<h2>Footnotes:</h2> +<p><a name="footnote26"></a><a href="#citation26" +class="footnote">[26]</a> George Meredith.</p> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A FATHER OF WOMEN***</p> +<pre> + + +***** This file should be named 30669-h.htm or 30669-h.zip****** + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/0/6/6/30669 + + + +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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