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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: Carry On! + +Author: Virna Sheard + +Release Date: July 4, 2011 [EBook #36618] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CARRY ON! *** + + + + +Produced by Al Haines + + + + + +</pre> + + +<BR><BR> + +<P CLASS="t1"> +CARRY ON! +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="t2"> +By VIRNA SHEARD +</P> + +<BR><BR> + +<P CLASS="t3"> +PUBLISHED UNDER THE DISTINGUISHED<BR> +PATRONAGE OF THE IMPERIAL ORDER<BR> +OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE<BR> +EMPIRE IN AID OF THE<BR> +RED CROSS<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<P CLASS="t3"> +TORONTO: +<BR> +WARWICK BROS. & RUTTER, LIMITED +<BR> +1917 +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<P CLASS="t4"> +COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1917 +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<P CLASS="t3"> +ACKNOWLEDGMENTS +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent" STYLE="margin-left: 15%; margin-right: 15%"> +We acknowledge with thanks the kindness of <I>The Globe</I>, Toronto, for +permission to use Carry On, The Young Knights, The Watcher, October +Goes, Dreams, The Cry, A War Chant, To One Who Sleeps, The Requiem and +The Lament, to <I>Saturday Night</I>, Toronto, for permission to use Before +the Dawn, and to <I>The Canadian Magazine</I> for permission to use When +Jonquils Blow. The other poems have not hitherto been published. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<P CLASS="t2"> +CONTENTS +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent" STYLE="margin-left: 10%"> +<A HREF="#chap007">Carry On</A><BR> +<A HREF="#chap008">The Young Knights</A><BR> +<A HREF="#chap009">The Shells</A><BR> +<A HREF="#chap011">The Watcher</A><BR> +<A HREF="#chap012">October Goes</A><BR> +<A HREF="#chap013">Dreams</A><BR> +<A HREF="#chap014">Before the Dawn</A><BR> +<A HREF="#chap015">Crosses</A><BR> +<A HREF="#chap016">The Cry</A><BR> +<A HREF="#chap017">A War Chant</A><BR> +<A HREF="#chap018">When Jonquils Blow</A><BR> +<A HREF="#chap019">To One Who Sleeps</A><BR> +<A HREF="#chap020">The Sea</A><BR> +<A HREF="#chap021">Comrades</A><BR> +<A HREF="#chap022">Requiem</A><BR> +<A HREF="#chap023">Lament</A><BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap007"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> + CARRY ON! +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +That all freedom may abide<BR> + Carry on!<BR> +For the brave who fought and died,<BR> + Carry on!<BR> +England's flag so long adored<BR> + Is the banner of the Lord—<BR> +His the cannon—His the sword—<BR> + Carry on, and on! Carry on!<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Through the night of death and tears,<BR> + Carry on!<BR> +Through the hour that scars and sears,<BR> + Carry on!<BR> +Legions in the flame-torn sky,—<BR> + Armies that go reeling by,—<BR> +Only once can each man die;<BR> + Carry on!<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +For the things you count the best,<BR> + Carry on!<BR> +Take love with you,—leave the rest—<BR> + Carry on!<BR> +Though the fight be short or long,<BR> + Men of ours—O dear and strong—<BR> +Yours will be the Victor's song,<BR> + Carry on—and on! Carry on!<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap008"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> + THE YOUNG KNIGHTS +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Now they remain to us forever young<BR> + Who with such splendor gave their youth away;<BR> +Perpetual Spring is their inheritance,<BR> + Though they have lived in Flanders and in France<BR> +A round of years, in one remembered day.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +They drained life's goblet as a joyous draught<BR> + And left within the cup no bitter lees.<BR> +Sweetly they answered to the King's behest,<BR> + And gallantly fared forth upon a quest,<BR> +Beset by foes on land and on the seas.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +So in the ancient world hath bloomed again<BR> + The rose of old romance—red as of yore;<BR> +The flower of high emprise hath whitely blown<BR> + Above the graves of those we call our own,<BR> +And we will know its fragrance evermore.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Now if their deeds were written with the stars,<BR> + In golden letters on the midnight sky<BR> +They would not care. They were so young, and dear,<BR> + They loved the best the things that were most near,<BR> +And gave no thought to glory far and high.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +They need no shafts of marble pure and cold—<BR> + No painted windows radiantly bright;<BR> +Across our hearts their names are carven deep—<BR> + In waking dreams, and in the dreams of sleep,<BR> +They bring us still ineffable delight.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Methinks heaven's gates swing open very wide<BR> + To welcome in a host so fair and strong;<BR> +Perchance the unharmed angels as they sing,<BR> + May envy these the battle-scars they bring,<BR> +And sigh e'er they take up the triumph song!<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap009"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> + THE SHELLS +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +O my brave heart! O my strong heart! My sweet heart and gay,<BR> +The soul of me went with you the hour you marched away,<BR> +For surely she is soulless, this woman white, and still,<BR> +Who works with shining metal to make the things that kill.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +I tremble as I touch them,—so strange they are, and bright;<BR> +Each one will be a comet to break the purple night.<BR> +Grey Fear will ride before it, and Death will ride behind,<BR> +The sound of it will deafen,—the light of it will blind!<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +And whom it meets in passing, but God alone will know;<BR> +Each one will blaze a trail in blood—will hew a road of woe;<BR> +O when the fear is on me, my heart grows faint and cold:—<BR> +I dare not think of what I do,—of what my fingers hold.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Then sounds a Voice, "Arise, and make the weapons of the Lord!"<BR> +"He rides upon the whirlwind! He hath need of shell and sword!<BR> +His army is a mighty host—the lovely and the strong,—<BR> +They follow Him to battle, with trumpet and with Song!"<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +O my brave heart! My strong heart! My sweet heart and dear,—<BR> +'Tis not for me to falter,—'Tis not for me to fear—<BR> +Across the utmost barrier—wherever you may be,—<BR> +With joy unspent, and deathless, my soul will follow thee.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap011"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> + THE WATCHER +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Little White Moon—Each night from Heaven you lean<BR> +To watch the lonely Seas, and all the Earth between;—<BR> +O little shining Moon! What have you seen?—<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +What have you seen upon the fields of France,<BR> +Where through the drowsy grain, the gay red poppies dance,<BR> +Unheeding splintered gun or broken lance?<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Deep in the green-wood, shadow-laced, and still,<BR> +What is it you have found, by fern-bed and by rill?<BR> +What by each hollow—and each little hill?—<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +When o'er the sky the driven smoke-clouds flee,<BR> +And through a dusky veil look down fearfully—<BR> +What do you find adrift upon the sea?<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +In the great mountains where the four winds blow,—<BR> +Where the King's cavalry, and his foot-soldiers go—<BR> +What have you seen beneath the shifting snow?<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Little white Moon! So old,—so strangely bright—<BR> +How could you still shine on, unless you knew some night<BR> +Here in the world you watch, all would be right!<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap012"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> + OCTOBER GOES +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +October goes, and its colors all pass:<BR> +At dawn there's a silver film on the grass,<BR> +And the reeds are shining as pipes of glass,<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +But yesterweek where the cloud waves rolled<BR> +Down a wind-swept sky that was grey, and cold,<BR> +Sailed the hunter's moon,—a galleon of gold!<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +And now in the very depth of the night<BR> +It is just a little flame, blown and white,<BR> +Or a broken-winged moth on a weary flight.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +But the steadfast trees at the forest rim,<BR> +And the pines in places scented and dim,<BR> +Still wait for one hunter, and watch for him.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +And the wind in the branches whispers, "Why?"<BR> +And the yellow leaves that go rustling by,<BR> +Say only, "Remember," and sigh,—and sigh.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap013"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> + DREAMS +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Keep thou thy dreams—though joy should pass thee by;<BR> + Hold to the rainbow beauty of thy thought;<BR> +It is for dreams that men will oft-times die,—<BR> + And count the passing pain of death as nought.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Keep though thy dreams, though faith should faint and fail,<BR> + And time should loose thy fingers from the creeds,<BR> +The vision of the Christ will still avail<BR> + To lead thee on to truth and tender deeds.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Keep thou thy dreams all the winter's cold,<BR> + When weeds are withered, and the garden grey,<BR> +Dream thou of roses with their hearts of gold,—<BR> + Beckon to summers that are on their way.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Keep thou thy dreams—the tissue of all wings<BR> + Is woven first of them; from dreams are made<BR> +The precious and imperishable things,<BR> + Whose loveliness lives on, and does not fade.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Keep thou thy dreams, intangible and dear<BR> + As the blue ether of the utmost sky,—<BR> +A dream may lift thy spirit past all fear,<BR> + And with the great, may set thy feet on high!<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap014"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> + BEFORE THE DAWN +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +In that one darkest hour, before the dawn is here,<BR> +Each soul of us goes sailing, close to the coast of Fear.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +There in the windless quiet, from out the folded black,<BR> +The things we have forgotten—or would forget—come back.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Old sorrows, long abandoned, or kept with lock and key,<BR> +Steal from their prison places to bear us company.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +All softly come our little sins—our scarlet sins—and gray,<BR> +To keep with us a vigil till breaking of the day.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +And there are velvet footsteps; or oft we seem to hear<BR> +Light garments brush against the dark; so near—so very near!<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Then heavily, as weighed by tears, each haunted moment goes,<BR> +For dawn steps down the morning sky, in robes of gray and rose.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<SPAN STYLE="letter-spacing: 4em">*****</SPAN><BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +O fairies of the forest-ring, and little men in green,<BR> +And pixies of the moonlight, and elves no eye hath seen,<BR> +Brew us a magic potion, of deep and fairy power,<BR> +A draught of Lethe—for one night—to tide us past that hour.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap015"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> + CROSSES +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +All your broken war-spent heroes,<BR> +Lord of War and Grief—you pay<BR> +With a cross of moulded iron,<BR> +Hard-wrought iron cold and grey.<BR> +On the Somme you grant five thousand<BR> +And five thousand at Verdun;<BR> +At the dawn of day you count them<BR> +And at setting of the sun.<BR> +On the trampled fields of Flanders,<BR> +On the bitter roads of France,<BR> +Where the big guns chant their war-songs,<BR> +And the crimson death-lights dance,<BR> +There you count the iron crosses<BR> +Of such high and far renown,—-<BR> +Grim and grey the men who win them—<BR> +Theirs the cross—and yours the crown;—<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +<SPAN STYLE="letter-spacing: 4em">*****</SPAN><BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +But the little wooden crosses<BR> +You have given the peaceful dead,<BR> +O the little wooden crosses,<BR> +By each young low-lying head,—<BR> +Though the tender grasses hide them,<BR> +Or they fall beneath the snows,<BR> +Not a cross shall be forgotten,—<BR> +God Himself has counted those.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap016"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> + THE CRY +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +They have laid him away;<BR> +Even he who was always so strong and gay<BR> +Will be locked in the earth till the judgment day;<BR> +"Dust unto dust" I have heard the priest say.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +He will never return;<BR> +Though I weep my eyes blind, though I pray and yearn,—<BR> +Though the star-light goes out and the great suns burn<BR> +Into whitest ash,—he will never return.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +So of weeping—no more;<BR> +It is tears fill the oceans from shore to shore;<BR> +They have made the wind salt—the wind at my door;<BR> +They harm the good ground—so of weeping—no more.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +"Not again!" "Not again!"<BR> +Do you hear the sea singing that one refrain?<BR> +The pine trees, the wind and the wearysome rain<BR> +All whisper it; "Never again!"—"Not again!"<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Who can tell me—who knows,<BR> +Where his lonely soul travels?<BR> + Whither it goes?—<BR> +Has he gone like the leaves?—Like yesterday's snows?—<BR> +Speak, dear Lord of Death! You who died—and arose!<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap017"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> + A WAR CHANT +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +O England! Thy foe hath hated thee long,<BR> +And his hate is a deadly thing;<BR> +It was held in his heart till its growth was strong,<BR> +Now, words have woven it into a song<BR> +For little children to sing.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +It is hatred that fashioned his shot and shell,<BR> +And hatred hid death in the sea;<BR> +In hatred the cannon have sounded a knell<BR> +O'er the little homes where the peaceful dwell,<BR> +And the humble-hearted be.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Thy foe hath swept the blue from the sky<BR> +In a fury of smoke and flame;<BR> +His guns are not stilled where the wounded lie,—<BR> +He hath shown no pity to those who die<BR> +For the glory of his name.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +He sealed his hate with the blood of his men—<BR> +O, the young in their coats of grey!—<BR> +They are cast aside, and in river, and fen,<BR> +Deep-hidden, where none will find them again<BR> +Till the last white judgment day.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Now mirth is forgotten and joy is dead;<BR> +The world hath accepted its pain;<BR> +Still, over old battlefields, newly red,<BR> +The shattered ranks of his army are led<BR> +In pomp and a high disdain.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Thy anger grows slowly, for thou art great,<BR> +O England! thou well beloved land;<BR> +When its tide is full-risen, then thou art Fate,—<BR> +And the angel who stands before the gate,<BR> +The sword of flame in his hand!<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap018"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> + WHEN JONQUILS BLOW +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +When jonquils blow I think of one<BR> + Who sleeps beneath the green;<BR> +And all the light and song of life<BR> + And all the golden sheen<BR> +Turn cold and still before my eyes,<BR> + While pearl-edged boughs of May<BR> +Seen through a sudden mist of tears<BR> + Are rimmed with ashen-gray.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap019"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> + TO ONE WHO SLEEPS +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Fare not too far, my own,<BR> + Down ways all strange and new,<BR> +For I must find alone,<BR> + The road that leads to you.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Enchantments may arise<BR> + To lure thy little feet,<BR> +And charm thy wondering eyes;—<BR> + Yet;—wait for me, my sweet!<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Already Earth doth seem<BR> + A phantom place to me,<BR> +And thy far home of dream,<BR> + Is my reality.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +So this is just "good night";—<BR> + Some stars will rise and wane,<BR> +But sure as comes the light,<BR> + I'll be with thee again!—<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap020"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> + THE SEA +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +The sea is just a cradle wide and deep,—<BR> + A cradle that the moon rocks to and fro;<BR> +What peace they find who there fall fast asleep,<BR> + What lovely dreams,—'Tis not for us to know.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +But God hath sent the angel of the sea<BR> + To sing to them an endless lullaby;<BR> +And that they may not dread night's mystery,<BR> + He lights for them the candles of the sky.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +They are infolded by the silken waves,<BR> + And wrapped in shining blue, and emerald green;<BR> +They drift through opalescent ocean caves,<BR> + That only God Himself hath ever seen.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +The great salt wind that no man holds in thrall,<BR> + Touches them softly, as it passes by;—<BR> +I think the silver sea gulls know them all,<BR> + And greet them with their lonely tender cry.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +For but a little little round of years,<BR> + The sweet sun-sprinkled foam will be their bed,<BR> +And they will slumber—hushed from any fears—<BR> + To waken, when the sea gives up her dead.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap021"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> + COMRADES +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +O mighty men of England<BR> + Who sleep on land and sea,<BR> +How swiftly you would join our ranks<BR> + If Death could set you free!<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +How gladly would they greet you,<BR> + The young—the brave—the gay,—<BR> +If you came from your long-sealed graves,<BR> + To march with them to-day.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +O you would know each other,—<BR> + And meet as friend, with friend,—<BR> +And fight, and smile, and jest at Death,<BR> + Until the battles end!<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap022"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> + REQUIEM +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Weep for the dead; weep for the swift slain dead,<BR> +November skies;<BR> +Too few the tears that day and night are shed<BR> +From women's eyes.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Blow o'er them lightly with a soft caress,<BR> +Wind of the sea,<BR> +If you are tender they may miss love less—<BR> +Where e'er they be.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Come, gentle moon, swing low your lantern light<BR> +On reddened fields,<BR> +And find the lonely harvest of the night<BR> +That battle yields.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Banish the darkness filled with quivering dread,<BR> +Lest they should know<BR> +Some last strange horror—even they—the dead—<BR> +Sweet moon, swing low.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Fold them at dawn, dear earth, within your arms<BR> +So safe and strong:<BR> +Hold them asleep till they forget alarms,<BR> +And woe and wrong.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Master of Kings! If peace be bought with pain<BR> +These paid the price;<BR> +O show Thy tortured world that not in vain<BR> +Is sacrifice!<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap023"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> + LAMENT +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Here in my garden where the tulips grow<BR> + I walk alone;<BR> +Dim are my eyes with tears, my feet are slow<BR> + My heart is stone;<BR> +Though all the lovely earth again for me<BR> + New sweetness yields<BR> +It matters not,—only the dead I see<BR> + On battlefields.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="poem"> +Only the dead I see,—and strangely bright<BR> + Their faces shine<BR> +As though the God of Glory in the night<BR> + Had made them fine.<BR> +Place for the victors! Stoop my soul to touch<BR> + Their tunics hem,—<BR> +'Tis those they loved who need tears overmuch<BR> + O weep for them!<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR><BR> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Carry On!, by Virna Sheard + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CARRY ON! *** + +***** This file should be named 36618-h.htm or 36618-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/6/6/1/36618/ + +Produced by Al Haines + +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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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: Carry On! + +Author: Virna Sheard + +Release Date: July 4, 2011 [EBook #36618] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CARRY ON! *** + + + + +Produced by Al Haines + + + + + + + + + +CARRY ON! + + +By VIRNA SHEARD + + + + PUBLISHED UNDER THE DISTINGUISHED + PATRONAGE OF THE IMPERIAL ORDER + OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE + EMPIRE IN AID OF THE + RED CROSS + + + + +TORONTO: + +WARWICK BROS. & RUTTER, LIMITED + +1917 + + + + +COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1917 + + + + +ACKNOWLEDGMENTS + +We acknowledge with thanks the kindness of _The Globe_, Toronto, for +permission to use Carry On, The Young Knights, The Watcher, October +Goes, Dreams, The Cry, A War Chant, To One Who Sleeps, The Requiem and +The Lament, to _Saturday Night_, Toronto, for permission to use Before +the Dawn, and to _The Canadian Magazine_ for permission to use When +Jonquils Blow. The other poems have not hitherto been published. + + + + +CONTENTS + + Carry On + The Young Knights + The Shells + The Watcher + October Goes + Dreams + Before the Dawn + Crosses + The Cry + A War Chant + When Jonquils Blow + To One Who Sleeps + The Sea + Comrades + Requiem + Lament + + + + + CARRY ON! + + That all freedom may abide + Carry on! + For the brave who fought and died, + Carry on! + England's flag so long adored + Is the banner of the Lord-- + His the cannon--His the sword-- + Carry on, and on! Carry on! + + Through the night of death and tears, + Carry on! + Through the hour that scars and sears, + Carry on! + Legions in the flame-torn sky,-- + Armies that go reeling by,-- + Only once can each man die; + Carry on! + + For the things you count the best, + Carry on! + Take love with you,--leave the rest-- + Carry on! + Though the fight be short or long, + Men of ours--O dear and strong-- + Yours will be the Victor's song, + Carry on--and on! Carry on! + + + + + THE YOUNG KNIGHTS + + Now they remain to us forever young + Who with such splendor gave their youth away; + Perpetual Spring is their inheritance, + Though they have lived in Flanders and in France + A round of years, in one remembered day. + + They drained life's goblet as a joyous draught + And left within the cup no bitter lees. + Sweetly they answered to the King's behest, + And gallantly fared forth upon a quest, + Beset by foes on land and on the seas. + + So in the ancient world hath bloomed again + The rose of old romance--red as of yore; + The flower of high emprise hath whitely blown + Above the graves of those we call our own, + And we will know its fragrance evermore. + + Now if their deeds were written with the stars, + In golden letters on the midnight sky + They would not care. They were so young, and dear, + They loved the best the things that were most near, + And gave no thought to glory far and high. + + They need no shafts of marble pure and cold-- + No painted windows radiantly bright; + Across our hearts their names are carven deep-- + In waking dreams, and in the dreams of sleep, + They bring us still ineffable delight. + + Methinks heaven's gates swing open very wide + To welcome in a host so fair and strong; + Perchance the unharmed angels as they sing, + May envy these the battle-scars they bring, + And sigh e'er they take up the triumph song! + + + + + THE SHELLS + + O my brave heart! O my strong heart! My sweet heart and gay, + The soul of me went with you the hour you marched away, + For surely she is soulless, this woman white, and still, + Who works with shining metal to make the things that kill. + + I tremble as I touch them,--so strange they are, and bright; + Each one will be a comet to break the purple night. + Grey Fear will ride before it, and Death will ride behind, + The sound of it will deafen,--the light of it will blind! + + And whom it meets in passing, but God alone will know; + Each one will blaze a trail in blood--will hew a road of woe; + O when the fear is on me, my heart grows faint and cold:-- + I dare not think of what I do,--of what my fingers hold. + + Then sounds a Voice, "Arise, and make the weapons of the Lord!" + "He rides upon the whirlwind! He hath need of shell and sword! + His army is a mighty host--the lovely and the strong,-- + They follow Him to battle, with trumpet and with Song!" + + O my brave heart! My strong heart! My sweet heart and dear,-- + 'Tis not for me to falter,--'Tis not for me to fear-- + Across the utmost barrier--wherever you may be,-- + With joy unspent, and deathless, my soul will follow thee. + + + + + THE WATCHER + + Little White Moon--Each night from Heaven you lean + To watch the lonely Seas, and all the Earth between;-- + O little shining Moon! What have you seen?-- + + What have you seen upon the fields of France, + Where through the drowsy grain, the gay red poppies dance, + Unheeding splintered gun or broken lance? + + Deep in the green-wood, shadow-laced, and still, + What is it you have found, by fern-bed and by rill? + What by each hollow--and each little hill?-- + + When o'er the sky the driven smoke-clouds flee, + And through a dusky veil look down fearfully-- + What do you find adrift upon the sea? + + In the great mountains where the four winds blow,-- + Where the King's cavalry, and his foot-soldiers go-- + What have you seen beneath the shifting snow? + + Little white Moon! So old,--so strangely bright-- + How could you still shine on, unless you knew some night + Here in the world you watch, all would be right! + + + + + OCTOBER GOES + + October goes, and its colors all pass: + At dawn there's a silver film on the grass, + And the reeds are shining as pipes of glass, + + But yesterweek where the cloud waves rolled + Down a wind-swept sky that was grey, and cold, + Sailed the hunter's moon,--a galleon of gold! + + And now in the very depth of the night + It is just a little flame, blown and white, + Or a broken-winged moth on a weary flight. + + But the steadfast trees at the forest rim, + And the pines in places scented and dim, + Still wait for one hunter, and watch for him. + + And the wind in the branches whispers, "Why?" + And the yellow leaves that go rustling by, + Say only, "Remember," and sigh,--and sigh. + + + + + DREAMS + + Keep thou thy dreams--though joy should pass thee by; + Hold to the rainbow beauty of thy thought; + It is for dreams that men will oft-times die,-- + And count the passing pain of death as nought. + + Keep though thy dreams, though faith should faint and fail, + And time should loose thy fingers from the creeds, + The vision of the Christ will still avail + To lead thee on to truth and tender deeds. + + Keep thou thy dreams all the winter's cold, + When weeds are withered, and the garden grey, + Dream thou of roses with their hearts of gold,-- + Beckon to summers that are on their way. + + Keep thou thy dreams--the tissue of all wings + Is woven first of them; from dreams are made + The precious and imperishable things, + Whose loveliness lives on, and does not fade. + + Keep thou thy dreams, intangible and dear + As the blue ether of the utmost sky,-- + A dream may lift thy spirit past all fear, + And with the great, may set thy feet on high! + + + + + BEFORE THE DAWN + + In that one darkest hour, before the dawn is here, + Each soul of us goes sailing, close to the coast of Fear. + + There in the windless quiet, from out the folded black, + The things we have forgotten--or would forget--come back. + + Old sorrows, long abandoned, or kept with lock and key, + Steal from their prison places to bear us company. + + All softly come our little sins--our scarlet sins--and gray, + To keep with us a vigil till breaking of the day. + + And there are velvet footsteps; or oft we seem to hear + Light garments brush against the dark; so near--so very near! + + Then heavily, as weighed by tears, each haunted moment goes, + For dawn steps down the morning sky, in robes of gray and rose. + + * * * * * + + O fairies of the forest-ring, and little men in green, + And pixies of the moonlight, and elves no eye hath seen, + Brew us a magic potion, of deep and fairy power, + A draught of Lethe--for one night--to tide us past that hour. + + + + + CROSSES + + All your broken war-spent heroes, + Lord of War and Grief--you pay + With a cross of moulded iron, + Hard-wrought iron cold and grey. + On the Somme you grant five thousand + And five thousand at Verdun; + At the dawn of day you count them + And at setting of the sun. + On the trampled fields of Flanders, + On the bitter roads of France, + Where the big guns chant their war-songs, + And the crimson death-lights dance, + There you count the iron crosses + Of such high and far renown,--- + Grim and grey the men who win them-- + Theirs the cross--and yours the crown;-- + + * * * * * + + But the little wooden crosses + You have given the peaceful dead, + O the little wooden crosses, + By each young low-lying head,-- + Though the tender grasses hide them, + Or they fall beneath the snows, + Not a cross shall be forgotten,-- + God Himself has counted those. + + + + + THE CRY + + They have laid him away; + Even he who was always so strong and gay + Will be locked in the earth till the judgment day; + "Dust unto dust" I have heard the priest say. + + He will never return; + Though I weep my eyes blind, though I pray and yearn,-- + Though the star-light goes out and the great suns burn + Into whitest ash,--he will never return. + + So of weeping--no more; + It is tears fill the oceans from shore to shore; + They have made the wind salt--the wind at my door; + They harm the good ground--so of weeping--no more. + + "Not again!" "Not again!" + Do you hear the sea singing that one refrain? + The pine trees, the wind and the wearysome rain + All whisper it; "Never again!"--"Not again!" + + Who can tell me--who knows, + Where his lonely soul travels? + Whither it goes?-- + Has he gone like the leaves?--Like yesterday's snows?-- + Speak, dear Lord of Death! You who died--and arose! + + + + + A WAR CHANT + + O England! Thy foe hath hated thee long, + And his hate is a deadly thing; + It was held in his heart till its growth was strong, + Now, words have woven it into a song + For little children to sing. + + It is hatred that fashioned his shot and shell, + And hatred hid death in the sea; + In hatred the cannon have sounded a knell + O'er the little homes where the peaceful dwell, + And the humble-hearted be. + + Thy foe hath swept the blue from the sky + In a fury of smoke and flame; + His guns are not stilled where the wounded lie,-- + He hath shown no pity to those who die + For the glory of his name. + + He sealed his hate with the blood of his men-- + O, the young in their coats of grey!-- + They are cast aside, and in river, and fen, + Deep-hidden, where none will find them again + Till the last white judgment day. + + Now mirth is forgotten and joy is dead; + The world hath accepted its pain; + Still, over old battlefields, newly red, + The shattered ranks of his army are led + In pomp and a high disdain. + + Thy anger grows slowly, for thou art great, + O England! thou well beloved land; + When its tide is full-risen, then thou art Fate,-- + And the angel who stands before the gate, + The sword of flame in his hand! + + + + + WHEN JONQUILS BLOW + + When jonquils blow I think of one + Who sleeps beneath the green; + And all the light and song of life + And all the golden sheen + Turn cold and still before my eyes, + While pearl-edged boughs of May + Seen through a sudden mist of tears + Are rimmed with ashen-gray. + + + + + TO ONE WHO SLEEPS + + Fare not too far, my own, + Down ways all strange and new, + For I must find alone, + The road that leads to you. + + Enchantments may arise + To lure thy little feet, + And charm thy wondering eyes;-- + Yet;--wait for me, my sweet! + + Already Earth doth seem + A phantom place to me, + And thy far home of dream, + Is my reality. + + So this is just "good night";-- + Some stars will rise and wane, + But sure as comes the light, + I'll be with thee again!-- + + + + + THE SEA + + The sea is just a cradle wide and deep,-- + A cradle that the moon rocks to and fro; + What peace they find who there fall fast asleep, + What lovely dreams,--'Tis not for us to know. + + But God hath sent the angel of the sea + To sing to them an endless lullaby; + And that they may not dread night's mystery, + He lights for them the candles of the sky. + + They are infolded by the silken waves, + And wrapped in shining blue, and emerald green; + They drift through opalescent ocean caves, + That only God Himself hath ever seen. + + The great salt wind that no man holds in thrall, + Touches them softly, as it passes by;-- + I think the silver sea gulls know them all, + And greet them with their lonely tender cry. + + For but a little little round of years, + The sweet sun-sprinkled foam will be their bed, + And they will slumber--hushed from any fears-- + To waken, when the sea gives up her dead. + + + + + COMRADES + + O mighty men of England + Who sleep on land and sea, + How swiftly you would join our ranks + If Death could set you free! + + How gladly would they greet you, + The young--the brave--the gay,-- + If you came from your long-sealed graves, + To march with them to-day. + + O you would know each other,-- + And meet as friend, with friend,-- + And fight, and smile, and jest at Death, + Until the battles end! + + + + + REQUIEM + + Weep for the dead; weep for the swift slain dead, + November skies; + Too few the tears that day and night are shed + From women's eyes. + + Blow o'er them lightly with a soft caress, + Wind of the sea, + If you are tender they may miss love less-- + Where e'er they be. + + Come, gentle moon, swing low your lantern light + On reddened fields, + And find the lonely harvest of the night + That battle yields. + + Banish the darkness filled with quivering dread, + Lest they should know + Some last strange horror--even they--the dead-- + Sweet moon, swing low. + + Fold them at dawn, dear earth, within your arms + So safe and strong: + Hold them asleep till they forget alarms, + And woe and wrong. + + Master of Kings! If peace be bought with pain + These paid the price; + O show Thy tortured world that not in vain + Is sacrifice! + + + + + LAMENT + + Here in my garden where the tulips grow + I walk alone; + Dim are my eyes with tears, my feet are slow + My heart is stone; + Though all the lovely earth again for me + New sweetness yields + It matters not,--only the dead I see + On battlefields. + + Only the dead I see,--and strangely bright + Their faces shine + As though the God of Glory in the night + Had made them fine. + Place for the victors! 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