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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! Stoop my soul to touch + Their tunics hem,-- + 'Tis those they loved who need tears overmuch + O weep for them! + + + + + + + + + + + +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.txt or 36618.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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