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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: Songs Ysame + +Author: Annie Fellows Johnston + Albion Fellows Bacon + +Release Date: March 3, 2012 [EBook #39032] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONGS YSAME *** + + + + +Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i">[i]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 310px;"> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="310" height="500" alt="Cover" title="" /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii">[ii]</a></span></p> +<h1>SONGS YSAME</h1> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><div class='bbox'> +<div class='adtitle2'><div class='center'><b>Dainty Volumes of Poetry</b></div></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 25px;"> +<img src="images/booklist.png" width="25" height="27" alt="decoration" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='center'><b>Price, per volume, $1.25</b></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 25px;"> +<img src="images/booklist.png" width="25" height="27" alt="decoration" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='unindent'><br /><b>GOLDEN TREASURY OF AMERICAN SONGS AND LYRICS.</b></div> + +<div class='center'>Edited by <span class="smcap">F. 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PAGE AND COMPANY<br /> +<span class='small'>(INCORPORATED)</span><br /> +MDCCCXCVII<br /></div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_v" id="Page_v">[v]</a></span></p> + + + + +<div class='copyright'> +<i>Copyright, 1897</i>,<br /> +<span class="smcap">By L. C. Page and Company</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class='small'>(INCORPORATED)</span><br /> +<br /><br /> +<b>Colonial Press:</b><br /> + +<span class='small'>Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.</span><br /> +<span class='small'>Boston, Mass., U. S. A.</span><br /> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi">[vi]</a></span></p> + + + + +<div class='center'> +TO<br /> +<br /> +<b>Our Mother</b><br /> +<span class="smcap">Mary Erskine Fellows</span><br /> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">[vii]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2>CONTENTS.</h2> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents"> +<tr><td align='center'>ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'><span class='small'>PAGE</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a><span class="smcap">At a Tenement Window</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_53">53</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a><span class="smcap">At Early Candle-lighting</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Banditti</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_65">65</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a>"<span class="smcap">Bob White</span>"</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_25">25</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Echoes from Erin</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Elinor</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_114">114</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a><span class="smcap">Felipa, Wife of Columbus</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_60">60</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Interlude</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_79">79</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">In this Cradle-life of Ours</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_74">74</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">My Carol</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">October</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_88">88</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">On a Fly-leaf of "Afterwhiles"</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_118">118</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">On a Fly-leaf of "Flute and Violin" </span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_115">115</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Prelude (Now I Can Sing, etc.)</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_xiii">xiii</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Retrospection</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_45">45</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Spendthrift</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_67">67</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Fickle Heart</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_64">64</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Legend of the Pansies</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_102">102</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_viii" id="Page_viii">[viii]</a></span><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a><span class="smcap">Through an Amber Pane</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_50">50</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Trailing Arbutus</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_100">100</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">'Twixt Creek and Bay</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_62">62</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Voices of the Old, Old Days</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'><br />ALBION FELLOWS BACON.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">A Madrigal</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_98">98</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a name="FNanchor_C_3" id="FNanchor_C_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_C_3" class="fnanchor">[C]</a><span class="smcap">A Mood</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_101">101</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">A Resolve</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_123">123</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">A Song</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_55">55</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">An Alpine Valley</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">An Old-time Pedagogue</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_31">31</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">At Last</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_125">125</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">At Twilight</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_90">90</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Chiaro-Oscuro</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_120">120</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Eclipse</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_57">57</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Elizabeth</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_113">113</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Grandfather</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Her Title-deeds</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Here and There</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_75">75</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">In the Dark</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_58">58</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Inspiration</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_116">116</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Left Out</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_95">95</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Lost</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_69">69</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">May-time</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_84">84</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Married</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_108">108</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_ix" id="Page_ix">[ix]</a></span><span class="smcap">Motherhood</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_109">109</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>"<span class="smcap">Oh, Dreary Day</span>"</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_83">83</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">On a Fly-leaf of Irving</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_117">117</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Ophelia</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_111">111</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>"<span class="smcap">Our Father</span>"</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_97">97</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Prelude (We Cannot Sing, etc.)</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_xiii">xiii</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Requiem</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_112">112</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Silent Keys</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_41">41</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Spring's Cophetua</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_86">86</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Stranded</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_124">124</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Sufficiency</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_110">110</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Lighting of the Candles</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Milky Way</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_76">76</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Old Bell</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_106">106</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Old Church</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_29">29</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Potter's Field</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_93">93</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Prophet</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_91">91</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Robber</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_70">70</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Sea</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_107">107</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Silent Brotherhood</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_66">66</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Time o' Day</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_99">99</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Tower of Babel</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_104">104</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Winter Beauty</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_87">87</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">When Youth is Gone</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_63">63</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">When She Comes Home</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_122">122</a></td></tr> +</table><br /><br /></div> +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> By permission of <i>Youth's Companion</i>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_B_2" id="Footnote_B_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_B_2"><span class="label">[B]</span></a> By permission of <i>Harper's Weekly</i>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_C_3" id="Footnote_C_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_C_3"><span class="label">[C]</span></a> By permission of <i>Frank Leslie</i>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_x" id="Page_x">[x]</a></span></p></div> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xiii" id="Page_xiii">[xiii]</a></span></p> +<h2>PRELUDE.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +<i>WE cannot sing of life, whose years are brief,<br /> +Nor sad heart-stories tell, who know no grief,<br /> +Nor write of shipwrecks on the seas of Fate,<br /> +Whose ship from out the harbor sailed but late.<br /> +But we may sing of fair and sunny days,<br /> +Of Love that walks in peace through quiet ways;<br /> +And unto him who turns the page to see<br /> +Our simple story, haply it may be<br /> +As when in some mild day in early spring,<br /> +One through the budding woods goes wandering;<br /> +And finds, where late the snow has blown across,<br /> +Beneath the leaves, a violet in the moss.</i><br /> + + +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>1887.</i></span> + + +<i>A. F. B.</i><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> +</div></div> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +<i>NOW I can sing of life, whose days are brief,<br /> +For I have walked close hand in hand with grief.<br /> +And I may tell of shipwrecked hopes, since mine<br /> +Sank just outside the happy harbor line.<br /> +But still my song is of those sunny days<br /> +When Love was with me in those quiet ways.<br /> +And unto him who turns the page to see<br /> +That day's short story, haply it may be,<br /> +The joy of those old memories he feels:<br /> +As one who through the wintry twilight steals,<br /> +And sees, across the chilly wastes of snow,<br /> +The darkened sunset's rosy afterglow.</i><br /> + + +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>1892.</i></span> +<i>A. F. J.</i><br /></div></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_xiv" id="Page_xiv">[xiv]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span></p> +<h2>PART I.</h2> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>SONGS YSAME</h2> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>The Lighting of the Candles.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +WHENCE came the ember<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That touched our young souls' candles first with light;</span><br /> +In shadowy years, too distant to remember,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Where childhood merges backward into night?</span><br /> +<br /> +I know not, but the halo of those tapers<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Has ever since around all nature shone;</span><br /> +And we have looked at life through golden vapors<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Because of that one ember touch alone.</span><br /> +</div></div> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span></p> + +<h2>At Early Candle-Lighting.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +THOSE, who have heard the whispered breath<br /> +Of Nature's secret "Shibboleth,"<br /> +And learned the pass-word to unroll<br /> +The veil that hides her inmost soul,<br /> +May follow; but this by-path leads<br /> +Through mullein stalks and jimson-weeds.<br /> +And he who scorning treads them down<br /> +Would deem but poor and common-place<br /> +Those whom he'll meet in homespun gown.<br /> +But they who lovingly retrace<br /> +Their steps to scenes I dream about,<br /> +Will find the latch-string hanging out.<br /> +With them I claim companionship,<br /> +And for them burn my tallow-dip,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">At early candle-lighting.</span><br /> +<br /> +To these low hills, around which cling<br /> +My fondest thoughts, I would not bring<br /> +An alien eye long used to sights<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span>Among the snow-crowned Alpine heights.<br /> +An eagle does not bend its wing<br /> +To low-built nests where robins sing.<br /> +Between the fence's zigzag rails,<br /> +The stranger sees the road that trails<br /> +Its winding way into the dark,<br /> +Fern-scented woods. He does not mark<br /> +The old log cabin at the end<br /> +As I, or hail it as a friend,<br /> +Or catch, when daylight's last rays wane,<br /> +The glimmer through its narrow pane<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Of early candle-lighting.</span><br /> +<br /> +As anglers sit and half in dream<br /> +Dip lazy lines into the stream,<br /> +And watch the swimming life below,<br /> +So I watch pictures come and go.<br /> +And in the flame, Alladin-wise,<br /> +See genii of the past arise.<br /> +If it be so that common things<br /> +Can fledge your fancy with fast wings;<br /> +If you the language can translate<br /> +Of lowly life, and make it great,<br /> +And can the beauty understand<br /> +That dignifies a toil-worn hand,<br /> +Look in this halo, and see how<br /> +The homely seems transfigured now<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 2em;">At early candle-lighting.</span><br /> +<br /> +A fire-place where the great logs roar<br /> +And shine across the puncheon floor,<br /> +And through the chinked walls, here and there,<br /> +The snow steals, and the frosty air.<br /> +Meager and bare the furnishings,<br /> +But hospitality that kings<br /> +Might well dispense, transmutes to gold,<br /> +The welcome given young and old.<br /> +Plain and uncouth in speech and dress,<br /> +But richly clad in kindliness,<br /> +The neighbors gather, one by one,<br /> +At rustic rout when day is done.<br /> +Vanish all else in this soft light,—<br /> +The past is ours again tonight;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">'Tis early candle-lighting.</span><br /> +<br /> +Oh, well-remembered scenes like these:<br /> +The candy-pullings, husking-bees—<br /> +The evenings when the quilting frames<br /> +Were laid aside for romping games;<br /> +The singing school! The spelling match!<br /> +My hand still lingers on the latch,<br /> +I fain would wider swing the door<br /> +And enter with the guests once more.<br /> +Though into ashes long ago<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span>That fire faded, still the glow<br /> +That warmed the hearts around it met,<br /> +Immortal, burns within me yet.<br /> +Still to that cabin in the wood<br /> +I turn for highest types of good<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">At early candle-lighting.</span><br /> +<br /> +How fast the scenes come flocking to<br /> +My mind, as white sheep jostle through<br /> +The gap, when pasture bars are down,<br /> +And pass into the twilight brown.<br /> +Grandmother's face and snowy cap,<br /> +The knitting work upon her lap,<br /> +The creaking, high-backed rocking-chair;<br /> +The <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'spining'">spinning</ins>-wheel, the big loom where<br /> +The shuttle carried song and thread;<br /> +The valance on the high, white bed<br /> +Whose folds the lavender still keep.<br /> +Oh! nowhere else such dreamless sleep<br /> +On tired eyes its deep spell lays,<br /> +As that which came in those old days<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">At early candle-lighting.</span><br /> +<br /> +A kitchen lit by one dim light,<br /> +And 'round the table in affright,<br /> +A group of children telling tales.<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span>Outside, the wind—a banshee—wails.<br /> +Even the shadows, that they throw<br /> +Upon the walls, to giants grow.<br /> +The hailstones 'gainst the window panes<br /> +Fall with the noise of clanking chains,<br /> +Till, glancing back, they almost feel<br /> +Black shapes from out the corners steal,<br /> +And, climbing to the loft o'erhead,<br /> +The witches follow them to bed.<br /> +The low flame flickers. Snuff the wick!<br /> +For ghosts and goblins crowd so thick<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">At early candle-lighting.</span><br /> +<br /> +An orchard path that tramping feet<br /> +For half a century have beat;<br /> +Here to the fields at sun-up went<br /> +The reapers. Here, on errands sent,<br /> +Small bare-feet loitered, loath to go.<br /> +Here apple-boughs dropped blooming snow,<br /> +Through garden borders gaily set<br /> +With touch-me-nots and bouncing Bet;<br /> +Here passed at dusk the harvester<br /> +With quickened step and pulse astir<br /> +At sight of some one's fluttering gown,<br /> +Who stood with sunbonnet pulled down<br /> +And called the cows. Ah, in a glance<br /> +One reads that simple, old romance<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 2em;">At early candle-lighting.</span><br /> +<br /> +One picture more. A winter day<br /> +Just done, and supper cleared away.<br /> +The romping children quiet grow,<br /> +And in the reverent silence, slow<br /> +The old man turns the sacred page,<br /> +Guide of his life and staff of age.<br /> +And then, the while my eyes grow dim,<br /> +The mother's voice begins a hymn:<br /> +"<i>Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer<br /> +That calls me from a world of care!</i>"<br /> +What wonder from those cabins rude<br /> +Came lives of stalwart rectitude,<br /> +When hearth-stones were the altars where<br /> +Arose the vestal flame of prayer<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">At early candle-lighting.</span><br /> +<br /> +No crumbling castle walls are ours,<br /> +No ruined battlements and towers.<br /> +Our history, on callow wings,<br /> +Soared not in time of feudal kings;<br /> +No strolling minstrel's roundelay<br /> +Tells of past glory in decay,<br /> +But rugged life of pioneer<br /> +Has passed away among us here;<br /> +And as the ivy tendrils grow<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span>About the ancient turrets, so<br /> +The influence of its sturdy truth<br /> +Shall live in never-ending youth,<br /> +When simple customs of its day<br /> +Have, long-forgotten, passed away<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">With early candle-lighting.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span></p> +<h2>Bob White.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +JUST now, beyond the turmoil and the din<br /> +Of crowded streets that city walls shut in,<br /> +I heard the whistle of a quail begin:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">"Bob White! Bob White!"</span><br /> +So faintly and far away falling<br /> +It seemed that a dream voice was calling<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">"Bob White! Bob White!"</span><br /> +How the old sights and sounds come thronging<br /> +And thrill me with a sudden longing!<br /> +<br /> +Through quiet country lanes the sunset shines.<br /> +Fence corners where the wild rose climbs and twines,<br /> +And blooms in tangled black-berry vines,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">"Bob White! Bob White!"</span><br /> +I envy yon home-going swallow,<br /> +Oh, but swiftly to rise and follow—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Follow its flight,</span><br /> +Follow it back with happy flying,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span>Where green-clad hills are calmly lying.<br /> +<br /> +Wheat fields whose golden silences are stirred<br /> +By whirring insect wings, and naught is heard<br /> +But plaintive callings of that one sweet word,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">"Bob White! Bob White!"</span><br /> +And a smell of the clover growing<br /> +In the meadow lands ripe for mowing,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">All red and white.</span><br /> +Over the shady creek comes sailing,<br /> +Past willows in the water trailing.<br /> +<br /> +Tired heart, 'tis but in dreams I turn my feet,<br /> +Again to wander in the ripening wheat<br /> +And hear the whistle of the quail repeat<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">"Bob White! Bob White!"</span><br /> +But oh! there is joy in the knowing<br /> +That somewhere green pastures are growing,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Though out of sight.</span><br /> +And the light on those church spires dying,<br /> +On the old home meadow is lying.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span></p> +<h2>Grandfather.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +HOW broad and deep was the fireplace old,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the great hearth-stone how wide!</span><br /> +There was always room for the old man's chair<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">By the cosy chimney side,</span><br /> +And all the children that cared to crowd<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">At his knee in the evening-tide.</span><br /> +<br /> +Room for all of the homeless ones<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Who had nowhere else to go;</span><br /> +They might bask at ease in the grateful warmth<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And sun in the cheerful glow,</span><br /> +For Grandfather's heart was as wide and warm<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As the old fireplace, I know.</span><br /> +<br /> +And he always found at his well-spread board<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Just room for another chair;</span><br /> +There was always rest for another head<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">On the pillow of his care;</span><br /> +There was always place for another name<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">In his trustful morning prayer.</span><br /> +<br /> +Oh, crowded world with your jostling throngs!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">How narrow you grow, and small;</span><br /> +How cold, like a shadow across the heart,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Your selfishness seems to fall,</span><br /> +When I think of that fireplace warm and wide,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the welcome awaiting all.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span></p> +<h2>The Old Church.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +CLOSE to the road it stood among the trees,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The old, bare church, with windows small and high,</span><br /> +And open doors that gave, on meeting day,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A welcome to the careless passer by.</span><br /> +<br /> +Its straight, uncushioned seats, how hard they seemed!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">What penance-doing form they always wore</span><br /> +To little heads that could not reach the text,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And little feet that could not reach the floor.</span><br /> +<br /> +What wonder that we hailed with strong delight<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The buzzing wasp, slow sailing down the aisle,</span><br /> +Or, sunk in sin, beguiled the constant fly<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">From weary heads, to make our neighbors smile.</span><br /> +<br /> +How softly from the churchyard came the breeze<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That stirred the cedar boughs with scented wings,</span><br /> +And gently fanned the sleeper's heated brow<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or fluttered Grandma Barlow's bonnet strings.</span><br /> +<br /> +With half-shut eyes, across the pulpit bent,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The preacher droned in soothing tones about</span><br /> +Some theme, that like the narrow windows high,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Took in the sky, but left terrestrials out.</span><br /> +<br /> +Good, worthy man, his work on earth is done;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">His place is lost, the old church passed away;</span><br /> +And with them, when they went, there must have gone<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That sweet, bright calm, my childhood's Sabbath day.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span></p> +<h2>An Old-Time Pedagogue.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +SLOWLY adown the village street<br /> +With groping cane and faltering feet,<br /> +He goes each day through cold or heat—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Old Daddy Hight.</span><br /> +His hair is scant upon his head,<br /> +His eyes are dim, his nose is red,<br /> +And yet, his mien is stern and dread—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Old Daddy Hight.</span><br /> +<br /> +The village lads his form descry<br /> +While yet afar, and boldly cry—<br /> +(For bears are scarce and rods are high)<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">"Old Daddy Hight!"</span><br /> +But when their fathers meet his glance,<br /> +They nod and smile and look askance.<br /> +He taught them once the Modoc dance—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Old Daddy Hight.</span><br /> +<br /> +How long we cling to servitude,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span>How long we keep the schoolboy's mood!<br /> +Still seems with awful power endued—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Old Daddy Hight.</span><br /> +They feel a cringing of the knee,<br /> +Those fathers, yet, whene'er they see<br /> +Adown the walk pace solemnly—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Old Daddy Hight.</span><br /> +<br /> +Wide is his fame, of how he taught,<br /> +And how he flogged, and reckoned naught<br /> +The toils and pains that knowledge bought—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Old Daddy Hight.</span><br /> +He had no lack of "ways and means"<br /> +To track the loiterers on the greens;<br /> +He scorned all counterfeits and screens—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Old Daddy Hight.</span><br /> +<br /> +Oh, dire the day that brewed mishap!<br /> +That brought to luckless back his strap,<br /> +To hanging head his Dunce's cap—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Old Daddy Hight.</span><br /> +No blotted page dared meet his eye;<br /> +The owner quaked and wished to die,<br /> +When rod in hand, with wrath strode by—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Old Daddy Hight.</span><br /> +<br /> +He helped them up the thorny steep<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span>Of wisdom's path with pain to creep,<br /> +With vigilance that might not sleep—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Old Daddy Hight.</span><br /> +Now, down his life's long, slow decline,<br /> +He walks alone at eighty-nine—<br /> +The last of his illustrious line—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Old Daddy Hight.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span></p> +<h2>Her Title-Deeds.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +INSIDE the cottage door she sits,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Just where the sunlight, softest there,</span><br /> +Slants down on snowy kerchief's bands,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">On folded hands and silvered hair.</span><br /> +<br /> +The garden pale her world shuts in,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A simple world made sweet with thyme,</span><br /> +Where life, soft lulled by droning bees,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Flows to the mill-stream's lapsing rhyme.</span><br /> +<br /> +Poor are her cottage walls, and bare;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Too mean and small to harbor pride,</span><br /> +Yet with a musing gaze she sees<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Her broad domains extending wide.</span><br /> +<br /> +Green slopes of hills, and waving fields,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">With blooming hedges set between,</span><br /> +Through shifting veils of tender mist,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Smile, half revealed, a mingled scene.</span><br /> +<br /> +All hers, for lovingly she holds<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A yellow packet in her hand,</span><br /> +Whose ancient, faded script proclaims<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Her title to this spreading land.</span><br /> +<br /> +Old letters! On the trembling page<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Drop unawares, unheeded tears.</span><br /> +These are her title-deeds, her lands<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Spread through the realms of by-gone years.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span></p><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span></p> +<h2>INTERLUDES.</h2> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Voices of the Old, Old Days.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +OH, voices of the old, old days,<br /> +Speak once again to me,<br /> +I walk alone the old, old ways<br /> +And miss your melody.<br /> +To-night I close my tired eyes<br /> +And hear the rain drip slow,<br /> +And dream a hand is on my brow<br /> +That pressed it long ago.<br /> +<br /> +My thoughts stray through the lonely night<br /> +Until I seem to see<br /> +Home faces, in the firelight,<br /> +That always smiled on me.<br /> +Those shadows dancing on the walls<br /> +Are not by embers cast,<br /> +They are the forms my heart recalls<br /> +From out the happy past.<br /> +<br /> +Forgotten is the gathering gloom,<br /> +The night's deep loneliness,<br /> +As round me in the silent room<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span>With noiseless tread they press.<br /> +Though in the dark the rain sobs on,<br /> +I heed its sound no more;<br /> +For voices of the old, old days<br /> +Are calling as of yore.<br /> +</div></div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span></p> + + + +<h2>Silent Keys.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +AS we would touch with soft caress the brow<br /> +Of one who dreams, the spell of sleep to break,<br /> +Across the yellowed keys I sweep my hand,<br /> +The old, remembered music to awake;<br /> +But something drops from out those melodies—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">There are some silent keys.</span><br /> +<br /> +So is it when I call to those I loved,<br /> +Who blessed my life with tender care and fond:<br /> +So is it with those early dreams and hopes,<br /> +Some voices answer and some notes respond,<br /> +But in the chords that I would strike, like these,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">There are some silent keys.</span><br /> +<br /> +Heart, dost thou hear not in those pauses fall<br /> +A still, small voice that speaks to thee of peace?<br /> +What though some hopes may fail, some dreams be lost,<br /> +Though sometimes happy music break and cease.<br /> +We might miss part of heaven's minstrelsies<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">But for these silent keys.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span></p><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span></p> +<h2>PART II.</h2> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Retrospection.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +THE grandsire, in the chimney corner, takes<br /> +The almanac from its accustomed place,<br /> +And while the kettle swings upon the crane,<br /> +And firelight flickers on his wrinkled face,<br /> +Reviews the slow procession of the months;<br /> +And sees again upon the hills of green<br /> +The gypsy Springtime pitch her airy tent<br /> +Among the blossoms. Then the silver sheen<br /> +Of harvest moon shines down on rustling corn<br /> +Until the hazy air of Autumn thrills<br /> +With sound of woodman's ax and hunter's horn,<br /> +And darker shadows climb the russet hills.<br /> +<br /> +But while he ponders on the open page,<br /> +The last sand in the hour-glass slips away.<br /> +The end seems near of his long pilgrimage,<br /> +And he would call the fleeting year to stay.<br /> +But passing on, she goes—a sweet-faced nun—<br /> +To take within the Convent of the Past<br /> +The veil of silence. Then the gates swing shut,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span>And Time, the grim old warden, bolts them fast.<br /> +No more can come again those halcyon days<br /> +The Year took with it to its dim-lit cell;<br /> +But often at the bars they stand and gaze,<br /> +When through the heart rings memory's matin-bell.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span></p> +<h2>Echoes From Erin.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +ACROSS old Purple Mountain I hear a bugle call,<br /> +And down the rocks, like water, the echoes leap and fall.<br /> +One note alone can startle the voices of the peaks,<br /> +And waken songs of Erin, whene'er the bugle speaks.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">They call and call and call,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Until the voices all</span><br /> +Ring down the dusky hollows and in the distance fall.<br /> +<br /> +Methinks, like Purple Mountain, the past will sometimes rise,<br /> +And memory's call awaken its echoing replies.<br /> +Within the tower of Shandon again the bells will sway,<br /> +And follow, with their ringing, the Lee upon its way,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And chime and chime and chime,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Where ivy tendrils climb,</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span>Till bells and river mingle to sound the silvery rhyme.<br /> +<br /> +Again the daisied grasses beside the castle walls<br /> +Will stir with softest sighing, to hear the wind's footfalls;<br /> +And through the moss-grown abbey, along Killarney's shore,<br /> +The melodies of Erin will echo evermore,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And roll and roll and roll,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Till spirit hands shall toll</span><br /> +The music of the uplands unto the listening soul.<br /> +</div></div> + +<div class='place'><i>Killarney, Ireland.</i></div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span></p> +<h2>An Alpine Valley.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +OH, happy valley at the mountain's feet,<br /> +If half your happiness you could but know!<br /> +Though over you a shadow always falls,<br /> +And far above you rise those heights of snow,<br /> +So far, your yearning love you may not speak<br /> +With rosy flush like some high sister peak,<br /> +Yet you may clasp its feet in fond embrace,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And gaze up in its face.</span><br /> +<br /> +And sometimes down its slopes a wind will come<br /> +And bring a sudden, noiseless sweep of snow,<br /> +Like a soft greeting from those summits sent<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">To comfort you below.</span><br /> +<br /> +What more? Love may not ask too great a boon.<br /> +Enough to be so near, though cast so low.<br /> +Think that a sea had rolled between you twain<br /> +If careless fortune had decreed it so,<br /> +And you could only lie and look across<br /> +To distant cloudy heights and know your loss,<br /> +And see some favored valley, fair and sweet,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Heap flowers at its feet.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<div class='place'><i>Cham, Switzerland.</i></div> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span></p> + +<h2>Through an Amber Pane.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +BY some strange alchemy that turns to gold<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The light that drops from gray and leaden skies,</span><br /> +Though heavy mists the outer world enfold,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">'Tis always sunshine where Napoleon lies.</span><br /> +No more an exile by an alien sea,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Forgetful of the banishment and bane;</span><br /> +Now lies he there, in kingly dignity,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">His tomb a Mecca shrine beside the Seine.</span><br /> +And there the pilgrim hears the story told,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">How Paris placed above her hero, dead,</span><br /> +A window that should turn to yellow gold<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The light that on his resting place is shed.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">So on him falls, though summers wane,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The sunshine of that amber pane.</span><br /> +<br /> +By some strange miracle, maybe divine,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The sunlight falls upon the buried past</span><br /> +And turns its water into sparkling wine,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And gilds the coin its coffers have amassed.</span><br /> +Could it have been those long-lost halcyon days<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Trailed not a cloud across our April sky?</span><br /> +Faltered we not along those untried ways?<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Grew we not weary as the days went by?</span><br /> +Ah, yes! But unreturning feet forget<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Rough places trodden in the long ago,</span><br /> +Rememb'ring only paths with flowers beset,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">While pressing onward, wearily and slow.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">For Memory's windows but retain</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The sunshine of an amber pane.</span><br /> +<br /> +The little white, wind-blown anemone<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">By one round dewdrop may be fully filled,</span><br /> +And by some light-winged, passing honey-bee<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Its cup of crystal water may be spilled.</span><br /> +So does the child heart hold its happiness:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A drop will fill it to its rosy rim.</span><br /> +It is not that these later days bring less,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That joy so rarely rises to the brim;</span><br /> +It is because the heart has deeper grown.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A fuller knowledge must its thirst assuage.</span><br /> +Perhaps we would not deem those pleasures flown<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As bright as those which star the present age,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Had not upon them long years lain</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The sunshine of an amber pane.</span><br /> +<br /> +The dust of dim forgetfulness piles fast<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Upon the chains that thralled us yesterday.</span><br /> +So will it be when this day, too, is past,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">And in its arms we've seen it bear away</span><br /> +The cares that brooded in the tired brain;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The work that weighted down the weary hand;</span><br /> +The high hopes that we struggled to attain;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The problems that we could not understand.</span><br /> +Washed of its stain, bereft of any sting,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Seen through the window of the Memory,</span><br /> +Perchance, a gentler grace to it may cling<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Than we may now think possible to see.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">For skies will gleam, though gray with rain,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Like sunshine through that amber pane.</span><br /> +<br /> +We may not stand on Patmos, and look through<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The star-hinged portals where the great pearls gleam.</span><br /> +No brush that unveiled beauty ever drew,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Save one, that caught its shadow in a dream.</span><br /> +So lest we falter, faithless and afraid,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The Merciful, remembering we are dust,</span><br /> +Reveals not heaven for which our hearts have prayed,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">But by a token teaches us to trust;</span><br /> +And day by day allows us to look through<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The window of the Memory, broad and vast,</span><br /> +(Till jasper minarets rise into view)<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Upon the happy heaven of the past;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And gives, till purer light we gain,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The sunshine of that amber pane.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span></p> +<h2>At a Tenement Window.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +SOMETIMES my needle stops with half-drawn thread<br /> +(Not often though, each moment's waste means bread,<br /> +And missing stitches leave the little mouths unfed).<br /> +I look down on the dingy court below:<br /> +A tuft of grass is all it has to show,—<br /> +A broken pump, where thirsty children go.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Above, there shines a bit of sky, so small</span><br /> +That it might be a passing blue-bird's wing.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">One tree leans up against the high brick wall,</span><br /> +And there the sparrows twitter of the spring,<br /> +Until they waken in my heart a cry<br /> +Of hunger, that no bread can satisfy.<br /> +<br /> +Always before, when Maytime took her way<br /> +Across the fields, I followed close. To-day<br /> +I can but dream of all her bright array.<br /> +My work drops down. Across the sill I lean,<br /> +And long with bitter longing, for unseen<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span>Rain-freshened paths, where budding woods grow green.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The water trickles from the pump below</span><br /> +Upon the stones. With eyes half shut, I hear<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">It falling in a pool where rushes grow,</span><br /> +And feel a cooling presence drawing near.<br /> +And now the sparrows chirp again. No, hark!—<br /> +A singing as of some far meadow lark.<br /> +<br /> +It is the same old miracle applied<br /> +Unto myself, that on the mountain-side<br /> +The few small loaves and fishes multiplied.<br /> +Behold, how strange and sweet the mystery!<br /> +The birds, the broken pump, the gnarled tree,<br /> +Have brought the fullness of the spring to me.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For in the leaves that rustle by the wall</span><br /> +All forests find a tongue. And so that grass<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Can, with its struggling tuft of green, recall</span><br /> +Wide, bloom-filled meadows where the cattle pass.<br /> +How it can be, but dimly I divine.<br /> +These crumbs, God given, make the whole loaf mine.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span></p> +<h2>A Song.</h2> + +<div class='center'> +"Home-keeping hearts are happiest."—<span class="smcap">Longfellow.</span><br /> +<br /><br /></div> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +THERE will be distant journeyings enough<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To reach that Land beyond the ether's sea,</span><br /> +To satisfy the veriest roaming heart,—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Let me stay home with thee!</span><br /> +<br /> +There will be new companionships enough<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">In that bright spirit-life. Why should we flee</span><br /> +So soon to alien hearts and stranger scenes?<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I would stay home with thee.</span><br /> +<br /> +The heart grows homesick, thinking of the change<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When these familiar things no more shall be;</span><br /> +When e'en the thought of them, perchance, shall fade,—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Let me stay home with thee.</span><br /> +<br /> +I would imprint upon my mind each scene,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Each meadow path, and stream, and orchard-tree,</span><br /> +Beloved since childhood, holy with our hopes,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Sweet with the thoughts of thee.</span><br /> +<br /> +And each dear household place, let me learn all<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">By heart, where I am wont thy form to see.</span><br /> +Who knows what things shall pass? If I may share<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A hearth in heaven with thee?</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span></p> +<h2>Eclipse.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +GOD keep us from the sordid mood<br /> +That shrinks to self-infinitude,<br /> +That sees no thing as good or grand,<br /> +That answers not the hour's demand,<br /> +And throws o'er Heaven's splendors furled<br /> +The shadow of our little world.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span></p> +<h2>In the Dark.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +HERE in the dark I lie, and watch the stars<br /> +That through the soft gloom shine like tear-bright eyes<br /> +Behind a mourner's veil. The darkness seems<br /> +Almost a vapor, palpable and dense,<br /> +In which my room's familiar outlines melt,<br /> +And all seems one black pall that folds me round.<br /> +Only a mirror glimmers through the dusk,<br /> +And on the wall a dim, uncertain square<br /> +Shows where a portrait hangs. Ah, even so<br /> +Beloved faces fade into the past<br /> +And naught remains except a space of light<br /> +To show us where they were.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14em;">How still it seems!</span><br /> +The busy clock, whose tell-tale talk was drowned<br /> +By Day's uproarious voices, calls aloud,<br /> +Undaunted by the dark, the flight of time,<br /> +And through the halls its tones ring drearily.<br /> +The breeze on tiptoe seems to tread, as though<br /> +It were afraid to rouse the drowsy leaves.<br /> +The long, dim street is quiet. Nothing breaks<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span>The dream of Night, asleep on Nature's breast.<br /> +Hark! Some one passes. On the pavement stones<br /> +Each stealthy step gives back a muffled sound,<br /> +Till the last foot-fall seems in distance drowned.<br /> +So Death might pass, bent on his mission dread,<br /> +Adown the silent street, and none might know<br /> +What hour he passed or what he bore away.<br /> +Ah, sadder thought! So Life goes, unawares,<br /> +Noiseless and swift and resolutely on,<br /> +While the dumb world lies folded in the gloom,<br /> +Unconscious and uncaring in its sleep.<br /> +And towards the west, the stars, all silently<br /> +Like golden sands in God's great hour-glass, glide<br /> +And fall into the nether crystal globe.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span></p> +<h2>Felipa, Wife of Columbus.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +MORE than the compass to the mariner,<br /> +Wast thou, Felipa, to his dauntless soul.<br /> +Through adverse winds that threatened wreck, and nights<br /> +Of rayless gloom, thou pointed ever to<br /> +The North Star of his great ambition. He<br /> +Who once has lost an Eden, or has gained<br /> +A paradise by Eve's sweet influence,<br /> +Alone can know how strong a spell lies in<br /> +The witchery of a woman's beckoning hand.<br /> +And thou didst draw him, tide-like, higher still,<br /> +Felipa, whispering the lessons learned<br /> +From thy courageous father, till the flood<br /> +Of his ambition burst all barriers<br /> +And swept him onward to his longed-for goal.<br /> +<br /> +Before the jewels of a Spanish queen<br /> +Built fleets to waft him on his untried way,<br /> +Thou gavest thy wealth of wifely sympathy<br /> +To build the lofty purpose of his soul.<br /> +And now the centuries have cycled by,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span>Till thou art all-forgotten by the throng<br /> +That lauds the great Pathfinder of the deep.<br /> +It matters not in that infinitude<br /> +Of space, where thou dost guide thy spirit-bark<br /> +To undiscovered lands, supremely fair.<br /> +If to this little planet thou couldst turn<br /> +And voyage, wraithlike, to its cloud-hung rim,<br /> +Thou wouldst not care for praise. And if, perchance,<br /> +Some hand held out to thee a laurel bough,<br /> +Thou wouldst not claim one leaf, but fondly turn<br /> +To lay thy tribute, also, at his feet.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span></p> +<h2>'Twixt Creek and Bay.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +'TWIXT creek and bay<br /> +We whisper to our white sails "stay!<br /> +Oh, Life, a little while delay!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">'Twixt creek and bay."</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">So loath to go</span><br /> +From these calm shallows that we know,<br /> +We fain would stay the year's swift flow,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Nor onward go</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">To banks more wide,</span><br /> +Where seaward drawings of the tide<br /> +Impel to deeper depths untried,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Where Life grows wide.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">'Twixt creek and bay—</span><br /> +The morning deepens into day,<br /> +And richer freight we bear, alway,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">When in the bay.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span></p> +<h2>When Youth is Gone.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +HOW can we know when youth is gone,—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When age has surely come at last?</span><br /> +There is no marked meridian<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Through which we sail, and feel when past.</span><br /> +<br /> +A keener air our faces strike,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A chiller current swifter run;</span><br /> +They meet and glide like tide with tide,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Our youth and age, when youth is done.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span></p> +<h2>The Fickle Heart.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +CANST tell me, thou inconstant heart,<br /> +What like unto thou art?<br /> +A gypsy wandering up and down<br /> +Through April's green and Autumn's brown,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Until the year is spent;</span><br /> +And then, when hills are white with snow,<br /> +And brooks, ice-bound, have ceased to flow,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">No place to pitch his tent.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span></p> +<h2>Banditti.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +UPON Life's lonely highway, robber bands<br /> +Of grim-faced years seize with relentless hands<br /> +Each traveler, and wrest from out his grasp<br /> +The treasures that he fain would closer clasp.<br /> +None can escape. Each year demands its toll,<br /> +Till robbed of youth, we grope toward the goal,<br /> +Halting and blind, of all but life bereft,<br /> +And death claims that—the only boon that's left.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span></p> +<h2>The Silent Brotherhood.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +ON through the cloisters of eternity<br /> +The years, like monks, in slow procession pass,<br /> +Telling their rosary beads, the golden days,<br /> +With penance prayers of dark and dismal nights.<br /> +Hooded and cowled, with silence on they pass,<br /> +Nor will they pause until their vesper rings<br /> +A solemn curfew at the sunset hour,<br /> +When all the fires of life are buried low,<br /> +And all the worlds drop down upon their knees,<br /> +To say a last mass ere the death of Time.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span></p> +<h2>Spendthrift.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +HE was a king one time,<br /> +And they wrapped the ermine around him,<br /> +And the bells rang out when they crowned him,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Rang with a joyful chime.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And he sat on a throne!</span><br /> +The wealth that a world could offer<br /> +Was heaped in the New Year's coffer,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">For the world was his own.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">He was a spendthrift though,</span><br /> +And the coins of his lavish giving<br /> +Were the golden moments of living,—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Coins that he squandered so.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">He is a beggar now.</span><br /> +In the night and the storm he lingers,<br /> +No gold in his prodigal fingers,—<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 3em;">King with the uncrowned brow.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Nothing to call his own!</span><br /> +His fortune scattered behind him;<br /> +Death empty-handed shall find him,—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">A New Year takes his throne.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span></p> +<h2>Lost.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +CHILDHOOD flits by with flowers in both its hands,—<br /> +We know not why it leaves, nor when it goes;<br /> +But suddenly we miss some subtle grace,<br /> +As perfume passes from a fading rose;<br /> +We scarce divine, yet somehow faintly feel<br /> +In the soft air a far-blown breath of snows.<br /> +<br /> +Straying afar, unheeded and alone<br /> +Upon life's highway 'mid the busy throng,<br /> +Swept in its eager, restless race along<br /> +To the great future, unexplored, unknown,<br /> +The little child is lost. And when with haste<br /> +The wanderer's footsteps through the streets are traced,<br /> +They find a man with features pale and stern,<br /> +But the lost child will nevermore return.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span></p> +<h2>The Robber.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +DO you know why Time flies by so slow<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">When we are sad and old?</span><br /> +Why he turns and waits as if loath to go<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">On his journey cold?</span><br /> +Because from our coffers of hope and youth,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Where we kept life's gold,</span><br /> +He has stolen our treasures all, in sooth,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">From their sacred hold.</span><br /> +He who came with a gift in hand<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Was a robber bold.</span><br /> +He whose greeting was smooth and bland<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Was a wolf in the fold.</span><br /> +And this is the reason that he goes by,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">When we're worn and old,</span><br /> +So slowly, because he can scarcely fly<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">With his weight of gold.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span></p> +<h2>My Carol.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +'T<ins title="Transcriber's Note: original printed in lowercase">IS</ins> the time when holly berries<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Grow red as the Yule-log's glow,</span><br /> +And hearth and hall are decked by all<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">With the green of the mistletoe.</span><br /> +Time when the joy of giving<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Is felt at each fireside,</span><br /> +And wings seek rest in the old home nest,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For the time is Christmas-tide.</span><br /> +<br /> +Though only a carol singer<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">With nothing of gold in store,</span><br /> +And little to bring as an offering,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I stand outside your door.</span><br /> +Open! This blessed morning<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Peace be to thee and thine!</span><br /> +Here to you all I gaily call<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A greeting from me and mine.</span><br /> +<br /> +Haply it may awaken<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Some joy that so long ago,</span><br /> +On the frosty dawn of a Christmas gone,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">You found in your stocking toe.</span><br /> +Though but an old, old carol,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">It bears love's myrrh and gold,</span><br /> +And the frankincense of a joy intense<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That the angel hosts foretold.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span></p> +<h2>Carol.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +<i>Listen! The heralds proclaim Him!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Follow! A star leads the way!</span><br /> +Oh, joy, in the City of David<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The Christ-child reigns to-day!</span></i><br /> +</div><br /><br /></div> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +I greet you this blessed morning.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Peace be to thee and thine!</span><br /> +To the dear ones here be Christmas cheer,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the love of me and mine.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span></p> +<h2>"In This Cradle Life of Ours."</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +THE world swings slowly back and forth,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">From dawn to dusk, from dusk to dawn,</span><br /> +And we forget the hand that rocks,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">But, cradle-like, the world swings on.</span><br /> +<br /> +A little while to stir and fret,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or sob with trembling lip</span><br /> +Because the sunbeams we would grasp<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Through helpless fingers slip.</span><br /> +<br /> +A little while to moan, and start<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">From fevered dreams, and weep,</span><br /> +For still the cradle sways and swings<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Until we fall asleep.</span><br /> +<br /> +The broad earth's pillow is so soft<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To weary heads, and who can tell</span><br /> +But through that sleep sound lullabies<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of the white angel, Israfel?</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span></p> +<h2>Here and There.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +HOW must they sing, those angel choirs,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Who breathe Heaven's pure, sweet air!</span><br /> +They need but waft it from their lips<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To make it music rare.</span><br /> +<br /> +Here on these chill, damp plains below,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Where stifling vapors rise,</span><br /> +We draw the heavy air of earth,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And breathe it out in sighs.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span></p> +<h2>The Milky Way.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +UP the steep heights whereon God's citadel<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Is set, the prayers of mortals to that bourne,</span><br /> +For ages toiling, in the adamant,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Across the sky a glittering path have worn.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span></p><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span></p> +<h2>INTERLUDE.</h2> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Interlude.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +WITHIN the pauses of the anthem falls a hush,<br /> +And the deep organ's solemn voice goes on alone<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">In a low undertone,</span><br /> +As rain comes sometimes with a sudden sweeping rush,<br /> +And then is still, save that it slowly drips and falls<br /> +From leaves at intervals.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">So memory sings alone</span><br /> +Between the busy hours when comes a lull,<br /> +And naught is audible<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">But its low undertone.</span><br /> +So darkness drops between the days, an interlude<br /> +When night's low sighing stirs the sleepy solitude.<br /> +So, when the little cycle of this life is rounded,<br /> +Before the spirit enters into life unbounded,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">It waits to hear, with bated breath,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">The solemn interlude of death.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span></p><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span></p> +<h2>PART III.</h2> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>"Oh, Dreary Day!"</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +OH, dreary day, that had so late a dawn!<br /> +Oh, dreary day, so long, though early gone!<br /> +Fold thy gray mantle round thy form and go<br /> +To find the lost sun, while Night comes on,<br /> +Across the plain, with silent step and slow.<br /> +<br /> +I weary of thy dark, unsmiling mood,<br /> +I weary of thy dull disquietude,<br /> +And thy complaining voice that tells of pain,<br /> +Not with the tempest's trumpet, but subdued<br /> +In broken sentences of falling rain.<br /> +<br /> +Now, soft as household spirit, comes the Night<br /> +And draws the curtains, fanning still more bright<br /> +The cheerful fire, while for her gentle sake<br /> +The tapers burst in bloom with yellow light,<br /> +Like evening primroses just kissed awake.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span></p> +<h2>May-Time.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +THE Spring steals through the city streets,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Silent and shrinking, half afraid,</span><br /> +As if there came, from woods and fields,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Some timid, bashful, country maid.</span><br /> +<br /> +The lofty houses coldly frown,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And coldly stares the stony street;</span><br /> +But here and there from out a cleft<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">There springs a flower to kiss her feet.</span><br /> +<br /> +And here and there a crocus smiles<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A friendly greeting, or a spray</span><br /> +Of blooming lilacs, fresh and sweet,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Leans down and nods across her way.</span><br /> +<br /> +Till, reassured, she smiles and sings,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And on she passes, glad and fleet,</span><br /> +And little children at their play<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Look up to catch her glances sweet.</span><br /> +<br /> +Is it her robe's soft fluttering<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">That gently fans the passer by?</span><br /> +He only feels the freshened air,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Nor knows the gracious presence nigh.</span><br /> +<br /> +But some sweet influence he feels,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That charms care's gloomy shade away,</span><br /> +And pours into his wakened heart<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The golden gladness of the May.</span><br /> +<br /> +So, like an angel visitant,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">She glides among the haunts of men,</span><br /> +And faint hearts bound, and sad eyes smile,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Because the Spring has come again.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span></p> +<h2>Spring's Cophetua.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +SHE came with garments scant and poor and thin,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And white feet gleaming bare;</span><br /> +With pallid smiles where April tears had been,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And snowflakes on her hair.</span><br /> +<br /> +Oh, never—Winter thought—such gentle look<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">In all the land was seen!</span><br /> +From his gray locks the diadem he took<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And crowned her as his queen.</span><br /> +<br /> +And now, in silken robes and gems arrayed,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Fair Spring reigns in his stead.</span><br /> +Upon his throne she sits, the beggar maid—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">"Cophetua" is dead.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span></p> +<h2>Winter Beauty.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +WHEN I go through the meadows brown,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Where stand the tall weeds, sere and dead,</span><br /> +Think you I find no beauty there,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Since Summer through the fields has fled?</span><br /> +<br /> +The edges of the frozen stream,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Whose quiet waters late were crossed</span><br /> +By shadows of the bending fern,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Are fair with fringes of the frost.</span><br /> +<br /> +Wherever cowslips crowded thick,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or banks of buttercups would be,</span><br /> +A host of airy forms in white,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Like ghosts of flowers returned, I see.</span><br /> +<br /> +It may be clustered flakes of snow,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or frozen dew still glistening there,</span><br /> +But still it seems as if there came<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A rare, strange odor through the air.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span></p> +<h2>October.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +ACROSS the stubble fields the lazy breezes pass,<br /> +From Autumn orchards sloping southward in the sun,<br /> +Where dropping from the low-hung branches, one by one,<br /> +The apples hide in tangles of the wind-blown grass.<br /> +A warm, sweet scent of mellow fruit fills all the air,<br /> +And faintly over hills and hollows comes the cry<br /> +Of some shrill bluejay, and his mate's far-off reply.<br /> +Like Ruth, the winds will go a-gleaning, by and by,<br /> +And garner in the leaves till all the woods are bare.<br /> +<br /> +But now my boyhood's love has come again to me,<br /> +October—in her royal red and gold arrayed!<br /> +She comes with glowing cheeks, my dusky Indian maid,<br /> +And all the world seems bright because so bright is she.<br /> +Unto her lips the wild grapes hold their spicy wine.<br /> +Persimmons, sweet and golden with an early frost,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span>Drop at her feet; and where the narrow creek has crossed<br /> +The woods, and in the ferns and flag its way has lost,<br /> +Blood-red the corals of the dog-wood berries shine.<br /> +<br /> +And thus she comes, my Love I loved when I was young!<br /> +We wander for a little while across the hills,<br /> +And, as of old, her sunny presence warms and fills<br /> +My heart. But like a lute with one string left unstrung,<br /> +When I would sing again the song of other years,<br /> +Something is lost. The harmony is incomplete.<br /> +And though the same old melody I still repeat,<br /> +One alto note of joy is gone that made it sweet,<br /> +And something trembles in the Autumn haze like tears.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span></p> +<h2>At Twilight.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +A TINY bird flits through the twilight brown,<br /> +When sunset dreams make all the garden fair,<br /> +Whose soft notes fall into the quiet air<br /> +Like olive leaves on waters smooth dropped down.<br /> +Emblems of rest, when floods of care do cease,<br /> +Into my heart, as well, they fall and float,<br /> +An olive leaf each faint and dreamy note—<br /> +I recognize their sign, and feel at peace.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span></p> +<h2>The Prophet.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +DARKNESS and silence, such as only fall<br /> +At midnight, wrap the sleeping hamlets all;<br /> +No life in all the dim world seems to be.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Then suddenly,</span><br /> +Across the hills, far off and faint, I hear<br /> +Sound through the dark, as through a dream, the call<br /> +(How strange it seems!) of some bold chanticleer.<br /> +<br /> +(Half in my sleep I hear that clarion ring,<br /> +With distant calls, like echoes, answering;<br /> +And, as at war's alarum, soldiers leap<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">From guarded sleep</span><br /> +And seize their arms, and hasten from their tents,<br /> +So, at this sound, my drowsy senses spring,<br /> +Alert to man the mind's dark battlements.)<br /> +<br /> +To tell night's mid-hour tolls no startled bell;<br /> +Only thy voice is heard, brave sentinel,<br /> +Who, like the ancient watchman on the towers,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Calls forth the hours,</span><br /> +And to the wistful questioners, who see<br /> +No gleam through pain's long vigil, dost foretell<br /> +"The morning cometh," oft and cheerily.<br /> +<br /> +How canst thou know when, weary with his race,<br /> +The Day turns back, his pathway to retrace?<br /> +Canst thou the maiden Dawn's light footsteps hear,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Approaching near?</span><br /> +Or dost thou stand in converse with the skies,<br /> +And know what time she leaves her hiding-place<br /> +By joyful flashes of their starry eyes?<br /> +<br /> +Thou art a prophet, like to those of old,<br /> +Who in the darkness sat, but firm and bold<br /> +Looked with undaunted eyes towards the dim<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Horizon's rim,</span><br /> +And thrilled with faith of waiting ages born,<br /> +That soon from out the Night's strong prisonhold,<br /> +Should burst the golden glory of the Morn.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span></p> +<h2>The Potter's Field.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +JUST outside of the noisy town,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Half through thicket and wood revealed,</span><br /> +Hemmed about by a wall of stone,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wide it lieth, the Potter's Field.</span><br /> +<br /> +Brambles wander across the grass,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Vines creep over the broken wall,</span><br /> +Bindweeds blossom, and here and there<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Stands a waif of the forest tall.</span><br /> +<br /> +There no columns of gleaming white<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Mark the dust that is sacred still;</span><br /> +Swings the gate on its rusty hinge—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">All may enter and roam at will.</span><br /> +<br /> +Who should hinder the ruthless hand,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Who protect from a vagrant's tread?</span><br /> +Guard the urns of the rich and great—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">No one cares for the pauper dead!</span><br /> +<br /> +Outlawed felon and sinless child<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">All find room in the Potter's Field.</span><br /> +There lies a Judas who sold his Lord,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Here a Mary, His pity healed.</span><br /> +<br /> +Who could know of the shame and sin<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Safely under the sod concealed?</span><br /> +Weary burdens of want and grief,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Laid away in the Potter's Field.</span><br /> +<br /> +Who could guess?—for as swift and light<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">O'er it the feet of the seasons go;</span><br /> +Summer hides it with grace of flowers,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Winter spreads it with folds of snow.</span><br /> +<br /> +Rains weep over the lonely mound,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Sunlight lingers, and swift shades pass;</span><br /> +Tender hands of the gentle wind<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Smooth the knots of the tangled grass.</span><br /> +<br /> +What though hallowed by Death alone,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Rest unbroken the sod doth yield;</span><br /> +Peace is here, for His constant watch<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">God doth set o'er the Potter's Field.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span></p> +<h2>Left Out.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +WELL he knew that his clothes were poor:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He was common, he humbly thought;</span><br /> +Child as he was, he could understand<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Why he was slighted and never sought.</span><br /> +<br /> +Yet could he help it,—his mother gone,—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Help the weight of his father's shame?</span><br /> +Hardest sentence of childish law:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Blaming innocence not to blame.</span><br /> +<br /> +It was hard when the children played<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">All together, to be left out,—</span><br /> +Stand aside, with a stinging sense<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That 'twas he that they laughed about.</span><br /> +<br /> +Thoughtless children, they felt no wrong,—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Pushed him out of the ring at play.</span><br /> +No one heard how his voice was choked,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">No one cared when he stole away.</span><br /> +<br /> +No one saw how he crept at last<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Through the gate and the grasses deep,</span><br /> +Past the wall to a lonely grave<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Where his mother was laid asleep.</span><br /> +<br /> +Could she feel in her narrow bed,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wee, cold hands, as they groped about—</span><br /> +Feel the tears that were dropped because<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Even her grave had left him out?</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span></p> +<h2>"Our Father."</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +I HAVE no part with all the great, proud world:<br /> +It cares not how I live, nor when I die;<br /> +But every lily smiling in the field,<br /> +And every tiny sparrow darting by,<br /> +Claims kinship with me, mortal though they be,—<br /> +The One who cares for them doth care for me.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span></p> +<h2>A Madrigal.</h2> + +<div class='chaptertitle'>WOODBINE.</div> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +THE wild bee clings to it<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Most fond and long.</span><br /> +The wild bird sings to it<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Its sweetest song.</span><br /> +The wild breeze brings to it<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A life more strong.</span><br /> +<br /> +So all things lend to thee<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Some charm, some grace.</span><br /> +The world's a friend to thee,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">In love's embrace.</span><br /> +All hearts do bend to thee,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">In thy queen's place.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span></p> +<h2>The Time o' Day.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +IF I should look for the time o' day<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">On the rose's dial red,</span><br /> +I would think it was just the sunrise hour,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">From the flush of its petals spread.</span><br /> +<br /> +And if I would tell by the lily-bell,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I would think it was calm, white noon;</span><br /> +And the violet's blue would tell by its hue<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of the evening coming soon.</span><br /> +<br /> +But when I would know by my lady's face,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I am all perplexed the while;</span><br /> +For it's always starlight by her eyes,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And sunlight by her smile.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a></span></p> +<h2>Trailing Arbutus.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +THERE may be hearts that lie so deep<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">'Neath griefs and cares that weigh like drifted snow,</span><br /> +That love seems chilled in endless sleep,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And budding hopes may never dare to grow.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Yet under all, some memory</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Trails its arbutus flowers of tender thought,—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">All buried in the snow maybe,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Still with the sweetest fragrance fraught.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[101]</a></span></p> +<h2>A Mood.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +SOMETHING has made the world so changed,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Something is lost from field and sky,</span><br /> +And the earth and sun are sadly estranged,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the songs of Nature seemed turned to a cry.</span><br /> +Yet I heard my blithe little neighbor tell<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">How fair is the spring to see.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Ah, well,—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Perhaps the change is in me.</span><br /> +<br /> +Something has gone from your smile, sweetheart;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Something I miss from your look, your tone.</span><br /> +Though you stand quite near, we are still apart,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">You may clasp me close, but I feel alone.</span><br /> +Yet over and over your love you tell,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And as you say, it must be.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Ah, well,—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Perhaps the change is in me.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a></span></p> +<h2>The Legend of the Pansies.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +ONE night in Fairyland, when all the court<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Held carnival to welcome in the June,</span><br /> +And to the wind-harp's music, flying feet<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Were dancing on the rose leaves night had strewn;</span><br /> +The naughty Puck crept up the castle stair,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And called the sleeping princes from their bed;</span><br /> +And with their royal pages following,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Away the tricksy little fairies sped.</span><br /> +Mounted on snowy night-moths, off they raced,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Startling the gnomes, asleep within the shade</span><br /> +Of gloomy forests, with their merry cries,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As at forbidden games all night they played.</span><br /> +But when at sunrise blew an elfin horn,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Mischievous Puck was nowhere to be seen,</span><br /> +The disobedient princes stood forlorn;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Like dew-drops fell their tears on grasses green.</span><br /> +For fairy children, not within the bounds<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of Queen Titania's realm at morning's dawn,</span><br /> +Change into blooming flowers where they stand,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And bloom there till the summer time is gone.</span><br /> +<br /> +Now, where the little princes played all night<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">In robes of royal purple and of gold,</span><br /> +The flowers we call pansies sprang in sight,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And round them stood the little pages bold,</span><br /> +In liveries of yellow, blue, and white;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">While upward through the east the great sun rolled.</span><br /> +Then some, repentant, sadly drooped their heads;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Some turned their saucy faces to the sky;</span><br /> +But now they all alike must wait the day<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When they can bid the summer time good-by.</span><br /> +Sometimes, when bees upon their busy rounds<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Stop to deliver some sweet message sent</span><br /> +From Fairyland, the thoughtful faces smile<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And seem to grow a little more content.</span><br /> +When cooling shadows creep along the grass,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And mother birds are twittering lullabies</span><br /> +To sleepy nestlings, then the south winds pass,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And close with fingers soft the pansies' eyes.</span><br /> +Upon the wings of dreams they're borne along<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To loving arms that rock them all the night,</span><br /> +And fairy voices soothe their sleep with song,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Till they are waked by kisses of the light.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[104]</a></span></p> +<h2>The Tower of Babel.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +ONCE, many centuries ago,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Men tried to build a tower so high</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">That rising upward, round on round,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Its pinnacle should reach the sky.</span><br /> +<br /> +And as they toiled and built and dreamed and planned,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">What hopes went upward with the rising stone!</span><br /> +That daring feet ere long should mount and stand<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Upon the golden stairway to the throne.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And then a dire confusion fell</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Upon the workers, building there.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Men called and shouted each to each</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">With strange, uncomprehended speech,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And what it meant no one could tell;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">So they left building in despair.</span><br /> +<br /> +Yet in their hearts still lived the hope that they<br /> +Might scale the ramparts of the sky some day.<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Sometimes our souls expand and glow</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[105]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 2em;">With holy visions bright and pure;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">But when from these deep vales below</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">We proudly try to climb and reach</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">With clumsy masonry of speech,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And rounds of rhyme that shall endure,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">That sky-born thing, that heavenly theme,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Touched only by a prayer or dream,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">A swift confusion o'er us flies,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And sudden chills our hands benumb.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Our minds are blurred, our tongues are dumb,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The vision fades away and dies.</span><br /> +<br /> +Yet still we dream that song some day may be<br /> +Rung through the arches of Eternity.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[106]</a></span></p> +<h2>The Old Bell.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +THE vines have grown so thick and twined so strong,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">With clinging hold, about the bell that swings</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">In the old tower, that now it never rings.</span><br /> +No one has heard its voice for seasons long.<br /> +<br /> +Sit by me on the broken belfry stair,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And I will tell the simple tale to you</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of those whose graves through yonder arch you view,</span><br /> +Scattered about the churchyard, here and there.<br /> +<br /> +Ah me! How closely memory's tendrils twine<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">About the heart, and choke the words that spring.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">It only throbs, the touch half-answering,</span><br /> +Like this old bell, held speechless by the vine.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[107]</a></span></p> +<h2>The Sea.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +FOREVER, like a heart that knows no peace,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Like one who wanders weary to and fro</span><br /> +About the earth, but finds no resting-place,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The sweeping tides of ocean ebb and flow.</span><br /> +<br /> +Like a discarded lover who entreats<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For favor still, and will not be denied,</span><br /> +Up to the beach, with soft, caressing touch<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And tearful broken whispers, steals the tide.</span><br /> +<br /> +But still repulsed, it slow and sad withdraws,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Yet at the dear one's feet its treasures lays,</span><br /> +And turns again, to wail its sorrows out<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Through all the hopeless nights and dreary days.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[108]</a></span></p> +<h2>Married.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +IT is such a little while<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">From the time the fledgling tries</span><br /> +To tip from the edge of the nest to the bough,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Then lifts its wings and flies.</span><br /> +<br /> +Till it sits in its own wee nest,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Surprised out of growth or ken,</span><br /> +And half-way feels that in some strange way<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">It is learning to fly again.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[109]</a></span></p> +<h2>Motherhood.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +FOR two dear heads of bronze and amber,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For baby eyes of blue and brown,</span><br /> +For two who cling, and kiss, and clamber,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And on my shoulder nestle down.</span><br /> +<br /> +All little hearts are dearer to me,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">All little faces sweet and bright,</span><br /> +All childish tears and woes undo me,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And I would heal them all to-night.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[110]</a></span></p> +<h2>Sufficiency.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +THE bird that sings one only strain,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To tell his passion o'er and o'er,</span><br /> +Can feel as much of joy or pain<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As if he knew a thousand more.</span><br /> +<br /> +And thou, sweet maid, whose gentle thought<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">In smiles or tears finds present vent,</span><br /> +What feeling could thy soul be taught,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or who has words more eloquent?</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[111]</a></span></p> +<h2>Ophelia.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +CALM dost thou lie in wave-swept resting-place.<br /> +No more the glances of the haughty Dane<br /> +Can fill thy gentle breast with longing vain.<br /> +The waves that stilled thy heart have drowned thy pain,<br /> +And washed the sorrow from thy sweet, pale face,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 9em;">Ophelia.</span><br /> +<br /> +Thine be the violets, but his the rue.<br /> +Though hope should sleep, and deep regret should wake,<br /> +Thy clasped hand from Death's he could not take;<br /> +The spell on those mute lips he could not break.<br /> +What more with life and love hast thou to do,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 9em;">Ophelia?</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[112]</a></span></p> +<h2>Requiem.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +SLEEP, thou, whom Care so long oppressed.<br /> +Care whispers by thy couch no more.<br /> +Kind Death has shut the outer door;<br /> +None can disturb thee,—sleep and rest.<br /> +<br /> +Thy hands are folded on thy breast<br /> +That throbs with Life's deep pain no more.<br /> +Though Love waits grieving by thy door,<br /> +He cannot enter,—sleep and rest.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[113]</a></span></p> +<h2>Elizabeth.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +ELIZABETH,<br /> +Thou comest a refreshing breath<br /> +From meadows green, where morning stays,<br /> +To those who bear the noon-tide blaze.<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Elizabeth,</span><br /> +Thou couldst look in the eyes of Death,<br /> +Undaunted, did he promise thee<br /> +Some bright new scene of mirth or glee.<br /> +I cannot think that time will gray<br /> +That sun-bright head, nor bear away<br /> +One dimple in those rose-cheeks hid;<br /> +Sure he were daring if he did.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[114]</a></span></p> +<h2>Elinor.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +IN that shadow-land, where the Sisters three<br /> +Are weaving the web of destiny,<br /> +There floated once through the fateful gloom<br /> +A thread of sunshine, that gleamed upon<br /> +The thread of a life from the distaff drawn,<br /> +And mingling, they passed to the busy loom.<br /> +The wondering Parcea looked and smiled,<br /> +As the light grew into the soul of a child,<br /> +And in and out and through devious ways,<br /> +They wove it in with the woof of days.<br /> +But they said on earth (who knew not the Fates)<br /> +"As the lily's chalice holds the dew,<br /> +So in her heart, at the morning's gates,<br /> +She caught the sunshine, when she came through."<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[115]</a></span></p> +<h2>On a Fly-Leaf of "Flute and Violin."</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +A MASTER-HAND hath swept<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Life's violin and flute.</span><br /> +For him they laughed and wept<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When others found them mute.</span><br /> +<br /> +From his high altitude<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He catches, fine and clear,</span><br /> +The notes that might elude<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A less discerning ear.</span><br /> +<br /> +Transposing to a lower key<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The dream-song that he hears,</span><br /> +He sets his heavenly melody<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To human smiles and tears.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[116]</a></span></p> +<h2>Inspiration.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +THE singer walks by wood and rill,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">By town and stately river,</span><br /> +And varied scenes his vision fill,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And make his pulses quiver.</span><br /> +<br /> +But when his song comes borne across<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">On winds from dreamland blowing,</span><br /> +We cannot tell what mystic touch<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Has set his chimes a-going.</span><br /> +<br /> +We hear the robins in his rhyme,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">We see the orchards drifted</span><br /> +With crests of bloom that glimmer white<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When mists of tears are lifted.</span><br /> +<br /> +A hundred tunes seem intertwined<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To mingle in his singing,</span><br /> +When but a single rose, perhaps,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Has set his fancy winging.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[117]</a></span></p> +<h2>On a Fly-Leaf of Irving.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +WELCOME art thou, O singer!<br /> +If thou dost know a song<br /> +That makes the long eve shorter<br /> +Because its joys are long.<br /> +Welcome art thou, tale-bearer,<br /> +If thou canst bear away<br /> +Part of the cares that burden<br /> +The dull and dreary day.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[118]</a></span></p> +<h2>On a Fly-Leaf of Riley's "<ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'After-Whiles'">Afterwhiles</ins>."</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +UNTO him alone who strays<br /> +Sometimes through the yesterdays,<br /> +Lingering long in wood and field,<br /> +Is the meaning all revealed<br /> +Of these songs. Adown the rhymes<br /> +Runs a path to bygone times;<br /> +But 'tis found by those alone,<br /> +Who the fresh green hills have known,<br /> +And have felt the tender mood<br /> +Of the country solitude;<br /> +Who through lanes of pink peach blooms<br /> +Used to see the lilac's plumes<br /> +Nodding welcome by the door<br /> +Where the home-folks come no more.<br /> +Blest the singer, then, who leads<br /> +Back again through clover meads,<br /> +'Til old scenes we seem to see,<br /> +Fair as once they used to be.<br /> +Who can call from years long gone,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[119]</a></span>Friends we trusted, leaned upon;<br /> +For whose sake we learned to bless<br /> +Toilworn hands and homespun dress.<br /> +As he sings of them, and thus<br /> +Wafts the pure air back to us<br /> +Of the fields, there comes again<br /> +Childhood's faith in God and man.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[120]</a></span></p> +<h2>Chiaro-Oscuro.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +SOMEHOW I love to look at the picture I made of her,<br /> +Work of an idle time, the summer of life's long year;<br /> +For as I stand and gaze, dreaming of those lost days,<br /> +Almost it seems to me I can see her sitting here.<br /> +<br /> +That is the way she sat, with her head a trifle raised,<br /> +Looking thoughtfully out at a scene I could never see.<br /> +Delicate color of rose dawning and dying down,<br /> +Flushing the rare sweet face as she listened or spoke to me.<br /> +<br /> +Whitest light of the sky I showered on her upturned brow,<br /> +Gathered the darkest shades and brushed them into her hair,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[121]</a></span>Thinking the while I worked of the law that always sends<br /> +The deepest shadows to follow the high lights everywhere.<br /> +Now as I sit and gaze at the dream on the canvas caught,<br /> +Sadly the thought comes back, to torture with unbelief—<br /> +Why must it always be that the strong white light of love<br /> +Is followed forevermore by the deepest shadow of grief?<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[122]</a></span></p> +<h2>When She Came Home.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +"When she comes home again, a thousand ways<br /> +I fashion to myself the tenderness<br /> +Of my glad welcome."<br /> +<br /> +<div class='sig'><span class="smcap">Riley.</span></div><br /> +</div></div> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +"WHEN she comes home," I thought with throbbing heart,<br /> +That danced a measure to my mind's refrain.<br /> +Again from out the door I leaned and looked,<br /> +Where she should come along the leafy lane.<br /> +And then she came.—I heard the measured sound<br /> +Of slow, oncoming feet, whose heavy tread<br /> +Seemed trampling out my life. I saw her face.<br /> +Then through my brain a sudden numbness spread.<br /> +The earth seemed spun away, the sun was gone,<br /> +And time, and place, and thought. There was no thing<br /> +In all the universe, save one who lay<br /> +So still and cold and white, unanswering<br /> +Save by a graven smile my broken moan.<br /> +She had come home, yet there I knelt <i>alone</i>.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[123]</a></span></p> +<h2>A Resolve.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +THE fields of thought are plowed so deep,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">So carefully are tilled,</span><br /> +That all the granaries of the world<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">With plenteous store are filled.</span><br /> +Unless I deeper plow and sow,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">What sheaf, then, can I bring?</span><br /> +So like the black-bird in the field,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I'll eat the wheat and sing.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[124]</a></span></p> +<h2>Stranded.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +WE found a wreck cast up on the shore,<br /> +Battered and bruised, and scarred and rent,<br /> +And I spoke aloud, "Here was worthless work,<br /> +And a barque unfit to the sea was sent."<br /> +<br /> +But he said, my friend, in his gentle mood,<br /> +"Nay, none may say but the barque was good,<br /> +For none can tell of the seas it sailed,<br /> +Of the waves it braved and the storms withstood."<br /> +<br /> +Then we spoke no more, but I mutely mused<br /> +And thought, oh, heart and oh, life of man<br /> +That we find wrecked! we may never know<br /> +How brave you were when your course began.<br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[125]</a></span></p> +<h2>At Last.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'><div class='cap'> +WHAT will you give me, O World, O World!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">If I run in the race and win?</span><br /> +Will you give me a fame that can never fade,<br /> +Will you give me a crown that will never rust,<br /> +Can you save my soul from the pall of sin,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Can you keep my heart from the dust?</span><br /> +<br /> +What will you give me, O Earth, O Earth!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">If I fight in the fray and win?</span><br /> +More than you gave those kings, who lay<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Ages past in forgotten clay?</span><br /> +Can you give me more than the grave shuts in,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Or the years can bear away?</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Fame will fade and crowns will rust.</span><br /> +<br /> +Give me, O Earth, but your true embrace,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">When the battle is lost or won.</span><br /> +Hide me away from the day's white face,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[126]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 3em;">From the eye of the dazzling sun.</span><br /> +So I may lay my head on your breast,<br /> +Forget the struggle and be at rest;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Forget the laurels that fade away,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">The love that lasts but a wild, brief day;</span><br /> +Forget it all, on your bosom pressed,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Forever at rest—at rest!</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<div class='tnote'><h3>Transcriber's Notes:</h3> + + +<p>Corrections made are indicated by dotted lines under the text. 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