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<p>Transcribed from the 1918 Chatto & Windus edition by David
Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org</p>
<h1>New Poems<br />
<span class="GutSmall">AND VARIANT READINGS</span></h1>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">BY</span><br
/>
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON</p>
<div class="gapspace"> </div>
<p style="text-align: center">LONDON<br />
CHATTO & WINDUS<br />
1918</p>
<h2><a name="pageix"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
ix</span>PREFACE</h2>
<p><span class="smcap">All</span> Stevensonians owe a debt of
gratitude to the Bibliophile Society of Boston for having
discovered the following poems and given them light in a
privately printed edition, thus making them known, in fact, to
the world at large. Otherwise they would have remained
scattered and hidden indefinitely in the hands of various
collectors. They will be found extraordinarily interesting
in their self-revelation, and some, indeed, are so intimate and
personal that one understands why Stevenson withheld them from
all eyes save his own. The love-poems in particular, though
they are of very unequal merit, possess in common a really
affecting sincerity. That Stevenson should have preserved
these poems through all the vicissitudes of his wandering life
shows how dearly he must have valued them; and shows, too, I
think, beyond any contradiction, that he meant they should be
ultimately published.</p>
<p style="text-align: right">LLOYD OSBOURNE.</p>
<h2><a name="pagexi"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
xi</span>CONTENTS</h2>
<table>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span
class="GutSmall">PAGE</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">PRAYER</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page1">1</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">LO! IN THINE HONEST EYES I
READ</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page2">2</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">THOUGH DEEP INDIFFERENCE SHOULD
DROWSE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page2">2</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">MY HEART, WHEN FIRST THE BLACKBIRD
SINGS</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page3">3</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">I DREAMED OF FOREST ALLEYS
FAIR</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page4">4</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">ST. MARTIN’S
SUMMER</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page6">6</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">DEDICATION</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page7">7</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">THE OLD CHIMÆRAS, OLD
RECEIPTS</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page8">8</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">PRELUDE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page10">10</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">THE VANQUISHED KNIGHT</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page11">11</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF NORTHERN
LIGHTS</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page11">11</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">THE RELIC TAKEN, WHAT AVAILS THE
SHRINE?</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page13">13</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">ABOUT THE SHELTERED GARDEN
GROUND</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page14">14</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">AFTER READING “ANTONY AND
CLEOPATRA”</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page15">15</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">I KNOW NOT HOW, BUT AS I
COUNT</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page15">15</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">SPRING SONG</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page16">16</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">THE SUMMER SUN SHONE ROUND
ME</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page16">16</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">YOU LOOKED SO TEMPTING IN THE
PEW</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page17">17</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">LOVE’S
VICISSITUDES</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page18">18</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">DUDDINGSTONE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page18">18</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">STOUT MARCHES LEAD TO CERTAIN
ENDS</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page20">20</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">AWAY WITH FUNERAL MUSIC</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page20">20</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">TO SYDNEY</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page21">21</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">HAD I THE POWER THAT HAVE THE
WILL</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page23">23</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">O DULL COLD NORTHERN SKY</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page24">24</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">APOLOGETIC POSTSCRIPT OF A YEAR
LATER</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page25">25</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">TO MARCUS</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page26">26</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">TO OTTILIE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page27">27</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">THIS GLOOMY NORTHERN DAY</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page28">28</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">THE WIND IS WITHOUT THERE AND HOWLS
IN THE TREES</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page29">29</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A VALENTINE’S SONG</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page31">31</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">HAIL! CHILDISH SLAVES OF
SOCIAL RULES</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page34">34</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">SWALLOWS TRAVEL TO AND
FRO</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page36">36</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><a name="pagexii"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
xii</span><span class="GutSmall">TO MESDAMES ZASSETSKY AND
GARSCHINE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page37">37</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">TO MADAME GARSCHINE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page39">39</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">MUSIC AT THE VILLA
MARINA</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page39">39</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">FEAR NOT, DEAR FRIEND, BUT FREELY
LIVE YOUR DAYS</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page40">40</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">LET LOVE GO, IF GO SHE
WILL</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page41">41</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">I DO NOT FEAR TO OWN ME
KIN</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page42">42</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">I AM LIKE ONE THAT FOR LONG DAYS
HAD SATE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page44">44</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">VOLUNTARY</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page45">45</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">ON NOW, ALTHOUGH THE YEAR BE
DONE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page47">47</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">IN THE GREEN AND GALLANT
SPRING</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page47">47</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">DEATH, TO THE DEAD FOR
EVERMORE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page48">48</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">TO CHARLES BAXTER</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page49">49</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">I WHO ALL THE WINTER
THROUGH</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page52">52</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">LOVE, WHAT IS LOVE?</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page53">53</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">SOON OUR FRIENDS PERISH</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page53">53</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">AS ONE WHO HAVING WANDERED ALL
NIGHT LONG</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page53">53</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">STRANGE ARE THE WAYS OF
MEN</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page55">55</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">THE WIND BLEW SHRILL AND
SMART</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page56">56</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">MAN SAILS THE DEEP
AWHILE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page57">57</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">THE COCK’S CLEAR VOICE INTO
THE CLEARER AIR</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page58">58</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">NOW WHEN THE NUMBER OF MY
YEARS</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page59">59</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">WHAT MAN MAY LEARN, WHAT MAN MAY
DO</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page60">60</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">SMALL IS THE TRUST WHEN LOVE IS
GREEN</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page61">61</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">KNOW YOU THE RIVER NEAR TO
GREZ</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page62">62</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">IT’S FORTH ACROSS THE ROARING
FOAM</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page63">63</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">AN ENGLISH BREEZE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page65">65</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">AS IN THEIR FLIGHT THE BIRDS OF
SONG</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page66">66</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">THE PIPER</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page67">67</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">TO MRS. MACMARLAND</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page58">58</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">TO MISS CORNISH</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page69">69</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">TALES OF ARABIA</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page71">71</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">BEHOLD, AS GOBLINS DARK OF
MIEN</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page72">72</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">STILL I LOVE TO RHYME</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page73">73</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">LONG TIME I LAY IN LITTLE
EASE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page74">74</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">FLOWER GOD, GOD OF THE
SPRING</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page75">75</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">COME, MY BELOVED, HEAR FROM
ME</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page76">76</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">SINCE YEARS AGO FOR
EVERMORE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page77">77</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">ENVOY FOR “A CHILD’S
GARDEN OF VERSES”</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page78">78</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">FOR RICHMOND’S GARDEN
WALL</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page80">80</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><a name="pagexiii"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
xiii</span><span class="GutSmall">HAIL, GUEST, AND ENTER
FREELY!</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page80">80</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">LO, NOW, MY GUEST</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page81">81</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">SO LIVE, SO LOVE, SO USE THAT
FRAGILE HOUR</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page81">81</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">AD SE IPSUM</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page82">82</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">BEFORE THIS LITTLE GIFT WAS
COME</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page82">82</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">GO, LITTLE BOOK—THE ANCIENT
PHRASE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page83">83</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">MY LOVE WAS WARM</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page84">84</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">DEDICATORY POEM FOR
“UNDERWOODS”</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page85">85</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">FAREWELL</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page86">86</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">THE FAR-FARERS</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page87">87</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">COME, MY LITTLE CHILDREN, HERE ARE
SONGS FOR YOU</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page87">87</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">HOME FROM THE DAISIED
MEADOWS</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page88">88</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">EARLY IN THE MORNING I HEAR ON YOUR
PIANO</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page88">88</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">FAIR ISLE AT SEA</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page89">89</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">LOUD AND LOW IN THE
CHIMNEY</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page89">89</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">I LOVE TO BE WARM BY THE RED
FIRESIDE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page90">90</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">AT LAST SHE COMES</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page90">90</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">MINE EYES WERE SWIFT TO KNOW
THEE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page90">90</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">FIXED IS THE DOOM</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page91">91</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">MEN ARE HEAVEN’S
PIERS</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page92">92</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">THE ANGLER ROSE, HE TOOK HIS
ROD</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page93">93</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">SPRING CAROL</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page94">94</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">TO WHAT SHALL I COMPARE
HER</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page95">95</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">WHEN THE SUN COMES AFTER
RAIN</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page96">96</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">LATE, O MILLER</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page97">97</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">TO FRIENDS AT HOME</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page97">97</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">I, WHOM APOLLO SOMETIME
VISITED</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page98">98</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">TEMPEST TOSSED AND SORE
AFFLICTED</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page98">98</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">VARIANT FORM OF THE PRECEDING
POEM</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page99">99</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">I NOW, O FRIEND, WHOM NOISELESSLY
THE SNOWS</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page100">100</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">SINCE THOU HAST GIVEN ME THIS GOOD
HOPE, O GOD</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page103">103</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">GOD GAVE TO ME A CHILD IN
PART</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page104">104</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">OVER THE LAND IS APRIL</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page105">105</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">LIGHT AS THE LINNET ON MY WAY I
START</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page106">106</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">COMIC, HERE IS ADIEU TO THE
CITY</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page106">106</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">IT BLOWS A SNOWING GALE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page107">107</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">NE SIT ANCILLÆ TIBI AMOR
PUDOR</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page107">107</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">TO ALL THAT LOVE THE FAR AND
BLUE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page108">108</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">THOU STRAINEST THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN
FERN</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page110">110</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><a name="pagexiv"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
xiv</span><span class="GutSmall">TO ROSABELLE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page111">111</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">NOW BARE TO THE BEHOLDER’S
EYE</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page112">112</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">THE BOUR-TREE DEN</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page114">114</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">SONNETS</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page118">118</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">FRAGMENTS</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page123">123</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">AIR OF DIABELLI’S</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page128">128</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">EPITAPHIUM EROTII</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page132">132</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">DE M. ANTONIO</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page133">133</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">AD MAGISTRUM LUDI</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page133">133</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">AD NEPOTEM</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page134">134</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">IN CHARIDEMUM</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page135">135</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">DE LIGURRA</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page135">135</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">IN LUPUM</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page136">136</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">AD QUINTILIANUM</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page137">137</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">DE HORTIS JULII
MARTIALIS</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page137">137</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">AD MARTIALEM</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page139">139</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">IN MAXIMUM</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page139">139</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">AD OLUM</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page140">140</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">DE CŒNATIONE
MICÆ</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page140">140</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">DE EROTIO PUELLA</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page141">141</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><span class="GutSmall">AD PISCATOREM</span></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page141">141</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h2><a name="page1"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
1</span>PRAYER</h2>
<p class="poetry">I <span class="smcap">ask</span> good things
that I detest,<br />
With speeches fair;<br />
Heed not, I pray Thee, Lord, my breast,<br />
But hear my prayer.</p>
<p class="poetry">I say ill things I would not say—<br />
Things unaware:<br />
Regard my breast, Lord, in Thy day,<br />
And not my prayer.</p>
<p class="poetry">My heart is evil in Thy sight:<br />
My good thoughts flee:<br />
O Lord, I cannot wish aright—<br />
Wish Thou for me.</p>
<p class="poetry">O bend my words and acts to Thee,<br />
However ill,<br />
That I, whate’er I say or be,<br />
May serve Thee still.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page2"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
2</span>O let my thoughts abide in Thee<br />
Lest I should fall:<br />
Show me Thyself in all I see,<br />
Thou Lord of all.</p>
<h2>LO! IN THINE HONEST EYES I READ</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Lo</span>! in thine honest
eyes I read<br />
The auspicious beacon that shall lead,<br />
After long sailing in deep seas,<br />
To quiet havens in June ease.</p>
<p class="poetry">Thy voice sings like an inland bird<br />
First by the seaworn sailor heard;<br />
And like road sheltered from life’s sea<br />
Thine honest heart is unto me.</p>
<h2>THOUGH DEEP INDIFFERENCE SHOULD DROWSE</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Though</span> deep
indifference should drowse<br />
The sluggish life beneath my brows,<br />
And all the external things I see<br />
Grow snow-showers in the street to me,<br />
Yet inmost in my stormy sense<br />
Thy looks shall be an influence.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page3"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
3</span>Though other loves may come and go<br />
And long years sever us below,<br />
Shall the thin ice that grows above<br />
Freeze the deep centre-well of love?<br />
No, still below light amours, thou<br />
Shalt rule me as thou rul’st me now.</p>
<p class="poetry">Year following year shall only set<br />
Fresh gems upon thy coronet;<br />
And Time, grown lover, shall delight<br />
To beautify thee in my sight;<br />
And thou shalt ever rule in me<br />
Crowned with the light of memory.</p>
<h2>MY HEART, WHEN FIRST THE BLACK-BIRD SINGS</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">My</span> heart, when first
the blackbird sings,<br />
My heart drinks in the song:<br />
Cool pleasure fills my bosom through<br />
And spreads each nerve along.</p>
<p class="poetry">My bosom eddies quietly,<br />
My heart is stirred and cool<br />
As when a wind-moved briar sweeps<br />
A stone into a pool</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page4"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
4</span>But unto thee, when thee I meet,<br />
My pulses thicken fast,<br />
As when the maddened lake grows black<br />
And ruffles in the blast.</p>
<h2>I DREAMED OF FOREST ALLEYS FAIR</h2>
<h3>I.</h3>
<p class="poetry">I <span class="smcap">dreamed</span> of forest
alleys fair<br />
And fields of gray-flowered grass,<br />
Where by the yellow summer moon<br />
My Jenny seemed to pass.</p>
<p class="poetry">I dreamed the yellow summer moon,<br />
Behind a cedar wood,<br />
Lay white on fields of rippling grass<br />
Where I and Jenny stood.</p>
<p class="poetry">I dreamed—but fallen through my dream,<br
/>
In a rainy land I lie<br />
Where wan wet morning crowns the hills<br />
Of grim reality.</p>
<h3>II.</h3>
<p class="poetry">I am as one that keeps awake<br />
All night in the month of June,<br />
That lies awake in bed to watch<br />
The trees and great white moon.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
5</span>For memories of love are more<br />
Than the white moon there above,<br />
And dearer than quiet moonshine<br />
Are the thoughts of her I love.</p>
<h3>III.</h3>
<p class="poetry">Last night I lingered long without<br />
My last of loves to see.<br />
Alas! the moon-white window-panes<br />
Stared blindly back on me.</p>
<p class="poetry">To-day I hold her very hand,<br />
Her very waist embrace—<br />
Like clouds across a pool, I read<br />
Her thoughts upon her face.</p>
<p class="poetry">And yet, as now, through her clear eyes<br />
I seek the inner shrine—<br />
I stoop to read her virgin heart<br />
In doubt if it be mine—</p>
<p class="poetry">O looking long and fondly thus,<br />
What vision should I see?<br />
No vision, but my own white face<br />
That grins and mimics me.</p>
<h3><a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 6</span>IV.</h3>
<p class="poetry">Once more upon the same old seat<br />
In the same sunshiny weather,<br />
The elm-trees’ shadows at their feet<br />
And foliage move together.</p>
<p class="poetry">The shadows shift upon the grass,<br />
The dial point creeps on;<br />
The clear sun shines, the loiterers pass,<br />
As then they passed and shone.</p>
<p class="poetry">But now deep sleep is on my heart,<br />
Deep sleep and perfect rest.<br />
Hope’s flutterings now disturb no more<br />
The quiet of my breast.</p>
<h2>ST. MARTIN’S SUMMER</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">As</span> swallows turning
backward<br />
When half-way o’er the sea,<br />
At one word’s trumpet summons<br />
They came again to me—<br />
The hopes I had forgotten<br />
Came back again to me.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
7</span>I know not which to credit,<br />
O lady of my heart!<br />
Your eyes that bade me linger,<br />
Your words that bade us part—<br />
I know not which to credit,<br />
My reason or my heart.</p>
<p class="poetry">But be my hopes rewarded,<br />
Or be they but in vain,<br />
I have dreamed a golden vision,<br />
I have gathered in the grain—<br />
I have dreamed a golden vision,<br />
I have not lived in vain.</p>
<h2>DEDICATION</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">My</span> first gift and my
last, to you<br />
I dedicate this fascicle of songs—<br />
The only wealth I have:<br />
Just as they are, to you.</p>
<p class="poetry">I speak the truth in soberness, and say<br />
I had rather bring a light to your clear eyes,<br />
Had rather hear you praise<br />
This bosomful of songs</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
8</span>Than that the whole, hard world with one consent,<br />
In one continuous chorus of applause<br />
Poured forth for me and mine<br />
The homage of ripe praise.</p>
<p class="poetry">I write the finis here against my love,<br />
This is my love’s last epitaph and tomb.<br />
Here the road forks, and I<br />
Go my way, far from yours.</p>
<h2>THE OLD CHIMÆRAS, OLD RECEIPTS</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> old
Chimæras, old receipts<br />
For making “happy land,”<br />
The old political beliefs<br />
Swam close before my hand.</p>
<p class="poetry">The grand old communistic myths<br />
In a middle state of grace,<br />
Quite dead, but not yet gone to Hell,<br />
And walking for a space,</p>
<p class="poetry">Quite dead, and looking it, and yet<br />
All eagerness to show<br />
The Social-Contract forgeries<br />
By Chatterton—Rousseau—</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
9</span>A hundred such as these I tried,<br />
And hundreds after that,<br />
I fitted Social Theories<br />
As one would fit a hat!</p>
<p class="poetry">Full many a marsh-fire lured me on,<br />
I reached at many a star,<br />
I reached and grasped them and behold—<br />
The stump of a cigar!</p>
<p class="poetry">All through the sultry sweltering day<br />
The sweat ran down my brow,<br />
The still plains heard my distant strokes<br />
That have been silenced now.</p>
<p class="poetry">This way and that, now up, now down,<br />
I hailed full many a blow.<br />
Alas! beneath my weary arm<br />
The thicket seemed to grow.</p>
<p class="poetry">I take the lesson, wipe my brow<br />
And throw my axe aside,<br />
And, sorely wearied, I go home<br />
In the tranquil eventide.</p>
<p class="poetry">And soon the rising moon, that lights<br />
The eve of my defeat,<br />
Shall see me sitting as of yore<br />
By my old master’s feet.</p>
<h2><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
10</span>PRELUDE</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">By</span> sunny
market-place and street<br />
Wherever I go my drum I beat,<br />
And wherever I go in my coat of red<br />
The ribbons flutter about my head.</p>
<p class="poetry">I seek recruits for wars to come—<br />
For slaughterless wars I beat the drum,<br />
And the shilling I give to each new ally<br />
Is hope to live and courage to die.</p>
<p class="poetry">I know that new recruits shall come<br />
Wherever I beat the sounding drum,<br />
Till the roar of the march by country and town<br />
Shall shake the tottering Dagons down.</p>
<p class="poetry">For I was objectless as they<br />
And loitering idly day by day;<br />
But whenever I heard the recruiters come,<br />
I left my all to follow the drum.</p>
<h2><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 11</span>THE
VANQUISHED KNIGHT</h2>
<p class="poetry">I <span class="smcap">have</span> left all upon
the shameful field,<br />
Honour and Hope, my God, and all but life;<br />
Spurless, with sword reversed and dinted shield,<br />
Degraded and disgraced, I leave the strife.</p>
<p class="poetry">From him that hath not, shall there not be
taken<br />
E’en that he hath, when he deserts the
strife?<br />
Life left by all life’s benefits forsaken,<br />
O keep the promise, Lord, and take the life.</p>
<h2>TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF NORTHERN LIGHTS</h2>
<p class="poetry">I <span class="smcap">send</span> to you,
commissioners,<br />
A paper that may please ye, sirs<br />
(For troth they say it might be worse<br />
An’ I believe’t)<br />
And on your business lay my curse<br />
Before I leav’t.</p>
<p class="poetry">I thocht I’d serve wi’ you, sirs,
yince,<br />
But I’ve thocht better of it since;<br />
The maitter I will nowise mince,<br />
But tell ye true:<br />
I’ll service wi’ some ither prince,<br />
An’ no wi’ you.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
12</span>I’ve no been very deep, ye’ll think,<br />
Cam’ delicately to the brink<br />
An’ when the water gart me shrink<br />
Straucht took the rue,<br />
An’ didna stoop my fill to drink—<br />
I own it true.</p>
<p class="poetry">I kent on cape and isle, a light<br />
Burnt fair an’ clearly ilka night;<br />
But at the service I took fright,<br />
As sune’s I saw,<br />
An’ being still a neophite<br />
Gaed straucht awa’.</p>
<p class="poetry">Anither course I now begin,<br />
The weeg I’ll cairry for my sin,<br />
The court my voice shall echo in,<br />
An’—wha can
tell?—<br />
Some ither day I may be yin<br />
O’ you mysel’.</p>
<h2><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 13</span>THE
RELIC TAKEN, WHAT AVAILS THE SHRINE?</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> relic taken,
what avails the shrine?<br />
The locket, pictureless? O heart of mine,<br />
Art thou not worse than that,<br />
Still warm, a vacant nest where love once sat?</p>
<p class="poetry">Her image nestled closer at my heart<br />
Than cherished memories, healed every smart<br />
And warmed it more than wine<br />
Or the full summer sun in noon-day shine.</p>
<p class="poetry">This was the little weather gleam that lit<br
/>
The cloudy promontories—the real charm was<br />
That gilded hills and woods<br />
And walked beside me thro’ the solitudes.</p>
<p class="poetry">The sun is set. My heart is widowed
now<br />
Of that companion-thought. Alone I plough<br />
The seas of life, and trace<br />
A separate furrow far from her and grace.</p>
<h2><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 14</span>ABOUT
THE SHELTERED GARDEN GROUND</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">About</span> the sheltered
garden ground<br />
The trees stand strangely still.<br />
The vale ne’er seemed so deep before,<br />
Nor yet so high the hill.</p>
<p class="poetry">An awful sense of quietness,<br />
A fulness of repose,<br />
Breathes from the dewy garden-lawns,<br />
The silent garden rows.</p>
<p class="poetry">As the hoof-beats of a troop of horse<br />
Heard far across a plain,<br />
A nearer knowledge of great thoughts<br />
Thrills vaguely through my brain.</p>
<p class="poetry">I lean my head upon my arm,<br />
My heart’s too full to think;<br />
Like the roar of seas, upon my heart<br />
Doth the morning stillness sink.</p>
<h2><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 15</span>AFTER
READING “ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA”</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">As</span> when the hunt by
holt and field<br />
Drives on with horn and strife,<br />
Hunger of hopeless things pursues<br />
Our spirits throughout life.</p>
<p class="poetry">The sea’s roar fills us aching full<br />
Of objectless desire—<br />
The sea’s roar, and the white moon-shine,<br />
And the reddening of the fire.</p>
<p class="poetry">Who talks to me of reason now?<br />
It would be more delight<br />
To have died in Cleopatra’s arms<br />
Than be alive to-night.</p>
<h2>I KNOW NOT HOW, BUT AS I COUNT</h2>
<p class="poetry">I <span class="smcap">know</span> not how, but
as I count<br />
The beads of former years,<br />
Old laughter catches in my throat<br />
With the very feel of tears.</p>
<h2><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 16</span>SPRING
SONG</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> air was full of
sun and birds,<br />
The fresh air sparkled clearly.<br />
Remembrance wakened in my heart<br />
And I knew I loved her dearly.</p>
<p class="poetry">The fallows and the leafless trees<br />
And all my spirit tingled.<br />
My earliest thought of love, and Spring’s<br />
First puff of perfume mingled.</p>
<p class="poetry">In my still heart the thoughts awoke,<br />
Came lone by lone together—<br />
Say, birds and Sun and Spring, is Love<br />
A mere affair of weather?</p>
<h2>THE SUMMER SUN SHONE ROUND ME</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> summer sun shone
round me,<br />
The folded valley lay<br />
In a stream of sun and odour,<br />
That sultry summer day.</p>
<p class="poetry">The tall trees stood in the sunlight<br />
As still as still could be,<br />
But the deep grass sighed and rustled<br />
And bowed and beckoned me.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
17</span>The deep grass moved and whispered<br />
And bowed and brushed my face.<br />
It whispered in the sunshine:<br />
“The winter comes apace.”</p>
<h2>YOU LOOKED SO TEMPTING IN THE PEW</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">You</span> looked so
tempting in the pew,<br />
You looked so sly and calm—<br />
My trembling fingers played with yours<br />
As both looked out the Psalm.</p>
<p class="poetry">Your heart beat hard against my arm,<br />
My foot to yours was set,<br />
Your loosened ringlet burned my cheek<br />
Whenever they two met.</p>
<p class="poetry">O little, little we hearkened, dear,<br />
And little, little cared,<br />
Although the parson sermonised,<br />
The congregation stared.</p>
<h2><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
18</span>LOVE’S VICISSITUDES</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">As</span> Love and Hope
together<br />
Walk by me for a while,<br />
Link-armed the ways they travel<br />
For many a pleasant mile—<br />
Link-armed and dumb they travel,<br />
They sing not, but they smile.</p>
<p class="poetry">Hope leaving, Love commences<br />
To practise on the lute;<br />
And as he sings and travels<br />
With lingering, laggard foot,<br />
Despair plays obligato<br />
The sentimental flute.</p>
<p class="poetry">Until in singing garments<br />
Comes royally, at call—<br />
Comes limber-hipped Indiff’rence<br />
Free stepping, straight and tall—<br />
Comes singing and lamenting,<br />
The sweetest pipe of all.</p>
<h2>DUDDINGSTONE</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">With</span> caws and
chirrupings, the woods<br />
In this thin sun rejoice.<br />
The Psalm seems but the little kirk<br />
That sings with its own voice.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
19</span>The cloud-rifts share their amber light<br />
With the surface of the mere—<br />
I think the very stones are glad<br />
To feel each other near.</p>
<p class="poetry">Once more my whole heart leaps and swells<br />
And gushes o’er with glee;<br />
The fingers of the sun and shade<br />
Touch music stops in me.</p>
<p class="poetry">Now fancy paints that bygone day<br />
When you were here, my fair—<br />
The whole lake rang with rapid skates<br />
In the windless winter air.</p>
<p class="poetry">You leaned to me, I leaned to you,<br />
Our course was smooth as flight—<br />
We steered—a heel-touch to the left,<br />
A heel-touch to the right.</p>
<p class="poetry">We swung our way through flying men,<br />
Your hand lay fast in mine:<br />
We saw the shifting crowd dispart,<br />
The level ice-reach shine.</p>
<p class="poetry">I swear by yon swan-travelled lake,<br />
By yon calm hill above,<br />
I swear had we been drowned that day<br />
We had been drowned in love.</p>
<h2><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 20</span>STOUT
MARCHES LEAD TO CERTAIN ENDS</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Stout</span> marches lead
to certain ends,<br />
We seek no Holy Grail, my friends—<br />
That dawn should find us every day<br />
Some fraction farther on our way.</p>
<p class="poetry">The dumb lands sleep from east to west,<br />
They stretch and turn and take their rest.<br />
The cock has crown in the steading-yard,<br />
But priest and people slumber hard.</p>
<p class="poetry">We two are early forth, and hear<br />
The nations snoring far and near.<br />
So peacefully their rest they take,<br />
It seems we are the first awake!</p>
<p class="poetry">—Strong heart! this is no royal way,<br
/>
A thousand cross-roads seek the day;<br />
And, hid from us, to left and right,<br />
A thousand seekers seek the light.</p>
<h2>AWAY WITH FUNERAL MUSIC</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Away</span> with funeral
music—set<br />
The pipe to powerful lips—<br />
The cup of life’s for him that drinks<br />
And not for him that sips.</p>
<h2><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 21</span>TO
SYDNEY</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Not</span> thine where
marble-still and white<br />
Old statues share the tempered light<br />
And mock the uneven modern flight,<br />
But in the stream<br />
Of daily sorrow and delight<br />
To seek a theme.</p>
<p class="poetry">I too, O friend, have steeled my heart<br />
Boldly to choose the better part,<br />
To leave the beaten ways of art,<br />
And wholly free<br />
To dare, beyond the scanty chart,<br />
The deeper sea.</p>
<p class="poetry">All vain restrictions left behind,<br />
Frail bark! I loose my anchored mind<br />
And large, before the prosperous wind<br />
Desert the strand—<br />
A new Columbus sworn to find<br />
The morning land.</p>
<p class="poetry">Nor too ambitious, friend. To thee<br />
I own my weakness. Not for me<br />
To sing the enfranchised nations’ glee,<br />
Or count the cost<br />
Of warships foundered far at sea<br />
And battles lost.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
22</span>High on the far-seen, sunny hills,<br />
Morning-content my bosom fills;<br />
Well-pleased, I trace the wandering rills<br />
And learn their birth.<br />
Far off, the clash of sovereign wills<br />
May shake the earth.</p>
<p class="poetry">The nimble circuit of the wheel,<br />
The uncertain poise of merchant weal,<br />
Heaven of famine, fire and steel<br />
When nations fall;<br />
These, heedful, from afar I feel—<br />
I mark them all.</p>
<p class="poetry">But not, my friend, not these I sing,<br />
My voice shall fill a narrower ring.<br />
Tired souls, that flag upon the wing,<br />
I seek to cheer:<br />
Brave wines to strengthen hope I bring,<br />
Life’s cantineer!</p>
<p class="poetry">Some song that shall be suppling oil<br />
To weary muscles strained with toil,<br />
Shall hearten for the daily moil,<br />
Or widely read<br />
Make sweet for him that tills the soil<br />
His daily bread.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
23</span>Such songs in my flushed hours I dream<br />
(High thought) instead of armour gleam<br />
Or warrior cantos ream by ream<br />
To load the shelves—<br />
Songs with a lilt of words, that seem<br />
To sing themselves.</p>
<h2>HAD I THE POWER THAT HAVE THE WILL</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Had</span> I the power that
have the will,<br />
The enfeebled will—a modern curse—<br />
This book of mine should blossom still<br />
A perfect garden-ground of verse.</p>
<p class="poetry">White placid marble gods should keep<br />
Good watch in every shadowy lawn;<br />
And from clean, easy-breathing sleep<br />
The birds should waken me at dawn.</p>
<p class="poetry">—A fairy garden;—none the less<br
/>
Throughout these gracious paths of mine<br />
All day there should be free access<br />
For stricken hearts and lives that pine;</p>
<p class="poetry">And by the folded lawns all day—<br />
No idle gods for such a land—<br />
All active Love should take its way<br />
With active Labour hand in hand.</p>
<h2><a name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 24</span>O DULL
COLD NORTHERN SKY</h2>
<p class="poetry">O <span class="smcap">dull</span> cold northern
sky,<br />
O brawling sabbath bells,<br />
O feebly twittering Autumn bird that tells<br />
The year is like to die!</p>
<p class="poetry">O still, spoiled trees, O city ways,<br />
O sun desired in vain,<br />
O dread presentiment of coming rain<br />
That cloys the sullen days!</p>
<p class="poetry">Thee, heart of mine, I greet.<br />
In what hard mountain pass<br />
Striv’st thou? In what importunate morass<br />
Sink now thy weary feet?</p>
<p class="poetry">Thou run’st a hopeless race<br />
To win despair. No crown<br />
Awaits success, but leaden gods look down<br />
On thee, with evil face.</p>
<p class="poetry">And those that would befriend<br />
And cherish thy defeat,<br />
With angry welcome shall turn sour the sweet<br />
Home-coming of the end.</p>
<p class="poetry">Yea, those that offer praise<br />
To idleness, shall yet<br />
Insult thee, coming glorious in the sweat<br />
Of honourable ways.</p>
<h2><a name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
25</span>APOLOGETIC POSTSCRIPT OF A YEAR LATER</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">If</span> you see this
song, my dear,<br />
And last year’s toast,<br />
I’m confoundedly in fear<br />
You’ll be serious and severe<br />
About the boast.</p>
<p class="poetry">Blame not that I sought such aid<br />
To cure regret.<br />
I was then so lowly laid<br />
I used all the Gasconnade<br />
That I could get.</p>
<p class="poetry">Being snubbed is somewhat smart,<br />
Believe, my sweet;<br />
And I needed all my art<br />
To restore my broken heart<br />
To its conceit.</p>
<p class="poetry">Come and smile, dear, and forget<br />
I boasted so,<br />
I apologise—regret—<br />
It was all a jest;—and—yet—<br />
I do not know.</p>
<h2><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 26</span>TO
MARCUS</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">You</span> have been far,
and I<br />
Been farther yet,<br />
Since last, in foul or fair<br />
An impecunious pair,<br />
Below this northern sky<br />
Of ours, we met.</p>
<p class="poetry">Now winter night shall see<br />
Again us two,<br />
While howls the tempest higher,<br />
Sit warmly by the fire<br />
And dream and plan, as we<br />
Were wont to do.</p>
<p class="poetry">And, hand in hand, at large<br />
Our thoughts shall walk<br />
While storm and gusty rain,<br />
Again and yet again,<br />
Shall drive their noisy charge<br />
Across the talk.</p>
<p class="poetry">The pleasant future still<br />
Shall smile to me,<br />
And hope with wooing hands<br />
Wave on to fairy lands<br />
All over dale and hill<br />
And earth and sea.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
27</span>And you who doubt the sky<br />
And fear the sun—<br />
You—Christian with the pack—<br />
You shall not wander back<br />
For I am Hopeful—I<br />
Will cheer you on.</p>
<p class="poetry">Come—where the great have trod,<br />
The great shall lead—<br />
Come, elbow through the press,<br />
Pluck Fortune by the dress—<br />
By God, we must—by God,<br />
We shall succeed.</p>
<h2>TO OTTILIE</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">You</span> remember, I
suppose,<br />
How the August sun arose,<br />
And how his face<br />
Woke to trill and carolette<br />
All the cages that were set<br />
About the place.</p>
<p class="poetry">In the tender morning light<br />
All around lay strange and bright<br />
And still and sweet,<br />
And the gray doves unafraid<br />
Went their morning promenade<br />
Along the street.</p>
<h2><a name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 28</span>THIS
GLOOMY NORTHERN DAY</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">This</span> gloomy northern
day,<br />
Or this yet gloomier night,<br />
Has moved a something high<br />
In my cold heart; and I,<br />
That do not often pray,<br />
Would pray to-night.</p>
<p class="poetry">And first on Thee I call<br />
For bread, O God of might!<br />
Enough of bread for all,—<br
/>
That through the famished town<br
/>
Cold hunger may lie down<br />
With none to-night.</p>
<p class="poetry">I pray for hope no less,<br />
Strong-sinewed hope, O Lord,<br />
That to the struggling young<br />
May preach with brazen tongue<br
/>
Stout Labour, high success,<br />
And bright reward.</p>
<p class="poetry">And last, O Lord, I pray<br />
For hearts resigned and bold<br />
To trudge the dusty way—<br
/>
Hearts stored with song and
joke<br />
And warmer than a cloak<br />
Against the cold.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
29</span>If nothing else he had,<br />
He who has this, has all.<br />
This comforts under pain;<br />
This, through the stinging
rain,<br />
Keeps ragamuffin glad<br />
Behind the wall.</p>
<p class="poetry">This makes the sanded inn<br />
A palace for a Prince,<br />
And this, when griefs begin<br />
And cruel fate annoys,<br />
Can bring to mind the joys<br />
Of ages since.</p>
<h2>THE WIND IS WITHOUT THERE AND HOWLS IN THE TREES</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> wind is without
there and howls in the trees,<br />
And the rain-flurries drum on the glass:<br />
Alone by the fireside with elbows on knees<br />
I can number the hours as they pass.<br />
Yet now, when to cheer me the crickets begin,<br />
And my pipe is just happily lit,<br />
Believe me, my friend, tho’ the evening draws in,<br />
That not all uncontested I sit.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page30"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
30</span>Alone, did I say? O no, nowise alone<br />
With the Past sitting warm on my knee,<br />
To gossip of days that are over and gone,<br />
But still charming to her and to me.<br />
With much to be glad of and much to deplore,<br />
Yet, as these days with those we compare,<br />
Believe me, my friend, tho’ the sorrows seem more<br />
They are somehow more easy to bear.</p>
<p class="poetry">And thou, faded Future, uncertain and frail,<br
/>
As I cherish thy light in each draught,<br />
His lamp is not more to the miner—their sail<br />
Is not more to the crew on the raft.<br />
For Hope can make feeble ones earnest and brave,<br />
And, as forth thro’ the years I look on,<br />
Believe me, my friend, between this and the grave,<br />
I see wonderful things to be done.</p>
<p class="poetry">To do or to try; and, believe me, my friend,<br
/>
If the call should come early for me,<br />
I can leave these foundations uprooted, and tend<br />
For some new city over the sea.<br />
To do or to try; and if failure be mine,<br />
And if Fortune go cross to my plan,<br />
Believe me, my friend, tho’ I mourn the design<br />
I shall never lament for the man.</p>
<h2><a name="page31"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 31</span>A
VALENTINE’S SONG</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Motley</span> I count the
only wear<br />
That suits, in this mixed world, the truly wise,<br
/>
Who boldly smile upon despair<br />
And shake their bells in Grandam Grundy’s
eyes.<br />
Singers should sing with such a goodly cheer<br />
That the bare listening should make strong like
wine,<br />
At this unruly time of year,<br />
The Feast of Valentine.</p>
<p class="poetry">We do not now parade our
“oughts”<br />
And “shoulds” and motives and beliefs in
God.<br />
Their life lies all indoors; sad thoughts<br />
Must keep the house, while gay thoughts go
abroad,<br />
Within we hold the wake for hopes deceased;<br />
But in the public streets, in wind or sun,<br />
Keep open, at the annual feast,<br />
The puppet-booth of fun.</p>
<p class="poetry">Our powers, perhaps, are small to please,<br />
But even negro-songs and castanettes,<br />
Old jokes and hackneyed repartees<br />
Are more than the parade of vain regrets.<br />
<a name="page32"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 32</span>Let
Jacques stand Wert(h)ering by the wounded deer—<br />
We shall make merry, honest friends of mine,<br />
At this unruly time of year,<br />
The Feast of Valentine.</p>
<p class="poetry">I know how, day by weary day,<br />
Hope fades, love fades, a thousand pleasures
fade.<br />
I have not trudged in vain that way<br />
On which life’s daylight darkens, shade by
shade.<br />
And still, with hopes decreasing, griefs increased,<br />
Still, with what wit I have shall I, for one,<br />
Keep open, at the annual feast,<br />
The puppet-booth of fun.</p>
<p class="poetry">I care not if the wit be poor,<br />
The old worn motley stained with rain and tears,<br
/>
If but the courage still endure<br />
That filled and strengthened hope in earlier
years;<br />
If still, with friends averted, fate severe,<br />
A glad, untainted cheerfulness be mine<br />
To greet the unruly time of year,<br />
The Feast of Valentine.</p>
<p class="poetry">Priest, I am none of thine, and see<br />
In the perspective of still hopeful youth<br />
That Truth shall triumph over thee—<br />
Truth to one’s self—I know no other
truth.<br />
<a name="page33"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 33</span>I see
strange days for thee and thine, O priest,<br />
And how your doctrines, fallen one by one,<br />
Shall furnish at the annual feast<br />
The puppet-booth of fun.</p>
<p class="poetry">Stand on your putrid ruins—stand,<br />
White neck-clothed bigot, fixedly the same,<br />
Cruel with all things but the hand,<br />
Inquisitor in all things but the name.<br />
Back, minister of Christ and source of fear—<br />
We cherish freedom—back with thee and thine<br
/>
From this unruly time of year,<br />
The Feast of Valentine.</p>
<p class="poetry">Blood thou mayest spare; but what of tears?<br
/>
But what of riven households, broken faith—<br
/>
Bywords that cling through all men’s years<br />
And drag them surely down to shame and death?<br />
Stand back, O cruel man, O foe of youth,<br />
And let such men as hearken not thy voice<br />
Press freely up the road to truth,<br />
The King’s highway of choice.</p>
<h2><a name="page34"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 34</span>HAIL!
CHILDISH SLAVES OF SOCIAL RULES</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Hail</span>! Childish
slaves of social rules<br />
You had yourselves a hand in making!<br />
How I could shake your faith, ye fools,<br />
If but I thought it worth the shaking.<br />
I see, and pity you; and then<br />
Go, casting off the idle pity,<br />
In search of better, braver men,<br />
My own way freely through the city.</p>
<p class="poetry">My own way freely, and not yours;<br />
And, careless of a town’s abusing,<br />
Seek real friendship that endures<br />
Among the friends of my own choosing.<br />
I’ll choose my friends myself, do you hear?<br />
And won’t let Mrs. Grundy do it,<br />
Tho’ all I honour and hold dear<br />
And all I hope should move me to it.</p>
<p class="poetry">I take my old coat from the shelf—<br />
I am a man of little breeding.<br />
And only dress to please myself—<br />
I own, a very strange proceeding.<br />
<a name="page35"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 35</span>I smoke a
pipe abroad, because<br />
To all cigars I much prefer it,<br />
And as I scorn your social laws<br />
My choice has nothing to deter it.</p>
<p class="poetry">Gladly I trudge the footpath way,<br />
While you and yours roll by in coaches<br />
In all the pride of fine array,<br />
Through all the city’s thronged approaches.<br
/>
O fine religious, decent folk,<br />
In Virtue’s flaunting gold and scarlet,<br />
I sneer between two puffs of smoke,—<br />
Give me the publican and harlot.</p>
<p class="poetry">Ye dainty-spoken, stiff, severe<br />
Seed of the migrated Philistian,<br />
One whispered question in your ear—<br />
Pray, what was Christ, if you be Christian?<br />
If Christ were only here just now,<br />
Among the city’s wynds and gables<br />
Teaching the life he taught us, how<br />
Would he be welcome to your tables?</p>
<p class="poetry">I go and leave your logic-straws,<br />
Your former-friends with face averted,<br />
Your petty ways and narrow laws,<br />
Your Grundy and your God, deserted.<br />
<a name="page36"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 36</span>From your
frail ark of lies, I flee<br />
I know not where, like Noah’s raven.<br />
Full to the broad, unsounded sea<br />
I swim from your dishonest haven.</p>
<p class="poetry">Alone on that unsounded deep,<br />
Poor waif, it may be I shall perish,<br />
Far from the course I thought to keep,<br />
Far from the friends I hoped to cherish.<br />
It may be that I shall sink, and yet<br />
Hear, thro’ all taunt and scornful
laughter,<br />
Through all defeat and all regret,<br />
The stronger swimmers coming after.</p>
<h2>SWALLOWS TRAVEL TO AND FRO</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Swallows</span> travel to
and fro,<br />
And the great winds come and go,<br />
And the steady breezes blow,<br />
Bearing perfume, bearing love.<br />
Breezes hasten, swallows fly,<br />
Towered clouds forever ply,<br />
And at noonday, you and I<br />
See the same sunshine above.</p>
<p class="poetry">Dew and rain fall everywhere,<br />
Harvests ripen, flowers are fair,<br />
And the whole round earth is bare<br />
To the moonshine and the sun;<br />
<a name="page37"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 37</span>And the
live air, fanned with wings,<br />
Bright with breeze and sunshine, brings<br />
Into contact distant things,<br />
And makes all the countries one.</p>
<p class="poetry">Let us wander where we will,<br />
Something kindred greets us still;<br />
Something seen on vale or hill<br />
Falls familiar on the heart;<br />
So, at scent or sound or sight,<br />
Severed souls by day and night<br />
Tremble with the same delight—<br />
Tremble, half the world apart.</p>
<h2>TO MESDAMES ZASSETSKY AND GARSCHINE</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> wind may blaw
the lee-gang way<br />
And aye the lift be mirk an’ gray,<br />
An deep the moss and steigh the brae<br />
Where a’ maun gang—<br />
There’s still an hoor in ilka day<br />
For luve and sang.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page38"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
38</span>And canty hearts are strangely steeled.<br />
By some dikeside they’ll find a bield,<br />
Some couthy neuk by muir or field<br />
They’re sure to hit,<br />
Where, frae the blatherin’ wind concealed,<br />
They’ll rest a bit.</p>
<p class="poetry">An’ weel for them if kindly fate<br />
Send ower the hills to them a mate;<br />
They’ll crack a while o’ kirk an’ State,<br />
O’ yowes an’ rain:<br />
An’ when it’s time to take the gate,<br />
Tak’ ilk his ain.</p>
<p class="poetry">—Sic neuk beside the southern sea<br />
I soucht—sic place o’ quiet lee<br />
Frae a’ the winds o’ life. To me,<br />
Fate, rarely fair,<br />
Had set a freendly company<br />
To meet me there.</p>
<p class="poetry">Kindly by them they gart me sit,<br />
An’ blythe was I to bide a bit.<br />
Licht as o’ some hame fireside lit<br />
My life for me.<br />
—Ower early maun I rise an’ quit<br />
This happy lee.</p>
<h2><a name="page39"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 39</span>TO
MADAME GARSCHINE</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">What</span> is the face,
the fairest face, till Care,<br />
Till Care the graver—Care with cunning
hand,<br />
Etches content thereon and makes it fair,<br />
Or constancy, and love, and makes it grand?</p>
<h2>MUSIC AT THE VILLA MARINA</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">For</span> some abiding
central source of power,<br />
Strong-smitten steady chords, ye seem to flow<br />
And, flowing, carry virtue. Far below,<br />
The vain tumultuous passions of the hour<br />
Fleet fast and disappear; and as the sun<br />
Shines on the wake of tempests, there is cast<br />
O’er all the shattered ruins of my past<br />
A strong contentment as of battles won.</p>
<p class="poetry">And yet I cry in anguish, as I hear<br />
The long drawn pageant of your passage roll<br />
Magnificently forth into the night.<br />
To yon fair land ye come from, to yon sphere<br />
Of strength and love where now ye shape your flight,<br />
O even wings of music, bear my soul!</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page40"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
40</span>Ye have the power, if but ye had the will,<br />
Strong-smitten steady chords in sequence grand,<br
/>
To bear me forth into that tranquil land<br />
Where good is no more ravelled up with ill;<br />
Where she and I, remote upon some hill<br />
Or by some quiet river’s windless strand,<br
/>
May live, and love, and wander hand in hand,<br />
And follow nature simply, and be still.</p>
<p class="poetry">From this grim world, where, sadly, prisoned,
we<br />
Sit bound with others’ heart-strings as with
chains,<br />
And, if one moves, all suffer,—to that
Goal,<br />
If such a land, if such a sphere, there be,<br />
Thither, from life and all life’s joys and
pains,<br />
O even wings of music, bear my soul!</p>
<h2>FEAR NOT, DEAR FRIEND, BUT FREELY LIVE YOUR DAYS</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Fear</span> not, dear
friend, but freely live your days<br />
Though lesser lives should suffer. Such am
I,<br />
A lesser life, that what is his of sky<br />
Gladly would give for you, and what of praise.<br />
Step, without trouble, down the sunlit ways.<br />
We that have touched your raiment, are made whole<br
/>
From all the selfish cankers of man’s soul,<br
/>
<a name="page41"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 41</span>And we
would see you happy, dear, or die.<br />
Therefore be brave, and therefore, dear, be free;<br />
Try all things resolutely, till the best,<br />
Out of all lesser betters, you shall find;<br />
And we, who have learned greatness from you, we,<br />
Your lovers, with a still, contented mind,<br />
See you well anchored in some port of rest.</p>
<h2>LET LOVE GO, IF GO SHE WILL</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Let</span> love go, if go
she will.<br />
Seek not, O fool, her wanton flight to stay.<br />
Of all she gives and takes away<br />
The best remains behind her still.</p>
<p class="poetry">The best remains behind; in vain<br />
Joy she may give and take again,<br />
Joy she may take and leave us pain,<br />
If yet she leave behind<br />
The constant mind<br />
To meet all fortunes nobly, to endure<br />
All things with a good heart, and still be pure,<br />
Still to be foremost in the foremost cause,<br />
And still be worthy of the love that was.<br />
Love coming is omnipotent indeed,<br />
But not Love going. Let her go. The seed<br />
<a name="page42"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 42</span>Springs in
the favouring Summer air, and grows,<br />
And waxes strong; and when the Summer goes,<br />
Remains, a perfect tree.</p>
<p class="poetry">Joy she may give and take again,<br />
Joy she may take and leave us pain.<br />
O Love, and what care we?<br />
For one thing thou hast given, O Love, one thing<br />
Is ours that nothing can remove;<br />
And as the King discrowned is still a King,<br />
The unhappy lover still preserves his love.</p>
<h2>I DO NOT FEAR TO OWN ME KIN</h2>
<p class="poetry">I <span class="smcap">do</span> not fear to own
me kin<br />
To the glad clods in which spring flowers begin;<br />
Or to my brothers, the great trees,<br />
That speak with pleasant voices in the breeze,<br />
Loud talkers with the winds that pass;<br />
Or to my sister, the deep grass.</p>
<p class="poetry">Of such I am, of such my body is,<br />
That thrills to reach its lips to kiss.<br />
That gives and takes with wind and sun and rain<br />
And feels keen pleasure to the point of pain.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page43"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
43</span>Of such are these,<br />
The brotherhood of stalwart trees,<br />
The humble family of flowers,<br />
That make a light of shadowy bowers<br />
Or star the edges of the bent:<br />
They give and take sweet colour and sweet scent;<br />
They joy to shed themselves abroad;<br />
And tree and flower and grass and sod<br />
Thrill and leap and live and sing<br />
With silent voices in the Spring.</p>
<p class="poetry">Hence I not fear to yield my breath,<br />
Since all is still unchanged by death;<br />
Since in some pleasant valley I may be,<br />
Clod beside clod, or tree by tree,<br />
Long ages hence, with her I love this hour;<br />
And feel a lively joy to share<br />
With her the sun and rain and air,<br />
To taste her quiet neighbourhood<br />
As the dumb things of field and wood,<br />
The clod, the tree, and starry flower,<br />
Alone of all things have the power.</p>
<h2><a name="page44"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 44</span>I AM
LIKE ONE THAT FOR LONG DAYS HAD SATE</h2>
<p class="poetry">I <span class="smcap">am</span> like one that
for long days had sate,<br />
With seaward eyes set keen against the gale,<br />
On some lone foreland, watching sail by sail,<br />
The portbound ships for one ship that was late;<br />
And sail by sail, his heart burned up with joy,<br />
And cruelly was quenched, until at last<br />
One ship, the looked-for pennant at its mast,<br />
Bore gaily, and dropt safely past the buoy;<br />
And lo! the loved one was not there—was dead.<br />
Then would he watch no more; no more the sea<br />
With myriad vessels, sail by sail, perplex<br />
His eyes and mock his longing. Weary head,<br />
Take now thy rest; eyes, close; for no more me<br />
Shall hopes untried elate, or ruined vex.</p>
<p class="poetry">For thus on love I waited; thus for love<br />
Strained all my senses eagerly and long;<br />
Thus for her coming ever trimmed my song;<br />
Till in the far skies coloured as a dove,<br />
A bird gold-coloured flickered far and fled<br />
Over the pathless waterwaste for me;<br />
And with spread hands I watched the bright bird
flee<br />
<a name="page45"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 45</span>And
waited, till before me she dropped dead.<br />
O golden bird in these dove-coloured skies<br />
How long I sought, how long with wearied eyes<br />
I sought, O bird, the promise of thy flight!<br />
And now the morn has dawned, the morn has died,<br
/>
The day has come and gone; and once more night<br />
About my lone life settles, wild and wide.</p>
<h2>VOLUNTARY</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Here</span> in the quiet
eve<br />
My thankful eyes receive<br />
The quiet light.<br />
I see the trees stand fair<br />
Against the faded air,<br />
And star by star prepare<br />
The perfect night.</p>
<p class="poetry">And in my bosom, lo!<br />
Content and quiet grow<br />
Toward perfect peace.<br />
And now when day is done,<br />
Brief day of wind and sun,<br />
The pure stars, one by one,<br />
Their troop increase.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page46"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
46</span>Keen pleasure and keen grief<br />
Give place to great relief:<br />
Farewell my tears!<br />
Still sounds toward me float;<br />
I hear the bird’s small note,<br />
Sheep from the far sheepcote,<br />
And lowing steers.</p>
<p class="poetry">For lo! the war is done,<br />
Lo, now the battle won,<br />
The trumpets still.<br />
The shepherd’s slender strain,<br />
The country sounds again<br />
Awake in wood and plain,<br />
On haugh and hill.</p>
<p class="poetry">Loud wars and loud loves cease.<br />
I welcome my release;<br />
And hail once more<br />
Free foot and way world-wide.<br />
And oft at eventide<br />
Light love to talk beside<br />
The hostel door.</p>
<h2><a name="page47"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 47</span>ON
NOW, ALTHOUGH THE YEAR BE DONE</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">On</span> now, although the
year be done,<br />
Now, although the love be dead,<br />
Dead and gone;<br />
Hear me, O loved and cherished one,<br />
Give me still the hand that led,<br />
Led me on.</p>
<h2>IN THE GREEN AND GALLANT SPRING</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">In</span> the green and
gallant Spring,<br />
Love and the lyre I thought to sing,<br />
And kisses sweet to give and take<br />
By the flowery hawthorn brake.</p>
<p class="poetry">Now is russet Autumn here,<br />
Death and the grave and winter drear,<br />
And I must ponder here aloof<br />
While the rain is on the roof.</p>
<h2><a name="page48"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 48</span>DEATH,
TO THE DEAD FOR EVERMORE</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Death</span>, to the dead
for evermore<br />
A King, a God, the last, the best of friends—<br />
Whene’er this mortal journey ends<br />
Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;<br />
Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore<br />
Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn<br />
Disturbs the eternal sleep,<br />
But in the stillness far withdrawn<br />
Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.</p>
<p class="poetry">For as from open windows forth we peep<br />
Upon the night-time star beset<br />
And with dews for ever wet;<br />
So from this garish life the spirit peers;<br />
And lo! as a sleeping city death outspread,<br />
Where breathe the sleepers evenly; and lo!<br />
After the loud wars, triumphs, trumpets, tears<br />
And clamour of man’s passion, Death appears,<br />
And we must rise and go.</p>
<p class="poetry">Soon are eyes tired with sunshine; soon the
ears<br />
Weary of utterance, seeing all is said;<br />
Soon, racked by hopes and fears,<br />
The all-pondering, all-contriving head,<br />
<a name="page49"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 49</span>Weary with
all things, wearies of the years;<br />
And our sad spirits turn toward the dead;<br />
And the tired child, the body, longs for bed.</p>
<h2>TO CHARLES BAXTER</h2>
<p><i>On the death of their common friend</i>, <i>Mr. John
Adam</i>, <i>Clerk of court</i>.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Our</span> Johnie’s
deid. The mair’s the pity!<br />
He’s deid, an’ deid o’ Aqua-vitæ.<br />
O Embro’, you’re a shrunken city,<br />
Noo Johnie’s deid!<br />
Tak hands, an’ sing a burial ditty<br />
Ower Johnie’s heid.</p>
<p class="poetry">To see him was baith drink an’ meat,<br
/>
Gaun linkin’ glegly up the street.<br />
He but to rin or tak a seat,<br />
The wee bit body!<br />
Bein’ aye unsicken on his feet<br />
Wi’ whusky toddy.</p>
<p class="poetry">To be aye tosh was Johnie’s whim,<br />
There’s nane was better teut than him,<br />
Though whiles his gravit-knot wad clim’<br />
Ahint his ear,<br />
An’ whiles he’d buttons oot or in<br />
The less ae mair.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page50"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
50</span>His hair a’ lang about his bree,<br />
His tap-lip lang by inches three—<br />
A slockened sort ‘mon,’ to pree<br />
A’ sensuality—<br />
A droutly glint was in his e’e<br />
An’ personality.</p>
<p class="poetry">An’ day an’ nicht, frae daw to
daw,<br />
Dink an’ perjink an’ doucely braw,<br />
Wi’ a kind o’ Gospel ower a’,<br />
May or October,<br />
Like Peden, followin’ the Law<br />
An’ no that sober.</p>
<p class="poetry">Whusky an’ he were pack thegether.<br />
Whate’er the hour, whate’er the weather,<br />
John kept himsel’ wi’ mistened leather<br />
An’ kindled spunk.<br />
Wi’ him, there was nae askin’ whether—<br />
John was aye drunk.</p>
<p class="poetry">The auncient heroes gash an’ bauld<br />
In the uncanny days of auld,<br />
The task ance fo(u)nd to which th’were called,<br />
Stack stenchly to it.<br />
His life sic noble lives recalled,<br />
Little’s he knew it.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page51"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
51</span>Single an’ straucht, he went his way.<br />
He kept the faith an’ played the play.<br />
Whusky an’ he were man an’ may<br />
Whate’er betided.<br />
Bonny in life—in death—this twae<br />
Were no’ divided.</p>
<p class="poetry">An’ wow! but John was unco sport.<br />
Whiles he wad smile about the Court<br />
Malvolio-like—whiles snore an’ snort<br />
Was heard afar.<br />
The idle winter lads’ resort<br />
Was aye John’s bar.</p>
<p class="poetry">What’s merely humorous or bonny<br />
The Worl’ regairds wi’ cauld astony.<br />
Drunk men tak’ aye mair place than ony;<br />
An’ sae, ye see,<br />
The gate was aye ower thrang for Johnie—<br />
Or you an’ me.</p>
<p class="poetry">John micht hae jingled cap an’ bells,<br
/>
Been a braw fule in silks an’ pells,<br />
In ane o’ the auld worl’s canty hells<br />
Paris or Sodom.<br />
I wadnae had him naething else<br />
But Johnie Adam.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page52"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
52</span>He suffered—as have a’ that wan<br />
Eternal memory frae man,<br />
Since e’er the weary worl’ began—<br />
Mister or Madam,<br />
Keats or Scots Burns, the Spanish Don<br />
Or Johnie Adam.</p>
<p class="poetry">We leuch, an’ Johnie deid.
An’ fegs!<br />
Hoo he had keept his stoiterin’ legs<br />
Sae lang’s he did’s a fact that begs<br />
An explanation.<br />
He stachers fifty years—syne plegs<br />
To’s destination.</p>
<h2>I WHO ALL THE WINTER THROUGH</h2>
<p class="poetry"> I <span
class="smcap">who</span> all the winter through<br />
Cherished other loves than you,<br
/>
And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew;<br />
Now I know the false and true,<br
/>
For the earnest sun looks
through,<br />
And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew.</p>
<p class="poetry"> Now the
hedged meads renew<br />
Rustic odour, smiling hue,<br />
And the clean air shines and tinkles as the world goes wheeling
through;<br />
<a name="page53"></a><span
class="pagenum">p. 53</span>And my heart springs up anew,<br />
Bright and confident and true,<br
/>
And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew.</p>
<h2>LOVE, WHAT IS LOVE?</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Love</span>—what is
love? A great and aching heart;<br />
Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair.<br />
Life—what is life? Upon a moorland bare<br />
To see love coming and see love depart.</p>
<h2>SOON OUR FRIENDS PERISH</h2>
<p class="poetry"> <span
class="smcap">Soon</span> our friends perish,<br />
Soon all we cherish<br />
Fades as days darken—goes as flowers go.<br />
Soon in December<br />
Over an ember,<br />
Lonely we hearken, as loud winds blow.</p>
<h2>AS ONE WHO HAVING WANDERED ALL NIGHT LONG</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">As</span> one who having
wandered all night long<br />
In a perplexed forest, comes at length<br />
In the first hours, about the matin song,<br />
And when the sun uprises in his strength,<br />
<a name="page54"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 54</span>To the
fringed margin of the wood, and sees,<br />
Gazing afar before him, many a mile<br />
Of falling country, many fields and trees,<br />
And cities and bright streams and far-off
Ocean’s smile:</p>
<p class="poetry">I, O Melampus, halting, stand at gaze:<br />
I, liberated, look abroad on life,<br />
Love, and distress, and dusty travelling ways,<br />
The steersman’s helm, the surgeon’s
helpful knife,<br />
On the lone ploughman’s earth-upturning share,<br />
The revelry of cities and the sound<br />
Of seas, and mountain-tops aloof in air,<br />
And of the circling earth the unsupported round:</p>
<p class="poetry">I, looking, wonder: I, intent, adore;<br />
And, O Melampus, reaching forth my hands<br />
In adoration, cry aloud and soar<br />
In spirit, high above the supine lands<br />
And the low caves of mortal things, and flee<br />
To the last fields of the universe untrod,<br />
Where is no man, nor any earth, nor sea,<br />
And the contented soul is all alone with God.</p>
<h2><a name="page55"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
55</span>STRANGE ARE THE WAYS OF MEN</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Strange</span> are the ways
of men,<br />
And strange the ways of God!<br />
We tread the mazy paths<br />
That all our fathers trod.</p>
<p class="poetry">We tread them undismayed,<br />
And undismayed behold<br />
The portents of the sky,<br />
The things that were of old.</p>
<p class="poetry">The fiery stars pursue<br />
Their course in heav’n on high;<br />
And round the ‘leaguered town,<br />
Crest-tossing heroes cry.</p>
<p class="poetry">Crest-tossing heroes cry;<br />
And martial fifes declare<br />
How small, to mortal minds,<br />
Is merely mortal care.</p>
<p class="poetry">And to the clang of steel<br />
And cry of piercing flute<br />
Upon the azure peaks<br />
A God shall plant his foot:</p>
<p class="poetry">A God in arms shall stand,<br />
And seeing wide and far<br />
The green and golden earth,<br />
The killing tide of war,</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page56"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
56</span>He, with uplifted arm,<br />
Shall to the skies proclaim<br />
The gleeful fate of man,<br />
The noble road to fame!</p>
<h2>THE WIND BLEW SHRILL AND SMART</h2>
<p class="poetry"> <span
class="smcap">The</span> wind blew shrill and smart,<br />
And the wind awoke my heart<br />
Again to go a-sailing o’er the sea,<br />
To hear the cordage moan<br />
And the straining timbers
groan,<br />
And to see the flying pennon lie a-lee.</p>
<p class="poetry"> O sailor of
the fleet,<br />
It is time to stir the feet!<br />
It’s time to man the dingy and to row!<br />
It’s lay your hand in
mine<br />
And it’s empty down the
wine,<br />
And it’s drain a health to death before we go!</p>
<p class="poetry"> To death,
my lads, we sail;<br />
And it’s death that blows
the gale<br />
And death that holds the tiller as we ride.<br />
For he’s the king of all<br
/>
In the tempest and the squall,<br
/>
And the ruler of the Ocean wild and wide!</p>
<h2><a name="page57"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 57</span>MAN
SAILS THE DEEP AWHILE</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Man</span> sails the deep
awhile;<br />
Loud runs the roaring tide;<br />
The seas are wild and wide;<br />
O’er many a salt, o’er many a desert mile,<br />
The unchained breakers ride,<br />
The quivering stars beguile.</p>
<p class="poetry">Hope bears the sole command;<br />
Hope, with unshaken eyes,<br />
Sees flaw and storm arise;<br />
Hope, the good steersman, with unwearying hand,<br />
Steers, under changing skies,<br
/>
Unchanged toward the land.</p>
<p class="poetry">O wind that bravely blows!<br />
O hope that sails with all<br />
Where stars and voices call!<br />
O ship undaunted that forever goes<br />
Where God, her admiral,<br />
His battle signal shows!</p>
<p class="poetry">What though the seas and wind<br />
Far on the deep should whelm<br />
Colours and sails and helm?<br />
There, too, you touch that port that you designed—<br />
There, in the mid-seas’
realm,<br />
Shall you that haven find.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page58"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
58</span>Well hast thou sailed: now die,<br />
To die is not to sleep.<br />
Still your true course you
keep,<br />
O sailor soul, still sailing for the sky;<br />
And fifty fathom deep<br />
Your colours still shall fly.</p>
<h2>THE COCK’S CLEAR VOICE INTO THE CLEARER AIR</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> cock’s
clear voice into the clearer air<br />
Where westward far I roam,<br />
Mounts with a thrill of hope,<br />
Falls with a sigh of home.</p>
<p class="poetry">A rural sentry, he from farm and field<br />
The coming morn descries,<br />
And, mankind’s bugler, wakes<br />
The camp of enterprise.</p>
<p class="poetry">He sings the morn upon the westward hills<br />
Strange and remote and wild;<br />
He sings it in the land<br />
Where once I was a child.</p>
<p class="poetry">He brings to me dear voices of the past,<br />
The old land and the years:<br />
My father calls for me,<br />
My weeping spirit hears.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page59"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
59</span>Fife, fife, into the golden air, O bird,<br />
And sing the morning in;<br />
For the old days are past<br />
And new days begin.</p>
<h2>NOW WHEN THE NUMBER OF MY YEARS</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Now</span> when the number
of my years<br />
Is all fulfilled, and I<br />
From sedentary life<br />
Shall rouse me up to die,<br />
Bury me low and let me lie<br />
Under the wide and starry sky.<br
/>
Joying to live, I joyed to die,<br
/>
Bury me low and let me lie.</p>
<p class="poetry">Clear was my soul, my deeds were free,<br />
Honour was called my name,<br />
I fell not back from fear<br />
Nor followed after fame.<br />
Bury me low and let me lie<br />
Under the wide and starry sky.<br
/>
Joying to live, I joyed to die,<br
/>
Bury me low and let me lie.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page60"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
60</span>Bury me low in valleys green<br />
And where the milder breeze<br />
Blows fresh along the stream,<br />
Sings roundly in the trees—<br />
Bury me low and let me lie<br />
Under the wide and starry sky.<br
/>
Joying to live, I joyed to die,<br
/>
Bury me low and let me lie.</p>
<h2>WHAT MAN MAY LEARN, WHAT MAN MAY DO</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">What</span> man may learn,
what man may do,<br />
Of right or wrong of false or true,<br />
While, skipper-like, his course he steers<br />
Through nine and twenty mingled years,<br />
Half misconceived and half forgot,<br />
So much I know and practise not.</p>
<p class="poetry">Old are the words of wisdom, old<br />
The counsels of the wise and bold:<br />
To close the ears, to check the tongue,<br />
To keep the pining spirit young;<br />
To act the right, to say the true,<br />
And to be kind whate’er you do.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page61"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
61</span>Thus we across the modern stage<br />
Follow the wise of every age;<br />
And, as oaks grow and rivers run<br />
Unchanged in the unchanging sun,<br />
So the eternal march of man<br />
Goes forth on an eternal plan.</p>
<h2>SMALL IS THE TRUST WHEN LOVE IS GREEN</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Small</span> is the trust
when love is green<br />
In sap of early years;<br />
A little thing steps in between<br />
And kisses turn to tears.</p>
<p class="poetry">Awhile—and see how love be grown<br />
In loveliness and power!<br />
Awhile, it loves the sweets alone,<br />
But next it loves the sour.</p>
<p class="poetry">A little love is none at all<br />
That wanders or that fears;<br />
A hearty love dwells still at call<br />
To kisses or to tears.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page62"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
62</span>Such then be mine, my love to give,<br />
And such be yours to take:—<br />
A faith to hold, a life to live,<br />
For lovingkindness’ sake:</p>
<p class="poetry">Should you be sad, should you be gay,<br />
Or should you prove unkind,<br />
A love to hold the growing way<br />
And keep the helping mind:—</p>
<p class="poetry">A love to turn the laugh on care<br />
When wrinkled care appears,<br />
And, with an equal will, to share<br />
Your losses and your tears.</p>
<h2>KNOW YOU THE RIVER NEAR TO GREZ</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Know</span> you the river
near to Grez,<br />
A river deep and clear?<br />
Among the lilies all the way,<br />
That ancient river runs to-day<br />
From snowy weir to weir.</p>
<p class="poetry">Old as the Rhine of great renown,<br />
She hurries clear and fast,<br />
She runs amain by field and town<br />
From south to north, from up to down,<br />
To present on from past.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page63"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
63</span>The love I hold was borne by her;<br />
And now, though far away,<br />
My lonely spirit hears the stir<br />
Of water round the starling spur<br />
Beside the bridge at Grez.</p>
<p class="poetry">So may that love forever hold<br />
In life an equal pace;<br />
So may that love grow never old,<br />
But, clear and pure and fountain-cold,<br />
Go on from grace to grace.</p>
<h2>IT’S FORTH ACROSS THE ROARING FOAM</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">It’s</span> forth
across the roaring foam, and on towards the west,<br />
It’s many a lonely league from home, o’er many a
mountain crest,<br />
From where the dogs of Scotland call the sheep around the
fold,<br />
To where the flags are flying beside the Gates of Gold.</p>
<p class="poetry">Where all the deep-sea galleons ride that come
to bring the corn,<br />
Where falls the fog at eventide and blows the breeze at morn;<br
/>
<a name="page64"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 64</span>It’s
there that I was sick and sad, alone and poor and cold,<br />
In yon distressful city beside the Gates of Gold.</p>
<p class="poetry">I slept as one that nothing knows; but far
along my way,<br />
Before the morning God rose and planned the coming day;<br />
Afar before me forth he went, as through the sands of old,<br />
And chose the friends to help me beside the Gates of Gold.</p>
<p class="poetry">I have been near, I have been far, my
back’s been at the wall,<br />
Yet aye and ever shone the star to guide me through it all:<br />
The love of God, the help of man, they both shall make me bold<br
/>
Against the gates of darkness as beside the Gates of Gold.</p>
<h2><a name="page65"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 65</span>AN
ENGLISH BREEZE</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Up</span> with the sun, the
breeze arose,<br />
Across the talking corn she goes,<br />
And smooth she rustles far and wide<br />
Through all the voiceful countryside.</p>
<p class="poetry">Through all the land her tale she tells;<br />
She spins, she tosses, she compels<br />
The kites, the clouds, the windmill sails<br />
And all the trees in all the dales.</p>
<p class="poetry">God calls us, and the day prepares<br />
With nimble, gay and gracious airs:<br />
And from Penzance to Maidenhead<br />
The roads last night He watered.</p>
<p class="poetry">God calls us from inglorious ease,<br />
Forth and to travel with the breeze<br />
While, swift and singing, smooth and strong<br />
She gallops by the fields along.</p>
<h2><a name="page66"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 66</span>AS IN
THEIR FLIGHT THE BIRDS OF SONG</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">As</span> in their flight
the birds of song<br />
Halt here and there in sweet and sunny dales,<br />
But halt not overlong;<br />
The time one rural song to sing<br />
They pause; then following bounteous gales<br />
Steer forward on the wing:<br />
Sun-servers they, from first to last,<br />
Upon the sun they wait<br />
To ride the sailing blast.</p>
<p class="poetry">So he awhile in our contested state,<br />
Awhile abode, not longer, for his Sun—<br />
Mother we say, no tenderer name we know—<br />
With whose diviner glow<br />
His early days had shone,<br />
Now to withdraw her radiance had begun.<br />
Or lest a wrong I say, not she withdrew,<br />
But the loud stream of men day after day<br />
And great dust columns of the common way<br />
Between them grew and grew:<br />
And he and she for evermore might yearn,<br />
But to the spring the rivulets not return<br />
Nor to the bosom comes the child again.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page67"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
67</span>And he (O may we fancy so!),<br />
He, feeling time forever flow<br />
And flowing bear him forth and far away<br />
From that dear ingle where his life began<br />
And all his treasure lay—<br />
He, waxing into man,<br />
And ever farther, ever closer wound<br />
In this obstreperous world’s ignoble round,<br />
From that poor prospect turned his face away.</p>
<h2>THE PIPER</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Again</span> I hear you
piping, for I know the tune so well,—<br />
You rouse the heart to wander and be free,<br />
Tho’ where you learned your music, not the God of song can
tell,<br />
For you pipe the open highway and the sea.<br />
O piper, lightly footing, lightly piping on your way,<br />
Tho’ your music thrills and pierces far and
near,<br />
I tell you you had better pipe to someone else to-day,<br />
For you cannot pipe my fancy from my dear.</p>
<p class="poetry">You sound the note of travel through the hamlet
and the town;<br />
You would lure the holy angels from on high;<br />
And not a man can hear you, but he throws the hammer down<br />
And is off to see the countries ere he die.<br />
<a name="page68"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 68</span>But now no
more I wander, now unchanging here I stay;<br />
By my love, you find me safely sitting here:<br />
And pipe you ne’er so sweetly, till you pipe the hills
away,<br />
You can never pipe my fancy from my dear.</p>
<h2>TO MRS. MACMARLAND</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">In</span> Schnee der
Alpen—so it runs<br />
To those divine accords—and here<br />
We dwell in Alpine snows and suns,<br />
A motley crew, for half the year:<br />
A motley crew, we dwell to taste—<br />
A shivering band in hope and fear—<br />
That sun upon the snowy waste,<br />
That Alpine ether cold and clear.</p>
<p class="poetry">Up from the laboured plains, and up<br />
From low sea-levels, we arise<br />
To drink of that diviner cup<br />
The rarer air, the clearer skies;<br />
For, as the great, old, godly King<br />
From mankind’s turbid valley cries,<br />
So all we mountain-lovers sing:<br />
I to the hills will lift mine eyes.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page69"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
69</span>The bells that ring, the peaks that climb,<br />
The frozen snow’s unbroken curd<br />
Might yet revindicate in rhyme<br />
The pauseless stream, the absent bird.<br />
In vain—for to the deeps of life<br />
You, lady, you my heart have stirred;<br />
And since you say you love my life,<br />
Be sure I love you for the word.</p>
<p class="poetry">Of kindness, here I nothing say—<br />
Such loveless kindnesses there are<br />
In that grimacing, common way,<br />
That old, unhonoured social war.<br />
Love but my dog and love my love,<br />
Adore with me a common star—<br />
I value not the rest above<br />
The ashes of a bad cigar.</p>
<h2>TO MISS CORNISH</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">They</span> tell me, lady,
that to-day<br />
On that unknown Australian strand—<br />
Some time ago, so far away—<br />
Another lady joined the band.<br />
<a name="page70"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 70</span>She joined
the company of those<br />
Lovelily dowered, nobly planned,<br />
Who, smiling, still forgive their foes<br />
And keep their friends in close command.</p>
<p class="poetry">She, lady, as I learn, was one<br />
Among the many rarely good;<br />
And destined still to be a sun<br />
Through every dark and rainy mood:—<br />
She, as they told me, far had come,<br />
By sea and land, o’er many a rood:—<br
/>
Admired by all, beloved by some,<br />
She was yourself, I understood.</p>
<p class="poetry">But, compliment apart and free<br />
From all constraint of verses, may<br />
Goodness and honour, grace and glee,<br />
Attend you ever on your way—<br />
Up to the measure of your will,<br />
Beyond all power of mine to say—<br />
As she and I desire you still,<br />
Miss Cornish, on your natal day.</p>
<h2><a name="page71"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 71</span>TALES
OF ARABIA</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Yes</span>, friend, I own
these tales of Arabia<br />
Smile not, as smiled their flawless originals,<br />
Age-old but yet untamed, for ages<br />
Pass and the magic is undiminished.</p>
<p class="poetry">Thus, friend, the tales of the old
Camaralzaman,<br />
Ayoub, the Slave of Love, or the Calendars,<br />
Blind-eyed and ill-starred royal scions,<br />
Charm us in age as they charmed in childhood.</p>
<p class="poetry">Fair ones, beyond all numerability,<br />
Beam from the palace, beam on humanity,<br />
Bright-eyed, in truth, yet soul-less houris<br />
Offering pleasure and only pleasure.</p>
<p class="poetry">Thus they, the venal Muses Arabian,<br />
Unlike, indeed, the nobler divinities,<br />
Greek Gods or old time-honoured muses,<br />
Easily proffer unloved caresses.</p>
<p class="poetry">Lost, lost, the man who mindeth the
minstrelsy;<br />
Since still, in sandy, glittering pleasances,<br />
Cold, stony fruits, gem-like but quite in-<br />
Edible, flatter and wholly starve him.</p>
<h2><a name="page72"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
72</span>BEHOLD, AS GOBLINS DARK OF MIEN</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Behold</span>, as goblins
dark of mien<br />
And portly tyrants dyed with crime<br />
Change, in the transformation scene,<br />
At Christmas, in the pantomime,</p>
<p class="poetry">Instanter, at the prompter’s cough,<br />
The fairy bonnets them, and they<br />
Throw their abhorred carbuncles off<br />
And blossom like the flowers in May.</p>
<p class="poetry">—So mankind, to angelic eyes,<br />
So, through the scenes of life below,<br />
In life’s ironical disguise,<br />
A travesty of man, ye go:</p>
<p class="poetry">But fear not: ere the curtain fall,<br />
Death in the transformation scene<br />
Steps forward from her pedestal,<br />
Apparent, as the fairy Queen;</p>
<p class="poetry">And coming, frees you in a trice<br />
From all your lendings—lust of fame,<br />
Ungainly virtue, ugly vice,<br />
Terror and tyranny and shame.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page73"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
73</span>So each, at last himself, for good<br />
In that dear country lays him down,<br />
At last beloved and understood<br />
And pure in feature and renown.</p>
<h2>STILL I LOVE TO RHYME</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Still</span> I love to
rhyme, and still more, rhyming, to wander<br />
Far from the commoner way;<br />
Old-time trills and falls by the brook-side still do I ponder,<br
/>
Dreaming to-morrow to-day.</p>
<p class="poetry">Come here, come, revive me, Sun-God, teach me,
Apollo,<br />
Measures descanted before;<br />
Since I ancient verses, I emulous follow,<br />
Prints in the marbles of yore.</p>
<p class="poetry">Still strange, strange, they sound in old-young
raiment invested,<br />
Songs for the brain to forget—<br />
Young song-birds elate to grave old temples benested<br />
Piping and chirruping yet.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page74"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
74</span>Thoughts? No thought has yet unskilled attempted
to flutter<br />
Trammelled so vilely in verse;<br />
He who writes but aims at fame and his bread and his butter,<br
/>
Won with a groan and a curse.</p>
<h2>LONG TIME I LAY IN LITTLE EASE</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Long</span> time I lay in
little ease<br />
Where, placed by the Turanian,<br />
Marseilles, the many-masted, sees<br />
The blue Mediterranean.</p>
<p class="poetry">Now songful in the hour of sport,<br />
Now riotous for wages,<br />
She camps around her ancient port,<br />
As ancient of the ages.</p>
<p class="poetry">Algerian airs through all the place<br />
Unconquerably sally;<br />
Incomparable women pace<br />
The shadows of the alley.</p>
<p class="poetry">And high o’er dark and graving yard<br />
And where the sky is paler,<br />
The golden virgin of the guard<br />
Shines, beckoning the sailor.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page75"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
75</span>She hears the city roar on high,<br />
Thief, prostitute, and banker;<br />
She sees the masted vessels lie<br />
Immovably at anchor.</p>
<p class="poetry">She sees the snowy islets dot<br />
The sea’s immortal azure,<br />
And If, that castellated spot,<br />
Tower, turret, and embrasure.</p>
<h2>FLOWER GOD, GOD OF THE SPRING</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Flower</span> god, god of
the spring, beautiful, bountiful,<br />
Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles,<br />
Here I wander in April<br />
Cold, grey-headed; and still to my<br />
Heart, Spring comes with a bound, Spring the deliverer,<br />
Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant;<br />
Spring, flower-planter in meadows,<br />
Child-conductor in willowy<br />
Fields deep dotted with bloom, daisies and crocuses:<br />
Here that child from his heart drinks of eternity:<br />
O child, happy are children!<br />
She still smiles on their innocence,<br />
She, dear mother in God, fostering violets,<br />
Fills earth full of her scents, voices and violins:<br />
<a name="page76"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
76</span>Thus one cunning in music<br />
Wakes old chords in the memory:<br />
Thus fair earth in the Spring leads her performances.<br />
One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal<br />
Green—one more, and my bosom<br />
Feels new life with an ecstasy.</p>
<h2>COME, MY BELOVED, HEAR FROM ME</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Come</span>, my beloved,
hear from me<br />
Tales of the woods or open sea.<br />
Let our aspiring fancy rise<br />
A wren’s flight higher toward the skies;<br />
Or far from cities, brown and bare,<br />
Play at the least in open air.<br />
In all the tales men hear us tell<br />
Still let the unfathomed ocean swell,<br />
Or shallower forest sound abroad<br />
Below the lonely stars of God;<br />
In all, let something still be done,<br />
Still in a corner shine the sun,<br />
Slim-ankled maids be fleet of foot,<br />
Nor man disown the rural flute.<br />
Still let the hero from the start<br />
In honest sweat and beats of heart<br />
Push on along the untrodden road<br />
For some inviolate abode.<br />
<a name="page77"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 77</span>Still, O
beloved, let me hear<br />
The great bell beating far and near—<br />
The odd, unknown, enchanted gong<br />
That on the road hales men along,<br />
That from the mountain calls afar,<br />
That lures a vessel from a star,<br />
And with a still, aerial sound<br />
Makes all the earth enchanted ground.<br />
Love, and the love of life and act<br />
Dance, live and sing through all our furrowed tract;<br />
Till the great God enamoured gives<br />
To him who reads, to him who lives,<br />
That rare and fair romantic strain<br />
That whoso hears must hear again.</p>
<h2>SINCE YEARS AGO FOR EVERMORE</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Since</span> years ago for
evermore<br />
My cedar ship I drew to shore;<br />
And to the road and riverbed<br />
And the green, nodding reeds, I said<br />
Mine ignorant and last farewell:<br />
Now with content at home I dwell,<br />
And now divide my sluggish life<br />
Betwixt my verses and my wife:<br />
<a name="page78"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 78</span>In vain;
for when the lamp is lit<br />
And by the laughing fire I sit,<br />
Still with the tattered atlas spread<br />
Interminable roads I tread.</p>
<h2>ENVOY FOR “A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES”</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Whether</span> upon the
garden seat<br />
You lounge with your uplifted feet<br />
Under the May’s whole Heaven of blue;<br />
Or whether on the sofa you,<br />
No grown up person being by,<br />
Do some soft corner occupy;<br />
Take you this volume in your hands<br />
And enter into other lands,<br />
For lo! (as children feign) suppose<br />
You, hunting in the garden rows,<br />
Or in the lumbered attic, or<br />
The cellar—a nail-studded door<br />
And dark, descending stairway found<br />
That led to kingdoms underground:<br />
There standing, you should hear with ease<br />
Strange birds a-singing, or the trees<br />
Swing in big robber woods, or bells<br />
On many fairy citadels:</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page79"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
79</span>There passing through (a step or so—<br />
Neither mamma nor nurse need know!)<br />
From your nice nurseries you would pass,<br />
Like Alice through the Looking-Glass<br />
Or Gerda following Little Ray,<br />
To wondrous countries far away.<br />
Well, and just so this volume can<br />
Transport each little maid or man<br />
Presto from where they live away<br />
Where other children used to play.<br />
As from the house your mother sees<br />
You playing round the garden trees,<br />
So you may see if you but look<br />
Through the windows of this book<br />
Another child far, far away<br />
And in another garden play.<br />
But do not think you can at all,<br />
By knocking on the window, call<br />
That child to hear you. He intent<br />
Is still on his play-business bent.<br />
He does not hear, he will not look,<br />
Nor yet be lured out of this book.<br />
For long ago, the truth to say,<br />
He has grown up and gone away;<br />
And it is but a child of air<br />
That lingers in the garden there.</p>
<h2><a name="page80"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 80</span>FOR
RICHMOND’S GARDEN WALL</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">When</span> Thomas set this
tablet here,<br />
Time laughed at the vain chanticleer;<br />
And ere the moss had dimmed the stone,<br />
Time had defaced that garrison.<br />
Now I in turn keep watch and ward<br />
In my red house, in my walled yard<br />
Of sunflowers, sitting here at ease<br />
With friends and my bright canvases.<br />
But hark, and you may hear quite plain<br />
Time’s chuckled laughter in the lane.</p>
<h2>HAIL, GUEST, AND ENTER FREELY!</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Hail</span>, guest, and
enter freely! All you see<br />
Is, for your momentary visit, yours; and we<br />
Who welcome you are but the guests of God,<br />
And know not our departure.</p>
<h2><a name="page81"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 81</span>LO,
NOW, MY GUEST</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Lo</span>, now, my guest,
if aught amiss were said,<br />
Forgive it and dismiss it from your head.<br />
For me, for you, for all, to close the date,<br />
Pass now the ev’ning sponge across the slate;<br />
And to that spirit of forgiveness keep<br />
Which is the parent and the child of sleep.</p>
<h2>SO LIVE, SO LOVE, SO USE THAT FRAGILE HOUR</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">So</span> live, so love, so
use that fragile hour,<br />
That when the dark hand of the shining power<br />
Shall one from other, wife or husband, take,<br />
The poor survivor may not weep and wake.</p>
<h2><a name="page82"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 82</span>AD SE
IPSUM</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Dear</span> sir,
good-morrow! Five years back,<br />
When you first girded for this arduous track,<br />
And under various whimsical pretexts<br />
Endowed another with your damned defects,<br />
Could you have dreamed in your despondent vein<br />
That the kind God would make your path so plain?<br />
Non nobis, domine! O, may He still<br />
Support my stumbling footsteps on the hill!</p>
<h2>BEFORE THIS LITTLE GIFT WAS COME</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Before</span> this little
gift was come<br />
The little owner had made haste for home;<br />
And from the door of where the eternal dwell,<br />
Looked back on human things and smiled farewell.<br />
O may this grief remain the only one!<br />
O may our house be still a garrison<br />
Of smiling children, and for evermore<br />
The tune of little feet be heard along the floor!</p>
<h2><a name="page83"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 83</span>GO,
LITTLE BOOK—THE ANCIENT PHRASE</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Go</span>, little
book—the ancient phrase<br />
And still the daintiest—go your ways,<br />
My Otto, over sea and land,<br />
Till you shall come to Nelly’s hand.</p>
<p class="poetry">How shall I your Nelly know?<br />
By her blue eyes and her black brow,<br />
By her fierce and slender look,<br />
And by her goodness, little book!</p>
<p class="poetry">What shall I say when I come there?<br />
You shall speak her soft and fair:<br />
See—you shall say—the love they send<br />
To greet their unforgotten friend!</p>
<p class="poetry">Giant Adulpho you shall sing<br />
The next, and then the cradled king:<br />
And the four corners of the roof<br />
Then kindly bless; and to your perch aloof,<br />
Where Balzac all in yellow dressed<br />
And the dear Webster of the west<br />
Encircle the prepotent throne<br />
Of Shakespeare and of Calderon,<br />
Shall climb an upstart.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page84"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
84</span>There with these<br />
You shall give ear to breaking seas<br />
And windmills turning in the breeze,<br />
A distant undetermined din<br />
Without; and you shall hear within<br />
The blazing and the bickering logs,<br />
The crowing child, the yawning dogs,<br />
And ever agile, high and low,<br />
Our Nelly going to and fro.</p>
<p class="poetry">There shall you all silent sit,<br />
Till, when perchance the lamp is lit<br />
And the day’s labour done, she takes<br />
Poor Otto down, and, warming for our sakes,<br />
Perchance beholds, alive and near,<br />
Our distant faces reappear.</p>
<h2>MY LOVE WAS WARM</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">My</span> love was warm;
for that I crossed<br />
The mountains and the sea,<br />
Nor counted that endeavour lost<br />
That gave my love to me.</p>
<p class="poetry">If that indeed were love at all,<br />
As still, my love, I trow,<br />
By what dear name am I to call<br />
The bond that holds me now</p>
<h2><a name="page85"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
85</span>DEDICATORY POEM FOR “UNDERWOODS”</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">To</span> her, for I must
still regard her<br />
As feminine in her degree,<br />
Who has been my unkind bombarder<br />
Year after year, in grief and glee,<br />
Year after year, with oaken tree;<br />
And yet betweenwhiles my laudator<br />
In terms astonishing to me—<br />
To the Right Reverend The Spectator<br />
I here, a humble dedicator,<br />
Bring the last apples from my tree.</p>
<p class="poetry">In tones of love, in tones of warning,<br />
She hailed me through my brief career;<br />
And kiss and buffet, night and morning,<br />
Told me my grandmamma was near;<br />
Whether she praised me high and clear<br />
Through her unrivalled circulation,<br />
Or, sanctimonious insincere,<br />
She damned me with a misquotation—<br />
A chequered but a sweet relation,<br />
Say, was it not, my granny dear?</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page86"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
86</span>Believe me, granny, altogether<br />
Yours, though perhaps to your surprise.<br />
Oft have you spruced my wounded feather,<br />
Oft brought a light into my eyes—<br />
For notice still the writer cries.<br />
In any civil age or nation,<br />
The book that is not talked of dies.<br />
So that shall be my termination:<br />
Whether in praise or execration,<br />
Still, if you love me, criticise!</p>
<h2>FAREWELL</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Farewell</span>, and when
forth<br />
I through the Golden Gates to Golden Isles<br />
Steer without smiling, through the sea of smiles,<br />
Isle upon isle, in the seas of the south,<br />
Isle upon island, sea upon sea,<br />
Why should I sail, why should the breeze?<br />
I have been young, and I have counted friends.<br />
A hopeless sail I spread, too late, too late.<br />
Why should I from isle to isle<br />
Sail, a hopeless sailor?</p>
<h2><a name="page87"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 87</span>THE
FAR-FARERS</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> broad sun,<br />
The bright day:<br />
White sails<br />
On the blue bay:<br />
The far-farers<br />
Draw away.</p>
<p class="poetry">Light the fires<br />
And close the door.<br />
To the old homes,<br />
To the loved shore,<br />
The far-farers<br />
Return no more.</p>
<h2>COME, MY LITTLE CHILDREN, HERE ARE SONGS FOR YOU</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Come</span>, my little
children, here are songs for you;<br />
Some are short and some are long, and all, all are new.<br />
You must learn to sing them very small and clear,<br />
Very true to time and tune and pleasing to the ear.</p>
<p class="poetry">Mark the note that rises, mark the notes that
fall,<br />
Mark the time when broken, and the swing of it all.<br />
So when night is come, and you have gone to bed,<br />
All the songs you love to sing shall echo in your head.</p>
<h2><a name="page88"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 88</span>HOME
FROM THE DAISIED MEADOWS</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Home</span> from the
daisied meadows, where you linger yet—<br />
Home, golden-headed playmate, ere the sun is set;<br />
For the dews are falling fast<br />
And the night has come at last.<br />
Home with you, home and lay your little head at rest,<br />
Safe, safe, my little darling, on your mother’s breast.<br
/>
Lullaby, darling; your mother is watching you; she’ll be
your guardian and shield.<br />
Lullaby, slumber, my darling, till morning be bright upon
mountain and field.<br />
Long, long the shadows fall.<br />
All white and smooth at home your little bed is laid.<br />
All round your head be angels.</p>
<h2>EARLY IN THE MORNING I HEAR ON YOUR PIANO</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Early</span> in the morning
I hear on your piano<br />
You (at least, I guess it’s you) proceed to learn to
play.<br />
Mostly little minds should take and tackle their piano<br />
While the birds are singing in the morning of the day.</p>
<h2><a name="page89"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 89</span>FAIR
ISLE AT SEA</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Fair</span> Isle at
Sea—thy lovely name<br />
Soft in my ear like music came.<br />
That sea I loved, and once or twice<br />
I touched at isles of Paradise.</p>
<h2>LOUD AND LOW IN THE CHIMNEY</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Loud</span> and low in the
chimney<br />
The squalls suspire;<br />
Then like an answer dwindles<br />
And glows the fire,<br />
And the chamber reddens and darkens<br />
In time like taken breath.<br />
Near by the sounding chimney<br />
The youth apart<br />
Hearkens with changing colour<br />
And leaping heart,<br />
And hears in the coil of the tempest<br />
The voice of love and death.<br />
Love on high in the flute-like<br />
And tender notes<br />
Sounds as from April meadows<br />
And hillside cotes;<br />
But the deep wood wind in the chimney<br />
Utters the slogan of death.</p>
<h2><a name="page90"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 90</span>I LOVE
TO BE WARM BY THE RED FIRESIDE</h2>
<p class="poetry">I <span class="smcap">love</span> to be warm by
the red fireside,<br />
I love to be wet with rain:<br />
I love to be welcome at lamplit doors,<br />
And leave the doors again.</p>
<h2>AT LAST SHE COMES</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">At</span> last she comes, O
never more<br />
In this dear patience of my pain<br />
To leave me lonely as before,<br />
Or leave my soul alone again.</p>
<h2>MINE EYES WERE SWIFT TO KNOW THEE</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Mine</span> eyes were swift
to know thee, and my heart<br />
As swift to love. I did become at once<br />
Thine wholly, thine unalterably, thine<br />
In honourable service, pure intent,<br />
Steadfast excess of love and laughing care:<br />
And as she was, so am, and so shall be.<br />
I knew thee helpful, knew thee true, knew thee<br />
And Pity bedfellows: I heard thy talk<br />
<a name="page91"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 91</span>With
answerable throbbings. On the stream,<br />
Deep, swift, and clear, the lilies floated; fish<br />
Through the shadows ran. There, thou and I<br />
Read Kindness in our eyes and closed the match.</p>
<h2>FIXED IS THE DOOM</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Fixed</span> is the doom;
and to the last of years<br />
Teacher and taught, friend, lover, parent, child,<br />
Each walks, though near, yet separate; each beholds<br />
His dear ones shine beyond him like the stars.<br />
We also, love, forever dwell apart;<br />
With cries approach, with cries behold the gulph,<br />
The Unvaulted; as two great eagles that do wheel in air<br />
Above a mountain, and with screams confer,<br />
Far heard athwart the cedars.<br />
Yet the years<br />
Shall bring us ever nearer; day by day<br />
Endearing, week by week, till death at last<br />
Dissolve that long divorce. By faith we love,<br />
Not knowledge; and by faith, though far removed,<br />
Dwell as in perfect nearness, heart to heart.<br />
We but excuse<br />
Those things we merely are; and to our souls<br />
A brave deception cherish.<br />
So from unhappy war a man returns<br />
<a name="page92"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 92</span>Unfearing,
or the seaman from the deep;<br />
So from cool night and woodlands to a feast<br />
May someone enter, and still breathe of dews,<br />
And in her eyes still wear the dusky night.</p>
<h2>MEN ARE HEAVEN’S PIERS</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Men</span> are
Heaven’s piers; they evermore<br />
Unwearying bear the skyey floor;<br />
Man’s theatre they bear with ease,<br />
Unfrowning cariatides!<br />
I, for my wife, the sun uphold,<br />
Or, dozing, strike the seasons cold.<br />
She, on her side, in fairy-wise<br />
Deals in diviner mysteries,<br />
By spells to make the fuel burn<br />
And keep the parlour warm, to turn<br />
Water to wine, and stones to bread,<br />
By her unconquered hero-head.<br />
A naked Adam, naked Eve,<br />
Alone the primal bower we weave;<br />
Sequestered in the seas of life,<br />
A Crusoe couple, man and wife,<br />
With all our good, with all our will,<br />
Our unfrequented isle we fill;<br />
<a name="page93"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 93</span>And victor
in day’s petty wars,<br />
Each for the other lights the stars.<br />
Come then, my Eve, and to and fro<br />
Let us about our garden go;<br />
And, grateful-hearted, hand in hand<br />
Revisit all our tillage land,<br />
And marvel at our strange estate,<br />
For hooded ruin at the gate<br />
Sits watchful, and the angels fear<br />
To see us tread so boldly here.<br />
Meanwhile, my Eve, with flower and grass<br />
Our perishable days we pass;<br />
Far more the thorn observe—and see<br />
How our enormous sins go free—<br />
Nor less admire, beside the rose,<br />
How far a little virtue goes.</p>
<h2>THE ANGLER ROSE, HE TOOK HIS ROD</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> angler rose, he
took his rod,<br />
He kneeled and made his prayers to God.<br />
The living God sat overhead:<br />
The angler tripped, the eels were fed</p>
<h2><a name="page94"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 94</span>SPRING
CAROL</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">When</span> loud by
landside streamlets gush,<br />
And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush,<br />
With sun on the meadows<br />
And songs in the shadows<br />
Comes again to me<br />
The gift of the tongues of the
lea,<br />
The gift of the tongues of meadows.</p>
<p class="poetry">Straightway my olden heart returns<br />
And dances with the dancing burns;<br />
It sings with the sparrows;<br />
To the rain and the (grimy) barrows<br />
Sings my heart aloud—<br />
To the silver-bellied cloud,<br />
To the silver rainy arrows.</p>
<p class="poetry">It bears the song of the skylark down,<br />
And it hears the singing of the town;<br />
And youth on the highways<br />
And lovers in byways<br />
Follows and sees:<br />
And hearkens the song of the
leas<br />
And sings the songs of the highways.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page95"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
95</span>So when the earth is alive with gods,<br />
And the lusty ploughman breaks the sod,<br />
And the grass sings in the meadows,<br />
And the flowers smile in the shadows,<br />
Sits my heart at ease,<br />
Hearing the song of the leas,<br
/>
Singing the songs of the meadows.</p>
<h2>TO WHAT SHALL I COMPARE HER?</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">To</span> what shall I
compare her,<br />
That is as fair as she?<br />
For she is fairer—fairer<br />
Than the sea.<br />
What shall be likened to her,<br />
The sainted of my youth?<br />
For she is truer—truer<br />
Than the truth.</p>
<p class="poetry">As the stars are from the sleeper,<br />
Her heart is hid from me;<br />
For she is deeper—deeper<br />
Than the sea.<br />
Yet in my dreams I view her<br />
Flush rosy with new ruth—<br />
Dreams! Ah, may these prove truer<br />
Than the truth.</p>
<h2><a name="page96"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 96</span>WHEN
THE SUN COMES AFTER RAIN</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">When</span> the sun comes
after rain<br />
And the bird is in the blue,<br />
The girls go down the lane<br />
Two by two.</p>
<p class="poetry">When the sun comes after shadow<br />
And the singing of the showers,<br />
The girls go up the meadow,<br />
Fair as flowers.</p>
<p class="poetry">When the eve comes dusky red<br />
And the moon succeeds the sun,<br />
The girls go home to bed<br />
One by one.</p>
<p class="poetry">And when life draws to its even<br />
And the day of man is past,<br />
They shall all go home to heaven,<br />
Home at last.</p>
<h2><a name="page97"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 97</span>LATE,
O MILLER</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Late</span>, O miller,<br
/>
The birds are silent,<br />
The darkness falls.<br />
In the house the lights are lighted.<br />
See, in the valley they twinkle,<br />
The lights of home.<br />
Late, O lovers,<br />
The night is at hand;<br />
Silence and darkness<br />
Clothe the land.</p>
<h2>TO FRIENDS AT HOME</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">To</span> friends at home,
the lone, the admired, the lost<br />
The gracious old, the lovely young, to May<br />
The fair, December the beloved,<br />
These from my blue horizon and green isles,<br />
These from this pinnacle of distances I,<br />
The unforgetful, dedicate.</p>
<h2><a name="page98"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 98</span>I,
WHOM APOLLO SOMETIME VISITED</h2>
<p class="poetry">I, <span class="smcap">whom</span> Apollo
sometime visited,<br />
Or feigned to visit, now, my day being done,<br />
Do slumber wholly; nor shall know at all<br />
The weariness of changes; nor perceive<br />
Immeasurable sands of centuries<br />
Drink of the blanching ink, or the loud sound<br />
Of generations beat the music down.</p>
<h2>TEMPEST TOSSED AND SORE AFFLICTED</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Tempest</span> tossed and
sore afflicted, sin defiled and care oppressed,<br />
Come to me, all ye that labour; come, and I will give ye rest.<br
/>
Fear no more, O doubting hearted; weep no more, O weeping eye!<br
/>
Lo, the voice of your redeemer; lo, the songful morning near.</p>
<p class="poetry">Here one hour you toil and combat, sin and
suffer, bleed and die;<br />
In my father’s quiet mansion soon to lay your burden by.<br
/>
Bear a moment, heavy laden, weary hand and weeping eye.<br />
Lo, the feet of your deliverer; lo, the hour of freedom here.</p>
<h2><a name="page99"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
99</span>VARIANT FORM OF THE PRECEDING POEM</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Come</span> to me, all ye
that labour; I will give your spirits rest;<br />
Here apart in starry quiet I will give you rest.<br />
Come to me, ye heavy laden, sin defiled and care opprest,<br />
In your father’s quiet mansions, soon to prove a welcome
guest.<br />
But an hour you bear your trial, sin and suffer, bleed and
die;<br />
But an hour you toil and combat here in day’s inspiring
eye.<br />
See the feet of your deliverer; lo, the hour of freedom nigh.</p>
<h2><a name="page100"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 100</span>I
NOW, O FRIEND, WHOM NOISELESSLY THE SNOWS</h2>
<p class="poetry">I <span class="smcap">now</span>, O friend,
whom noiselessly the snows<br />
Settle around, and whose small chamber grows<br />
Dusk as the sloping window takes its load:</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">* * * * *</p>
<p class="poetry">The kindly hill, as to complete our hap,<br />
Has ta’en us in the shelter of her lap;<br />
Well sheltered in our slender grove of trees<br />
And ring of walls, we sit between her knees;<br />
A disused quarry, paved with rose plots, hung<br />
With clematis, the barren womb whence sprung<br />
The crow-stepped house itself, that now far seen<br />
Stands, like a bather, to the neck in green.<br />
A disused quarry, furnished with a seat<br />
Sacred to pipes and meditation meet<br />
For such a sunny and retired nook.<br />
There in the clear, warm mornings many a book<br />
Has vied with the fair prospect of the hills<br />
That, vale on vale, rough brae on brae, upfills<br />
Halfway to the zenith all the vacant sky<br />
To keep my loose attention. . . .<br />
Horace has sat with me whole mornings through:<br />
And Montaigne gossiped, fairly false and true;<br />
And chattering Pepys, and a few beside<br />
That suit the easy vein, the quiet tide,<br />
<a name="page101"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 101</span>The calm
and certain stay of garden-life,<br />
Far sunk from all the thunderous roar of strife.<br />
There is about the small secluded place<br />
A garnish of old times; a certain grace<br />
Of pensive memories lays about the braes:<br />
The old chestnuts gossip tales of bygone days.<br />
Here, where some wandering preacher, blest Lazil,<br />
Perhaps, or Peden, on the middle hill<br />
Had made his secret church, in rain or snow,<br />
He cheers the chosen residue from woe.<br />
All night the doors stood open, come who might,<br />
The hounded kebbock mat the mud all night.<br />
Nor are there wanting later tales; of how<br />
Prince Charlie’s Highlanders . . .</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">* * * * *</p>
<p class="poetry">I have had talents, too. In life’s
first hour<br />
God crowned with benefits my childish head.<br />
Flower after flower, I plucked them; flower by flower<br />
Cast them behind me, ruined, withered, dead.<br />
Full many a shining godhead disappeared.<br />
From the bright rank that once adorned her brow<br />
The old child’s Olympus</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">* * * * *</p>
<p class="poetry">Gone are the fair old dreams, and one by
one,<br />
<a name="page102"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 102</span>As, one
by one, the means to reach them went,<br />
As, one by one, the stars in riot and disgrace,<br />
I squandered what . . .</p>
<p class="poetry">There shut the door, alas! on many a hope<br />
Too many;<br />
My face is set to the autumnal slope,<br />
Where the loud winds shall . . .</p>
<p class="poetry">There shut the door, alas! on many a hope,<br
/>
And yet some hopes remain that shall decide<br />
My rest of years and down the autumnal slope.</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">* * * * *</p>
<p class="poetry">Gone are the quiet twilight dreams that I<br />
Loved, as all men have loved them; gone!<br />
I have great dreams, and still they stir my soul on
high—<br />
Dreams of the knight’s stout heart and tempered will.<br />
Not in Elysian lands they take their way;<br />
Not as of yore across the gay champaign,<br />
Towards some dream city, towered . . .<br />
and my . . .<br />
The path winds forth before me, sweet and plain,<br />
Not now; but though beneath a stone-grey sky<br />
November’s russet woodlands toss and wail,<br />
Still the white road goes thro’ them, still may I,<br />
Strong in new purpose, God, may still prevail.</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">* * * * *</p>
<p class="poetry">I and my like, improvident sailors!</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">* * * * *</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page103"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
103</span>At whose light fall awaking, all my heart<br />
Grew populous with gracious, favoured thought,<br />
And all night long thereafter, hour by hour,<br />
The pageant of dead love before my eyes<br />
Went proudly, and old hopes with downcast head<br />
Followed like Kings, subdued in Rome’s imperial hour,<br />
Followed the car; and I . . .</p>
<h2>SINCE THOU HAST GIVEN ME THIS GOOD HOPE, O GOD</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Since</span> thou hast
given me this good hope, O God,<br />
That while my footsteps tread the flowery sod<br />
And the great woods embower me, and white dawn<br />
And purple even sweetly lead me on<br />
From day to day, and night to night, O God,<br />
My life shall no wise miss the light of love;<br />
But ever climbing, climb above<br />
Man’s one poor star, man’s supine lands,<br />
Into the azure steadfastness of death,<br />
My life shall no wise lack the light of love,<br />
My hands not lack the loving touch of hands;<br />
But day by day, while yet I draw my breath,<br />
And day by day, unto my last of years,<br />
I shall be one that has a perfect friend.<br />
Her heart shall taste my laughter and my tears,<br />
And her kind eyes shall lead me to the end.</p>
<h2><a name="page104"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 104</span>GOD
GAVE TO ME A CHILD IN PART</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">God</span> gave to me a
child in part,<br />
Yet wholly gave the father’s heart:<br />
Child of my soul, O whither now,<br />
Unborn, unmothered, goest thou?</p>
<p class="poetry">You came, you went, and no man wist;<br />
Hapless, my child, no breast you kist;<br />
On no dear knees, a privileged babbler, clomb,<br />
Nor knew the kindly feel of home.</p>
<p class="poetry">My voice may reach you, O my dear—<br />
A father’s voice perhaps the child may hear;<br />
And, pitying, you may turn your view<br />
On that poor father whom you never knew.</p>
<p class="poetry">Alas! alone he sits, who then,<br />
Immortal among mortal men,<br />
Sat hand in hand with love, and all day through<br />
With your dear mother wondered over you.</p>
<h2><a name="page105"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 105</span>OVER
THE LAND IS APRIL</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Over</span> the land is
April,<br />
Over my heart a rose;<br />
Over the high, brown mountain<br />
The sound of singing goes.<br />
Say, love, do you hear me,<br />
Hear my sonnets ring?<br />
Over the high, brown mountain,<br />
Love, do you hear me sing?</p>
<p class="poetry">By highway, love, and byway<br />
The snows succeed the rose.<br />
Over the high, brown mountain<br />
The wind of winter blows.<br />
Say, love, do you hear me,<br />
Hear my sonnets ring?<br />
Over the high, brown mountain<br />
I sound the song of spring,<br />
I throw the flowers of spring.<br />
Do you hear the song of spring?<br />
Hear you the songs of spring?</p>
<h2><a name="page106"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
106</span>LIGHT AS THE LINNET ON MY WAY I START</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Light</span> as the linnet
on my way I start,<br />
For all my pack I bear a chartered heart.<br />
Forth on the world without a guide or chart,<br />
Content to know, through all man’s varying fates,<br />
The eternal woman by the wayside waits.</p>
<h2>COME, HERE IS ADIEU TO THE CITY</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Come</span>, here is adieu
to the city<br />
And hurrah for the country again.<br />
The broad road lies before me<br />
Watered with last night’s rain.<br />
The timbered country woos me<br />
With many a high and bough;<br />
And again in the shining fallows<br />
The ploughman follows the plough.</p>
<p class="poetry">The whole year’s sweat and study,<br />
And the whole year’s sowing time,<br />
Comes now to the perfect harvest,<br />
And ripens now into rhyme.<br />
For we that sow in the Autumn,<br />
We reap our grain in the Spring,<br />
And we that go sowing and weeping<br />
Return to reap and sing.</p>
<h2><a name="page107"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 107</span>IT
BLOWS A SNOWING GALE</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">It</span> blows a snowing
gale in the winter of the year;<br />
The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier.<br />
The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro,<br />
A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane.<br />
Autumn leaves
and rain,<br />
The passion of
the gale.</p>
<h2>NE SIT ANCILLÆ TIBI AMOR PUDOR</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">There’s</span> just a
twinkle in your eye<br />
That seems to say I <i>might</i>, if I<br />
Were only bold enough to try<br />
An arm about your waist.<br />
I hear, too, as you come and go,<br />
That pretty nervous laugh, you know;<br />
And then your cap is always so<br />
Coquettishly displaced.</p>
<p class="poetry">Your cap! the word’s profanely said.<br
/>
That little top-knot, white and red,<br />
That quaintly crowns your graceful head,<br />
No bigger than a flower,<br />
<a name="page108"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 108</span>Is set
with such a witching art,<br />
Is so provocatively smart,<br />
I’d like to wear it on my heart,<br />
An order for an hour!</p>
<p class="poetry">O graceful housemaid, tall and fair,<br />
I love your shy imperial air,<br />
And always loiter on the stair<br />
When you are going by.<br />
A strict reserve the fates demand;<br />
But, when to let you pass I stand,<br />
Sometimes by chance I touch your hand<br />
And sometimes catch your eye.</p>
<h2>TO ALL THAT LOVE THE FAR AND BLUE</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">To</span> all that love the
far and blue:<br />
Whether, from dawn to eve, on foot<br />
The fleeing corners ye pursue,<br />
Nor weary of the vain pursuit;<br />
Or whether down the singing stream,<br />
Paddle in hand, jocund ye shoot,<br />
To splash beside the splashing bream<br />
Or anchor by the willow root:</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page109"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
109</span>Or, bolder, from the narrow shore<br />
Put forth, that cedar ark to steer,<br />
Among the seabirds and the roar<br />
Of the great sea, profound and clear;<br />
Or, lastly if in heart ye roam,<br />
Not caring to do else, and hear,<br />
Safe sitting by the fire at home,<br />
Footfalls in Utah or Pamere:</p>
<p class="poetry">Though long the way, though hard to bear<br />
The sun and rain, the dust and dew;<br />
Though still attainment and despair<br />
Inter the old, despoil the new;<br />
There shall at length, be sure, O friends,<br />
Howe’er ye steer, whate’er ye
do—<br />
At length, and at the end of ends,<br />
The golden city come in view.</p>
<h2><a name="page110"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 110</span>THOU
STRAINEST THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN FERN</h2>
<p style="text-align: center">(A <span
class="smcap">Fragment</span>)</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Thou</span> strainest
through the mountain fern,<br />
A most exiguously thin<br />
Burn.<br />
For all thy foam, for all thy din,<br />
Thee shall the pallid lake inurn,<br />
With well-a-day for Mr. Swin-<br />
Burne!<br />
Take then this quarto in thy fin<br />
And, O thou stoker huge and stern,<br />
The whole affair, outside and in,<br />
Burn!<br />
But save the true poetic kin,<br />
The works of Mr. Robert Burn’<br />
And William Wordsworth upon Tin-<br />
Tern!</p>
<h2><a name="page111"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 111</span>TO
ROSABELLE</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">When</span> my young lady
has grown great and staid,<br />
And in long raiment wondrously arrayed,<br />
She may take pleasure with a smile to know<br />
How she delighted men-folk long ago.<br />
For her long after, then, this tale I tell<br />
Of the two fans and fairy Rosabelle.<br />
Hot was the day; her weary sire and I<br />
Sat in our chairs companionably nigh,<br />
Each with a headache sat her sire and I.</p>
<p class="poetry">Instant the hostess waked: she viewed the
scene,<br />
Divined the giants’ languor by their mien,<br />
And with hospitable care<br />
Tackled at once an Atlantean chair.<br />
Her pigmy stature scarce attained the seat—<br />
She dragged it where she would, and with her feet<br />
Surmounted; thence, a Phaeton launched, she crowned<br />
The vast plateau of the piano, found<br />
And culled a pair of fans; wherewith equipped,<br />
Our mountaineer back to the level slipped;<br />
And being landed, with considerate eyes,<br />
Betwixt her elders dealt her double prize;<br />
The small to me, the greater to her sire.<br />
As painters now advance and now retire<br />
<a name="page112"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 112</span>Before
the growing canvas, and anon<br />
Once more approach and put the climax on:<br />
So she awhile withdrew, her piece she viewed—<br />
For half a moment half supposed it good—<br />
Spied her mistake, nor sooner spied than ran<br />
To remedy; and with the greater fan,<br />
In gracious better thought, equipped the guest.</p>
<p class="poetry">From ill to well, from better on to best,<br />
Arts move; the homely, like the plastic kind;<br />
And high ideals fired that infant mind.<br />
Once more she backed, once more a space apart<br />
Considered and reviewed her work of art:<br />
Doubtful at first, and gravely yet awhile;<br />
Till all her features blossomed in a smile.<br />
And the child, waking at the call of bliss,<br />
To each she ran, and took and gave a kiss.</p>
<h2>NOW BARE TO THE BEHOLDER’S EYE</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Now</span> bare to the
beholder’s eye<br />
Your late denuded bindings lie,<br />
Subsiding slowly where they fell,<br />
A disinvested citadel;<br />
The obdurate corset, Cupid’s foe,<br />
The Dutchman’s breeches frilled below.<br />
Those that the lover notes to note,<br />
And white and crackling petticoat.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page113"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
113</span>From these, that on the ground repose,<br />
Their lady lately re-arose;<br />
And laying by the lady’s name,<br />
A living woman re-became.<br />
Of her, that from the public eye<br />
They do enclose and fortify,<br />
Now, lying scattered as they fell,<br />
An indiscreeter tale they tell:<br />
Of that more soft and secret her<br />
Whose daylong fortresses they were,<br />
By fading warmth, by lingering print,<br />
These now discarded scabbards hint.</p>
<p class="poetry">A twofold change the ladies know:<br />
First, in the morn the bugles blow,<br />
And they, with floral hues and scents,<br />
Man their beribboned battlements.<br />
But let the stars appear, and they<br />
Shed inhumanities away;<br />
And from the changeling fashion see,<br />
Through comic and through sweet degree,<br />
In nature’s toilet unsurpassed,<br />
Forth leaps the laughing girl at last.</p>
<h2><a name="page114"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 114</span>THE
BOUR-TREE DEN</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Clinkum-clank</span> in the
rain they ride,<br />
Down by the braes and the grey sea-side;<br />
Clinkum-clank by stane and cairn,<br />
Weary fa’ their horse-shoe-airn!</p>
<p class="poetry">Loud on the causey, saft on the sand,<br />
Round they rade by the tail of the land;<br />
Round and up by the Bour-Tree Den,<br />
Weary fa’ the red-coat men!</p>
<p class="poetry">Aft hae I gane where they hae rade<br />
And straigled in the gowden brooms—<br />
Aft hae I gane, a saikless maid,<br />
And O! sae bonny as the bour-tree blooms!</p>
<p class="poetry">Wi’ swords and guns they wanton there,<br
/>
Wi’ red, red coats and braw, braw plumes.<br
/>
But I gaed wi’ my gowden hair,<br />
And O! sae bonny as the bour-tree blooms!</p>
<p class="poetry">I ran, a little hempie lass,<br />
In the sand and the bent grass,<br />
Or took and kilted my small coats<br />
To play in the beached fisher-boats.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page115"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
115</span>I waded deep and I ran fast,<br />
I was as lean as a lugger’s mast,<br />
I was as brown as a fisher’s creel,<br />
And I liked my life unco weel.</p>
<p class="poetry">They blew a trumpet at the cross,<br />
Some forty men, both foot and horse.<br />
A’body cam to hear and see,<br />
And wha, among the rest, but me.<br />
My lips were saut wi’ the saut air,<br />
My face was brown, my feet were bare<br />
The wind had ravelled my tautit hair,<br />
And I thought shame to be standing there.</p>
<p class="poetry">Ae man there in the thick of the throng<br />
Sat in his saddle, straight and strong.<br />
I looked at him and he at me,<br />
And he was a master-man to see.<br />
. . . And who is this yin? and who is yon<br />
That has the bonny lendings on?<br />
That sits and looks sae braw and crouse?<br />
. . . Mister Frank o’ the Big House!</p>
<p class="poetry">I gaed my lane beside the sea;<br />
The wind it blew in bush and tree,<br />
The wind blew in bush and bent:<br />
Muckle I saw, and muckle kent!</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page116"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
116</span>Between the beach and the sea-hill<br />
I sat my lane and grat my fill—<br />
I was sae clarty and hard and dark,<br />
And like the kye in the cow park!</p>
<p class="poetry">There fell a battle far in the north;<br />
The evil news gaed back and forth,<br />
And back and forth by brae and bent<br />
Hider and hunter cam and went:<br />
The hunter clattered horse-shoe-airn<br />
By causey-crest and hill-top cairn;<br />
The hider, in by shag and shench,<br />
Crept on his wame and little lench.</p>
<p class="poetry">The eastland wind blew shrill and snell,<br />
The stars arose, the gloaming fell,<br />
The firelight shone in window and door<br />
When Mr. Frank cam here to shore.<br />
He hirpled up by the links and the lane,<br />
And chappit laigh in the back-door-stane.<br />
My faither gaed, and up wi’ his han’!<br />
. . . Is this Mr. Frank, or a beggarman?</p>
<p class="poetry">I have mistrysted sair, he said,<br />
But let me into fire and bed;<br />
Let me in, for auld lang syne,<br />
And give me a dram of the brandy wine.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page117"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
117</span>They hid him in the Bour-Tree Den,<br />
And I thought it strange to gang my lane;<br />
I thought it strange, I thought it sweet,<br />
To gang there on my naked feet.<br />
In the mirk night, when the boats were at sea,<br />
I passed the burn abune the knee;<br />
In the mirk night, when the folks were asleep,<br />
I had a tryst in the den to keep.</p>
<p class="poetry">Late and air’, when the folks were
asleep,<br />
I had a tryst, a tryst to keep,<br />
I had a lad that lippened to me,<br />
And bour-tree blossom is fair to see!</p>
<p class="poetry">O’ the bour-tree leaves I busked his
bed,<br />
The mune was siller, the dawn was red:<br />
Was nae man there but him and me—<br />
And bour-tree blossom is fair to see!</p>
<p class="poetry">Unco weather hae we been through:<br />
The mune glowered, and the wind blew,<br />
And the rain it rained on him and me,<br />
And bour-tree blossom is fair to see!</p>
<p class="poetry">Dwelling his lane but house or hauld,<br />
Aft he was wet and aft was cauld;<br />
I warmed him wi’ my briest and knee—<br />
And bour-tree blossom is fair to see!</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page118"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
118</span>There was nae voice of beast ae man,<br />
But the tree soughed and the burn ran,<br />
And we heard the ae voice of the sea:<br />
Bour-tree blossom is fair to see!</p>
<h2>SONNETS</h2>
<h3>I.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Nor</span> judge me light,
tho’ light at times I seem,<br />
And lightly in the stress of fortune bear<br />
The innumerable flaws of changeful care—<br />
Nor judge me light for this, nor rashly deem<br />
(Office forbid to mortals, kept supreme<br />
And separate the prerogative of God!)<br />
That seaman idle who is borne abroad<br />
To the far haven by the favouring stream.<br />
Not he alone that to contrarious seas<br />
Opposes, all night long, the unwearied oar,<br />
Not he alone, by high success endeared,<br />
Shall reach the Port; but, winged, with some light breeze<br />
Shall they, with upright keels, pass in before<br />
Whom easy Taste, the golden pilot, steered.</p>
<h3><a name="page119"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
119</span>II.</h3>
<p class="poetry">So shall this book wax like unto a well,<br />
Fairy with mirrored flowers about the brim,<br />
Or like some tarn that wailing curlews skim,<br />
Glassing the sallow uplands or brown fell;<br />
And so, as men go down into a dell<br />
(Weary with noon) to find relief and shade,<br />
When on the uneasy sick-bed we are laid,<br />
We shall go down into thy book, and tell<br />
The leaves, once blank, to build again for us<br />
Old summer dead and ruined, and the time<br />
Of later autumn with the corn in stook.<br />
So shalt thou stint the meagre winter thus<br />
Of his projected triumph, and the rime<br />
Shall melt before the sunshine in thy book.</p>
<h3>III.</h3>
<p class="poetry">I have a hoard of treasure in my breast;<br />
The grange of memory steams against the door,<br />
Full of my bygone lifetime’s garnered store—<br />
Old pleasures crowned with sorrow for a zest,<br />
Old sorrow grown a joy, old penance blest,<br />
Chastened remembrance of the sins of yore<br />
That, like a new evangel, more and more<br />
Supports our halting will toward the best.<br />
Ah! what to us the barren after years<br />
<a name="page120"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 120</span>May
bring of joy or sorrow, who can tell?<br />
O, knowing not, who cares? It may be well<br />
That we shall find old pleasures and old fears,<br />
And our remembered childhood seen thro’ tears,<br />
The best of Heaven and the worst of Hell.</p>
<h3>IV.</h3>
<p class="poetry">As starts the absent dreamer when a train,<br
/>
Suddenly disengulphed below his feet,<br />
Roars forth into the sunlight, to its seat<br />
My soul was shaken with immediate pain<br />
Intolerable as the scanty breath<br />
Of that one word blew utterly away<br />
The fragile mist of fair deceit that lay<br />
O’er the bleak years that severed me from death.<br />
Yes, at the sight I quailed; but, not unwise<br />
Or not, O God, without some nervous thread<br />
Of that best valour, Patience, bowed my head,<br />
And with firm bosom and most steadfast eyes,<br />
Strong in all high resolve, prepared to tread<br />
The unlovely path that leads me toward the skies.</p>
<h3>V.</h3>
<p class="poetry">Not undelightful, friend, our rustic ease<br />
To grateful hearts; for by especial hap,<br />
Deep nested in the hill’s enormous lap,<br />
With its own ring of walls and grove of trees,<br />
<a name="page121"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 121</span>Sits, in
deep shelter, our small cottage—nor<br />
Far-off is seen, rose carpeted and hung<br />
With clematis, the quarry whence she sprung,<br />
O mater pulchra filia pulchrior,<br />
Whither in early spring, unharnessed folk,<br />
We join the pairing swallows, glad to stay<br />
Where, loosened in the hills, remote, unseen,<br />
From its tall trees, it breathes a slender smoke<br />
To heaven, and in the noon of sultry day<br />
Stands, coolly buried, to the neck in green.</p>
<h3>VI.</h3>
<p class="poetry">As in the hostel by the bridge I sate,<br />
Nailed with indifference fondly deemed complete,<br />
And (O strange chance, more sorrowful than sweet)<br />
The counterfeit of her that was my fate,<br />
Dressed in like vesture, graceful and sedate,<br />
Went quietly up the vacant village street,<br />
The still small sound of her most dainty feet<br />
Shook, like a trumpet blast, my soul’s estate.<br />
Instant revolt ran riot through my brain,<br />
And all night long, thereafter, hour by hour,<br />
The pageant of dead love before my eyes<br />
Went proudly; and old hopes, broke loose again<br />
From the restraint of wisely temperate power,<br />
With ineffectual ardour sought to rise.</p>
<h3><a name="page122"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
122</span>VII.</h3>
<p class="poetry">The strong man’s hand, the snow-cool head
of age,<br />
The certain-footed sympathies of youth—<br />
These, and that lofty passion after truth,<br />
Hunger unsatisfied in priest or sage<br />
Or the great men of former years, he needs<br />
That not unworthily would dare to sing<br />
(Hard task!) black care’s inevitable ring<br />
Settling with years upon the heart that feeds<br />
Incessantly on glory. Year by year<br />
The narrowing toil grows closer round his feet;<br />
With disenchanting touch rude-handed time<br />
The unlovely web discloses, and strange fear<br />
Leads him at last to eld’s inclement seat,<br />
The bitter north of life—a frozen clime.</p>
<h3>VIII.</h3>
<p class="poetry">As Daniel, bird-alone, in that far land,<br />
Kneeling in fervent prayer, with heart-sick eyes<br />
Turned thro’ the casement toward the westering skies;<br />
Or as untamed Elijah, that red brand<br />
Among the starry prophets; or that band<br />
And company of Faithful sanctities<br />
Who in all times, when persecutions rise,<br />
Cherish forgotten creeds with fostering hand:<br />
Such do ye seem to me, light-hearted crew,<br />
<a name="page123"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 123</span>O turned
to friendly arts with all your will,<br />
That keep a little chapel sacred still,<br />
One rood of Holy-land in this bleak earth<br />
Sequestered still (our homage surely due!)<br />
To the twin Gods of mirthful wine and mirth.</p>
<p class="poetry">About my fields, in the broad sun<br />
And blaze of noon, there goeth one,<br />
Barefoot and robed in blue, to scan<br />
With the hard eye of the husbandman<br />
My harvests and my cattle. Her,<br />
When even puts the birds astir<br />
And day has set in the great woods,<br />
We seek, among her garden roods,<br />
With bells and cries in vain: the while<br />
Lamps, plate, and the decanter smile<br />
On the forgotten board. But she,<br />
Deaf, blind, and prone on face and knee,<br />
Forgets time, family, and feast,<br />
And digs like a demented beast.</p>
<p class="poetry">Tall as a guardsman, pale as the east at
dawn,<br />
Who strides in strange apparel on the lawn?<br />
Rails for his breakfast? routs his vassals out<br />
(Like boys escaped from school) with song and shout?<br />
<a name="page124"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 124</span>Kind and
unkind, his Maker’s final freak,<br />
Part we deride the child, part dread the antique!<br />
See where his gang, like frogs, among the dew<br />
Crouch at their duty, an unquiet crew;<br />
Adjust their staring kilts; and their swift eyes<br />
Turn still to him who sits to supervise.<br />
He in the midst, perched on a fallen tree,<br />
Eyes them at labour; and, guitar on knee,<br />
Now ministers alarm, now scatters joy,<br />
Now twangs a halting chord, now tweaks a boy.<br />
Thorough in all, my resolute vizier<br />
Plays both the despot and the volunteer,<br />
Exacts with fines obedience to my laws,<br />
And for his music, too, exacts applause.</p>
<p class="poetry">The Adorner of the uncomely—those<br />
Amidst whose tall battalions goes<br />
Her pretty person out and in<br />
All day with an endearing din,<br />
Of censure and encouragement;<br />
And when all else is tried in vain<br />
See her sit down and weep again.<br />
She weeps to conquer;<br />
She varies on her grenadiers<br />
From satire up to girlish tears!</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page125"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
125</span>Or rather to behold her when<br />
She plies for me the unresting pen,<br />
And when the loud assault of squalls<br />
Resounds upon the roof and walls,<br />
And the low thunder growls and I<br />
Raise my dictating voice on high.</p>
<p class="poetry">What glory for a boy of ten<br />
Who now must three gigantic men<br />
And two enormous, dapple grey<br />
New Zealand pack-horses array<br />
And lead, and wisely resolute<br />
Our day-long business execute<br />
In the far shore-side town. His soul<br />
Glows in his bosom like a coal;<br />
His innocent eyes glitter again,<br />
And his hand trembles on the rein.<br />
Once he reviews his whole command,<br />
And chivalrously planting hand<br />
On hip—a borrowed attitude—<br />
Rides off downhill into the wood.</p>
<p class="poetry">I meanwhile in the populous house apart<br />
Sit snugly chambered, and my silent art<br />
Uninterrupted, unremitting ply<br />
Before the dawn, by morning lamplight, by<br />
<a name="page126"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 126</span>The glow
of smelting noon, and when the sun<br />
Dips past my westering hill and day is done;<br />
So, bending still over my trade of words,<br />
I hear the morning and the evening birds,<br />
The morning and the evening stars behold;<br />
So there apart I sit as once of old<br />
Napier in wizard Merchiston; and my<br />
Brown innocent aides in home and husbandry<br />
Wonder askance. What ails the boss? they ask.<br />
Him, richest of the rich, an endless task<br />
Before the earliest birds or servants stir<br />
Calls and detains him daylong prisoner?<br />
He whose innumerable dollars hewed<br />
This cleft in the boar and devil-haunted wood,<br />
And bade therein, from sun to seas and skies,<br />
His many-windowed, painted palace rise<br />
Red-roofed, blue-walled, a rainbow on the hill,<br />
A wonder in the forest glade: he still,</p>
<p class="poetry">Unthinkable Aladdin, dawn and dark,<br />
Scribbles and scribbles, like a German clerk.<br />
We see the fact, but tell, O tell us why?<br />
My reverend washman and wise butler cry.<br />
Meanwhile at times the manifold<br />
Imperishable perfumes of the past<br />
And coloured pictures rise on me thick and fast:<br />
<a name="page127"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 127</span>And I
remember the white rime, the loud<br />
Lamplitten city, shops, and the changing crowd;<br />
And I remember home and the old time,<br />
The winding river, the white moving rhyme,<br />
The autumn robin by the river-side<br />
That pipes in the grey eve.</p>
<p class="poetry">The old lady (so they say), but I<br />
Admire your young vitality.<br />
Still brisk of foot, still busy and keen<br />
In and about and up and down.</p>
<p class="poetry">I hear you pass with bustling feet<br />
The long verandahs round, and beat<br />
Your bell, and “Lotu! Lotu!” cry;<br />
Thus calling our queer company,<br />
In morning or in evening dim,<br />
To prayers and the oft mangled hymn.</p>
<p class="poetry">All day you watch across the sky<br />
The silent, shining cloudlands ply,<br />
That, huge as countries, swift as birds,<br />
Beshade the isles by halves and thirds,<br />
Till each with battlemented crest<br />
Stands anchored in the ensanguined west,<br />
<a name="page128"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 128</span>An Alp
enchanted. All the day<br />
You hear the exuberant wind at play,<br />
In vast, unbroken voice uplift,<br />
In roaring tree, round whistling clift.</p>
<h2>AIR OF DIABELLI’S</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Call</span> it to mind, O
my love.<br />
Dear were your eyes as the day,<br />
Bright as the day and the sky;<br />
Like the stream of gold and the sky above,<br />
Dear were your eyes in the grey.<br />
We have lived, my love, O, we have lived, my love!<br />
Now along the silent river, azure<br />
Through the sky’s inverted image,<br />
Softly swam the boat that bore our love,<br />
Swiftly ran the shallow of our love<br />
Through the heaven’s inverted image,<br />
In the reedy mazes round the river.<br />
See along the silent river,</p>
<p class="poetry">See of old the lover’s shallop steer.<br
/>
Berried brake and reedy island,<br />
Heaven below and only heaven above.<br />
Through the sky’s inverted image<br />
Swiftly swam the boat that bore our love.<br />
<a name="page129"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 129</span>Berried
brake and reedy island,<br />
Mirrored flower and shallop gliding by.<br />
All the earth and all the sky were ours,<br />
Silent sat the wafted lovers,<br />
Bound with grain and watched by all the sky,<br />
Hand to hand and eye to . . . eye.</p>
<p class="poetry">Days of April, airs of Eden,<br />
Call to mind how bright the vanished angel hours,<br />
Golden hours of evening,<br />
When our boat drew homeward filled with flowers.<br />
O darling, call them to mind; love the past, my love.<br />
Days of April, airs of Eden.<br />
How the glory died through golden hours,<br />
And the shining moon arising;<br />
How the boat drew homeward filled with flowers.<br />
Age and winter close us slowly in.</p>
<p class="poetry">Level river, cloudless heaven,<br />
Islanded reed mazes, silver weirs;<br />
How the silent boat with silver<br />
Threads the inverted forest as she goes,<br />
Broke the trembling green of mirrored trees.<br />
O, remember, and remember<br />
How the berries hung in garlands.</p>
<p class="poetry">Still in the river see the shallop floats.<br
/>
Hark! Chimes the falling oar.<br />
<a name="page130"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 130</span>Still in
the mind<br />
Hark to the song of the past!<br />
Dream, and they pass in their dreams.</p>
<p class="poetry">Those that loved of yore, O those that loved of
yore!<br />
Hark through the stillness, O darling, hark!<br />
Through it all the ear of the mind</p>
<p class="poetry">Knows the boat of love. Hark!<br />
Chimes the falling oar.</p>
<p class="poetry">O half in vain they grew old.</p>
<p class="poetry">Now the halcyon days are over,<br />
Age and winter close us slowly round,<br />
And these sounds at fall of even<br />
Dim the sight and muffle all the sound.<br />
And at the married fireside, sleep of soul and sleep of fancy,<br
/>
Joan and Darby.<br />
Silence of the world without a sound;<br />
And beside the winter faggot</p>
<p class="poetry">Joan and Darby sit and dose and dream and
wake—<br />
Dream they hear the flowing, singing river,<br />
See the berries in the island brake;<br />
Dream they hear the weir,<br />
See the gliding shallop mar the stream.<br />
Hark! in your dreams do you hear?</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page131"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
131</span>Snow has filled the drifted forest;<br />
Ice has bound the . . . stream.<br />
Frost has bound our flowing river;<br />
Snow has whitened all our island brake.</p>
<p class="poetry">Berried brake and reedy island,<br />
Heaven below and only heaven above azure<br />
Through the sky’s inverted image<br />
Safely swam the boat that bore our love.<br />
Dear were your eyes as the day,<br />
Bright ran the stream, bright hung the sky above.<br
/>
Days of April, airs of Eden.<br />
How the glory died through golden hours,<br />
And the shining moon arising,<br />
How the boat drew homeward filled with flowers.<br />
Bright were your eyes in the night:<br />
We have lived, my love;<br />
O, we have loved, my love.<br />
Now the . . . days are over,<br />
Age and winter close us slowly round.</p>
<p class="poetry">Vainly time departs, and vainly<br />
Age and winter come and close us round.</p>
<p class="poetry">Hark the river’s long continuous
sound.</p>
<p class="poetry">Hear the river ripples in the reeds.</p>
<p class="poetry">Lo, in dreams they see their shallop<br />
Run the lilies down and drown the weeds<br />
<a name="page132"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 132</span>Mid the
sound of crackling faggots.<br />
So in dreams the new created<br />
Happy past returns, to-day recedes,<br />
And they hear once more,</p>
<p class="poetry">From the old years,<br />
Yesterday returns, to-day recedes,<br />
And they hear with aged hearing warbles</p>
<p class="poetry">Love’s own river ripple in the weeds.<br
/>
And again the lover’s shallop;<br />
Lo, the shallop sheds the streaming weeds;<br />
And afar in foreign countries<br />
In the ears of aged lovers.</p>
<p class="poetry">And again in winter evens<br />
Starred with lilies . . . with stirring weeds.<br />
In these ears of aged lovers<br />
Love’s own river ripples in the reeds.</p>
<h2>EPITAPHIUM EROTII</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Here</span> lies Erotion,
whom at six years old<br />
Fate pilfered. Stranger (when I too am cold,<br />
Who shall succeed me in my rural field),<br />
To this small spirit annual honours yield!<br />
Bright be thy hearth, hale be thy babes, I crave<br />
And this, in thy green farm, the only grave.</p>
<h2><a name="page133"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 133</span>DE
M. ANTONIO</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Now</span> Antoninus, in a
smiling age,<br />
Counts of his life the fifteenth finished stage.<br />
The rounded days and the safe years he sees,<br />
Nor fears death’s water mounting round his knees.<br />
To him remembering not one day is sad,<br />
Not one but that its memory makes him glad.<br />
So good men lengthen life; and to recall<br />
The past is to have twice enjoyed it all.</p>
<h2>AD MAGISTRUM LUDI</h2>
<p style="text-align: center">(<span class="smcap">Unfinished
Draft</span>.)</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Now</span> in the sky<br />
And on the hearth of<br />
Now in a drawer the direful cane,<br />
That sceptre of the . . . reign,<br />
And the long hawser, that on the back<br />
Of Marsyas fell with many a whack,<br />
Twice hardened out of Scythian hides,<br />
Now sleep till the October ides.</p>
<p class="poetry">In summer if the boys be well.</p>
<h2><a name="page134"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 134</span>AD
NEPOTEM</h2>
<p class="poetry">O <span class="smcap">Nepos</span>, twice my
neigh(b)our (since at home<br />
We’re door by door, by Flora’s temple dome;<br />
And in the country, still conjoined by fate,<br />
Behold our villas standing gate by gate),<br />
Thou hast a daughter, dearer far than life—<br />
Thy image and the image of thy wife.<br />
Thy image and thy wife’s, and be it so!</p>
<p class="poetry">But why for her, [ neglect the flowing / O
Nepos, leave the ] can</p>
<p class="poetry">And lose the prime of thy Falernian?<br />
Hoard casks of money, if to hoard be thine;<br />
But let thy daughter drink a younger wine!<br />
Let her go rich and wise, in silk and fur;</p>
<p class="poetry">Lay down a [ bin that shall / vintage to ] grow
old with her;</p>
<p class="poetry">But thou, meantime, the while the batch is
sound,<br />
With pleased companions pass the bowl around;<br />
Nor let the childless only taste delights,<br />
For Fathers also may enjoy their nights.</p>
<h2><a name="page135"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 135</span>IN
CHARIDEMUM</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">You</span>, Charidemus, who
my cradle swung,<br />
And watched me all the days that I was young;<br />
You, at whose step the laziest slaves awake,<br />
And both the bailiff and the butler quake;<br />
The barber’s suds now blacken with my beard,<br />
And my rough kisses make the maids afeared;<br />
But with reproach your awful eyebrows twitch,<br />
And for the cane, I see, your fingers itch.<br />
If something daintily attired I go,<br />
Straight you exclaim: “Your father did not so.”<br />
And fuming, count the bottles on the board<br />
As though my cellar were your private hoard.<br />
Enough, at last: I have done all I can,<br />
And your own mistress hails me for a man.</p>
<h2>DE LIGURRA</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">You</span> fear,
Ligurra—above all, you long—<br />
That I should smite you with a stinging song.<br />
This dreadful honour you both fear and hope—<br />
Both all in vain: you fall below my scope.<br />
The Lybian lion tears the roaring bull,<br />
He does not harm the midge along the pool.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page136"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
136</span>Lo! if so close this stands in your regard,<br />
From some blind tap fish forth a drunken barn,<br />
Who shall with charcoal, on the privy wall,<br />
Immortalise your name for once and all.</p>
<h2>IN LUPUM</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Beyond</span> the gates
thou gav’st a field to till;<br />
I have a larger on my window-sill.<br />
A farm, d’ye say? Is this a farm to you,<br />
Where for all woods I spay one tuft of rue,<br />
And that so rusty, and so small a thing,<br />
One shrill cicada hides it with a wing;<br />
Where one cucumber covers all the plain;<br />
And where one serpent rings himself in vain<br />
To enter wholly; and a single snail<br />
Eats all and exit fasting to the pool?<br />
Here shall my gardener be the dusty mole.<br />
My only ploughman the . . . mole.<br />
Here shall I wait in vain till figs be set,<br />
And till the spring disclose the violet.<br />
Through all my wilds a tameless mouse careers,<br />
And in that narrow boundary appears,<br />
Huge as the stalking lion of Algiers,<br />
Huge as the fabled boar of Calydon.<br />
And all my hay is at one swoop impresst<br />
By one low-flying swallow for her nest,<br />
<a name="page137"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 137</span>Strip
god Priapus of each attribute<br />
Here finds he scarce a pedestal to foot.<br />
The gathered harvest scarcely brims a spoon;<br />
And all my vintage drips in a cocoon.<br />
Generous are you, but I more generous still:<br />
Take back your farm and stand me half a gill!</p>
<h2>AD QUINTILIANUM</h2>
<p class="poetry">O <span class="smcap">chief</span> director of
the growing race,<br />
Of Rome the glory and of Rome the grace,<br />
Me, O Quintilian, may you not forgive<br />
Before from labour I make haste to live?<br />
Some burn to gather wealth, lay hands on rule,<br />
Or with white statues fill the atrium full.<br />
The talking hearth, the rafters sweet with smoke,<br />
Live fountains and rough grass, my line invoke:<br />
A sturdy slave, not too learned wife,<br />
Nights filled with slumber, and a quiet life.</p>
<h2>DE HORTIS JULII MARTIALIS</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">My</span> Martial owns a
garden, famed to please,<br />
Beyond the glades of the Hesperides;<br />
Along Janiculum lies the chosen block<br />
Where the cool grottos trench the hanging rock.<br />
The moderate summit, something plain and bare,<br />
Tastes overhead of a serener air;<br />
<a name="page138"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 138</span>And
while the clouds besiege the vales below,<br />
Keeps the clear heaven and doth with sunshine glow.<br />
To the June stars that circle in the skies<br />
The dainty roofs of that tall villa rise.<br />
Hence do the seven imperial hills appear;<br />
And you may view the whole of Rome from here;<br />
Beyond, the Alban and the Tuscan hills;<br />
And the cool groves and the cool falling rills,<br />
Rubre Fidenæ, and with virgin blood<br />
Anointed once Perenna’s orchard wood.<br />
Thence the Flaminian, the Salarian way,<br />
Stretch far broad below the dome of day;<br />
And lo! the traveller toiling towards his home;<br />
And all unheard, the chariot speeds to Rome!<br />
For here no whisper of the wheels; and tho’<br />
The Mulvian Bridge, above the Tiber’s flow,<br />
Hangs all in sight, and down the sacred stream<br />
The sliding barges vanish like a dream,<br />
The seaman’s shrilling pipe not enters here,<br />
Nor the rude cries of porters on the pier.<br />
And if so rare the house, how rarer far<br />
The welcome and the weal that therein are!<br />
So free the access, the doors so widely thrown,<br />
You half imagine all to be your own.</p>
<h2><a name="page139"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 139</span>AD
MARTIALEM</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Go</span>(<span
class="smcap">d</span>) knows, my Martial, if we two could be<br
/>
To enjoy our days set wholly free;<br />
To the true life together bend our mind,<br />
And take a furlough from the falser kind.<br />
No rich saloon, nor palace of the great,<br />
Nor suit at law should trouble our estate;<br />
On no vainglorious statues should we look,<br />
But of a walk, a talk, a little book,<br />
Baths, wells and meads, and the veranda shade,<br />
Let all our travels and our toils be made.<br />
Now neither lives unto himself, alas!<br />
And the good suns we see, that flash and pass<br />
And perish; and the bell that knells them cries:<br />
“Another gone: O when will ye arise?”</p>
<h2>IN MAXIMUM</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Wouldst</span> thou be
free? I think it not, indeed;<br />
But if thou wouldst, attend this simple rede:<br />
[When quite contented / Thou shall be free when] thou canst dine
at home<br />
And drink a small wine of the march of Rome;<br />
When thou canst see unmoved thy neighbour’s plate,<br />
And wear my threadbare toga in the gate;<br />
<a name="page140"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 140</span>When
thou hast learned to love a small abode,<br />
And not to choose a mistress <i>à la mode</i>:<br />
When thus contained and bridled thou shalt be,<br />
Then, Maximus, then first shalt thou be free.</p>
<h2>AD OLUM</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Call</span> me not rebel,
though [ here at every word / in what I sing ]<br />
If I no longer hail thee [ King and Lord / Lord and King ]<br />
I have redeemed myself with all I had,<br />
And now possess my fortunes poor but glad.<br />
With all I had I have redeemed myself,<br />
And escaped at once from slavery and pelf.<br />
The unruly wishes must a ruler take,<br />
Our high desires do our low fortunes make:<br />
Those only who desire palatial things<br />
Do bear the fetters and the frowns of Kings;<br />
Set free thy slave; thou settest free thyself.</p>
<h2>DE CŒNATIONE MICÆ</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Look</span> round: You see
a little supper room;<br />
But from my window, lo! great Cæsar’s tomb!<br />
And the great dead themselves, with jovial breath<br />
Bid you be merry and remember death.</p>
<h2><a name="page141"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 141</span>DE
EROTIO PUELLA</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">This</span> girl was
sweeter than the song of swans,<br />
And daintier than the lamb upon the lawns<br />
Or Curine oyster. She, the flower of girls,<br />
Outshone the light of Erythræan pearls;<br />
The teeth of India that with polish glow,<br />
The untouched lilies or the morning snow.<br />
Her tresses did gold-dust outshine<br />
And fair hair of women of the Rhine.<br />
Compared to her the peacock seemed not fair,<br />
The squirrel lively, or the phoenix rare;<br />
Her on whose pyre the smoke still hovering waits;<br />
Her whom the greedy and unequal fates<br />
On the sixth dawning of her natal day,<br />
My child-love and my playmate—snatcht away.</p>
<h2>AD PISCATOREM</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">For</span> these are sacred
fishes all<br />
Who know that lord that is the lord of all;<br />
Come to the brim and nose the friendly hand<br />
That sways and can beshadow all the land.<br />
Nor only so, but have their names, and come<br />
When they are summoned by the Lord of Rome.<br />
<a name="page142"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 142</span>Here
once his line an impious Lybian threw;<br />
And as with tremulous reed his prey he drew,<br />
Straight, the light failed him.<br />
He groped, nor found the prey that he had ta’en.<br />
Now as a warning to the fisher clan<br />
Beside the lake he sits, a beggarman.<br />
Thou, then, while still thine innocence is pure,<br />
Flee swiftly, nor presume to set thy lure;<br />
Respect these fishes, for their friends are great;<br />
And in the waters empty all thy bait.</p>
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