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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it -under the terms of the </span><a class="reference internal" href="#project-gutenberg-license">Project Gutenberg License</a><span> included with -this ebook or online at </span><a class="reference external" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/license">http://www.gutenberg.org/license</a><span>. If you -are not located in the United States, you'll have to check the laws -of the country where you are located before using this ebook.</span></p> -<p class="noindent pnext"></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<div class="align-None container" id="pg-machine-header"> -<p class="noindent pfirst"><span>Title: Pixies' Plot -<br /> -<br />Author: Eden Phillpotts -<br /> -<br />Release Date: January 01, 2014 [EBook #47265] -<br /> -<br />Language: English -<br /> -<br />Character set encoding: UTF-8</span></p> -</div> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<p class="noindent pfirst" id="pg-start-line"><span>*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK </span><span>PIXIES' PLOT</span><span> ***</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="noindent pfirst" id="pg-produced-by"><span>Produced by Al Haines.</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 1em"> -</div> -<p class="noindent pfirst"><span></span></p> -</div> -<div class="align-None container titlepage"> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center pfirst"><span class="xx-large">PIXIES' PLOT</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<p class="center pfirst"><span class="medium">By</span></p> -<p class="center pnext"><span class="large">EDEN PHILLPOTTS</span></p> -<p class="center pnext"><span class="small">Author of -<br /></span><em class="italics small">As the Wind Blows; Evander -<br />Pan & the Twins -<br />&c.</em></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 3em"> -</div> -<p class="center pfirst"><span class="medium">LONDON -<br />GRANT RICHARDS LTD -<br />St. Martin's Street, W.C. -<br />1922</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -</div> -<div class="align-None container verso"> -<p class="center pfirst"><span class="small">Printed in England at the Cloister Press, Heaton Mersey, near Manchester</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -</div> -<div class="align-None container dedication"> -<p class="center pfirst"><em class="italics">To</em><span> -<br />GRANT RICHARDS</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>In beauty manifold are wrought</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Your gardens, full of charm and grace,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That hold the best in every sort</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>But entrance yield to nothing base.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And 'mid their lawns, austere and bright,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Though statues gleam and fountains play,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>There's one wild dingle where half light</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of faery never dies away.</span></div> -<div class="line"> </div> -<div class="line"><span>There hang your wreath within a glade</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Ere berries shrink and blossoms pine;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For pixy blooms too quickly fade</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Plucked by this clumsy hand of mine.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Yet, howsoever swift their end,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>They hold a more enduring seed</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And bring you, from a kindly friend,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Good will, to dignify the deed.</span></div> -<div class="line"> </div> -<div class="line"><span>E. P.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center pfirst"><span class="bold large">CONTENTS</span></p> -<ol class="arabic simple"> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#pixies-plot">Pixies' Plot</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#the-charm">The Charm</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#joe-s-donkey">Joe's Donkey</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#diana">Diana</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#the-mouse-and-the-epitaph">The Mouse and the Epitaph</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#echo-and-narcissus">Echo and Narcissus</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#the-sandhills">The Sandhills</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#the-ghost">The Ghost</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#a-test">A Test</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#dreams">Dreams</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#the-fire-drake">The Fire-drake</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#the-seven-maidens">The Seven Maidens</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#the-heron">The Heron</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#the-grief">The Grief</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#on-the-ebb">On the Ebb</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#scandal">Scandal</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#to-a-bat">To a Bat</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#moon-moth">Moon-Moth</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#the-hunting">The Hunting</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#the-good-girl">The Good Girl</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#the-lover">The Lover</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#the-motor-car">The Motor Car</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#the-sea-scouts">The Sea Scouts</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#song-for-the-spheres">Song for the Spheres</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#the-circle">The Circle</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#to-anthea-s-bosom">To Anthea's Bosom</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#dust">Dust</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#young-night">Young Night</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#jill-bassett">Jill Bassett</a></p> -</li> -<li><p class="first noindent pfirst"><a class="reference internal" href="#tailpiece">Tailpiece</a></p> -</li> -</ol> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="pixies-plot"><span class="bold large">THE PIXIES' PLOT</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<p class="pfirst"><span>(</span><em class="italics">A pleasant maxim of old time directed the -gardener to leave one corner as nature -planned it, for the little people. Thus -welcomed, they might be trusted to show their -human hosts goodwill, friendship, and service.</em><span>)</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 1em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>You have it, or you have it not:</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The cantle of the Pixies' plot,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where never spade nor hoe shall ply</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To break that treasured sanctity.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Touch no bloom there; uproot no weed;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Let what will blow.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Suffer the thistle, briar and thorn to grow,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The dandelion to seed.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Though full the garden of your mind,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Well planted on a soil that's kind;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Your hedges gay, your borders clean,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Your seasons fair, your clime serene,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Yet trammel not the Pixies' mite,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For well-coming</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Chance little, wandering, weary, fairy thing</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Lost in the dim owl-light.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Still virgin, free and set apart,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Ordain one dingle of your heart,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where visions home and wing to you</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The golden dreams that might come true.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Herein a gentler dawn than day</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Shall often break</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For foot-sore spirits, tired of reason's ache,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And children come to play.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="the-charm"><span class="bold large">THE CHARM</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>When chafers drone their litany</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And pray, "Oh, Father, grant that we</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>From airy-mouse delivered be,"</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Go seek the charm.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Under the sky, when a star shoots,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Beneath an oak, when the owl hoots,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Gather ye simples, dig ye roots</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For the rare charm.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>That glassy ghost upon a thorn--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The raiment of a snake outworn--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Must backward through the dark be borne</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To feed the charm.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>A glow-worm--she whose gentle light</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Glimmers green-gold through a blue night</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Beside the churchyard aconite--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Shall help the charm.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>One willow from the cradle take</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where a boy baby lies awake,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And splinters off a coffin break</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To build the charm.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>A tarnished silver chalice bring,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Dead gossips gave at christening,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And dip the moonlight from a spring</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To crown the charm.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>This much, God wot, a child might do,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Yet all must fail if haply you</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Lack a child's faith, so trusting, true,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To bless the charm.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Many the spells of high degree</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And fruitful happiness I see</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>All lost, for faith to set them free</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And work the charm.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="joe-s-donkey"><span class="bold large">JOE'S DONKEY</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>The harp of night had silver strings,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The moon was low, the stars burned dim,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>When from a wood, with roaring wings,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Joe flushed a brace of cherubim.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>His eye did bulge at sign so brave</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To see the shining angels pass;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Then, happening beside her grave,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>He met his dead and buried ass!</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>She'd broke a leg and so was slain</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And buried here a week ago;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Now, all alive and sound again,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>She brayed with joy to welcome Joe!</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>A holy cross that donkeys bear,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Since Jesus Christ did deign to ride,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The cherubs tempted to repair</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That ancient beast in bone and hide.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>The harp of morn had golden strings</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Ere home they came--Joe's ass and he;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And when their neighbours heard these things</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>They praised the Lord right heartily.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="diana"><span class="bold large">DIANA</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Look not upon a moon that's new,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For with her bitter sickle keen</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>She comes between, she comes between,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And cuts the tender from the true.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Look not upon a white full moon:</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Her stiff-starched pudency doth shame</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The throbbing pulse, the leaping flame,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And freezes passion at its noon.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Look not upon a moon that's old</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With fallen breast and shadowy eyes,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Till the last hope of loving dies,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And heart's outworn and blood run cold.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="the-mouse-and-the-epitaph"><span class="bold large">THE MOUSE AND THE EPITAPH</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>In moonlight grey the hungry church-yard mouse</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Sat on old William Blee--his narrow house.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Climbing the mound, an ancient slate he read,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Then spoke, with rustic frankness, to the dead.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>"'A husband and a father dear': What then?</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>So much is true of mice as well as men.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>'Friend to the poor'? That's humbug, Billy Blee!</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>When did you ever spare a crumb for me?"</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="echo-and-narcissus"><span class="bold large">ECHO AND NARCISSUS</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Through the green dell she went,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Bright haired, with cheeks that burned;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Her passion hardly pent;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Her eyes upon him turned.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Her crocus-coloured gown</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Over her white, young breast beat up and down.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Adream, he did not guess,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>But dwelt upon his thought</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of perfect loveliness,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Nor heeded when she caught</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A sigh his bosom breathed,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And murmured it again with music wreathed.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Oh, wasted wealth of love;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>While Echo's heart will break,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Narcissus from above,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Within a glassy lake,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Beholds perfection lie</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And, for the vision of himself, must die.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Now, hid in bare-ribbed rock</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With crocus-coloured veins,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>She guards from windy shock,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>She shields from wild March rains,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where grass and granite meet,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The daffodil that's budding at her feet.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="the-sandhills"><span class="bold large">THE SANDHILLS</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Oh, naked-footed boy, with the wild hair</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And laughing eyes, is it so long ago</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Among these windy dunes you made your lair,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Beside the immutable sea's unwearied ebb and flow?</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Above you sings the horrent bent; the sun</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Finds you and burns your budding limbs to brown;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>You race the waves and wade and leap and run,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Then in the sweet, hot sand, contented, cuddle down</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>You dream great dreams, while all the upper air</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Is musical with mews; and round about,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Upon the flats among the sea-ways there,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The dim sea-lavender spreads her purple fingers out.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And still the sandhills roll and still the sea</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Flings a straight line of everlasting blue</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Athwart their shining hillocks; solemnly</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The ships go by, but not the wondrous ships you knew.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>When first your path among the sand dunes fell--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The dunes that stretched as now and shone of yore</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In their bright nakedness--a magic spell</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of mystery they wove along the shining shore.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>This poppy with the horn, this bindweed white</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And salicornia in its crimson bands</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Meant more, far more than beauty and delight:</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>They stood for treasure torn from drowning pirates' hands.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>These amber weeds were then a garment brave;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>These agate stones were gems of splendid size</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Once decked a mermaid in a deep sea cave,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Lit by gigantic fish from their green, glimmering eyes.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>The sandhills were your giants, cruel or kind;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Each falling billow told another tale;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Fairies and goblins flew upon the wind;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>There lurked a tragedy in every sea-bird's wail.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And now the watchful sea doth bid me say;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The salt air whispers me to speak and tell</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where is that little boy from yesterday</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Whom wind and wave and sand and sunshine knew so well?</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>"He was our playmate; us he understood</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And ran to us with glory in his eyes;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>We loved him and we wrought to work his good;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>We made him strong and brave and with our wisdom wise.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>"Will he not come again? The flowerets small</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Have opened for his eager hands once more;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Among the yellow whins the linnets call,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The wrack and shells he sought still drift along the shore.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>"He climbed the crests of all our ridges grey</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And sang to us and paddled where our foam</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Thins to a crystal film. But yesterday</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A happy sprite was he; where now does our boy roam?</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>"Deep of the many voices, on whose face</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>No seal is set through all the centuries fled,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Laugh on at time, nor know the hurricane race</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of his few, hurtling years above a human head.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>"And thou, old dune; the stars of heaven shall rove,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The galaxies break up to wheel about</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And in new, glittering constellations move</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Before thine hour-glass grey hath run its measure out.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>"Your yesterday, you immemorial things,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Whereon the ages yet no shadow cast,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For me the hurrying and sleepless wings</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of year on stormy year have swept into the past.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>"Yet think not I have lost that faith and joy</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Felt when my world was young and I a part.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Oh, sea and sand and wild, west wind, your boy</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Lies hidden safe within my steadfast, changeless heart."</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="the-ghost"><span class="bold large">THE GHOST</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Night-foundered to the ruin he came</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Nor recked of its uncanny fame;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A haunt of slumber opened here,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And weariness, that casts out fear,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>His footsteps led.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The moon swam low; the woods were still;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Dog foxes barked upon the hill;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With zig-zag wing a flitter-mouse</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Flew in and out the haunted house</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And overhead.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Within, decaying wood and lime</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Lifted their incense up to time;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The foot fell hollow; echoes woke,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And whispering, half-heard voices spoke</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Behind the dark.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Aloft, the drowsy wanderer found</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A chamber far above the ground;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Whose casement, rusty-ironed and high,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Gaped ivy-clad upon the sky,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Starlit and stark.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>White-fingered now the moonbeams ran</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To ripple on the resting man.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>He saw their stealthy silver creep</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>As it would drown him in his sleep</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With splendour mild.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And then a subtle shadow moved,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A spirit that the dead had loved:</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For wanly limned against the gloom</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of that forbid, forgotten room</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>There ran a child.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>She twinkled in her candid shift,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Light as a moth, so silent, swift,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And peeped and peered for what might be</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Hid in that ancient nursery--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A babe of joy.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>But something called the busy wight:</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>She faded sudden from his sight;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And, as her little glimmer paled</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Like a glass bell, the ghostling wailed,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>"Where is my toy?"</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="a-test"><span class="bold large">A TEST</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">He</em></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>"I'll bring bright rainbow gold--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The rainbow too, a gown for you</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In glorious fold on fold.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>"A necklace of white stars</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>About your throat shall hang and gloat;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And, for an ear-ring, Mars.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>"Unto the ends of earth,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Oh, dearest Heart, will I depart</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To glean their utmost worth.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>"Until, with great amaze</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>At all I do, my Soul, for you,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The good round world shall gaze!"</span></div> -<div class="line"> </div> -<div class="line"> </div> -<div class="line"><em class="italics">She</em></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>"But these are gifts of dust,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Unfit to prove a hero's love</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or win a maiden's trust.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>"To love's supreme degree</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>If you would come, then bide at home</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And never tire of me."</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="dreams"><span class="bold large">DREAMS</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>When I have won to rest once more</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In sanctity of night and sleep,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Drift visions from the shadow shore--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Small, patient forms that creep.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>They move in drab; they wear no wings;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>They are the dreams that might come true--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Meek phantoms of the modest things</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That I have power to do.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Like azure shadows in the snow,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or bloom upon the sun-kissed grape,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Sweep lovelier shapes, that gleam and glow</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And don a rarer shape.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>They smile with eyes of queens and kings;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>They call on me to make them true--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The lordly, gracious, sovereign things</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>I have no power to do.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Remain such waking dreams as limn</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Upon reality and truth,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Flying like holy seraphim</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Whose rainbow wings drop ruth.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Born of the human sorrowings</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That pierce our common nature through,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>They challenge to the mightiest things</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>All men have power to do.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="the-fire-drake"><span class="bold large">THE FIRE-DRAKE</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>An' it should be you'd make,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>All for your sweetheart's joy,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A jewelly fire-drake,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>This goes unto the toy:</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A dragon-fly that's blue,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With little glow-worms two,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And morning drops of dew</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Upon a spider's thread.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>All these are simple things</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And easy to be got,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>But now the fire-drake's wings</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Will puzzle you, God wot.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The flash that in them lies</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Shall come not from the skies,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>But lights the diamond eyes</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In your dear sweetheart's head.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Lacking that pearly gleam,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>So magical to see,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Your gift is but a dream:</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The fire-drake cannot be.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>But if the maiden pout</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And anger peepeth out,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Ere she your heart would flout</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Fly to the priest and wed.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Better to love she turn</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>At her fond lover's side</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Than for the fire-drake burn</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And ever be denied.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Go husband and go wife,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Without one thought of strife,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In blessing of shared life</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The marriage way to tread.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="the-seven-maidens"><span class="bold large">THE SEVEN MAIDENS</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>In far away and olden times</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Sped from their hamlet seven maids</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To dim and moonlit heather glades,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Upon the hour of midnight chimes.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>One passion drew them secretly;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>One master joy their little feet</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Called to that desolate retreat,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where never mortal man might see.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>'Twas blue-eyed Dian who led the dance,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With Linnette, Bethkin, Jennifer,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Avisa, Petronell and Nance.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Unknown they kept their nightly cheer;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Unguessed beneath the moon they kept</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Brave frolic, while the village slept,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Nor dreamed the danger drawing near;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For on a holy Sabbath even,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>When pirouette had been a shame,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Walking sedate, strange music came</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To tempt the toes of all the seven--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of blue-eyed Dian, who led the dance,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of Linnette, Bethkin, Jennifer,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Avisa, Petronell and Nance.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>The demon Piper tuned his reed</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To madden each light-footed maid.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>They listened, wondering, unafraid,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Nor thought upon the sorry speed</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Awaiting any wanton one</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Who'd sport upon the Lord's own Day;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Then, tripping through that dimpsy grey,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Quick fingers joined--the deed was done!</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For blue-eyed Dian had dared to dance</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With Linnette, Bethkin, Jennifer,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Avisa, Petronell and Nance.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Their eyes like emeralds through the gloom,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Leapt elves and fairies, gnomes and imps,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In fearful haste to win a glimpse</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of the unhappy maidens' doom;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For sudden rang a thunder-shock</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And flashed blue lightning-fork, to show</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Beneath its grim and baleful glow,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Each flying girl turned to a rock!</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Alas for Dian, who led the dance,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For Linnette, Bethkin, Jennifer,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Avisa, Petronell and Nance.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And now, at every Hunter's moon,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That haggard cirque of stones so still</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Awakens to immortal thrill,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And seven small maids in silver shoon,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>'Twixt dark of night and white of day,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Twinkle upon the sere, old heath,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Like living blossoms in a wreath,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Then shrink again to granite grey.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>So blue-eyed Dian shall ever dance</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With Linnette, Bethkin, Jennifer,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Avisa, Petronell and Nance.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="the-heron"><span class="bold large">THE HERON</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Where leaps the burn by granite stairs</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Into an eddying pool, he stood,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Personifying solitude</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And meditating his affairs.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>A bird august beyond belief</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Distinguished in his way of thought,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Yet the sworn enemy of sport--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A "poacher," "vagabond," and "thief."</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Creation's lord, the heron knew,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Denied his right to fish for trout--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A fact that often made him doubt</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of justice on a general view.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Then me he saw, and, guessing not</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>I held him innocent to be,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>He spread slow pinions heavily</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And drifted to a lonelier spot;</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>But left a feather by the stream,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Deep in the plume, fair, silver grey,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With which I'll write upon the day:</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>"Live and let live" shall be my theme.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="the-grief"><span class="bold large">THE GRIEF</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>A grief came unto me at noon of night</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Blown on a breath of silky, southern air</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With scent of myrtles and a crown of light</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For aureole: vanished loveliness was there</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And old, lost, magical things, all gracious and all rare.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Wings of cloud-purple from the Inland Sea,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Foam-tipped, my Grief outspread; the southern sun</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Burned for a diadem, and mystery,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>From the dim smoke of olive orchards won,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Arrayed that delicate shape in silver they had spun.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>How little, little 'twixt our joy and woe!</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Not sorrow then, but glad epiphanies</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of treasured happiness from long ago,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Had been my dreaming; but in bitter wise</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The Grief looked on my face with a dead woman's eyes.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="on-the-ebb"><span class="bold large">ON THE EBB</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>The tide fell fast and foaming, the empty sand shone bright,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And by the ocean roaming, upon the edge of night,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>I found a something stranded with sea-fowl mewing high--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A wondrous atom landed and left all high and dry.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Whoever yet suspected mer-babies on a beach?</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Yet here, by tide neglected, lay one within my reach--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A dainty, winsome creature as pink as any rose,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>His golden tail a feature to take the place of toes.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And through the billows splashing, the sunset in her hair,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Over the white foam flashing, there rode a lady fair.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>His blue-eyed, wild mer-mother swam wailing on the sea.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>She sparkled through the smother and clamoured mournfully.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>In gentle hands and steady, I lifted her delight,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Made sure that she was ready, then flung with all my might.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>She sprang, like salmon leaping; she laughed in radiant</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And gathered to safe keeping her rosy, golden boy.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>I'd earned a mother's blessing--a good thing any day;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>But now one fell to guessing what Science had to say:</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For such authentic wonders, upon an ebbing tide,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Show zoologic blunders that cannot be denied.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="scandal"><span class="bold large">SCANDAL</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>An owl alighted in the yew</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Beside a poet's little house;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The hour was nearly half-past two,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And, as he ate his juicy mouse,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A cuckoo clock made cheerful chime</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Within and shouted out the time.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>"O gracious God!" the owl began,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And rolled his round eyes at the moon,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>"What a black piece of work is man--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Well might we miss cuckoo in June.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>How mad, misguided, inhumane</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To keep cuckoo upon a chain!</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>"But all the feathered folk must know;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>This infamy I'll bring to light,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And hoot the horror high and low</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And scream the crime by day and night.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>No bird shall sing to him again</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Who keeps a cuckoo on a chain."</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="to-a-bat"><span class="bold large">TO A BAT</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>The sickle moon is in the west</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And where, against the fading green,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A thicket darkles shall be seen</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The humming chafers on their quest.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Come, leather-bird, rise up and gird!</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Round sunset eaves there boom again</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Great beetles on their sharded wings</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And many air-borne lesser things</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Are tapping at the window pane.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Come, flitter-mouse, and haunt my house.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>But where the stygian water broods,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Dim twilight homes for evermore,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And bats beat up the dusky shore</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For white, ghost-moths in phantom woods.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Come, pipistrelle, be off to hell.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="moon-moth"><span class="bold large">MOON-MOTH</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Beyond the sun, beside a crystal sea</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>She ruled her isle of lapis lazuli.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Her palaces of marble, agate, jade</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Rose like a sheaf of savage flowers and laid</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A splendour on the waves that only night could fade.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And for her nameless sins and cruelties,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Murders of love-mad men and lusts and lies,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Her sentence fell and she was swept away</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>From flaming pomps and crimes and royal sway,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Hurled from the joy of life, rapt from the light of day.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Yet, being fairest far and loveliest</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of any in a woman's body drest,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Fate banished not her beauty from the earth--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Only her evil happiness and mirth,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And left her living dead, doomed to eternal dearth.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>The Shadows that do mould our destiny</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Willed her a moon-moth evermore to be--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Woman and insect one in mingled state,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A chimera without a peer, or mate,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To ancient Night inscribed and Darkness dedicate.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>By day she sleeps, even as the vampires sleep,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Behind her sombre wings, that fold and keep</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Her body's glory hidden: they are brown,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Grizzled and amber, jagged and slashed adown</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With faded serecloth grey--a winding-sheet for gown.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And while she hides within some tawny brake</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Her shard but echoes the dead leaf and snake,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where, tranced in slumber, through the long day's prime</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Her motley coverings harmonious chime</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With sad, crepuscular shades in dusky, twilight rhyme.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Invisible thus; but when returning night</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Drowns with a purple torrent all the light,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>She rises woman high and spreads her wing,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A rare, unparagoned, unearthly thing</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Beyond the dream of joy or grief's imagining.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Upon her head two radiant feathery rays</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of crocus fire flash upward; but the gaze</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>From her dim, poisonous, and anguished eyes</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Throbs out with passionate, violet miseries,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In hate that never fades and woe that never dies.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Her body, like the heart of a white rose,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Shines in the petals of her wings and glows;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Her pinions--azure, lilac, marigold--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Wide on the dark deliciously unfold</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>As any rainbow bright, as any glacier cold.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Lit with her own and inner gleam, she shines</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Like a low meteor through the lians and vines,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Flies upward high beyond the forest towers,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Then swoops and hawks along night-hidden bowers,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To hang on murmuring plumes and drink the livid flowers.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Most fair, most foul, at Moira's stern decree</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The radiant monster wanders wretchedly</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Haunting each strand and isle of that lone shore</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where never human eye may see her more,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or sentient soul delight and tremble and adore.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Yet deep in dreams I often faintly hear,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Like a sad wind that strokes my sleeping ear,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>By fairy waters of that far lagoon,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The moon-moth wailing, wailing to the moon</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Through many a silver night at hour of plenilune.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="the-hunting"><span class="bold large">THE HUNTING</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>When red sun fox steals down the sky,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And darkness dims the heavens high,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>There leap again upon his tracks</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The eager, starry, hunting packs.</span></div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line"><span>They glitter, glitter, gold and green,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With sparks of frosty fire between,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And Dian bright as day;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>While in the gloaming, far below,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Brown owl doth shout "Hi! Tally Ho!</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Sun fox hath gone away!"</span></div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>To music of the spheres they sweep</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Over the western world asleep;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Then in the east, with sudden rush,</span></div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line"><span>Sun fox shall whisk his white-tipped brush.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The field is fading, gold and green,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With sparks of frosty fire between,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And Dian growing grey;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>While morning leaps the hither hill</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And herald lark shouts with a will,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>"Sun fox hath gone away!"</span></div> -</div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Oh, Huntress fond and silly stars--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>White Venus, fiery, futile Mars,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In vain your pack ye whirl and cast</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Upon the marches of the vast;</span></div> -<div class="inner line-block"> -<div class="line"><span>In vain ye glitter, gold and green,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With sparks of frosty fire between,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And Dian's arrows fly</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In silver shafts of broken light;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For ne'er shall day be caught by night,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And sun fox cannot die.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="the-good-girl"><span class="bold large">THE GOOD GIRL</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>When you were born, a shooting star did sunder</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The nightly void, and flashed to earth and brought</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Endowment of rare magic and sweet wonder</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And gifts beyond your mother's highest thought.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Oh, blessed be your soul of cheerfulness,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Your mind content and steadfast set, to hold</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Such level journeying through storm and stress</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of life's rough weather and hope's heat and cold.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>You come, a restful breath of evening wind</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Upon the parched day, and cannot see</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Your winning humour hearten many a mind</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where you bestow yourself unconsciously.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Never the violet her own fragrance knew:</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Even such a flowery innocent are you.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="the-lover"><span class="bold large">THE LOVER</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Under the silver thatch, where dwells my love,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>About her dormer window, in the straw,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The sparrows build, and with their morning talk</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Often awaken her.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And by the lattice climbs a crimson rose,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Who, if he could but see my dinky dear,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Before her loveliness, so wonderful,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Would pale with jealousy.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>When the first glow of honeysuckle dawn</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Cuddles her cottage in the dayspring light,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>I pass upon my woodland road to work</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And whistle as I come.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And if she hear me and twinkle out of bed</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To wave a kiss, then all my toil goes well;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>But if she heed me not, for weariness,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>How long the working day!</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="the-motor-car"><span class="bold large">THE MOTOR CAR</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Owlet sat, so quiet and good,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>At the edge of Yarner Wood,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>While a mother owl hard by</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Sought his supper silently.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Sudden came two hideous screams,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Wakened owlet from his dreams;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Down the road, on unseen wing,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Swept a vast and awful thing.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Twice he heard the monster shriek,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Saw its head and shining beak</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Twixt huge eyes, that burned the night,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Brighter than the moon was bright.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Hooting horribly it fled--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where the water-meadows spread.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>"He will catch," thought owlet now,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>"That red thing they call the cow."</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Came his parent presently:</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Heard him squeak with fearful glee,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>"Mother dear, I've seen and heard</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Such a devil of a bird!"</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="the-sea-scouts"><span class="bold large">THE SEA SCOUTS</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>While all alone I wandered</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>At even by the sea,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where winds and water pondered</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of how they came to be;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where kittiwakes were crying</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And salty spindrift flying</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Through daylight slowly dying</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A Shape confronted me.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>She faced the broad Atlantic--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That maid of stately mien,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Purer than foam, gigantic</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>As Amazonian Queen.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Her billowy robe, unknowing,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>How wild the wind was blowing,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Showed not a throb or flowing,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Hung steady and serene.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>It was no fellow being</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For she stood ten feet high,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And seaward gazed, unseeing</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The human passer-by;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>But only billows roaming,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And wide-winged sea-fowl homing</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Through crepuscule and gloaming</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Beneath an ashen sky.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>The spectre rose before me</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Most woeful, wan and white</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Upon that foreshore stormy</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Between the day and night;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And such an apparition</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In this unique position,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Despite her sad condition</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Awoke my wild delight.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Then came three youthful creatures,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And them I bade with awe</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Behold the mournful features</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of phantom on the shore.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>They laughed and said she'd drifted</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To land with bosom rifted--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A figure-head uplifted</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>From wreck of "Margery Dawe."</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>They dared, those sea-scout shavers</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Who watched this lonely coast,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Assert in treble quavers</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>We stood before a post;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>They treated as a fiction</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>My gratified conviction</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That, in her pale affliction,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>We'd met a salt-sea ghost!</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Thus hard-eyed youth advances</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>By shadowless, stark way</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Our middle-aged romances</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To slight and scorn and slay;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Our make-believe to tatter;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Our gallant dreams to scatter;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To flout our faiths and shatter</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Our twilight in their day.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="song-for-the-spheres"><span class="bold large">SONG FOR THE SPHERES</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>A drop of fire from a flying sun--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Sing, old stars, the World's begun.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>An ocean warm where electrons strive--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Sing, old stars, the World's alive.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Age upon age and link upon link--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Shout, old stars, the World can think.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>War's red knife hisses home to the haft--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Mourn, old stars, the World runs daft.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Reason and Love shall conquer and reign--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Sing, old stars, the World grows sane.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Liberty, Liberty, Liberty!</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Shout, old stars, the World is free.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="the-circle"><span class="bold large">THE CIRCLE</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>When shepherd darkness folds the fading day</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And faints the West beneath the world's wide brim,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>There stands a brotherhood, remote and dim,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of cowled and hooded wights rolled up in granite grey.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Spirits of dusk from out a far-off prime</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Beyond the shadowy pale of bygone eld,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Immutable and constant and unquelled,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>They hold their everlasting state and tryst with Time.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>These stones have seen the red-eyed wolf pack throng</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To slay the fleeting elk upon the waste,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And they have marked the cave bear's clumsy haste,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Shuffling great golden furse and ragged rocks among.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>O cirque, what meanest thou? Sepulchral lore,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or ritual of the quick? Did thirsty god</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Drink blood of sacrifice upon this sod?</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Art thou a temple wrought for deities of yore?</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>What dread, what joy, what Neolithic rule,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>What shouts of agony or pæans of praise</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Awoke, ye stones, the morning of your days?</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>They answer not, but seek the shadowy crepuscule.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>The Stone Man lifted them; his hairy hand</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>They felt and knew, when Night's eternal brow</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Gleamed with another diadem than now</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Ere Egypt's mountain graves pressed on the desert sand.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Bowed but enduring, Time hath failed to break</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That emblem of eternity they trace</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Upon the bosom of this desolate place;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And holy shall it be for their most ancient sake.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>They have withdrawn upon the unseen light</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of immemorial time; the vanished past</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Receives them once again to haunt her vast--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A sanctity beyond wild Chaos and old Night.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="to-anthea-s-bosom"><span class="bold large">TO ANTHEA'S BOSOM</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>When that I went, a little lad, to school--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>One half a cherub and one half a fool--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The weary pedant dinned upon my ears</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That all the world is but two hemispheres.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Maybe I doubted then, for I was born</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To laugh the wisdom of the wise to scorn;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>But now, indeed, most surely it appears</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That all the world is but two hemispheres.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="dust"><span class="bold large">DUST</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>A cone of dust is dancing at the lane end,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Caught from the surface of the thirsty trackway</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And dropped again, into annihilation,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>By gusts from nowhere.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Upon the wheel of little whirlwind moulded,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>It billows in a wreath of spiral beauty,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>But, swifter than the smoke of fire dislimning,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Endures no longer.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>So I, intrinsical one slippery moment</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Share with my brief, grey brother at the lane end</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>His buffet into being, then, unfettered,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A like dismissal.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Dust of the cosmos, you alone eternal</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Immutable behind a myriad garments,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Your stars grow ripe upon the boughs of heaven;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>But you bate nothing.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>All one to you the forms and the reforming,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The fashion of the man, or mouse, or mountain:</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>So order be declared and conquered chaos</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Dethroned for ever.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="young-night"><span class="bold large">YOUNG NIGHT</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>When flitter-mice with zigzag flight</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Specked the green sky at twilight dim;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>When the wise bird from out the brim</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of forest darkness to the light</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Floated and perched upon a height,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With mellow voice to welcome night;</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>When day was stolen from the dale</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To leave, where little river goes,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>One farewell, dusky gleam of rose;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>When down the purple of the vale</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A wingèd beetle boomed his tale</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And night-moth drank from night-flow'r pale;</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>When grey churn-owl within a glade</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Purred through the gloaming, till the sky</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Throbbed with his goblin melody;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>When, by her stone, the glow-worm played</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And with an emerald lamp betrayed</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The new-born dew-drops on the blade;</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>When young Night's self in starry dress</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Came timid to her throne again--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Sweet anodyne for dead day's pain</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And fire and wound and fevered stress--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With heart to soothe and will to bless,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Then how I loved her loveliness!</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="jill-bassett"><span class="bold large">JILL BASSETT</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Jill Bassett, she was dancing mad,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And any lad</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Who'd win that most amazing maid</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Must needs be a light-footed blade.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>So said the folk; but I had pelf,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And when the elf</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Found she might reign at Chadley Wood,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Though I weren't young, she thought it good.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>She danced into my arms, and then,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Along of men</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And some harsh words I'd got to say,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>One autumn time she danced away.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>She vanished, like a bow on rain,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And, to be plain,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>I didn't feel no mighty wrench</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Nor much bewail the giglet wench.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Then came a bit of funny news</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>From Billy Bewes:</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>He'd seen the wretch at Christmas time</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Dancing in Plymouth pantomime!</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>For five good year no more was heard</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of the rash bird;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Then danced she back; but not to I:</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Her mother took her in to die.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Her breathing parts was nearly gone,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Her dancing done.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>She wilted, like a davered rose;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>But I forgave her at the close.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>With Bassett folk they dug her pit;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>It wasn't fit</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That she should lie where I shall go:</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Her mother granted that was so.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Then, passing New Year's night, I saw</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Upon the hoar</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of moony frost in churchyard ground</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The woman dancing on her mound!</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>I'll take my oath afore my God</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>She swept the sod</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With naked feet and showed her charms</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And twirled about her twinkling arms.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>A brace of owls that saw her too</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Made their hulloo,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To which she danced so wondrous brave</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Over the silver on her grave.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Mayhap the cold got in her bones</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Under the stones,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And up the wilful ghostey came</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To warm herself at her old game.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And I was on my hoss's back--</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>I'd had my whack,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>But only just the usual three,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And no man ever doubted me.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="left pfirst" id="tailpiece"><span class="bold large">TAILPIECE</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>At turn of night the wild geese fly</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And waken drowsy wonder</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Beneath their wingèd thunder;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Then silence falls again,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Until the homing barn-owls cry</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And ring with hollow laughter,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>From ivy-tod and 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