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width: 100%" alt="Ernest McGaffey" src="images/img-front.jpg" /> + <div class="caption centerleft figure-caption margin"> + <span class="italics">Ernest McGaffey</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"></div> + </div> + <div class="container titlepage"> + <p class="center pfirst"><span class="bold xx-large">COSMOS</span></p> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"></div> + <p class="center pfirst"><span class="bold large">By ERNEST McGAFFEY</span></p> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 3em"></div> + <p class="center pfirst"><span class="large">The Philosopher Press<br /> + Wausau Wisconsin</span></p> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"></div> + </div> + <div class="container verso"> + <p class="center pfirst"><span class="small">COPYRIGHTED 1903<br /> + BY ERNEST McGAFFEY</span></p> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"></div> + </div> + <div class="container dedication"> + <p class="center pfirst"><span class="medium">DEDICATED TO<br /> + CARTER H. HARRISON<br /> + OF CHICAGO</span></p> + </div> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"></div> + <p class="center pfirst" id="one"><span class="bold x-large">COSMOS</span></p> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"></div> + <p class="center pfirst"><span class="bold large">ONE</span></p> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"></div><!-- --> + <blockquote> + <div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>I</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Go search the æons an you will</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where withered leaves of Doubt are whirled,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And who hath solved this riddle, Life,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or Death—that moves with sails unfurled,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Beyond the straining eyes of man</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Marooned upon an unknown world.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>II</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Nor tongue hath told, nor vision caught</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>That paradox, Primeval Cause;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Each age has had some parable</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Each age succeeding marked the flaws;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>While shifted, with the calendar,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>What men have termed generic laws.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>III</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Creed after creed behold them now</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Like Etna on Vesuvius piled;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Till, scaled to earth by drifting sands</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>They lie in later days reviled,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And pushed aside by Time's rough hand</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>As toys are, by a peevish child.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IV</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>For Priest-made doctrine reads grotesque.</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And earthly worship is but dross;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Whether it be your Brahm of Ind</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or squat and hideous Chinese Joss;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or Jove, aloft on cloud-capped throne</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or the pale Christ upon his cross.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>V</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Why question still the blindfold graves</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or pluck the veil of Isis dread?</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Over Death's icy mystery</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>A pall immutable is spread;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And never tear-wrung agony</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Shall move the lips we loved—once dead.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VI</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Why grope in labyrinthian maze?</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Why palter thus with doubt and fear?</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The Past is but the mollusc print</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The Future looms, a barrier sheer;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The Present centers in To-day</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The hope for men is Now, and Here.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Believe no scientific cant</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>That man descended from the ape;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Gorilla-like once beat his breast</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And grew at last to human shape,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To watch the flocks, and till the fields,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Harry the seas and bruise the grape.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VIII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>For though enrobed in savage skins</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And though his forehead backward ran,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The brute was not all-dominant</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Some spark revealed a Primal plan;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>His brain was coupled with his will</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The hairy mammal still was man.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IX</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And ever as the cycles waned</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>He came and went, he rose and fell,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>At times transformed, as butterflies</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>That rise from chrysalis in the cell;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And oft through hate and ignorance</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Sunk downward deep as fabled Hell.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>X</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>But through it all, and with it all</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>How-e'er the upward trending veers,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>He fought his fight against great odds</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>He peopled ice-bound hemispheres,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Endured the sweltering Torrid Zones</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And stamped his impress on the years.</span> + </div> + </div> + </div> + </blockquote> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"></div> + <p class="center pfirst" id="two"><span class="bold large">TWO</span></p> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"></div><!-- --> + <blockquote> + <div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>I</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>What romance hast thy childhood known</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Of God-made world in seven days?</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Of woven sands and swaying grass</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And bird and beast in forest ways,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Of panoramas vast unrolled</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Before a stern Creator's gaze?</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>II</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Of rivers ribboning the vales;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Of plains that stretched in smoothness down,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And unborn seasons yet to be</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Spring's violet banks, and Autumn's brown;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Bright Summer, mistress of the sun,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And grey-beard Winter's boreal crown.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>III</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And when at length the scheme complete</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Unfolded to the Maker's sight,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>How He, Almighty and divine</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Said in his power, "Let there be light!"</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Gave sun and moon, and sowed the stars</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Along the furrows of the night!</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IV</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Lo! every nation has its tale</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And every people, how they be;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Whether where Southern zephyrs loose</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The blooms from off the tamarind tree,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or where the six-month seasons bide</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Around the cloistered Polar sea.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>V</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And Science with unyielding scales</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Weighs each and all of varied styles;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And like a Goddess molds decrees</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Oblivious both to tears or smiles;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Points out the error, reads the rule</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And God with Nature reconciles.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VI</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>But who shall sift the false and true?</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>What Oracle the rule enforce?</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Not man-made creed, nor man-learned law</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Is wise to fathom Nature's course;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>No sea is deeper than its bed</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>No stream is higher than its source.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Vain hope to solve the Infinite!</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Mere words to babble, when they say</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>"Thus Science teaches,"—"thus our God"—</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Thus this or that—what of it, pray?</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The marvel overlapping all—</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Go ask the Sphynx of Yesterday.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VIII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>We know the All, and nothing know;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The great we ken as well as least;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>But sum it all when we have said</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>That man is different from the beast;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And spite of all Theology</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The Pagan's equal to the Priest.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IX</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And globes will lapse, and suns expire;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>As stars have fallen, worlds can change;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Forever shall the centuries roll</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And roving planets tireless range;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And Life be masked in secrecy</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>With Death, as ever, passing strange.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>X</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And trow not, Mortal, in thy pride</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>That where yon beetling column stands</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Rests Permanence; 'twill disappear</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To sink in marsh or barren lands,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where bitterns boom, or sunlight stares</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Across the immemorial sands.</span> + </div> + </div> + </div> + </blockquote> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"></div> + <p class="center pfirst" id="three"><span class="bold large">THREE</span></p> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"></div><!-- --> + <blockquote> + <div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>I</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Of old when man to being came</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>He fashioned Gods of brittle bone;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Bowed down to wooden fetiches</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or worshipped idols carved from stone;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And, locked in Superstition's grasp</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>For sacrifice made lives atone.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>II</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And Fear was then the Higher Law</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And fleshly joys the aftermath;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>He knew no screed of Righteousness</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And trod no straight and narrow path;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>His Deity a terror was</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>A Demon winged with might and wrath.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>III</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And then where Nilus dipped his feet</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>By Egypt sands, rose temples tall</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To Isis and Osiris—Ptah—</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And many a God foredoomed to fall;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where sank the shades of Pharaoh's reign?</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Whence have they vanished, one and all?</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IV</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>But whiles to other years advanced</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And now by cosmic marvels won,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Men sought remote Pelagian shores</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where breeze and spray their tapestry spun,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To wait the coming of the day</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And there adore the rising sun.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>V</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>This passed; the Gods of Greece and Rome</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>In splendor thronged the earth and skies;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Jove, with the thunders in his hand</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Apollo of the star-lit eyes,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Aurora, Priestess of the Dawn</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And Pan of haunting melodies,—</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VI</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And countless more; their temples fair</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where reverent Pagans curved the knee,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Mid sweet, perpetual summer stood</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>While murmured as the murmuring bee,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The lulling sweep of listless brine</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Beside the green Ægean sea.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And merged in island-wooded calms</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>By towering groves of ancient oak,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>where Triton's charging cavalry</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Against the cliffs of Britain broke,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>With horrid rite of human blood</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The Celtic Druids moved and spoke.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VIII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Still wheeled the cycles; still did men</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>With new religions make them wise;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Mahomet rose magnificent</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>As rainbow in the eastern skies;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>With Seven Heavens of Koran taught</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And Houris with the sloe-black eyes.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IX</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Brahm, Baal, Dagon, Moloch, Thor,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And legions more had long sufficed;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Heavens in turn with bliss diverse</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And Hells with ebon glaciers iced;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And latest on celestial scrolls</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The prophets wrote the name of Christ.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>X</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>We need them not; No! each and all</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Will load Tradition's dusty shelf;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>As shattered Idols, put away</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To lie forgot like broken delf;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Humanity is over all!</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And Man's redemption in himself.</span> + </div> + </div> + </div> + </blockquote> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"></div> + <p class="center pfirst" id="four"><span class="bold large">FOUR</span></p> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"></div><!-- --> + <blockquote> + <div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>I</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>The morning stars together sang</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>So runs the story, in that time,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>When groves were loud with melody</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And ripples danced to liquid rhyme;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Far in the embryonic spheres</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Before the earth was in her prime.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>II</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Then first the feline-padded gales</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Unleashed and prowling journeyed free,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To purr amid the cowering grass</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or roar in stormy jubilee,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or, joining in with Ocean, growl</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>A hoarse duet of wind and sea.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>III</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And where by meadowy rushes dank</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The yellow sunbeams thick were sown,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And brooks flowed down through April ways</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>O'er pebbled bar and shingly stone,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>There first welled up in gurgling strain</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The lisping current's monotone.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IV</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And oft was heard, in forest aisles</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where rocking trees of leaves were thinned,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And drear November wandered lorn</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>With wild wide eyes and hair unpinned,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>A wailing harp of minor chords</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Struck by the strong hands of the wind.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>V</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And Man, through imitative art,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>With clumsy tool and method crude,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Copied these echoes as he might</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To soothe him in his solitude;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And when that other sound was dumb</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>His reed-notes quavered music rude.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VI</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And as the gentler graces came</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To vivify barbaric night,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>So Poesy, with singing Lyre,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Descended from Parnassian height,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>With constellations aureoled</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Her raiment wove of flowing light.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And in Man's heart a thrill leaped up;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>His eye was lit by prophet gleams;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>He sought the truth of When and How</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>He voiced the lyrics of the streams;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>His beard was tossed, his locks were gray</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>His soul beneath the spell of dreams.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VIII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Thus numbers came; and Poets lived</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To chant the glories of the Race;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Their rhyme on limp papyrus roll</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or etched on crumbling pillar's base,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Has long outlived the Kings they sung</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And conquered even Time and Space.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IX</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Aye! vain the vaunt of Heroes; vain</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The deeds that once were thought sublime;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And vain your Monarchs, briefly staged</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>In tinselled royal pantomime;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Their House was builded on the sands</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And they unworth a random rhyme.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>X</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Vain are the works of man; most vain</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>His bubbled Glory, Aye! or Fame;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>More fragile than a last-year's leaf</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Unnoticed of the sunset's flame;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And naught endures unless it stands</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Linked with a deathless Poet's name.</span> + </div> + </div> + </div> + </blockquote> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"></div> + <p class="center pfirst" id="five"><span class="bold large">FIVE</span></p> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"></div><!-- --> + <blockquote> + <div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>I</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>How flourished then the lesser arts</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>As man to manhood slowly grew?</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>With blackened stick from ruddy fires</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>That on his cave reflections threw,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>He scrawled the rock which sheltered him</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And thus the first rude picture drew.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>II</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And catching hints from Nature's lore</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>He squeezed his colors from the clay;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Steeped leaf and bark, and dyed the skins</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>That round about his dwelling lay;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And, urged by vanity, his cheeks</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Were daubed with dash of pigments gay.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>III</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>So, ever as the seasons died</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>His mind expanded with his will;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>He saw the dry leaves touched with gold</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And grass grow tawny on the hill;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Found etchings on the ruffled streams</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And marked the sunset's hectic thrill.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IV</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And dreaming thus, with defter skill</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>He fast employed his nights and days,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Spun magic webs of chequered lights</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And limned October's purple haze;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>While women's faces from his brush</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Fired, like wine, the se'er's gaze.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>V</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Until at last was handed down</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Beyond the treasure-trove of Greece,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Beyond the strain that Sappho sung</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And reveries of the Golden Fleece,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The art of Titian, Rubens, Thal,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And Tintoretto's masterpiece.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VI</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Thus, too, as man with curious eye</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Had noted outline, curve, and form,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>In toppling surge or lofty crag</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>In woman's bosom beating warm,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>In cloudy shapes revealed on high</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Intaglios of the wind and storm,—</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>He modelled from the plastic loam;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>On shell and boulder graved a sign;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Chiselled the stately obelisks</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>With hieroglyphics, line on line;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Colossal wrought his haughty Kings</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or metal-traced the clambering vine.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VIII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And many an image was his work</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And many a statuette and bust;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Some that remain, but most that lie</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>As shards to outer darkness thrust;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>These buried under coral sands</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Those cloaked beneath forgotten dust.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IX</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Upon the lonely washes that stretch</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where the Egyptian rivers croon,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And floats above the Pyramids</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>On tropic nights the lifeless moon,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The mightiest waits,—the brooding Sphynx—</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Half-lion and half Daemon hewn.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>X</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>So Sculpture, pierced in mountain sides</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or dragged from Mythologic seas,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Still holds a sway; and worlds will bow</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>In homage yet to such as these—</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The noble bronze by Phidias wrought,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The marbles of Praxiteles.</span> + </div> + </div> + </div> + </blockquote> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"></div> + <p class="center pfirst" id="six"><span class="bold large">SIX</span></p> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"></div><!-- --> + <blockquote> + <div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>I</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>To those who for their country bleed</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To those who die for freedom's sake,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>All Hail! for them the Immortal dawns</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>In waves of lilied silver break;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>For them in dusky-templed night</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The eternal stars a halo make.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>II</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>In History's tome their chronicle</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>An ever-living page shall be;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The souls who flashed like sabers drawn</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The men who died to make men free;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Their flag in every land has flown</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Their sails have whitened every sea.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>III</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>On gallows high they met their doom</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or breasted straight the serried spears</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Of Tyranny; in dungeons damp</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Scarred on the stones their name appears;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>For them the flower of Memory</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Shall blossom, watered by our tears.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IV</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>But Conquest, Glory, transient Fame,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>What baubles these to struggle for,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>When draped in sulphurous films uprise</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The cannon-throated fiends of War!</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>What childish trumpery cheap as this—</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The trophies of a Conqueror?</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>V</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>How many an army marches forth</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>With bugle-note or battle-hymn,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To drench the soil in human gore</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And multiply Golgothas grim;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And all for what? a Ruler's pique</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Religion's call, or Harlot's whim.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VI</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And ghastliest far among them all</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where torn and stained the thirsty sod</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>With carnage reeks—where standards fly,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And horses gallop, iron-shod,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Are those remorseless mockeries</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The wars they wage in name of God.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VIII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Vague, dim and vague, and noiselessly,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The Warrior's triumphs fade like haze;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And building winds have heaped the sands</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>O'er monuments of martial days;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>While Legend throws a flickering gleam</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where the tall Trojan towers blaze.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VIII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Yea! whether sought for Woman's face</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or, Conquest-seeking, seaward poured,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or at the beck of Holy Church</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>War still shall be the thing abhorred;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And they who by the sword would live</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Shall surely perish by the sword.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IX</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Yet whether at Thermopylæ</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where battled the intrepid Greek,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or Waterloo—their quarry still</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The red-eyed ravening vultures seek;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where prowl the jackal and the fox</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And the swart raven whets his beak.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>X</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And somewhere, though by Alien seas</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The tide of Hate unceasing frets;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>For dawn to dusk, and dusk to dawn</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The red sun rises, no, nor sets,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Save where the wraith of War is seen</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Above her glittering bayonets.</span> + </div> + </div> + </div> + </blockquote> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"></div> + <p class="center pfirst" id="seven"><span class="bold large">SEVEN</span></p> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"></div><!-- --> + <blockquote> + <div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>I</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>How fared the body when the soul</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>In olden days had taken flight?</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Had passed as through a shutter slips</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>A trembling shaft of summer light!</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And all that once was Life's warm glow</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Had sudden changed to dreadful night!</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>II</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>How fared the mourners; how the Priest;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>How spoken his funereal theme?</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>What dirges for the Heroic dead</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>What flowers to soften death's extreme?</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Was Life to them a wayside Inn</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Death the beginning of a dream?</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>III</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>We cannot know; except by tales</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Caught in the traveller's flying loom,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or carven granite friezes found</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or parchment penned in convent gloom;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or here and there, defying Time</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Some long-dead Emperor's giant tomb.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IV</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where tower the steep Egyptian cones</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>By couriers of the storm bestrid,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Wrapped in his blackening cerements</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Sahura lies in shadow hid,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>While billowy sand-curves rise and dash</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Like surf, against his Pyramid.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>V</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And on the bald Norweyan shores</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>When Odin for the Viking came,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>A ship was launched, and on it placed</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>With solemn state, the Hero's frame;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The torch applied, and sent to sea,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>A double burial,—wave and flame.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VI</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And when the Hindu Prince lay prone—</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>In final consecration dire</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>His Hindu Princess followed on</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And climbed the blazing funeral pyre,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To stand in living sacrifice</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Transfigured in her robes of fire.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where the red Indian of the Plains</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To the Great Spirit bowed his head,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>On pole-built scaffold, Eagle-plumed,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The painted warrior laid his dead;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Beneath, the favorite charger slain</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And by the Chief his weapons spread.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VIII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>We clothe our dead in modish dress</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Dust unto dust the Preacher saith,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The church-bells toll, the organ peals,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And mourners wait with ebbing breath;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Oh! grave, this is thy mockery,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The weird farce-comedy of Death.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IX</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Nay! burn the shell with simplest rites;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Scatter its ashes to the skies;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And on the stairways of the clouds</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>In winding spirals let it rise;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>What needs the soul of mortal garb</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Whether in Hell or Paradise?</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>X</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Aye! lost and gone; what cares the corse</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>When Death unfolds his sable wings,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Whether it rest in wind-swept tree</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or where the deep-sea echo rings?</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Be laid to sleep in Potter's Field</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or lone Iona's cairn of Kings?</span> + </div> + </div> + </div> + </blockquote> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"></div> + <p class="center pfirst" id="eight"><span class="bold large">EIGHT</span></p> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"></div><!-- --> + <blockquote> + <div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>I</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Above unsightly city roofs</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where smoky serpents trail the sky,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Broods Commerce; in her factories</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>A million clacking shuttles fly;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where, choked with lint, in sickly air</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The little children droop and die.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>II</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>The rattling clash of jarring wheels</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Against the windows echoing beats;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And when the pallid gas-jets flare</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where sombre night with twilight meets,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Like flotsam on the stream of Fate</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The toiler's myriads crowd the streets.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>III</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>With hiving tumult to and fro</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Trade's devotees, a hurrying mass,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Through the long corridor of years</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>In due procession rise and pass;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To earn their wage, to seek their goal</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And melt, like dew-drops on the grass.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IV</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And here, within the age of Gain</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Our forest-masted harbors shine</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>With shimmering fleets; and we go on</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To climes afar of palm and vine,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And in the warp of Traffic weave</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>A sinister and base design,</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>V</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Of mild and hapless Islanders</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Who fall before our soldiers' aim;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Of broken faith—of sophistries—</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Of sin, of blood-shed, and of shame;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Oh! Commerce, Commerce, who shall tell</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The crimes committed in thy name.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VI</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Turn, turn my Fancy, inland borne</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where Nature's solace shall not fail</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To ease the heart; view skyey seas</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where cloud armadas, sail on sail,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Manned by the winds go warping down</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Below the far horizon's trail.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And as the budding willows blow</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>When March comes whirling past the lanes,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>With bird-note wild, and fifing winds</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And undertone of sibilant rains,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>On slopes where Winter's garment melts</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Blue as the sea are violet stains.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VIII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where cattle seek the shaded pools</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And silence folds the sun-burned lands,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Her auburn tresses backward flung</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Mid-Summer, like to Ceres stands,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Beside the fields of waving grain</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>With harvest-apples in her hands.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IX</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And stealthily through winnowing dusk</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>I see the curling smoke ascend,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where lie the farms; and evermore</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where hope, and health, and manhood blend;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>While stubble shorn and pastures bare</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Proclaim the waning season's end.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>X</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And as beyond the naked hills</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The chill November sunset dies,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And cloudward now a phalanx swims</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where guttural honking fills the skies,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Black-sculptured on approaching night</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And southward bound, the wild-goose flies.</span> + </div> + </div> + </div> + </blockquote> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"></div> + <p class="center pfirst" id="nine"><span class="bold large">NINE</span></p> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"></div><!-- --> + <blockquote> + <div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>I</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Behold the kindred human types</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Tribe, Sept, and class, Race, Caste, and Clan;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Red, Black and Yellow; White and Brown;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Processions of Primordial Man</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>That wax apace, and stream across</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>In one unending caravan.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>II</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>The Fisher-People with their shells</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And dwellers of the Age of Stone;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The Kirghiz of the Western Steppes</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The Greek, the Turk, the Mongol shown,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The Goth, the Frank,—I see them pass</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Like flash-lights by a mirror thrown.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>III</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>So, too, the Arab, burnoose clad</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Who braves the stifling Simoon dry,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Adrift upon Saharan tides</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>His awkward camels lurching high,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Long, lank, uncouth, but staunch as Death,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Ships of the Desert, sailing by.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IV</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Note the Caucasian in his pride</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Who prates of moldy pedigrees;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>A mushroom he, compared in Eld</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To the impassive, sly Chinese;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Their records co-extant with Time</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And swarming by the sundown seas.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>V</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Each comes and goes; as came and went</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Rameses' millions; in their day</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>What boast was made of Egypt's Kings</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>How God-like seemed their valorous play;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>But cynic years dispersed their line</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Swift hurried with the winds away.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VI</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Aye! even as motes they had their grace</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>For a brief moment, son and sire;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Then passed; as foam that sinks at sea</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Or chords which flee the Minstrel's lyre;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where rot the walls by Sidon raised?</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And where the long-lost hulls of Tyre?</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And all men listen in their turn</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To the same Sirens; greed of Gain—</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Love—Hate—Revenge—the lust of Power—</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And craze o'er fellow-man to reign—</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Ambition's lure—these intertwine</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Like links that form an endless chain.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VIII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Since Power is but the instant's clutch</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And naught so trivial as a Name,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>What crucial proof shall fix men's worth</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>On lasting tablets write their claim;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>So that their memories may fill</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>A niche within the walls of Fame?</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IX</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>The test is not of Birth nor Race</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Since each is worthy of his hire;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>It rests in what men do for men</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Uplifted by the soul's desire,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To tread Life's fiery furnaces</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And save their brothers from the fire.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>X</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And ranging far and searching deep</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>However though the annals be,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>We find but one nigh faultless man</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>There was none other such as He;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The Jew who taught and practiced Love</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The man who walked by Galilee.</span> + </div> + </div> + </div> + </blockquote> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"></div> + <p class="center pfirst" id="ten"><span class="bold large">TEN</span></p> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"></div><!-- --> + <blockquote> + <div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>I</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Enough my Muse; thy message cast</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>As stone from out a sling is hurled,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Let drop to night; or re-appear</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where morning's gathering grey is pearled,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And the bent sun, like Sisyphus,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Toils laboring up the underworld.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>II</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Let be; thy wisdom knoweth well</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The just degrees of right and wrong;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Although mayhap unmarked by men</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Shall fall the echoes of thy song;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Unheeded by the pilgrim years</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Unrecked of, by the heedless throng.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>III</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And yet before the highways part</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And thou and I in darkness dwell,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Do thou thy swiftest Herald send</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And this as final warning tell;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>'Banish all hope of gilded Heaven</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And laugh to scorn the fires of Hell'.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IV</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Phantasmal dance those dual sprites</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Mere witch-craft mummeries of the brain;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The lying sorcery of the Priests</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>A worldly influence to retain;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where shalt thou go? What quest is thine?</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where falls the single drop of rain?</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>V</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>But Courage, Faith, and Constancy,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The cardinal virtues as I deem,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>May well be worshipped, as indeed</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The lilies of the soul they seem;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Undying in their fragrance rare</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And glassed upon a sacred stream.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VI</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Know thou, the Ideal Harmony</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>That fills all space, below, above,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Is not in Creed, nor Form, nor Rite</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Nor in those things thou dreamest of;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>But holds within its breadth and scope</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The sole and only note of Love.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Reject all Creeds; and yet in each</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Seek such material as thou can,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>With here a tenet, there a thought</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Whether it sprang from Christ or Pan;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And make the key-stone of thy arch</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The common brotherhood of Man.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>VIII</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And striving thus, a happier creed</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>In time to come shall burst its bud,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The pure air cleared of battle-smoke</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And war no more by field and flood;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Where men can lift up guiltless hands</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Uncrimsoned by a brother's blood.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>IX</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>When nevermore in calm or storm</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Shall hawk-like hover on the seas,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The canvas of opposing ships</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Their pennants floating to the breeze;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And golden hopes will supersede</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The apples of Hesperides.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>X</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>When man-emancipated man</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Through loftier purpose wins control;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>With Justice as his only God</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>To reign supreme o'er heart and soul;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And Love, sun-like, illuminates</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The one, the true, the perfect whole.</span> + </div> + </div> + </div> + </blockquote> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"></div> + <p class="center pfirst" id="notes-to-cosmos"><span class="bold large">NOTES TO COSMOS</span></p> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 3em"></div> + <p class="center pfirst"><span>Notes to Cosmos</span></p> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"></div> + <p class="pfirst"><span>Certain stanzas once intended for the original are here given. They are set down according to the chapters in which they were to have appeared.</span></p> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"></div><!-- --> + <blockquote> + <div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Chapter Two</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Of trees that stirred in early Spring</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The slow sap moving in their veins;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Of flowers that dyed the woodland slopes</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>The primrose pale, and daisy-chains;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Sun-kissed betimes, or overmourned</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>By shimmery tears of sobbing rains.</span> + </div> + </div> + </div> + </blockquote> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"></div><!-- --> + <blockquote> + <div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Chapter Four</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And all night long the restless sea</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Against its barriers rose and fell,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Till grey-eyed Dawn, by lonely sands</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Saw flash and fade the last broad swell,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Before her there the ebb-tide's gleam</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And at her feet a murmuring shell.</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And then were heard the Elder Bards</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>In full, Prophetic tone sublime,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Their eyes ablaze with ecstacy</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And on their lips the living rhyme;</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>King-honored in an age of Kings</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>And on their beards the frosts of Time.</span> + </div> + </div> + </div> + </blockquote> + <div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"></div><!-- --> + <blockquote> + <div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>Chapter Eight</span> + </div> + </div> + <div class="line-block outermost"> + <div class="line"> + <span>And when a-down the bare brown lanes</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>Pattered the swift, white feet of Spring,</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>I saw the velvet-golden flash</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>That marked the yellow-hammer's wing</span> + </div> + <div class="line"> + <span>A-curve on high; 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HARRISON -<br />OF CHICAGO</span></p> -</div> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center pfirst" id="one"><span class="bold x-large">COSMOS</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<p class="center pfirst"><span class="bold large">ONE</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>I</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Go search the æons an you will</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where withered leaves of Doubt are whirled,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And who hath solved this riddle, Life,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or Death—that moves with sails unfurled,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Beyond the straining eyes of man</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Marooned upon an unknown world.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>II</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Nor tongue hath told, nor vision caught</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That paradox, Primeval Cause;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Each age has had some parable</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Each age succeeding marked the flaws;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>While shifted, with the calendar,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>What men have termed generic laws.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>III</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Creed after creed behold them now</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Like Etna on Vesuvius piled;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Till, scaled to earth by drifting sands</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>They lie in later days reviled,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And pushed aside by Time's rough hand</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>As toys are, by a peevish child.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IV</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>For Priest-made doctrine reads grotesque.</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And earthly worship is but dross;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Whether it be your Brahm of Ind</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or squat and hideous Chinese Joss;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or Jove, aloft on cloud-capped throne</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or the pale Christ upon his cross.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>V</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Why question still the blindfold graves</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or pluck the veil of Isis dread?</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Over Death's icy mystery</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A pall immutable is spread;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And never tear-wrung agony</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Shall move the lips we loved—once dead.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VI</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Why grope in labyrinthian maze?</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Why palter thus with doubt and fear?</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The Past is but the mollusc print</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The Future looms, a barrier sheer;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The Present centers in To-day</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The hope for men is Now, and Here.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Believe no scientific cant</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That man descended from the ape;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Gorilla-like once beat his breast</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And grew at last to human shape,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To watch the flocks, and till the fields,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Harry the seas and bruise the grape.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VIII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>For though enrobed in savage skins</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And though his forehead backward ran,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The brute was not all-dominant</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Some spark revealed a Primal plan;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>His brain was coupled with his will</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The hairy mammal still was man.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IX</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And ever as the cycles waned</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>He came and went, he rose and fell,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>At times transformed, as butterflies</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That rise from chrysalis in the cell;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And oft through hate and ignorance</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Sunk downward deep as fabled Hell.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>X</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>But through it all, and with it all</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>How-e'er the upward trending veers,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>He fought his fight against great odds</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>He peopled ice-bound hemispheres,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Endured the sweltering Torrid Zones</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And stamped his impress on the years.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center pfirst" id="two"><span class="bold large">TWO</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>I</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>What romance hast thy childhood known</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of God-made world in seven days?</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of woven sands and swaying grass</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And bird and beast in forest ways,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of panoramas vast unrolled</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Before a stern Creator's gaze?</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>II</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Of rivers ribboning the vales;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of plains that stretched in smoothness down,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And unborn seasons yet to be</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Spring's violet banks, and Autumn's brown;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Bright Summer, mistress of the sun,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And grey-beard Winter's boreal crown.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>III</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And when at length the scheme complete</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Unfolded to the Maker's sight,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>How He, Almighty and divine</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Said in his power, "Let there be light!"</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Gave sun and moon, and sowed the stars</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Along the furrows of the night!</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IV</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Lo! every nation has its tale</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And every people, how they be;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Whether where Southern zephyrs loose</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The blooms from off the tamarind tree,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or where the six-month seasons bide</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Around the cloistered Polar sea.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>V</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And Science with unyielding scales</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Weighs each and all of varied styles;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And like a Goddess molds decrees</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Oblivious both to tears or smiles;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Points out the error, reads the rule</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And God with Nature reconciles.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VI</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>But who shall sift the false and true?</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>What Oracle the rule enforce?</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Not man-made creed, nor man-learned law</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Is wise to fathom Nature's course;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>No sea is deeper than its bed</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>No stream is higher than its source.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Vain hope to solve the Infinite!</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Mere words to babble, when they say</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>"Thus Science teaches,"—"thus our God"—</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Thus this or that—what of it, pray?</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The marvel overlapping all—</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Go ask the Sphynx of Yesterday.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VIII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>We know the All, and nothing know;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The great we ken as well as least;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>But sum it all when we have said</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That man is different from the beast;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And spite of all Theology</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The Pagan's equal to the Priest.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IX</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And globes will lapse, and suns expire;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>As stars have fallen, worlds can change;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Forever shall the centuries roll</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And roving planets tireless range;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And Life be masked in secrecy</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With Death, as ever, passing strange.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>X</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And trow not, Mortal, in thy pride</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That where yon beetling column stands</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Rests Permanence; 'twill disappear</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To sink in marsh or barren lands,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where bitterns boom, or sunlight stares</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Across the immemorial sands.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center pfirst" id="three"><span class="bold large">THREE</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>I</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Of old when man to being came</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>He fashioned Gods of brittle bone;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Bowed down to wooden fetiches</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or worshipped idols carved from stone;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And, locked in Superstition's grasp</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For sacrifice made lives atone.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>II</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And Fear was then the Higher Law</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And fleshly joys the aftermath;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>He knew no screed of Righteousness</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And trod no straight and narrow path;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>His Deity a terror was</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A Demon winged with might and wrath.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>III</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And then where Nilus dipped his feet</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>By Egypt sands, rose temples tall</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To Isis and Osiris—Ptah—</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And many a God foredoomed to fall;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where sank the shades of Pharaoh's reign?</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Whence have they vanished, one and all?</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IV</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>But whiles to other years advanced</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And now by cosmic marvels won,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Men sought remote Pelagian shores</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where breeze and spray their tapestry spun,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To wait the coming of the day</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And there adore the rising sun.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>V</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>This passed; the Gods of Greece and Rome</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In splendor thronged the earth and skies;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Jove, with the thunders in his hand</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Apollo of the star-lit eyes,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Aurora, Priestess of the Dawn</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And Pan of haunting melodies,—</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VI</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And countless more; their temples fair</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where reverent Pagans curved the knee,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Mid sweet, perpetual summer stood</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>While murmured as the murmuring bee,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The lulling sweep of listless brine</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Beside the green Ægean sea.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And merged in island-wooded calms</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>By towering groves of ancient oak,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>where Triton's charging cavalry</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Against the cliffs of Britain broke,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With horrid rite of human blood</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The Celtic Druids moved and spoke.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VIII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Still wheeled the cycles; still did men</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With new religions make them wise;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Mahomet rose magnificent</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>As rainbow in the eastern skies;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With Seven Heavens of Koran taught</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And Houris with the sloe-black eyes.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IX</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Brahm, Baal, Dagon, Moloch, Thor,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And legions more had long sufficed;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Heavens in turn with bliss diverse</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And Hells with ebon glaciers iced;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And latest on celestial scrolls</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The prophets wrote the name of Christ.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>X</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>We need them not; No! each and all</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Will load Tradition's dusty shelf;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>As shattered Idols, put away</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To lie forgot like broken delf;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Humanity is over all!</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And Man's redemption in himself.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center pfirst" id="four"><span class="bold large">FOUR</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>I</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>The morning stars together sang</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>So runs the story, in that time,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>When groves were loud with melody</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And ripples danced to liquid rhyme;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Far in the embryonic spheres</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Before the earth was in her prime.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>II</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Then first the feline-padded gales</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Unleashed and prowling journeyed free,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To purr amid the cowering grass</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or roar in stormy jubilee,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or, joining in with Ocean, growl</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A hoarse duet of wind and sea.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>III</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And where by meadowy rushes dank</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The yellow sunbeams thick were sown,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And brooks flowed down through April ways</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>O'er pebbled bar and shingly stone,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>There first welled up in gurgling strain</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The lisping current's monotone.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IV</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And oft was heard, in forest aisles</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where rocking trees of leaves were thinned,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And drear November wandered lorn</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With wild wide eyes and hair unpinned,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A wailing harp of minor chords</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Struck by the strong hands of the wind.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>V</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And Man, through imitative art,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With clumsy tool and method crude,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Copied these echoes as he might</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To soothe him in his solitude;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And when that other sound was dumb</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>His reed-notes quavered music rude.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VI</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And as the gentler graces came</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To vivify barbaric night,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>So Poesy, with singing Lyre,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Descended from Parnassian height,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With constellations aureoled</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Her raiment wove of flowing light.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And in Man's heart a thrill leaped up;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>His eye was lit by prophet gleams;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>He sought the truth of When and How</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>He voiced the lyrics of the streams;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>His beard was tossed, his locks were gray</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>His soul beneath the spell of dreams.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VIII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Thus numbers came; and Poets lived</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To chant the glories of the Race;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Their rhyme on limp papyrus roll</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or etched on crumbling pillar's base,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Has long outlived the Kings they sung</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And conquered even Time and Space.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IX</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Aye! vain the vaunt of Heroes; vain</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The deeds that once were thought sublime;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And vain your Monarchs, briefly staged</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In tinselled royal pantomime;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Their House was builded on the sands</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And they unworth a random rhyme.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>X</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Vain are the works of man; most vain</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>His bubbled Glory, Aye! or Fame;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>More fragile than a last-year's leaf</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Unnoticed of the sunset's flame;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And naught endures unless it stands</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Linked with a deathless Poet's name.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center pfirst" id="five"><span class="bold large">FIVE</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>I</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>How flourished then the lesser arts</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>As man to manhood slowly grew?</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With blackened stick from ruddy fires</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That on his cave reflections threw,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>He scrawled the rock which sheltered him</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And thus the first rude picture drew.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>II</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And catching hints from Nature's lore</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>He squeezed his colors from the clay;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Steeped leaf and bark, and dyed the skins</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That round about his dwelling lay;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And, urged by vanity, his cheeks</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Were daubed with dash of pigments gay.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>III</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>So, ever as the seasons died</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>His mind expanded with his will;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>He saw the dry leaves touched with gold</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And grass grow tawny on the hill;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Found etchings on the ruffled streams</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And marked the sunset's hectic thrill.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IV</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And dreaming thus, with defter skill</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>He fast employed his nights and days,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Spun magic webs of chequered lights</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And limned October's purple haze;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>While women's faces from his brush</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Fired, like wine, the se'er's gaze.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>V</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Until at last was handed down</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Beyond the treasure-trove of Greece,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Beyond the strain that Sappho sung</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And reveries of the Golden Fleece,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The art of Titian, Rubens, Thal,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And Tintoretto's masterpiece.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VI</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Thus, too, as man with curious eye</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Had noted outline, curve, and form,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In toppling surge or lofty crag</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In woman's bosom beating warm,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In cloudy shapes revealed on high</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Intaglios of the wind and storm,—</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>He modelled from the plastic loam;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>On shell and boulder graved a sign;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Chiselled the stately obelisks</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With hieroglyphics, line on line;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Colossal wrought his haughty Kings</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or metal-traced the clambering vine.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VIII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And many an image was his work</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And many a statuette and bust;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Some that remain, but most that lie</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>As shards to outer darkness thrust;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>These buried under coral sands</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Those cloaked beneath forgotten dust.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IX</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Upon the lonely washes that stretch</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where the Egyptian rivers croon,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And floats above the Pyramids</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>On tropic nights the lifeless moon,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The mightiest waits,—the brooding Sphynx—</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Half-lion and half Daemon hewn.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>X</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>So Sculpture, pierced in mountain sides</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or dragged from Mythologic seas,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Still holds a sway; and worlds will bow</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In homage yet to such as these—</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The noble bronze by Phidias wrought,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The marbles of Praxiteles.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center pfirst" id="six"><span class="bold large">SIX</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>I</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>To those who for their country bleed</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To those who die for freedom's sake,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>All Hail! for them the Immortal dawns</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In waves of lilied silver break;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For them in dusky-templed night</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The eternal stars a halo make.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>II</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>In History's tome their chronicle</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>An ever-living page shall be;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The souls who flashed like sabers drawn</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The men who died to make men free;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Their flag in every land has flown</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Their sails have whitened every sea.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>III</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>On gallows high they met their doom</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or breasted straight the serried spears</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of Tyranny; in dungeons damp</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Scarred on the stones their name appears;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For them the flower of Memory</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Shall blossom, watered by our tears.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IV</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>But Conquest, Glory, transient Fame,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>What baubles these to struggle for,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>When draped in sulphurous films uprise</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The cannon-throated fiends of War!</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>What childish trumpery cheap as this—</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The trophies of a Conqueror?</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>V</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>How many an army marches forth</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With bugle-note or battle-hymn,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To drench the soil in human gore</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And multiply Golgothas grim;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And all for what? a Ruler's pique</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Religion's call, or Harlot's whim.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VI</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And ghastliest far among them all</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where torn and stained the thirsty sod</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With carnage reeks—where standards fly,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And horses gallop, iron-shod,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Are those remorseless mockeries</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The wars they wage in name of God.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VIII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Vague, dim and vague, and noiselessly,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The Warrior's triumphs fade like haze;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And building winds have heaped the sands</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>O'er monuments of martial days;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>While Legend throws a flickering gleam</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where the tall Trojan towers blaze.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VIII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Yea! whether sought for Woman's face</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or, Conquest-seeking, seaward poured,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or at the beck of Holy Church</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>War still shall be the thing abhorred;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And they who by the sword would live</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Shall surely perish by the sword.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IX</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Yet whether at Thermopylæ</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where battled the intrepid Greek,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or Waterloo—their quarry still</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The red-eyed ravening vultures seek;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where prowl the jackal and the fox</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And the swart raven whets his beak.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>X</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And somewhere, though by Alien seas</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The tide of Hate unceasing frets;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For dawn to dusk, and dusk to dawn</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The red sun rises, no, nor sets,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Save where the wraith of War is seen</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Above her glittering bayonets.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center pfirst" id="seven"><span class="bold large">SEVEN</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>I</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>How fared the body when the soul</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In olden days had taken flight?</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Had passed as through a shutter slips</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A trembling shaft of summer light!</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And all that once was Life's warm glow</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Had sudden changed to dreadful night!</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>II</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>How fared the mourners; how the Priest;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>How spoken his funereal theme?</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>What dirges for the Heroic dead</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>What flowers to soften death's extreme?</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Was Life to them a wayside Inn</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Death the beginning of a dream?</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>III</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>We cannot know; except by tales</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Caught in the traveller's flying loom,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or carven granite friezes found</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or parchment penned in convent gloom;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or here and there, defying Time</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Some long-dead Emperor's giant tomb.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IV</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Where tower the steep Egyptian cones</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>By couriers of the storm bestrid,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Wrapped in his blackening cerements</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Sahura lies in shadow hid,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>While billowy sand-curves rise and dash</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Like surf, against his Pyramid.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>V</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And on the bald Norweyan shores</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>When Odin for the Viking came,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A ship was launched, and on it placed</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With solemn state, the Hero's frame;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The torch applied, and sent to sea,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A double burial,—wave and flame.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VI</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And when the Hindu Prince lay prone—</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In final consecration dire</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>His Hindu Princess followed on</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And climbed the blazing funeral pyre,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To stand in living sacrifice</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Transfigured in her robes of fire.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Where the red Indian of the Plains</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To the Great Spirit bowed his head,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>On pole-built scaffold, Eagle-plumed,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The painted warrior laid his dead;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Beneath, the favorite charger slain</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And by the Chief his weapons spread.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VIII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>We clothe our dead in modish dress</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Dust unto dust the Preacher saith,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The church-bells toll, the organ peals,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And mourners wait with ebbing breath;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Oh! grave, this is thy mockery,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The weird farce-comedy of Death.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IX</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Nay! burn the shell with simplest rites;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Scatter its ashes to the skies;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And on the stairways of the clouds</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In winding spirals let it rise;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>What needs the soul of mortal garb</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Whether in Hell or Paradise?</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>X</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Aye! lost and gone; what cares the corse</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>When Death unfolds his sable wings,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Whether it rest in wind-swept tree</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or where the deep-sea echo rings?</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Be laid to sleep in Potter's Field</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or lone Iona's cairn of Kings?</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center pfirst" id="eight"><span class="bold large">EIGHT</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>I</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Above unsightly city roofs</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where smoky serpents trail the sky,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Broods Commerce; in her factories</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A million clacking shuttles fly;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where, choked with lint, in sickly air</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The little children droop and die.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>II</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>The rattling clash of jarring wheels</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Against the windows echoing beats;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And when the pallid gas-jets flare</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where sombre night with twilight meets,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Like flotsam on the stream of Fate</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The toiler's myriads crowd the streets.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>III</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>With hiving tumult to and fro</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Trade's devotees, a hurrying mass,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Through the long corridor of years</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In due procession rise and pass;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To earn their wage, to seek their goal</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And melt, like dew-drops on the grass.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IV</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And here, within the age of Gain</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Our forest-masted harbors shine</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With shimmering fleets; and we go on</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To climes afar of palm and vine,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And in the warp of Traffic weave</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A sinister and base design,</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>V</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Of mild and hapless Islanders</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Who fall before our soldiers' aim;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of broken faith—of sophistries—</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of sin, of blood-shed, and of shame;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Oh! Commerce, Commerce, who shall tell</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The crimes committed in thy name.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VI</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Turn, turn my Fancy, inland borne</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where Nature's solace shall not fail</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To ease the heart; view skyey seas</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where cloud armadas, sail on sail,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Manned by the winds go warping down</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Below the far horizon's trail.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And as the budding willows blow</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>When March comes whirling past the lanes,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With bird-note wild, and fifing winds</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And undertone of sibilant rains,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>On slopes where Winter's garment melts</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Blue as the sea are violet stains.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VIII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Where cattle seek the shaded pools</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And silence folds the sun-burned lands,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Her auburn tresses backward flung</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Mid-Summer, like to Ceres stands,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Beside the fields of waving grain</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With harvest-apples in her hands.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IX</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And stealthily through winnowing dusk</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>I see the curling smoke ascend,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where lie the farms; and evermore</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where hope, and health, and manhood blend;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>While stubble shorn and pastures bare</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Proclaim the waning season's end.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>X</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And as beyond the naked hills</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The chill November sunset dies,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And cloudward now a phalanx swims</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where guttural honking fills the skies,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Black-sculptured on approaching night</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And southward bound, the wild-goose flies.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center pfirst" id="nine"><span class="bold large">NINE</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>I</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Behold the kindred human types</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Tribe, Sept, and class, Race, Caste, and Clan;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Red, Black and Yellow; White and Brown;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Processions of Primordial Man</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That wax apace, and stream across</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In one unending caravan.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>II</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>The Fisher-People with their shells</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And dwellers of the Age of Stone;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The Kirghiz of the Western Steppes</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The Greek, the Turk, the Mongol shown,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The Goth, the Frank,—I see them pass</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Like flash-lights by a mirror thrown.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>III</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>So, too, the Arab, burnoose clad</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Who braves the stifling Simoon dry,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Adrift upon Saharan tides</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>His awkward camels lurching high,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Long, lank, uncouth, but staunch as Death,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Ships of the Desert, sailing by.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IV</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Note the Caucasian in his pride</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Who prates of moldy pedigrees;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A mushroom he, compared in Eld</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To the impassive, sly Chinese;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Their records co-extant with Time</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And swarming by the sundown seas.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>V</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Each comes and goes; as came and went</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Rameses' millions; in their day</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>What boast was made of Egypt's Kings</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>How God-like seemed their valorous play;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>But cynic years dispersed their line</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Swift hurried with the winds away.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VI</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Aye! even as motes they had their grace</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>For a brief moment, son and sire;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Then passed; as foam that sinks at sea</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or chords which flee the Minstrel's lyre;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where rot the walls by Sidon raised?</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And where the long-lost hulls of Tyre?</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And all men listen in their turn</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To the same Sirens; greed of Gain—</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Love—Hate—Revenge—the lust of Power—</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And craze o'er fellow-man to reign—</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Ambition's lure—these intertwine</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Like links that form an endless chain.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VIII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Since Power is but the instant's clutch</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And naught so trivial as a Name,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>What crucial proof shall fix men's worth</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>On lasting tablets write their claim;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>So that their memories may fill</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A niche within the walls of Fame?</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IX</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>The test is not of Birth nor Race</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Since each is worthy of his hire;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>It rests in what men do for men</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Uplifted by the soul's desire,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To tread Life's fiery furnaces</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And save their brothers from the fire.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>X</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And ranging far and searching deep</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>However though the annals be,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>We find but one nigh faultless man</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>There was none other such as He;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The Jew who taught and practiced Love</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The man who walked by Galilee.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center pfirst" id="ten"><span class="bold large">TEN</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>I</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Enough my Muse; thy message cast</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>As stone from out a sling is hurled,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Let drop to night; or re-appear</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where morning's gathering grey is pearled,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And the bent sun, like Sisyphus,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Toils laboring up the underworld.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>II</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Let be; thy wisdom knoweth well</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The just degrees of right and wrong;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Although mayhap unmarked by men</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Shall fall the echoes of thy song;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Unheeded by the pilgrim years</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Unrecked of, by the heedless throng.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>III</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And yet before the highways part</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And thou and I in darkness dwell,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Do thou thy swiftest Herald send</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And this as final warning tell;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>'Banish all hope of gilded Heaven</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And laugh to scorn the fires of Hell'.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IV</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Phantasmal dance those dual sprites</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Mere witch-craft mummeries of the brain;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The lying sorcery of the Priests</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A worldly influence to retain;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where shalt thou go? What quest is thine?</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where falls the single drop of rain?</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>V</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>But Courage, Faith, and Constancy,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The cardinal virtues as I deem,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>May well be worshipped, as indeed</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The lilies of the soul they seem;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Undying in their fragrance rare</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And glassed upon a sacred stream.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VI</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Know thou, the Ideal Harmony</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That fills all space, below, above,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Is not in Creed, nor Form, nor Rite</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Nor in those things thou dreamest of;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>But holds within its breadth and scope</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The sole and only note of Love.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Reject all Creeds; and yet in each</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Seek such material as thou can,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With here a tenet, there a thought</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Whether it sprang from Christ or Pan;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And make the key-stone of thy arch</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The common brotherhood of Man.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>VIII</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And striving thus, a happier creed</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In time to come shall burst its bud,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The pure air cleared of battle-smoke</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And war no more by field and flood;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Where men can lift up guiltless hands</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Uncrimsoned by a brother's blood.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>IX</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>When nevermore in calm or storm</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Shall hawk-like hover on the seas,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The canvas of opposing ships</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Their pennants floating to the breeze;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And golden hopes will supersede</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The apples of Hesperides.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>X</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>When man-emancipated man</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Through loftier purpose wins control;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With Justice as his only God</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>To reign supreme o'er heart and soul;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And Love, sun-like, illuminates</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The one, the true, the perfect whole.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em"> -</div> -<p class="center pfirst" id="notes-to-cosmos"><span class="bold large">NOTES TO COSMOS</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 3em"> -</div> -<p class="center pfirst"><span>Notes to Cosmos</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<p class="pfirst"><span>Certain stanzas once intended for the -original are here given. They are set down -according to the chapters in which they were -to have appeared.</span></p> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Chapter Two</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Of trees that stirred in early Spring</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The slow sap moving in their veins;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Of flowers that dyed the woodland slopes</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The primrose pale, and daisy-chains;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Sun-kissed betimes, or overmourned</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>By shimmery tears of sobbing rains.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Chapter Four</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And all night long the restless sea</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Against its barriers rose and fell,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Till grey-eyed Dawn, by lonely sands</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Saw flash and fade the last broad swell,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Before her there the ebb-tide's gleam</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And at her feet a murmuring shell.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And then were heard the Elder Bards</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>In full, Prophetic tone sublime,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Their eyes ablaze with ecstacy</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And on their lips the living rhyme;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>King-honored in an age of Kings</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And on their beards the frosts of Time.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Chapter Eight</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And when a-down the bare brown lanes</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Pattered the swift, white feet of Spring,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>I saw the velvet-golden flash</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>That marked the yellow-hammer's wing</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>A-curve on high; and later heard</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The robin, and the blue-bird sing.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Far seaward on unnumbered isles</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Mid scent of spice and drowsy balm,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>The lotos-eating Islanders</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Lay soothed to sleep by utter calm;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Low at their feet the pulsing tides</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And o'er their heads the tufted palm.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em"> -</div> -<!-- --> -<blockquote> -<div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Chapter Nine</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>Stark warriors of the Age of Stone</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>With pristine valor all elate,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Who sought and slew the great Cave Bear</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And robbed the tigress of her mate;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And, weaponed with the ax and spear,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Defied the towering mammoth's hate.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>And slant-eyed Mongols, yellow-skinned,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Who traversed Western Steppes afar,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Drank mare's milk, and observed their flocks</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>White-clustered 'neath the Morning Star;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Or, sallying forth with lance and bow</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Engaged in fierce Nomadic war.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="line-block outermost"> -<div class="line"><span>On vine-clad hills was found the Gaul;</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Above him glistened Alpine snows:</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>And lower down where valleys lay</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Loved of the lily and the rose,</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>By moon-light tranced, the nightingale</span></div> -<div class="line"><span>Sang silvery-sweet adagios.</span></div> -</div> -</div> -</blockquote> -<div class="vspace" style="height: 6em"> -</div> -<!-- -*- encoding: utf-8 -*- --> -<div class="backmatter"> -</div> -<p class="pfirst" id="pg-end-line"><span>*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK </span><span>COSMOS</span><span> ***</span></p> -<div class="cleardoublepage"> -</div> -<div class="language-en level-2 pgfooter section" id="a-word-from-project-gutenberg" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> -<span id="pg-footer"></span><h2 class="level-2 pfirst section-title title"><span>A Word from Project Gutenberg</span></h2> -<p class="pfirst"><span>We will update this book if we find any errors.</span></p> -<p class="pnext"><span>This book can be found under: </span><a class="reference external" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49631"><span>http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49631</span></a></p> -<p class="pnext"><span>Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. -Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this -license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg™ -electronic works to protect the Project Gutenberg™ concept and -trademark. 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