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diff --git a/old/63530.txt b/old/63530.txt deleted file mode 100644 index deb7d49..0000000 --- a/old/63530.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,844 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Tale of Old Japan, by Alfred Noyes - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: A Tale of Old Japan - -Author: Alfred Noyes - -Contributor: Joan Ewen - -Illustrator: Kate Riches - -Release Date: October 23, 2020 [EBook #63530] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A TALE OF OLD JAPAN *** - - - - -Produced by Tim Lindell, Ernest Schaal, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) - - - - - - - - - - A TALE - OF OLD - JAPAN - - With an Introduction in - Memory of Samuel Coleridge Taylor - - By - ALFRED NOYES - - Illustrated by Kate Riches - Transcribed by Joan Ewen - - William Blackwood & Sons - EDINBURGH & LONDON - 1914 - - - - - 'A TALE OF OLD JAPAN' is reprinted from - the 'Collected Poems' by Alfred Noyes (Vol. - II., p. 308), where it is entitled "The Two - Painters: A Tale of Old Japan." - - - - - _DEDICATION._ - - -_THE appearance of this poem in its present form is due chiefly to the -demand created for it by a vanished hand. It was set to music as a -cantata by Coleridge Taylor, some years ago. He thought it his best -work. Hardly a week has passed since then without some performance of -it, in some part of the world; and it may be said that the music he -wrote for it has won the lasting affection of the thousands that have -heard it. He was, in two works, the most vital and spontaneous musician -of his time. The first was his youthful setting of Longfellow's -'Hiawatha.' Then came many years of experiment with European subjects, -disappointment, and apparent failure. In the Eastern theme of 'A Tale of -Old Japan' he found something which (as those who know his history will -understand) enabled him to draw the bow across his own heart-strings, -and, from the first note to the last, he gave in it the most pathetic, -the most haunting expression, to his own spirit. To me it was a most -moving fact that his great genius should have shown so scrupulous and -infinitely painstaking a regard for the words of the poem. He submitted -to their "narrow room," but in a way that suggests quite new -possibilities in the wedding of music and verse. He preserved every -cadence of every line, and yet he gave the freedom of music to the -whole, in a way that poets had ceased to think possible. It is therefore -to his memory that I would dedicate the poem, all too poor a chrysalis -as it must seem for those exquisite wings._ - - - - - A TALE OF OLD JAPAN - - -Yoichi Tenko, the painter, [Sidenote: I] - Dwelt by the purple sea, -Painting the peacock islands - Under his willow-tree: -Also in temples he painted - Dragons of old Japan, -With a child to look at the pictures-- - Little O Kimi San. - -Kimi, the child of his brother, - Bright as the moon in May. -White as a lotus lily, - Pink as a plum-tree spray, -Linking her soft arm round him - Sang to his heart for an hour, -Kissed him with ripples of laughter - And lips of the cherry flower. - -Child of the old pearl-fisher - Lost in his junk at sea, -Kimi was loved of Tenko - As his own child might be, -Yoichi Tenko the painter, - Wrinkled and grey and old, -Teacher of many disciples - That paid for his dreams with gold. - - -Peonies, peonies crowned the May! [Sidenote: II] -Clad in blue and white array - Came Sawara to the school -Under the silvery willow-tree, - All to learn of Tenko! -Riding on a milk-white mule, - Young and poor and proud was he, -Lissom as a cherry spray -[Peonies, peonies crowned the day!] -And he rode the golden way - To the school of Tenko. - - [Illustration] - -Swift to learn, beneath his hand -Soon he watched his wonderland - Growing cloud by magic cloud, -Under the silvery willow-tree - In the school of Tenko: -Kimi watched him, young and proud, - Painting by the purple sea. -Lying on the golden sand -Watched his golden wings expand! -[None but Love will understand - All she hid from Tenko.] - -He could paint her tree and flower -Sea and spray and wizard's tower, - With one stroke, now hard, now soft, -Under the silvery willow-tree - In the school of Tenko: - -He could fling a bird aloft, - Splash a dragon in the sea, -Crown a princess in her bower, -With one stroke of magic power; -And she watched him hour by hour, - In the school of Tenko. - -Yoichi Tenko, wondering, scanned -All the work of that young hand, - Gazed his kakemonos o'er -Under the silvery willow-tree - In the school of Tenko: -"I can teach you nothing more, - Thought, or craft, or mystery; -Let your golden wings expand, -They will shadow half the land, -All the world's at your command, -Come no more to Tenko." - -Lying on the golden sand, -Kimi watched his wings expand: -Wept.--He could not understand - Why she wept, said Tenko. - - -So, in her blue kimono, [Sidenote: III] - Pale as the sickle moon -Glimmered thro' soft plum-branches - Blue in the dusk of June, -Stole she, willing and waning, - Frightened and unafraid,-- -"Take me with you, Sawara, - Over the sea", she said. - -Small and sadly beseeching, - Under the willow-tree, -Glimmered her face like a foam-flake - Drifting over the sea: -Pale as a drifting blossom, - Lifted her face to his eyes: -Slowly he gathered and held her - Under the drifting skies. - - [Illustration] - -Poor little face cast backward - Better to see his own, -Earth and heaven went past them - Drifting: they too, alone -Stood, immortal. He whispered-- - "Nothing can part us two!" -Backward her sad little face went - Drifting, and dreamed it true. - -"Others are happy," she murmured, - "Maidens and men I have seen; -You are my king, Sawara, - O, let me be your queen! -If I am all too lowly," - Sadly she strove to smile, -"Let me follow your footsteps, - Your slave for a little while." - -Surely, he thought, I have painted - Nothing so fair as this -Moonlit almond blossom - Sweet to fold and kiss, -Brow that is filled with music, - Shell of a faery sea, -Eyes like the holy violets - Brimmed with dew for me. - -"Wait for Sawara" he whispered, - Does not his whole heart yearn -Now to his moon-bright maiden? - Wait, for he will return -Rich as the wave on the moon's path - Rushing to claim his bride!" -So they plighted their promise, - And the ebbing sea-wave sighed. - - -Moon and flower and butterfly, [Sidenote: IV] -Earth and heaven went drifting by, - Three long years while Kimi dreamed -Under the silvery willow-tree - In the school of Tenko, -Steadfast while the whole world streamed - Past her tow'rds Eternity; -Steadfast till with one great cry, - Ringing to the gods on high, -Golden wings should bind the sky - And bring him back to Tenko. - -Three long years and nought to say -"Sweet, I come the golden way, - Riding royally to the school -Under the silvery willow-tree - Claim my bride of Tenko; -Silver bells on a milk-white mule, - Rose-red sails on an emerald sea!" -Kimi sometimes went to pray -In the temple nigh the bay, -Dreamed all night and gazed all day - Over the sea from Tenko. - -Far away his growing fame -Lit the clouds. No message came - From the sky, whereon she gazed -Under the silvery willow-tree - Far away from Tenko! -Small white hands in the temple raised - Pleaded with the Mystery-- -"Stick of incense in the flame, -Though my love forget my name, -Help him, bless him, all the same, - And ... bring him back to Tenko!" - -_Rose-white temple nigh the bay, -Hush! for Kimi comes to pray, -Dream all night and gaze all day - Over the sea from Tenko._ - - [Illustration] - - [Illustration] - -So, when the rich young merchant [Sidenote: V] - Showed him his bags of gold, -Yoichi Tenko, the painter, - Gave him her hand to hold, -Said, "You shall wed him, O Kimi": - Softly he lied and smiled-- -"_Yea, for Sawara is wedded! -Let him not mock you, child._" - -Dumbly she turned and left them, - Never a word or cry -Broke from her lips' grey petals - Under the drifting sky: -Down to the spray and the rainbows, - Where she had watched him of old -Painting the rose-red islands, - Painting the sand's wet gold. - - [Illustration] - -Down to their dreams of sunset, - Frail as a flower's white ghost, -Lonely and lost she wandered - Down to the darkening coast; -Lost in the drifting midnight, - Weeping, desolate, blind -Many went out to seek her: - Never a heart could find. - -Yoichi Tenko, the painter - Plucked from his willow-tree -Two big paper lanterns - And ran to the brink of the sea; -Over his head he held them, - Crying, and only heard -Somewhere out in the darkness, - The cry of a wandering bird. - -Peonies, peonies thronged the May [Sidenote: VI] -When in royal-rich array - Came Sawara to the school -Under the silvery willow-tree-- - To the school of Tenko! -Silver bells on a milk-white mule, - Rose-red sails on an emerald sea! -Over the bloom of the cherry spray, -Peonies, peonies dimmed the day; -And he rode the royal way - Back to Yoichi Tenko. - -Yoichi Tenko, half afraid -Whispered, "Wed some other maid; - Kimi left me all alone -Under the silvery willow-tree, - Left me," whispered Tenko, -"Kimi had a heart of stone!"-- - "Kimi, Kimi? Who is she? -Kimi? Ah, the child that played -Round the willow-tree. She prayed -Often; and, whate'er I said, - She believed it, Tenko." - -He had come to paint anew -Those dim isles of rose and blue, - For a palace far away, -Under the silvery willow-tree-- - So he said to Tenko; -And he painted, day by day, - Golden visions of the sea. -No, he had not come to woo; -Yet, had Kimi proven true, -Doubtless he had loved her too, - Hardly less than Tenko. - -Since the thought was in his head, -He would make his choice and wed; - And a lovely maid he chose -Under the silvery willow-tree. - "Fairer far," said Tenko. -"Kimi had a twisted nose, - And a foot too small, for me, -And her face was dull as lead!" -"Nay, a flower, be it white or red, - Is a flower," Sawara said! - "So it is," said Tenko. - -Great Sawara, the painter, [Sidenote: VII] - Sought, on a day of days, -One of the peacock islands - Out in the sunset haze: -Rose-red sails on the water - Carried him quickly nigh: -There would he paint him a wonder, - Worthy of Hokusai. - -Lo, as he leapt o'er the creaming - Roses of faery foam, -Out of the green-lipped caverns - Under the isle's blue dome, -White as a drifting snow-flake, - White as the moon's white flame, -White as a ghost from the darkness, - Little O Kimi came. - -"Long I have waited, Sawara, - Here in our sunset isle, -Sawara, Sawara, Sawara, - Look at me once, and smile: - -Face I have watched so long for, - Hands I have longed to hold, -Sawara, Sawara, Sawara, - Why is your heart so cold?" - -Surely, he thought, I have painted - Nothing so fair as this -Moonlit almond blossom - Sweet to fold and kiss.... -"Kimi," he said, "I am wedded! - Hush, for it could not be!" -"Kiss me one kiss," she whispered, - "Me also, even me." - -Small and terribly drifting - Backward, her sad white face -Lifted up to Sawara - Once, in that lonely place, -White as a drifting blossom - Under his wondering eyes, -Slowly he gathered and held her - Under the drifting skies. - - [Illustration] - -"Others are happy," she whispered, - "Maidens and men I have seen: -Be happy, be happy, Sawara! - The other--shall be--your queen! -Kiss me one kiss for parting": - Trembling she lifted her head, -Then like a broken blossom - It fell on his arm. She was dead. - -Much impressed, Sawara straight [Sidenote: VIII] -(Though the hour was growing late) - Made a sketch of Kimi lying -By the lonely, sighing sea, - Brought it back to Tenko. -Tenko looked it over crying - (Under the silvery willow-tree). -"You have burst the golden gate! -You have conquered Time and Fate! - Hokusai is not so great! - This is art," said Tenko! - - - - - Printed by - William Blackwood & Sons - - - - - Transcriber Notes: - -Passages in italics were indicated by _underscores_. - -Small caps were replaced with ALL CAPS. - -The original book had no page numbers, and no page numbers have been -added. - -In the fourth stanza, the period after "Peonies" was replaced with a -comma. - -The quotation mark was deleted after "In the school of Tenko." - -The quotation mark was deleted before "Does not his whole heart yearn" - -A period was added after "Never a heart could find". - -A period was added after "Painting the sand's wet gold". - -"A foot to small" was changed to "A foot too small". - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Tale of Old Japan, by Alfred Noyes - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A TALE OF OLD JAPAN *** - -***** This file should be named 63530.txt or 63530.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/3/5/3/63530/ - -Produced by Tim Lindell, Ernest Schaal, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -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. 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