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+
+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75834 ***
+
+Transcriber’s note: Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by
+underscores, _like this_.
+
+
+
+
+ TWO NEW POEMS
+
+ ROHALLION : THE LITTLE DRAGON
+
+
+ By _Violet Jacob_, decorated with
+ three designs by _A. Mason Trotter_
+
+
+ EDINBURGH. THE PORPOISE PRESS
+ FOUR STAFFORD STREET. MCMXXIV
+
+
+
+
+ _OF THIS EDITION FIFTY NUMBERED
+ COPIES HAVE BEEN PRINTED ON
+ HODGKINSON’S HAND-MADE PAPER._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+ _Rohallion_
+
+
+ My buits are at rest on the midden,
+ I haena a plack,
+ My breeks are no dandy anes, forrit,
+ And waur at the back;
+ On the road that comes oot o’ the hielands
+ I see as I trayvel the airth,
+ Frae the braes at the back o’ Rohallion,
+ The reek aboon Pairth.
+
+ There’s a canny wee hoose wi’ a gairden
+ In a neuk o’ Strathtay;
+ My mither is bakin’ the bannocks,
+ The weans are at play;
+ And at gloamin’, my feyther, the shepherd,
+ Looks doon for a blink o’ the licht
+ When he gethers the yowes by the shielin’
+ Tae fauld them at nicht.
+
+ There’s niver a hoose that wad haud me
+ Frae this tae the sea
+ When a wind frae the knowes by Rohallion
+ Comes creepin’ tae me,
+ And niver a lowe frae the ingle
+ Can draw like the trail and the shine
+ O’ the stars i’ the loch o’ Rohallion
+ A fitstep o’ mine.
+
+ There’s snaw i’ the wind an’ the weepies
+ Hang deid on the shaw,
+ And pale the leaves left on the rowan,
+ I’m soothward awa;
+ But a voice like a wraith blaws ahint me
+ And sings as I’m liftin’ my pack
+ ‘I am waitin’--Rohallion--Rohallion--
+ My lad, ye’ll be back!’
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+ _The Little Dragon_
+
+
+ The nun stood watching by the cloister wall
+ Day’s dying to behold,
+ Heaven seemed to her too far, too mystical,
+ Her soul to climb its ramparts but to fall
+ And earth was turned to gold.
+
+ All down the harvest fields the western flame
+ In floods of fire was borne;
+ There stood in rows transfigured by the same,
+ Until the sickle should their glory claim,
+ The gold ears of the corn.
+
+ Her part was where eternal censers swung
+ By convent walls confined;
+ The convent choir her requiem had sung,
+ The church had bound her life, her soul, her tongue--
+ Her heart it could not bind.
+
+ Around her place the golden sunflowers ranged
+ Their faces to the west,
+ As the declining day his steps estranged
+ They watched their lord, the sun, untired, unchanged,
+ And in their vigil blest.
+
+ And through the dust that rose in golden cloud
+ A golden helm shone high;
+ Nor fast, nor prayer, nor penances had bowed
+ The idle knight in strength of manhood proud
+ Who laughed as he rode by.
+
+ The dragon on his crested helmet shewn
+ Mocked her with leer uncouth;
+ She heeded not--she saw his face alone
+ And from his eyes there flashed into her own
+ The golden fire of youth.
+
+ It burned the sacred stillness of her days,
+ Between the holy book
+ And her dropped lids, there swam that ardent haze,
+ It hid God’s altar in a golden blaze
+ Before her raptured look.
+
+ The reverend priests and nuns who marked her face
+ With wonder day by day,
+ Stood still to see her kneeling in her place,
+ And “God has given her visions in His grace,
+ She is His Saint,” said they.
+
+ Ever more rapt in ecstasy she grew,
+ Remoter and more frail,
+ For, as the year died out and rose anew
+ They said again, “Her soul is rising too
+ Above its earthly veil.”
+
+ And, on a day when spring’s own breath sublime
+ Whispered in field and tree,
+ Fervent and faint from some undreamed of clime,
+ She passed from out the close-barred room of time
+ Into eternity.
+
+ And when the priest his benediction spoke
+ Above her coffined clay
+ There fell great awe upon all holy folk,
+ For golden light through all the cloister broke
+ And bathed her as she lay.
+
+ Only--above the carven arches old,
+ It seemed they did not see
+ Among the gargoyles insolent and bold,
+ One little dragon laughing through the gold
+ --Laughing eternally.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+ Published by ...
+ THE PORPOISE PRESS
+ 4, STAFFORD STREET
+ EDINBURGH, NOV., 1924
+ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+
+
+
+ _Wm, Hodge & Co., Ltd., Glasgow and Edinburgh._
+
+
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75834 ***
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+<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75834 ***</div>
+<hr class="thick">
+<hr class="thin">
+<h1>TWO NEW POEMS</h1>
+
+<p class="center larger">ROHALLION &emsp; : &emsp; THE LITTLE DRAGON</p>
+
+
+<p class="center xxl">By <i>Violet Jacob</i>, decorated with<br>
+three designs by <i>A. Mason Trotter</i></p>
+<hr class="thin">
+<hr class="p4 thin">
+
+<p class="center">EDINBURGH. THE PORPOISE PRESS<br>
+FOUR STAFFORD STREET. <abbr title="1924">MCMXXIV</abbr>
+</p>
+<hr class="thin">
+<hr class="thick">
+
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p class="center tall small linebox1">
+<i>OF THIS EDITION FIFTY NUMBERED
+COPIES HAVE BEEN PRINTED ON
+HODGKINSON’S HAND-MADE PAPER.</i>
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</span></p>
+<div class="figcenter60">
+ <img src="images/i_003.jpg"
+ alt="Wanderer">
+</div><!--end figcenter-->
+</div>
+<h3>
+<i>Rohallion</i><br>
+</h3>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse drop-cap indent4"><span class="smcap">M&thinsp; y</span> buits are at rest on the midden,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">I haena a plack,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">My breeks are no dandy anes, forrit,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">And waur at the back;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">On the road that comes oot o’ the hielands</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">I see as I trayvel the airth,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Frae the braes at the back o’ Rohallion,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">The reek aboon Pairth.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</span>
+ <div class="verse indent0">There’s a canny wee hoose wi’ a gairden</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">In a neuk o’ Strathtay;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">My mither is bakin’ the bannocks,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">The weans are at play;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And at gloamin’, my feyther, the shepherd,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">Looks doon for a blink o’ the licht</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">When he gethers the yowes by the shielin’</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">Tae fauld them at nicht.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">There’s niver a hoose that wad haud me</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">Frae this tae the sea</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">When a wind frae the knowes by Rohallion</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">Comes creepin’ tae me,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And niver a lowe frae the ingle</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">Can draw like the trail and the shine</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">O’ the stars i’ the loch o’ Rohallion</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">A fitstep o’ mine.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">There’s snaw i’ the wind an’ the weepies</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">Hang deid on the shaw,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And pale the leaves left on the rowan,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">I’m soothward awa;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">But a voice like a wraith blaws ahint me</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">And sings as I’m liftin’ my pack</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">‘I am waitin’—Rohallion—Rohallion—</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">My lad, ye’ll be back!’</div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</span></p>
+<div class="figcenter">
+ <img src="images/i_005.jpg"
+ alt="Dying nun">
+</div><!--end figcenter-->
+</div>
+
+<h3>
+<i>The Little Dragon</i><br>
+</h3>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+<div class="poetry">
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent4 drop-cap"><span class="smcap">The</span> nun stood watching by the cloister wall</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">Day’s dying to behold,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Heaven seemed to her too far, too mystical,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Her soul to climb its ramparts but to fall</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">And earth was turned to gold.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">All down the harvest fields the western flame</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">In floods of fire was borne;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">There stood in rows transfigured by the same,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Until the sickle should their glory claim,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">The gold ears of the corn.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</span>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Her part was where eternal censers swung</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">By convent walls confined;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The convent choir her requiem had sung,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The church had bound her life, her soul, her tongue—</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">Her heart it could not bind.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Around her place the golden sunflowers ranged</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">Their faces to the west,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">As the declining day his steps estranged</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">They watched their lord, the sun, untired, unchanged,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">And in their vigil blest.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">And through the dust that rose in golden cloud</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">A golden helm shone high;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Nor fast, nor prayer, nor penances had bowed</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">The idle knight in strength of manhood proud</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">Who laughed as he rode by.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">The dragon on his crested helmet shewn</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">Mocked her with leer uncouth;</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">She heeded not—she saw his face alone</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And from his eyes there flashed into her own</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">The golden fire of youth.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</span>
+ <div class="verse indent0">It burned the sacred stillness of her days,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">Between the holy book</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And her dropped lids, there swam that ardent haze,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">It hid God’s altar in a golden blaze</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">Before her raptured look.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">The reverend priests and nuns who marked her face</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">With wonder day by day,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Stood still to see her kneeling in her place,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And “God has given her visions in His grace,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">She is His Saint,” said they.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Ever more rapt in ecstasy she grew,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">Remoter and more frail,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">For, as the year died out and rose anew</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">They said again, “Her soul is rising too</div>
+ <div class="verse indent2">Above its earthly veil.”</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">And, on a day when spring’s own breath sublime</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">Whispered in field and tree,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Fervent and faint from some undreamed of clime,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">She passed from out the close-barred room of time</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">Into eternity.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</span>
+ <div class="verse indent0">And when the priest his benediction spoke</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">Above her coffined clay</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">There fell great awe upon all holy folk,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">For golden light through all the cloister broke</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">And bathed her as she lay.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="stanza">
+ <div class="verse indent0">Only—above the carven arches old,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">It seemed they did not see</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">Among the gargoyles insolent and bold,</div>
+ <div class="verse indent0">One little dragon laughing through the gold</div>
+ <div class="verse indent6">—Laughing eternally.</div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+ <img src="images/i_008.jpg"
+ alt="laughing dragon">
+</div><!--end figcenter-->
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<p class="indent35">Published by &ensp; . &ensp; . &ensp; .<br>
+THE PORPOISE PRESS<br>
+4, STAFFORD STREET<br>
+EDINBURGH, <abbr title="November">NOV.</abbr>, 1924<br>
+ALL RIGHTS RESERVED</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="p4 right smaller">
+<i>Wm, Hodge &amp; <abbr title="Company, Limited">Co., Ltd.</abbr>, Glasgow and Edinburgh.</i><br>
+</p>
+
+<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75834 ***</div>
+</body>
+</html>
+
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