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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  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   .   .   .<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 & <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> + diff --git a/75834-h/images/cover.jpg b/75834-h/images/cover.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..9cdc9a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/75834-h/images/cover.jpg diff 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