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+<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75847 ***</div>
+
+<div class='tnotes covernote'>
+
+<p class='c000'><strong>Transcriber’s Note:</strong></p>
+
+<p class='c000'>New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='titlepage'>
+
+<div>
+ <h1 class='c001'>THE SINGING LEAVES<br> <span class='xlarge'>A BOOK OF SONGS AND SPELLS BY JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY</span></h1>
+</div>
+<p class='c002'>‘<em>Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.</em>’</p>
+
+<div class='figcenter id001'>
+<img src='images/i_title.jpg' alt='[Logo]' class='ig001'>
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+ <div class='nf-center'>
+ <div>BOSTON AND NEW YORK</div>
+ <div>HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY</div>
+ <div><span class='blackletter'>The Riverside Press Cambridge</span></div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c003'>
+ <div><span class='small'>COPYRIGHT 1903 BY JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY</span></div>
+ <div class='c004'><span class='small'>ALL RIGHTS RESERVED</span></div>
+ <div class='c005'><span class='small'><em>Published November, 1903</em></span></div>
+ <div class='c005'><span class='small'>TENTH IMPRESSION</span></div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c002'><span class='small'>Thanks are due to the editors of Harper’s
+Monthly, Scribner’s Magazine, and other
+periodicals, for their courteous permission
+to reprint many of the following poems.</span></p>
+
+<div class='chapter ph1'>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c003'>
+ <div>THE SINGING LEAVES</div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+ <h2 class='c006'>DEDICATION.</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Whosoever cares to look</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>In my little Book,</div>
+ <div class='line'>If he care to look again,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Let him so; and then,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Should there be a very few</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Glad to say Amen</div>
+ <div class='line'>To old wonders ever new,</div>
+ <div class='line'>—Why, it is for You.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<table class='table0'>
+ <tr><td class='c007' colspan='2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_vii'>vii</span></td></tr>
+ <tr><td class='c007' colspan='2'>SONGS AND SPELLS.</td></tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>&#160;</td>
+ <td class='c009'>&#160;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE HOUSE AND THE ROAD</td>
+ <td class='c009'><span class='fss'>PAGE</span> <a href='#Page_3'>3</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>CHARM TO BE SAID IN THE SUN</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_4'>4</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>BEFORE MEAT</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_6'>6</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>SAD TRUTH</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_7'>7</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>GLAD TRUTH</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_8'>8</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE BIRD IN THE HAND</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_9'>9</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>WAKING</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_10'>10</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE MAGIC</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_12'>12</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>ROAD-SONGS. I. AND II.</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_14'>14</a>, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE CEDARS</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_16'>16</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>ALMS</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_17'>17</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE INN</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_18'>18</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>SINS</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_19'>19</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE WATCHER</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_20'>20</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>TO SAD-HEART</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_21'>21</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>SONG AND NEED</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_22'>22</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_viii'>viii</span>HERE’S APRIL</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_25'>25</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE COMING</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_26'>26</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>MUSIC</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_27'>27</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>EVER THE SAME</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_28'>28</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>MAYBE</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_29'>29</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE SONG OUTSIDE</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_30'>30</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE PASSERS-BY</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_32'>32</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>&#160;</td>
+ <td class='c009'>&#160;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr><td class='c007' colspan='2'>THE LITTLE PAST.</td></tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>JOURNEY</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_35'>35</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>SUNSET</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_37'>37</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE BUSY CHILD</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_38'>38</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>CONCERNING LOVE</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_40'>40</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>COW-BELLS</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_41'>41</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>WIND</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_42'>42</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE MYSTIC</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_43'>43</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE MASTERPIECE</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_44'>44</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>LATE</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_46'>46</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>CAKES AND ALE</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_47'>47</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>EARLY</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_48'>48</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_ix'>ix</span>&#160;</td>
+ <td class='c009'>&#160;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr><td class='c007' colspan='2'>THE YOUNG THINGS.</td></tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE SAPLING</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_51'>51</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE HERO</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_52'>52</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>NESTS</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_53'>53</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>SIDE-STREETS</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_55'>55</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE FIR-TREE</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_56'>56</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>EARLY-HEART</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_57'>57</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>BEAUTIFUL</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_58'>58</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>AFTER ALL</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_59'>59</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_60'>60</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE TOP OF THE MORNING</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_62'>62</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>FORETHOUGHT</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_63'>63</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>UNSAID</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_64'>64</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>DANCE-TIME</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_65'>65</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE ENCHANTED SHEEP-FOLD</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_67'>67</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>YES, LOVE IS BLIND</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_69'>69</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE MORNING WAS SO BRIGHT</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_71'>71</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE TWO</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_73'>73</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>AFTER-THOUGHT</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_74'>74</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_x'>x</span>&#160;</td>
+ <td class='c009'>&#160;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr><td class='c007' colspan='2'>OTHERS.</td></tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>NEAR AND FAR</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_77'>77</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>FRIENDS ALL</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_78'>78</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>VANTAGE</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_79'>79</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>A SONG OF SOLOMON</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_80'>80</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>COUNSEL TO BEGGARS</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_81'>81</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE TWA CHEERLESS</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_83'>83</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE WALK</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_84'>84</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>REFRAINS</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_86'>86</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>OUTSIDE THE MUSIC</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_87'>87</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE FAIREST</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_88'>88</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE CHILD AND THE ANGEL</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_90'>90</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>READING FOR THE POOR</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_91'>91</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE BLIND ONE</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_92'>92</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>HOLIDAY</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_93'>93</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE FOOL</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_94'>94</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>DRUDGE</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_96'>96</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE YOUNGEST DRYAD</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_97'>97</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>COME BUY!</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_99'>99</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_xi'>xi</span>PRINCE CHARLIE</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_100'>100</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE MEETING</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_101'>101</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE COBBLER</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_102'>102</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>MIRACLE</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_103'>103</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>OPEN HOUSE</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_104'>104</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>O SLEEP, SLEEP, SLEEP!</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_105'>105</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE CLOUD</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_107'>107</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE RAVENS</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_109'>109</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>NEIGHBORS</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_111'>111</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE MORNING SOUL</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_112'>112</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE HILL-TOP</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_114'>114</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE DOVES</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_115'>115</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>FOUND</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_116'>116</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>ALL HAIL</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_117'>117</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>THE ANOINTED</td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_119'>119</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'>&#160;</td>
+ <td class='c009'>&#160;</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr><td class='c007' colspan='2'>EPILOGUE.</td></tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'><em>TO THE EVENING STAR</em></td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_123'>123</a></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class='c008'><em>TO HER BOOK</em></td>
+ <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_124'>124</a></td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+ <h2 class='c010'>SONGS AND SPELLS.</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_3'>3</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE HOUSE AND THE ROAD.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The little Road says Go,</div>
+ <div class='line'>The little House says Stay:</div>
+ <div class='line'>And O, it’s bonny here at home,</div>
+ <div class='line'>But I must go away.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The little Road, like me,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Would seek and turn and know;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And forth I must, to learn the things</div>
+ <div class='line'>The little Road would show!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And go I must, my dears,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And journey while I may,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Though heart be sore for the little House</div>
+ <div class='line'>That had no word but Stay.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Maybe, no other way</div>
+ <div class='line'>Your child could ever know</div>
+ <div class='line'>Why a little House would have you stay,</div>
+ <div class='line'>When a little Road says, Go.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_4'>4</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>CHARM: TO BE SAID IN THE SUN.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I reach my arms up, to the sky,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And golden vine on vine</div>
+ <div class='line'>Of sunlight showered wild and high,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Around my brows I twine.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I wreathe, I wind it everywhere,</div>
+ <div class='line'>The burning radiancy</div>
+ <div class='line'>Of brightness that no eye may dare,</div>
+ <div class='line'>To be the strength of me.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Come, redness of the crystalline,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Come green, come hither blue</div>
+ <div class='line'>And violet—all alive within,</div>
+ <div class='line'>For I have need of you.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Come honey-hue and flush of gold,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And through the pallor run,</div>
+ <div class='line'>With pulse on pulse of manifold</div>
+ <div class='line'>New largess of the Sun!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_5'>5</span>O steep the silence till it sing!</div>
+ <div class='line'>O glories from the height,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Come down, where I am garlanding</div>
+ <div class='line'>With light, a child of light!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_6'>6</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>BEFORE MEAT.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Hunger of the world,</div>
+ <div class='line'>When we ask a grace,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Be remembered here with us,</div>
+ <div class='line'>By the vacant place.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Thirst, with nought to drink,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Sorrow more than mine,</div>
+ <div class='line'>May God someday make you laugh,</div>
+ <div class='line'>With water turned to wine.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_7'>7</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>SAD TRUTH.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Truth I tell with heavy heart,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To another one,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Give me sweetness for your smart,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>When sad time is done.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Then may I be clear again,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Love without disguise;</div>
+ <div class='line'>Since I have to bear, till then,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Dark of hostile eyes.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><em>Bitter shall be sweet some day.</em></div>
+ <div class='line'><em>Ah, but that is far away!</em></div>
+ <div class='line'><em>I must bind my heart and say:</em></div>
+ <div class='line'><em>Bitter now, but sweet some day.</em></div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_8'>8</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>GLAD TRUTH.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Beautiful, that did come true,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Beautiful, so it was you!</div>
+ <div class='line'>If forgiveness be for us</div>
+ <div class='line'>That we ever doubted thus,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Then forgive us radiantly,</div>
+ <div class='line'>All our doubts that are to be.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Now that we lay hold of you,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Nearer than we hoped or knew,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Dearer than we looked to find,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Beautiful, forgive the blind.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE BIRD IN THE HAND.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Yesterday has flown away</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Far beyond the sun.</div>
+ <div class='line'>And of morrows, who can say,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Till another one?</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Only Now is all my own,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And my heart knows how:</div>
+ <div class='line'>O wild wings for a sky unknown,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Mine, mine—now!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>WAKING.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Early in the morning,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Early in the dew,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Singing from the mountains</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Where the dreams withdrew,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Lingered one I knew.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘Soul, art thou so shining?</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>What is there to tell?</div>
+ <div class='line'>Whither hast thou journeyed?’</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And the answer fell,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>‘Early to the well.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘Early, early, early,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To the farthest light;</div>
+ <div class='line'>Drinking, singing, bathing</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>In the cool, the might,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Whence I have my sight.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>‘There I found my sandals</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Gladdened with a wing;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And my fair apparel</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Woven out of Spring.</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Therefore do I sing.’</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And the golden voices</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Warming with the sun,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Dimmed the silver voices,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Fading, one by one.</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And the dream was done.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_12'>12</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE MAGIC.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>You who saw through my disguise</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Though I came so poor,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Let me bless your true two eyes</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And your open door.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Yes, I am a wonder-child;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Hark and tell it not.—</div>
+ <div class='line'>With the journey and the cold</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>I had half forgot.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Take the charmèd seeds I lay</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>In your open hand:</div>
+ <div class='line'>Some would cast them all away,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>You will understand.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Trust the bud to come to flower,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Trust the flower for fruit.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Listen in the winter-time</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>For a cricket lute.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span>Here are blessings all from me</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>—Though they look like tears—</div>
+ <div class='line'>For your blessed eyes that see</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And your heart that hears.</div>
+ <div class='line'>I am higher than I seem,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Fair as I would be:</div>
+ <div class='line'>O, I bless your heart that hears,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And your eyes that see!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>They were ragged gifts I showed,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>But you took the sense</div>
+ <div class='line'>Of the bird-nest from the road,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And the lucky pence.</div>
+ <div class='line'>And for all the charms I leave</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Every time I pass,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Simple folk will only see</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Cobwebs on the grass!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>ROAD-SONG.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line in16'>I.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>At home the waters in the grass</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Went singing happy words;</div>
+ <div class='line'>But here, they flicker through my hands</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>As silent as the birds.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I see a Rose. But once they grew</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>All thronging, thronging,—wild,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And white, and red, before I came</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To be a human child.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line in16 c005'><span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span>II.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>While I am resting by the road</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>So dully here apart,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Far-off my Angel laughs, maybe,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Where God shines round her heart.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>O, she is laughing, as I think,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Because they cannot know</div>
+ <div class='line'>The parching wonder of the noon</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>With all our ways below.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>They cannot know. But now and then.</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>They may let fall a song</div>
+ <div class='line'>Blown like a feather down to me,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Because the road is long.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_16'>16</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE CEDARS.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>All down the years the fragrance came,</div>
+ <div class='line'>The mingled fragrance, with a flame,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Of Cedars breathing in the sun,</div>
+ <div class='line'>The Cedar-trees of Lebanon.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>O thirst of song in bitter air,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And hope, wing-hurt from iron care,</div>
+ <div class='line'>What balm of myrrh and honey, won</div>
+ <div class='line'>From far-off trees of Lebanon!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Not from these eyelids yet, have I</div>
+ <div class='line'>Ever beheld that early sky.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Why do they call me through the sun?—</div>
+ <div class='line'>Even the trees of Lebanon?</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>ALMS.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I met Poor Sorrow on the way</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>As I came down the years;</div>
+ <div class='line'>I gave him everything I had</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And looked at him through tears.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘But Sorrow, give me here again</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Some little sign to show;</div>
+ <div class='line'>For I have given all I own;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Yet have I far to go.’</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Then Sorrow charmed my eyes for me</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And hallowed them thus far:</div>
+ <div class='line'>‘Look deep enough in every dark,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And you shall see the star.’</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_18'>18</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE INN.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>When I come back to sorrow,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The place seems very old.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Full well I know the lodging,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The meagreness, the cold;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And everything is told.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The common daily portion,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>No ampler and no less;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And sorry worn the cup is</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And full of humbleness:</div>
+ <div class='line'>A soul can say but, ‘Yes.’</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The earthen wares are many,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>But never are they new.</div>
+ <div class='line'>The one-time guest departed</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The same gray service knew,</div>
+ <div class='line'>There is no change for you.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_19'>19</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>SINS.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>A lie, it may be black or white;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>I care not for the lie:</div>
+ <div class='line'>My grief is for the tortured breath</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Of Truth that cannot die.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And cruelty, what that may be,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>What creature understands?</div>
+ <div class='line'>But O, the glazing eyes of Love,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Stabbed through the open hands!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_20'>20</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE WATCHER.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>My neighbor’s grief is dark to me.</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>I gaze and dread, without;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And marvel how he lives to bear</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The blackness, and the doubt.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And yet, by all lost ways of grief</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>That I have had to plod,</div>
+ <div class='line'>I know how small a rift lets through</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>A little gleam of God.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_21'>21</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>TO SAD-HEART.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line in6'>I have a word for you,</div>
+ <div class='line in6'>For you, Sad-Heart,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And pray you keep it till the dawn come true,</div>
+ <div class='line in6'>And sorrow part.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line in6'>I never bid you doff</div>
+ <div class='line in6'>A single care:</div>
+ <div class='line'>But ever till to-morrow, O, put off—</div>
+ <div class='line in6'>Put off Despair!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>SONG AND NEED.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Heart said, ‘If I had wings,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Such wings as hath the lark,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Even as that freedom sings</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Beyond the dark,</div>
+ <div class='line'>I too, if I could fly</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>From chains that weigh and cling</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Ah, but then I could sing,—</div>
+ <div class='line in12'>Could I!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘O dayspring of desire!</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Mid-ocean of delight</div>
+ <div class='line'>Before the dawn of fire</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>On dawn of sight!</div>
+ <div class='line'>My joy, could it undo</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>All that despair has done,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>I could find out the Sun,</div>
+ <div class='line in10'>—I too.’</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span>But ah, how vain to long</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>For glory of the lark,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Who hast more need of song</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Down in thy dark;</div>
+ <div class='line'>Where chains may always irk,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And every day’s rebuff</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Leave thee scarce breath enough,</div>
+ <div class='line in12'>To work!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Nay, never to assuage</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Our need, is joy begun,</div>
+ <div class='line'>But follows some poor wage</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Full hardly won.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Never vain wish shall bring</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The music from the dumb.</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Needs must—ere song will come—</div>
+ <div class='line in12'>We sing!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_24'>24</span>To him who hath, late, soon,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To him shall it be given.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Make to thyself some boon,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Some little heaven:</div>
+ <div class='line'>Some feigning, through that mirk,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The blue of upper skies;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And sing—with blindfold eyes—</div>
+ <div class='line in12'>At work!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>HERE’S APRIL.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Wearied one,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Rest a little in the sun.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Here is April come behind you</div>
+ <div class='line'>With a blessing on your head:</div>
+ <div class='line'>Rains unshed,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And her loving hands that blind you</div>
+ <div class='line'>While she queries, ‘Who am I?’</div>
+ <div class='line'>Of the darkened eye.</div>
+ <div class='line'>O, I heard the winter pass!</div>
+ <div class='line'>Came a sigh from waking grass</div>
+ <div class='line'>That should wake a daffodilly.</div>
+ <div class='line'>April, and up-rising now,—and every kind of lily!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE COMING.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Low in the west, the early star</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Is hazed with fires of Spring.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Low in the east, the golden moon</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Comes slowly westering.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The last-year leaves, they breathe and stir</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>With hope beyond their ken.</div>
+ <div class='line'>O golden fear!—that men must hear</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>All hearts wake up again.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>MUSIC.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘O Heart of all things, Heart’s Desire come true,</div>
+ <div class='line in4'>That nothing may undo!</div>
+ <div class='line'>How long have I been stricken dim with fear,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Hungry and cold and lost, till I should hear</div>
+ <div class='line in12'>You,—you.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘Now fold me in, O Beautiful, most dear!</div>
+ <div class='line in4'>And now that you are here,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Where were you, Dearness,—lost and far apart?</div>
+ <div class='line'>So far!’—‘Nay, all the time, O little heart,</div>
+ <div class='line in12'>So near.’</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_28'>28</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>EVER THE SAME.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>King Solomon walked a thousand times</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Forth of his garden-close;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And saw there spring no goodlier thing,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Be sure, than the same little rose.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Under the sun was nothing new,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Or now, I well suppose.</div>
+ <div class='line'>But what new thing could you find to sing</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>More rare than the same little rose?</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Nothing is new; save I, save you,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And every new heart that grows,</div>
+ <div class='line'>On the same Earth met, that nurtures yet</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Breath of the same little rose.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>MAYBE.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Heigh-ho! The same old road it is,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And weary dull am I,</div>
+ <div class='line'>With the same old road and the same old song</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>I hum and know not why.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>But over yon, the city smoke</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Goes after one gray dove,</div>
+ <div class='line'>With a flock of gold and silver wings</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Along the sun, above.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And of the miry pools below,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The sparrows make the best;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And windows all, with dazzled eyes,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>They stare into the west.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And I, I hum the same old song</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Though no one could say why.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Maybe so, my singing knows</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Even more than I.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_30'>30</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE SONG OUTSIDE.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>When will you come, you maiden by the window,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Come out and leave your little window, there?</div>
+ <div class='line'>Why will you bind your heart up every morning,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>As every morning you bind your hair?</div>
+ <div class='line'>Your vine astir would wake a cloud of swallows;</div>
+ <div class='line'>The sower’s forth and every worker follows;</div>
+ <div class='line'>The world goes forth, to earn, to seek, to share!</div>
+ <div class='line'>Why is it, little face behind a window,</div>
+ <div class='line in12'>You do not dare,</div>
+ <div class='line in12'>You do not dare?</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_31'>31</span>Then will you come, you maiden by the window,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To hear the heart of twilight in the air?</div>
+ <div class='line'>And will you heed the breathing of the wayside,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And all the wise, wide singing everywhere?—</div>
+ <div class='line'>And you and more than you, and more than neighbor,</div>
+ <div class='line'>—With care and bloom, despair and wrinkled labor,</div>
+ <div class='line'>It folds, it holds them all, till they are fair;</div>
+ <div class='line'>—Fairer than you, my maiden by the window,</div>
+ <div class='line in12'>And unaware,</div>
+ <div class='line in12'>—All unaware!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_32'>32</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE PASSERS-BY.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Though the dawn bring grayest thread</div>
+ <div class='line'>That my Fates have spun;</div>
+ <div class='line'>Though I lift not up my head,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Sorrow may not shun</div>
+ <div class='line'>The glory of the Sun.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Yea, and though the gold sands run</div>
+ <div class='line'>Fleet through afternoon,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Shadow, that will speed the Sun,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Brings me yet as soon</div>
+ <div class='line'>The glory of the Moon.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Blessèd Ones, and shining boon</div>
+ <div class='line'>Over all our wars!</div>
+ <div class='line'>Blessed we, by night or noon,</div>
+ <div class='line'>That no anguish mars</div>
+ <div class='line'>The glory of the Stars.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_33'>33</span>
+ <h2 class='c006'>THE LITTLE PAST.</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_35'>35</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>JOURNEY.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I never saw the hills so far</div>
+ <div class='line'>And blue, the way the pictures are;</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And flowers, flowers growing thick,</div>
+ <div class='line'>But not a one for me to pick!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The land was running from the train</div>
+ <div class='line'>All blurry through the window-pane;</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And then it all looked flat and still,</div>
+ <div class='line'>When up there jumped a little hill!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I saw the windows and the spires,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And sparrows sitting on the wires;</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And fences running up and down;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And then we cut straight through a town.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I saw a Valley, like a cup;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And ponds that twinkled, and dried up.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_36'>36</span>I counted meadows that were burnt;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And there were trees, and then there weren’t!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>We crossed the bridges with a roar,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Then hummed the way we went before.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And tunnels made it dark and light</div>
+ <div class='line'>Like open-work of day and night;</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Until I saw the chimneys rise,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And lights and lights and lights, like eyes.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And when they took me through the door,</div>
+ <div class='line'>I heard it all begin to roar.—</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I thought, as far as I could see,</div>
+ <div class='line'>That everybody wanted me!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_37'>37</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>SUNSET.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Those islands far away are mine,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Beyond the cloudy strip;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And something beautiful, besides:—</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>I think it is a ship.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_38'>38</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE BUSY CHILD.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I have so many things to do,</div>
+ <div class='line'>I don’t know when I shall be through.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>To-day I had to watch the rain</div>
+ <div class='line'>Come sliding down the window-pane.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And I was humming all the time,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Around my head, a kind of rhyme;</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And blowing softly on the glass</div>
+ <div class='line'>To see the dimness come and pass.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I made a picture, with my breath</div>
+ <div class='line'>Rubbed out to show the underneath.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I built a city on the floor;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And then I went and was a War.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And I escaped from square to square</div>
+ <div class='line'>That’s greenest on the carpet there,</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_39'>39</span>Until at last I came to Us;</div>
+ <div class='line'>But it was very dangerous:</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Because if I had stepped outside,</div>
+ <div class='line'>I made believe I should have died!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And now I have the boat to mend,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And all our supper to pretend.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I am so busy, every day,</div>
+ <div class='line'>I haven’t any time to play.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_40'>40</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>CONCERNING LOVE.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I wish she would not ask me if I love the Kitten more than her.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Of course I love her. But I love the Kitten too: and It has fur.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_41'>41</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>COW-BELLS.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>O what is there behind the hills,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>That all of the bells must know?—</div>
+ <div class='line'>Over in all the light that fills</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The Valley with that glow?</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I followed a bell, and it all came true:</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Some down, and a yellow-bird;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And Cedars—oh!—and specked with blue;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And everything else I heard:</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Only whatever it is, behind</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The bell with the farthest call;</div>
+ <div class='line'>The one I follow and never find,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>—The loveliest one of all.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_42'>42</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>WIND.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I let them call it just the Wind</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And tell me not to grieve:</div>
+ <div class='line'>But I know all it left behind,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And more than they believe.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I know about the far-off lands</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Where people never sleep;</div>
+ <div class='line'>They hide their faces in their hands,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And rock and weep and weep.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And I too little, all alone,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To go and find them yet:—</div>
+ <div class='line'>But oh, I hear!—When I am grown,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>I never will forget.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_43'>43</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE MYSTIC.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>People say to me,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>‘A Penny for your thought!’</div>
+ <div class='line'>And I can’t remember thinking;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And I should think I ought.</div>
+ <div class='line'>I wasn’t sleeping, either:</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>I know that, because</div>
+ <div class='line'>I saw things out of both my eyes.</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>I wonder where I was.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Now I’m back, I see them</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Sitting all around;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And the noise together</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Makes a purring sound.</div>
+ <div class='line'>But I know something more</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Than just awhile ago.</div>
+ <div class='line'>I know something more!—</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>I wonder what I know.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_44'>44</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE MASTERPIECE.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>My mother cut it out for me</div>
+ <div class='line'>And started it so I could see;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And then she turned some edges in</div>
+ <div class='line'>And let me take it to begin.</div>
+ <div class='line'>I made it. But I did not know</div>
+ <div class='line'>How very hard it is to sew.</div>
+ <div class='line'>I took a long time for that stitch,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And now it’s there, I don’t know which</div>
+ <div class='line'>Is better. But not one is small,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And they are not alike at all.</div>
+ <div class='line'>That side was very hard to fix;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And then the needle always pricks,</div>
+ <div class='line'>But you must hold it and take care,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Because the point is always there.</div>
+ <div class='line'>And knots keep coming, by and by;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And then, no matter how you try,</div>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_45'>45</span>The thread comes out of its old eye.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>       ·       ·       ·       ·       ·</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>But someway, now I have it done,—</div>
+ <div class='line'>I think it is a pretty one.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_46'>46</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>LATE.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>My father brought somebody up,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To show us all asleep.</div>
+ <div class='line'>They came as softly up the stairs</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>As you could creep.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>They whispered in the doorway there</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And looked at us awhile.</div>
+ <div class='line'>I had my eyes shut up, but I</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Could feel him smile.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I shut my eyes up close, and lay</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>As still as I could keep;</div>
+ <div class='line'>Because I knew he wanted us</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To be asleep.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_47'>47</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>CAKES AND ALE.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I’m always glad when Andrew comes.</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>If only I am there,</div>
+ <div class='line'>He stays awhile and talks to me</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>As if he did not care.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>He took me to some Music once,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>When it was all for me:</div>
+ <div class='line'>And O, I had a splendid time!</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And he said, so did he.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>It lasts, as if the Music still</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Went round and round the sky:—</div>
+ <div class='line'>He said he had a good time, too;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And I said, so did I!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_48'>48</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>EARLY.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I like to lie and wait to see</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>My mother braid her hair.</div>
+ <div class='line'>It is as long as it can be,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And yet she doesn’t care.</div>
+ <div class='line'>I love my mother’s hair.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And then the way her fingers go;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>They look so quick and white,—</div>
+ <div class='line'>In and out, and to and fro,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And braiding in the light,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And it is always right.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>So then she winds it, shiny brown,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Around her head into a crown,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Just like the day before.</div>
+ <div class='line'>And then she looks and pats it down,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And looks a minute more;</div>
+ <div class='line'>While I stay here all still and cool.</div>
+ <div class='line'>O, isn’t morning beautiful?</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_49'>49</span>
+ <h2 class='c006'>THE YOUNG THINGS.</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_51'>51</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE SAPLING.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line in2'>When I was but a sprig of May,</div>
+ <div class='line in4'>With wonders to command,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Above all else I loved most well</div>
+ <div class='line in4'>What none could understand;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And dear were things far-off—far-off, but nothing near at hand.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line in2'>O, now it was the sunset isle</div>
+ <div class='line in4'>Beyond the weather-vane;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And now it was the chime I heard</div>
+ <div class='line in4'>From belfry-towers of Spain;</div>
+ <div class='line'>But never yet the little leaf that tapped my window-pane.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line in2'>Heigh-ho, the wistful things unseen</div>
+ <div class='line in4'>That reach, as I did then,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To guess, and wear the heart of youth</div>
+ <div class='line in4'>With eager Why and When!</div>
+ <div class='line'>And never eye takes heed of them, in all the world of men.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_52'>52</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE HERO.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I saw the river going,</div>
+ <div class='line'>All silver to the brim,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Along the southern meadows</div>
+ <div class='line'>That were a home to him.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I sang, ‘O River, bear him</div>
+ <div class='line'>My dream, a silver swan.</div>
+ <div class='line'>’Tis only he, all day, all day,</div>
+ <div class='line'>That I do think upon.’</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And oh, my foolish heart forgot,</div>
+ <div class='line'>So rapt in heart’s desire,</div>
+ <div class='line'>The years he has been sleeping,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Beneath a far-off spire.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_53'>53</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>NESTS.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>O Sparrow, sparrow, did you ever try</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To build a nest high up where no birds are,</div>
+ <div class='line in8'>And close unto a star,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Where it might cling and hear the wind go by?</div>
+ <div class='line in10'>For that did I!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And far and far I flew along the quest,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>For shelter, and I passed the summer rain,</div>
+ <div class='line in8'>I saw the daylight wane;</div>
+ <div class='line'>I found among the stars no place of rest,</div>
+ <div class='line in10'>And built no nest.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Down to the Earth again with baffled wings,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The warm green earth where such as we must stay.</div>
+ <div class='line in8'>But all the livelong day,</div>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_54'>54</span>High over heaven my dream nest clings and swings,</div>
+ <div class='line in10'>And my heart sings,</div>
+ <div class='line in14'>Sparrow!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_55'>55</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>SIDE STREETS.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Some days the faces in the street</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Are clouded all, and dull;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And near or far, not one I see</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To call it beautiful.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>O heavy, heavy is my heart;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And is the spirit blind?</div>
+ <div class='line'>That I am stricken with a doubt,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Because of human kind.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Until I rest my looks upon</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Some cart-horse standing by,</div>
+ <div class='line'>With patient forehead, weary mane,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And unreproachful eye.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And kiss him on the brow I do!—</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Because I have a mind</div>
+ <div class='line'>To thank him just that he will be</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>So beautiful, and kind.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_56'>56</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE FIR-TREE.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The winds have blown more bitter</div>
+ <div class='line'>Each darkening day of fall;</div>
+ <div class='line'>High over all the house-tops</div>
+ <div class='line'>The stars are far and small.</div>
+ <div class='line'>I wonder, will my fir-tree</div>
+ <div class='line'>Be green in spite of all?</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>O grief is colder—colder</div>
+ <div class='line'>Than wind from any part;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And tears of grief are bitter tears,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And doubt’s a sorer smart!</div>
+ <div class='line'>But I promised to my fir-tree</div>
+ <div class='line'>To keep the fragrant heart.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_57'>57</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>EARLY-HEART.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘Early-Heart tends no geese like ours;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Every one is a swan,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Fit to sing with a nightingale,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Or say to a goose, Begone!’</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘Alack, poor souls,’ quoth Early-Heart,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>‘Then yours be only geese?</div>
+ <div class='line'>Nor only so; but your sheep are sheep;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And mine have a golden fleece!’</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Quoth Early-Heart, ‘And if mine be swans,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Right true you say, hereby.</div>
+ <div class='line'>So take your little and leave my much;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>For the lad in luck am I!’</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Waddle and quack, and bleat and baa,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>They quacked and they baa’d, ’tis true.</div>
+ <div class='line'>But Early-Heart followed a white, white flock,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And the hills were far and blue.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_58'>58</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>BEAUTIFUL.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I have no word to tell you</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The beauty of her face;</div>
+ <div class='line'>From her, a wedding garment</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Would win a grace.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And as the glow of moonrise</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Will make the east divine,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Doth Soul, the radiant dweller,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Her face outshine.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_59'>59</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>AFTER ALL.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I would not now give up one hurt,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>In this far light of morning;</div>
+ <div class='line'>Each one a rose, a blood-red rose,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>A rose for my adorning.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Yes, and the pallor of old grief,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Too lowly even for scorning,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Is warmed into a breathing rose,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>A rose for my adorning.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_60'>60</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I love my little gowns;</div>
+ <div class='line'>I love my little shoes,</div>
+ <div class='line'>All standing still below them,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Set quietly by twos.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>All day I wear them careless,</div>
+ <div class='line'>But when I put them by</div>
+ <div class='line'>They look so dear and different,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And yet I don’t know why.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>My oldest one of all,—</div>
+ <div class='line'>Worn out; and then the best;</div>
+ <div class='line'>But that I have not worn enough</div>
+ <div class='line'>To love it, like the rest.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The dimity for Sunday,</div>
+ <div class='line'>The blue one and the wool,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Now that I see them hanging up,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Are somehow beautiful.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_61'>61</span>Of all the white, with ribbons</div>
+ <div class='line'>Gray-green, if I could choose;</div>
+ <div class='line'>The fichu that helps everything</div>
+ <div class='line'>Be gay; and then, my shoes.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>My shoes that skip and saunter,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And one that will untie:—</div>
+ <div class='line'>They look so funny and so young,</div>
+ <div class='line'>I hate to put them by.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I wonder,—if some day ...</div>
+ <div class='line'>All this will be the Past?—</div>
+ <div class='line'>Poor Hop-the-brook and Dance-with-me,</div>
+ <div class='line'>They cannot always last!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_62'>62</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE TOP OF THE MORNING.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>My days are strung in amber</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Till I am sad again:</div>
+ <div class='line'>My days are full of sunlight</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Beyond all sun or rain.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>My heart is full of tidings</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>From every wind that blows;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And I cannot say, ‘Good-day to you,’</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>But everybody knows!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_63'>63</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>FORETHOUGHT.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I did not keep the Rose he brought,</div>
+ <div class='line in8'>After its day;</div>
+ <div class='line'>Although it lived a longer time</div>
+ <div class='line in8'>Than other roses may.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I let it go the way of all,</div>
+ <div class='line in8'>For this one fear:</div>
+ <div class='line'>Because it might persuade my heart</div>
+ <div class='line in8'>That he was growing dear.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>But now my heart is well assured;</div>
+ <div class='line in8'>And I still sing;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And no one here would ever know</div>
+ <div class='line in8'>That I miss anything!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_64'>64</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>UNSAID.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Ah lad, if I could only say</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The smiles are not for you!</div>
+ <div class='line'>But since your eyes are turned this way,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>What is there I can do?</div>
+ <div class='line'>It’s one I see beyond, beyond,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>My heart is leaning to.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I know, I know, the whole hour long</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>I have been dull and sad,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And answered not the word at all</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>I meant to answer, lad;</div>
+ <div class='line'>Because my wits were gone astray</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>With all the heart I had.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And now the latest ones are come,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And he is coming too;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And I would keep the starlight back,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>But oh, it will shine through!</div>
+ <div class='line'>And since you never turn to see,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>You take it all to you.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_65'>65</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>DANCE-TIME.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>It’s I live in a very wise Town,</div>
+ <div class='line'>As all wise people know:</div>
+ <div class='line'>They read, they write, they read all day</div>
+ <div class='line'>As orchard-trees do grow.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Said I,—I was a young thing then,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And a foolish young thing, too,—</div>
+ <div class='line'>‘I will not spend my little life thus;</div>
+ <div class='line'>There’s much I’d rather do.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘For I would rather look at you</div>
+ <div class='line'>This way, with happy looks,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Than lose the stars from my two eyes</div>
+ <div class='line'>With poring over books.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘I’d rather far be red and white</div>
+ <div class='line'>For stupid folks to see</div>
+ <div class='line'>Than write nine books for little dull worms</div>
+ <div class='line'>To eat them, leisurely.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_66'>66</span>‘And I would rather have it said</div>
+ <div class='line'>When all my days are through,</div>
+ <div class='line'>“O she was good to see and hear</div>
+ <div class='line'>And say Good-morning to!”</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘When learning makes you white and red</div>
+ <div class='line'>And fresh as west-winds blow,</div>
+ <div class='line'>I may spend sun and candle-light</div>
+ <div class='line'>To learn what they all know.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘But O, the wise in this wise Town,</div>
+ <div class='line'>They have no longer prime.</div>
+ <div class='line'>And there are fewer wise men, now,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Than once upon a time!’</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_67'>67</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE ENCHANTED SHEEP-FOLD.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The hills far-off were blue, blue,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The hills at hand were brown;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And all the herd-bells called to me</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>As I came by the down.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The briars turned to roses—roses</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Ever we stayed to pull</div>
+ <div class='line'>A white little rose, and a red little rose,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And a lock of silver wool.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Nobody heeded,—none, none;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And when True Love came by,</div>
+ <div class='line'>They thought him nought but the shepherd boy.</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Nobody knew but I!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The trees were feathered like birds, birds;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Birds were in every tree.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Yet nobody heeded, nobody heard,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Nobody knew, save we.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_68'>68</span>And he is fairer than all,—all.</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>How could a heart go wrong?</div>
+ <div class='line'>For his eyes I knew, and his knew mine,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Like an old, old song.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_69'>69</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>YES, LOVE IS BLIND.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Truly, Love is blind.</div>
+ <div class='line'>All my wish and will,</div>
+ <div class='line'>That he takes for me:</div>
+ <div class='line'>Sure Love cannot see,</div>
+ <div class='line'>That he thinks so, still!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Truly, Love is blind;</div>
+ <div class='line'>But he hears, instead.</div>
+ <div class='line'>He hath such fine ears,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Far away he hears</div>
+ <div class='line'>Little words unsaid.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Truly, Love is blind;</div>
+ <div class='line'>For the merest touch,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Hover of a breath,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Smiling underneath,</div>
+ <div class='line'>He will take for much.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_70'>70</span>Blind, and without fear!</div>
+ <div class='line'>Even so, I find</div>
+ <div class='line'>He would have me here</div>
+ <div class='line'>Always, very near.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Truly, Love is blind.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_71'>71</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE MORNING WAS SO BRIGHT.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The morning was so bright to see,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>I thought that he would come,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Though he is far away from me</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>While I bide on at home.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The morning was so wide, so blue;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The tide ran in to greet:—</div>
+ <div class='line'>It could not be, I knew, I knew,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>But O, the wind was sweet!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>There was a ripple on the pond;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The road had one refrain;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And something called me, just beyond</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The turn of every lane.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The trees were trying not to sing;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>They beckoned on and on:</div>
+ <div class='line'>The day went by with promising,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And now the day is gone.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_72'>72</span>The after-glow, it fades away</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>With my own Star above;—</div>
+ <div class='line'>And all the day, and all the day,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>I looked for my true love.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_73'>73</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE TWO.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And if they faltered in their speech,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>They knew not; for their eyes</div>
+ <div class='line'>Grew like with gazing, each on each,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Like deep of sea and skies.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_74'>74</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>AFTER-THOUGHT.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘But I was happy then,</div>
+ <div class='line'>How happy was I then!’</div>
+ <div class='line'>The sorry saying you may hear</div>
+ <div class='line'>Upon the lips of men.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>To know when you are happy,</div>
+ <div class='line'>You would not call it wise;</div>
+ <div class='line'>Yet, for the seeing happiness,</div>
+ <div class='line'>How tears will clear the eyes!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>They laugh best who laugh last,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Says Pride that fears a fall.</div>
+ <div class='line'>But O, who will not laugh at first</div>
+ <div class='line'>May never laugh at all!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_75'>75</span>
+ <h2 class='c006'>OTHERS.</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_77'>77</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>NEAR AND FAR.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Near and far, near and far,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>All the lights were keeping</div>
+ <div class='line'>Quiet watch with lamp and star,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>While the roads were sleeping.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And I saw, far and near:</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Starlight overhead;</div>
+ <div class='line'>While a woman’s shadow, here,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Made to-morrow’s bread.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Near and far; and I forgot</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Stars must needs be small:</div>
+ <div class='line'>Lamp and shadow, knowing not,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Did so fold them all.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_78'>78</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>FRIENDS ALL.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Little Kathleen, when I was ill,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Offered the mass for me;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And burned a holy candle, too</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>As white as wax could be.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Little Kathleen, I think of her,—</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>It may be once a year,—</div>
+ <div class='line'>When houses sweeten with the fir</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And bells ring out good cheer!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Hejà! But it is good to live</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And walk brown earth once more;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And good to hear your fingers knock</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>At some familiar door.—</div>
+ <div class='line'>And O, to see them all again,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To see them,—though they say,</div>
+ <div class='line'>‘And did you take a journey, then?</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And were you long away?’</div>
+ <div class='line'><em>O, did you take a journey, then?</em></div>
+ <div class='line in2'><em>And were you long away?</em></div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_79'>79</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>VANTAGE.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The wisest finding that I have</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Is very young, no doubt.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Yet many a man must needs grow old</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Before he finds it out.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>How happily it comes about—</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And I was never told!—</div>
+ <div class='line'>That we must all be young awhile,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Before we can be old.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_80'>80</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>A SONG OF SOLOMON.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>King Solomon was the wisest man</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Of all that have been kings.</div>
+ <div class='line'>He built an House unto the Lord:</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And he sang of creeping things.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Of creeping things, of things that fly,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Or swim within the seas;</div>
+ <div class='line'>Of the little weed along the wall;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And of the Cedar-trees.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And happier he, without mistake,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Than all men since alive.</div>
+ <div class='line'>God’s House he built; and he did make</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>A thousand songs and five.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_81'>81</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>COUNSEL TO BEGGARS.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>O, came you by the same road too,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The road that called to me?</div>
+ <div class='line'>And fellow-farers, will you learn</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>What shelter there may be?</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>There’s daybreak there to fill your heart</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Red wine for half the way;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And gold there is of sunset, then,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To last another day.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>(And fill your pockets with the same</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Altho’ your need be small.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Take all the bounty while you may,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To have some wherewithal.)</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And if you see the new moon,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>I bid you tell the news,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And lend the slender silverness</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>For other poor to use.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_82'>82</span>And if your heart be sudden light,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And yet you know not why,</div>
+ <div class='line'>I counsel you to hold the joy;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Let pride of woe go by.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And if your feet be wearied out,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And you would rest therefore,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Seek out some house; but look you leave</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Your sandals at the door.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>For you shall find—tho’ sad to find</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Where houses be so few—</div>
+ <div class='line'>Your too-much sorrow irks a friend,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>If ever it irkèd you!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Take heart. And if the open air</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>No shelter seem to be,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Yet there you shall—and only there—</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Have all that you can see.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_83'>83</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE TWA CHEERLESS.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Eh, is there nothing doing?</div>
+ <div class='line'>Then give your soul good heed;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And show yourself the miracles</div>
+ <div class='line'>That you would like to read,</div>
+ <div class='line'>As long as you’re in need.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And then suppose I sing myself</div>
+ <div class='line'>—And if you will, give ear,—</div>
+ <div class='line'>The very song I never heard,</div>
+ <div class='line'>But I would like to hear:</div>
+ <div class='line'>And this, man, will be cheer!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_84'>84</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE WALK.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>We left the house, for we were sad,</div>
+ <div class='line'>To talk of all the griefs we had;</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And little did we talk at first,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Leaving to silence all the worst.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The rain it rained and star was none;</div>
+ <div class='line'>The wet made two lights out of one.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And broken paths of shining yet</div>
+ <div class='line'>Made on before us, through the wet.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The more we walked and still would walk,</div>
+ <div class='line'>The less did seem the need of talk.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The more we walked from light to light,</div>
+ <div class='line'>The wiser grew the troubled night.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The tacit lamps proved something clear</div>
+ <div class='line'>As often as one stayed to hear:</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_85'>85</span>And better ways, and endless clews</div>
+ <div class='line'>Dawned with the lengthening avenues.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Till where the street-ends met the square,</div>
+ <div class='line'>We found a thousand tulips there,</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Sleeping as flowers sleep o’nights,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Beneath a thousand city-lights.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And then the Bridge from shore to shore</div>
+ <div class='line'>Solved everything forevermore,</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>So clearly, you could leave the Why,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Contented, to some by-and-by.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And time, and grief, were worn away</div>
+ <div class='line'>Till there was nothing left, to say.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_86'>86</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>REFRAINS.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘I love all the world to-day!’</div>
+ <div class='line in2'><em>That is very young.</em></div>
+ <div class='line'>‘So I sing, the while I may.’</div>
+ <div class='line in2'><em>All the songs are sung.</em></div>
+ <div class='line'>‘God would never say me nay.’</div>
+ <div class='line in2'><em>Heed the foolish tongue!</em></div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘There’s a singing in the tree,’—</div>
+ <div class='line in2'><em>All the songs are sung.</em></div>
+ <div class='line'>‘Nightingales! Oh, could it be?’</div>
+ <div class='line in2'><em>Heed the foolish tongue!</em></div>
+ <div class='line'>‘And the new moon smiles at me.’</div>
+ <div class='line in2'><em>Ah, the moon is young!</em></div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_87'>87</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>OUTSIDE THE MUSIC.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Now they come, and now they stop,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Now they all go in.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Now the coaches drive away;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And now it must begin.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>All their faces looked the same,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Every time before.</div>
+ <div class='line'>If I heard it, I should know</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>More and more and more.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>If I heard it, I would sing,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>When I went away.</div>
+ <div class='line'>I would sing it till I grew</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Beautiful, some day.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>O, I hear a whiff of it;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>There’s another one;—</div>
+ <div class='line'>And the coaches driving up,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>After it’s begun!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_88'>88</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE FAIREST.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The fairest thing that men have made,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>My lad, it is a Ship,</div>
+ <div class='line'>O, beautiful beyond the white</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Wild bird she would outstrip!</div>
+ <div class='line'>So beautiful, so beautiful,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>A heart must leap to bless,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And after her the wake of foam</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Stay white with happiness.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And fairer than all things beside,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>My maid,—a Violin;</div>
+ <div class='line'>Nay, aught that will give out again</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The music hid within.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Or pipe or string or hollow shell,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>It breaks enchanted sleep,</div>
+ <div class='line'>To win awhile the faëry heart</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Of air that none may keep.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_89'>89</span>But all of you who may not go</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To sail upon the sea,—</div>
+ <div class='line'>Who wait upon another’s whim</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>For hope of melody,—</div>
+ <div class='line'>Oh, bless your hunger and your thirst,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And give your spirit wings</div>
+ <div class='line'>To speed beyond a narrow door</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The heart that sails and sings!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_90'>90</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE CHILD AND THE ANGEL.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Oh, is it you at evening,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And near enough to speak?</div>
+ <div class='line'>And early in the morning,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Your breath upon my cheek?</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And when the city noises</div>
+ <div class='line'>Turn into clouds that sing,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Is it your veil around me,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Of hush, and wondering?</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And is it you, at sunset,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Who beckon me apart</div>
+ <div class='line'>Till I am something golden,</div>
+ <div class='line'>With petals in my heart?</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Ah, Dearness, somewhere over!</div>
+ <div class='line'>A happy child is this</div>
+ <div class='line'>That with shut eyes uplifted,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Waits for you with a kiss.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_91'>91</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>READING FOR THE POOR.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Young Pity passed us in the street.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Her eyes were like a brook;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And golden leaf and shadow bird</div>
+ <div class='line'>Darkened and lit her look.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Her hair was like the meadow-marsh</div>
+ <div class='line'>That reaches to the sea;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And on her cheek a wild-rose glowed,</div>
+ <div class='line'>The timely rose for me!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Young Pity never knew the word</div>
+ <div class='line'>She gave to men in need,</div>
+ <div class='line'>All clear and simple, in her face,</div>
+ <div class='line'>For working ones to read.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_92'>92</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE BLIND ONE.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>O hide your eyes, my maiden,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And tell your heart to hush;</div>
+ <div class='line'>For love is very bright to see,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And louder than a thrush.</div>
+ <div class='line'>And all adream you wander</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Alone in crowded ways,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Where eyes of all the fools and wise</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Do follow, wide agaze!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Yet all in vain, my maiden,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To shadow eyes like these;</div>
+ <div class='line'>They shine behind your fingers</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Like starlight through the trees.</div>
+ <div class='line'>So dream and shine among us,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Unwitting of the boon,—</div>
+ <div class='line'>How all the eyes, of fools and wise,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Are grateful to the Moon.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_93'>93</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>HOLIDAY.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>When I am far from joy of this,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>In yon thick world of men,</div>
+ <div class='line'>O, save me—save me, world of blue!—</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>That I shall thirst for then.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And when the little strength is spent</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And little hope burns low,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Blow softly on that tortured flame,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>—Fresh air from long ago!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_94'>94</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE FOOL.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>O what a Fool am I!—Again, again,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To give for asking: yet again to trust</div>
+ <div class='line'>The needy love in women and in men,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Until again my faith is turned to dust</div>
+ <div class='line in12'>By one more thrust.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>How you must smile apart who make my hands</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Ever to bleed where they were reached to bless;</div>
+ <div class='line'>—Wonder how any wit that understands</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Should ever try too near, with gentle stress,</div>
+ <div class='line in12'>Your sullenness!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Laugh, stare, deny. Because I shall be true,—</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The only triumph slain by no surprise:</div>
+ <div class='line'>True, true, to that forlornest truth in you.</div>
+ <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_95'>95</span>The wan, beleaguered thing behind your eyes,</div>
+ <div class='line in12'>Starving on lies.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Build by my faith; I am a steadfast tool:</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>When I am dark, begone into the sun.</div>
+ <div class='line'>I cry, ‘Ah Lord, how good to be a Fool:—</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>A lonely game indeed, but now all done;</div>
+ <div class='line in12'>—And I have won!’</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_96'>96</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>DRUDGE.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I waited long until the sky</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Should give me of its blue</div>
+ <div class='line'>To weave and wear, and share, and weave</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The very stars into.</div>
+ <div class='line'>The days they went, the years they went,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And left my hands instead</div>
+ <div class='line'>Another thing for wonderment,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>—The mending, and the bread.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Ah me, and one must set a hand</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To burnish up the task,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And hush and hush the old demand</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>A wakeful heart will ask.</div>
+ <div class='line'>But with a star’s clear eye on me,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>O, I can hear it said,</div>
+ <div class='line'>‘What souls there be, that only see</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The mending, and the bread!’</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_97'>97</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE YOUNGEST DRYAD.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>What were you seeking? For my heart</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Woke at your step and heard;</div>
+ <div class='line'>The farthest wakeful leaf of me,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And the hidden nest of the midmost tree</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Hushed with its hidden bird.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Ah, but the rune imprisoned me</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Till you should speak one word.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Why did you think the spell that drew</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Fell from the cedar there?</div>
+ <div class='line'>You questioned pine and sister pine,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Lingered near ash and wild-grape vine,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>—Doubted the maidenhair;</div>
+ <div class='line'>Ever you missed these eyes of mine</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Too like the twilight air.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The Sun may call the dew to him,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The waters call the deer;</div>
+ <div class='line'>But O, my roots bind every limb</div>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_98'>98</span>To hold me hid, apart and dim</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And silent, and so near;—</div>
+ <div class='line'>And every leaf of me abrim—</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>With that you shall not hear.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_99'>99</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>COME BUY!</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The flowers knew her through the frost,</div>
+ <div class='line in4'>Their own true-lover.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Rose crowding rose, the color crossed;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The silver breath could hover</div>
+ <div class='line in4'>Near and far, poor lover!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>They wondered at her through the pane,</div>
+ <div class='line in4'>And through December.</div>
+ <div class='line'>And then she went her way again,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>—Eyes trying to remember.</div>
+ <div class='line in4'>Have your day, December!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_100'>100</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>PRINCE CHARLIE.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>O had you died upon the field</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>That was so grim to plough,</div>
+ <div class='line'>The tears had blinded every eye</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>That sharpens on you now.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>For death had been a glorious gift,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>With all you had to give,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And kinder than we stay-at-homes;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>But ah, you had to live!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_101'>101</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE MEETING.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘Good-morning to you, then.’</div>
+ <div class='line'>(O stricken heart of her!</div>
+ <div class='line'>Silence, silence, breathe for me</div>
+ <div class='line'>A little breath of myrrh.)</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘And so good-by again;</div>
+ <div class='line'>Good-by, if you must go.’</div>
+ <div class='line'>(Go after, little shade of me,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And tell her that I know.)</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_102'>102</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE COBBLER.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>A little cloud in a golden veil</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>At setting of the sun:</div>
+ <div class='line'>And I a cobbler working—working;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Work is never done.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>A little cloud in a golden veil;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And I am mending shoes,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Never a feathered sandal thing</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Such as a cloud may use.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>A little cloud in a golden veil,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Along the bright highway:</div>
+ <div class='line'>And but for her, to-morrow were</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Another yesterday.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And this will stay, tho’ she melt away</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>After the moon sets sail.</div>
+ <div class='line'>For no man’s sky is always gray,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>—Cloud in a golden veil.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_103'>103</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>MIRACLE.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Love came by in bitter need.</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Oh, but I was sad!</div>
+ <div class='line'>Love stood by in bitter need,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>And I nothing had.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Empty were the hands I held</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Silently to Love.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Empty, as my heart of words,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Stared the sky above.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Lo, Love took—and thankfully—</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>All my wish for true;</div>
+ <div class='line'>Then my hands gave back to me,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Full of kisses too.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_104'>104</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>OPEN HOUSE.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>My home is not so great;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>But open heart I keep.</div>
+ <div class='line'>The sorrows come to me,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>That they may sleep.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The little bread I have</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>I share, and gladly pray</div>
+ <div class='line'>To-morrow may give more,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To give away.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Yes, in the dark sometimes</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The childish fear will haunt:</div>
+ <div class='line'>How long, how long, before</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>I die of want?</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>But all the bread I have,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>I share, and ever say,</div>
+ <div class='line'>To-morrow shall bring more</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>To give away.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_105'>105</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>O SLEEP, SLEEP, SLEEP!</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Do not dream of me.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Nay, without mistake,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Even for love’s sake</div>
+ <div class='line'>And all heedfully;</div>
+ <div class='line'>Do not dream of me.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>All day long am I</div>
+ <div class='line'>Leal to all you ask:</div>
+ <div class='line'>Wish and care and task,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Every need come nigh;—</div>
+ <div class='line'>Still to serve and try.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>But with my Good-night,</div>
+ <div class='line'>O unrippled sleep!</div>
+ <div class='line'>What is here, should keep</div>
+ <div class='line'>This bewildered light</div>
+ <div class='line'>From its skyward right?</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_106'>106</span>Let me feel no need;</div>
+ <div class='line'>Not a love that clings.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Let me have my wings;</div>
+ <div class='line'>Love my wings indeed:</div>
+ <div class='line'>Give my wings godspeed!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Do not dream of me.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Waking, I’ll be human;—</div>
+ <div class='line'>Call it child or woman.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Sleeping, I would be</div>
+ <div class='line'>Only Something Free.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_107'>107</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE CLOUD.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The islands called me far away,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The valleys called me home.</div>
+ <div class='line'>The rivers with a silver voice</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Drew on my heart to come.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The paths reached tendrils to my hair</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>From every vine and tree.</div>
+ <div class='line'>There was no refuge anywhere</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Until I came to thee.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>There is a northern cloud I know,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Along a mountain crest.</div>
+ <div class='line'>And as she folds her wings of mist,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>So I could make my rest.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>There is no chain to bind her so</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Unto that purple height;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And she will shine and wander, slow,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Slow, with a cloud’s delight.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_108'>108</span>Would she begone? She melts away,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>A heavenly joyous thing.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Yet day will find the mountain white,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>White-folded with her wing.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>As you may see, but half aware</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>If it be late or soon,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Soft breathing on the day-time air,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The fair forgotten Moon.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And though love cannot bind me, Love,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>—Ah no!—yet I could stay</div>
+ <div class='line'>Maybe, with wings forever spread,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>—Forever, and a day.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_109'>109</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE RAVENS.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>My eyes are blind with dust;</div>
+ <div class='line'>My limbs are dull with pain:</div>
+ <div class='line'>But my body shall up and after me,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Again—again—again.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>They hover and wheel above.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Where I creep on, they fly;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And with their call and vaunt of life,</div>
+ <div class='line'>They tempt my soul to die.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And the numbness of my heart,</div>
+ <div class='line'>The length I have to go,</div>
+ <div class='line'>The dimness of my starving sight,</div>
+ <div class='line'>They know, they know, they know!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>But the little spark I hold</div>
+ <div class='line'>Shall light me farther on</div>
+ <div class='line'>After the gleam—like a far-off stream,—</div>
+ <div class='line'>Until that, too, is gone.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_110'>110</span><em>Mirage—mirage—mirage!</em></div>
+ <div class='line'>But I say, I will not die</div>
+ <div class='line'>For the hoarse Despairs that wait, that poise,</div>
+ <div class='line'>—And I creep while they do fly.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>No wonder they stoop so low;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And no wonder they should scoff</div>
+ <div class='line'>With Ah and Ah!—and beak and claw,</div>
+ <div class='line'>As they let me beat them off.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>For there is no path to see.</div>
+ <div class='line'>But after the vanished flag</div>
+ <div class='line'>My soul has gone; and after me,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Body must strive and lag.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Up with you,—follow; come—</div>
+ <div class='line'>Whither my face is set.</div>
+ <div class='line'>They would have us dead: but I have said,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Not yet,—not yet,—not yet!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_111'>111</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>NEIGHBORS.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘Who found for you the waters that soothed your heart-break first?’</div>
+ <div class='line'>‘Oh, who but these, my Sorrow, my Hunger and my Thirst!’</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘Who made your eyes the wiser to hail the farthest star?’</div>
+ <div class='line'>‘Who but my Dark I thanked not,—the Dark where no lamps are!’</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘And I come singing, Neighbor, to tell you, where you grieve.</div>
+ <div class='line'>And though my song bled, bled afresh,—yet would you not believe.’</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_112'>112</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE MORNING SOUL.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>O little cripple, with the lovely eyes,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>What have we done to thee?—</div>
+ <div class='line'>For all our wisdom, putting out thy gleam,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Crying, ‘Thou seest not, it is a dream!’</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Against thy cry, ‘I see.’</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>O little cripple with the lovely eyes,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>What have we now to show?</div>
+ <div class='line'>With vext perpetual ways past finding out,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Teaching thee well the hundred things of doubt,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Who saidest once, ‘I know.’</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>O little cripple with the lovely eyes,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>That music of the Sphere</div>
+ <div class='line'>We only sought to bind for thee secure</div>
+ <div class='line'>Some day, if it were true, for thee too sure</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Rejoicing with, ‘I hear!’</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_113'>113</span>O little cripple with the lovely eyes,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Flower of the broken stalk,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Have pity on our need, for it is sore,—</div>
+ <div class='line'>Of thee, thee only,—thee to go before;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Rise up, rise up, and walk!</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_114'>114</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE HILL-TOP.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘Look down upon thy grief.’—O heart of mine,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>That path alone climbed here!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘Look down upon thy fear.’—O heart of mine,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>That cloud-shadow, my fear!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘Look down on thy desire.’—And could it shine,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>That sorry fallen ember?</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>‘Ah, in the valley yonder, child of mine,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Wilt thou remember?’</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_115'>115</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE DOVES.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The doves fly out, the doves fly in,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Brighter than cloud above,</div>
+ <div class='line'>From thee to me, and again to thee,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Out of my heart, O Love.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>My heart is troubled and hushed with wings</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>From the deep, beneath, above;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And the hovering flight of more white things</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Than Earth hath the gladness of.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>After one call they follow, all;—</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Thy call to me, O Love:</div>
+ <div class='line'>Lightning out of the blue, but mine</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>In the likeness of the Dove.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_116'>116</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>FOUND.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line in8'>O, when I saw your eyes,</div>
+ <div class='line'>So old it was, so new, the hushed surprise:</div>
+ <div class='line'>After a long, long search, it came to be,</div>
+ <div class='line in10'>Home folded me.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line in8'>And looking up, I saw</div>
+ <div class='line'>The far, first stars like tapers to my awe,</div>
+ <div class='line'>In the dim hands of hid, benignant Powers,</div>
+ <div class='line in10'>At search long hours.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line in8'>And did they hear us call,</div>
+ <div class='line'>That they have found us children after all?</div>
+ <div class='line'>And did you know, O Wonderful and Dear,</div>
+ <div class='line in10'>That I was here?</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_117'>117</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>ALL HAIL.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>O, Blessed of the dark, we meet along an unknown sky;</div>
+ <div class='line'>And here within the light of you, how beautiful am I!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The other worlds are dim around, beneficent with night.</div>
+ <div class='line'>But I—I turn my face to you, and have no other sight.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>So poising radiant, strong with joy, in desert air divine,</div>
+ <div class='line'>One star doth to another call, and we belovèd shine.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>We shine transfigured, shine, to know beyond all hope made wise,</div>
+ <div class='line'>The echo, echo of All Hail, from new-illumined eyes.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_118'>118</span>Who know not what your glory is, nor why my looks are bright,</div>
+ <div class='line'>I lean to you, I call to you, I shine with you, my light.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_119'>119</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>THE ANOINTED.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I was a little gleaner</div>
+ <div class='line'>Of all the days would yield,</div>
+ <div class='line'>When wonder overtook me</div>
+ <div class='line'>At work within the field.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>The stars they gathered round me</div>
+ <div class='line'>Holding their torches high.</div>
+ <div class='line'>They cried, ‘Behold the chosen!’</div>
+ <div class='line'>And it was none but I.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>They hailed me royal, kindred,</div>
+ <div class='line'>And made me understand</div>
+ <div class='line'>With gifts of light and darkness</div>
+ <div class='line'>They gave into my hand.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>And here the wonder holds me</div>
+ <div class='line'>Though voices all are gone,</div>
+ <div class='line'>Here in the brimming silence,</div>
+ <div class='line'>With this to think upon.</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_120'>120</span>The kiss upon my forehead</div>
+ <div class='line'>Forevermore is mine.</div>
+ <div class='line'>The sweetness fills my heart up;</div>
+ <div class='line'>The tears make all things shine.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_121'>121</span>
+ <h2 class='c006'>EPILOGUE.</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_123'>123</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>TO THE EVENING STAR.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>Yes, and you come, you come. Soft piercing through</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>The luminous fair pallor of the west;</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Budded in light and blooming manifest</div>
+ <div class='line'>As that first lily of the field may do;</div>
+ <div class='line'>Unshaken by the winds, that all for you</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Have made the pathway ready, loveliest,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>You come, you look upon us, shining Guest</div>
+ <div class='line'>Of glories that the world is blind unto!</div>
+ </div>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>All hail, from us who work no more, but wait:</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>From the worn furrows darkened after toil,</div>
+ <div class='line in4'>And from the Sea; and from all eyes that are.</div>
+ <div class='line'>Hallow our upward looks, and consecrate</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>These thankful offered savors of the soil</div>
+ <div class='line in4'>With the one lovingkindness of a Star.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div>
+ <span class='pageno' id='Page_124'>124</span>
+ <h3 class='c011'>TO HER BOOK.</h3>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>I kiss you once for luck,</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>That you may feel no care.</div>
+ <div class='line'>I kiss you thrice for love</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>That you must spend and share.</div>
+ <div class='line in2'>Go now, and wheresoe’er</div>
+ <div class='line'>A heart shall take you in,</div>
+ <div class='line'>It is your very kin:</div>
+ <div class='line in6'>Make music there.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='figcenter id002'>
+<img src='images/i_124.jpg' alt='[Fleuron]' class='ig001'>
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
+<div class='nf-center c003'>
+ <div><span class='blackletter'>The Riverside Press</span></div>
+ <div>CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS</div>
+ <div>U · S · A</div>
+ </div>
+</div>
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+<div class='nf-center c003'>
+ <div><span class='blackletter'>Josephine Preston Peabody</span></div>
+ <div class='c004'>(<span class='sc'>Mrs. Lionel Marks</span>)</div>
+ </div>
+</div>
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+<div class='lg-container-b c005'>
+ <div class='linegroup'>
+ <div class='group'>
+ <div class='line'>THE WOLF OF GUBBIO: A Comedy in Three Acts.</div>
+ <div class='line'>THE SINGING MAN.</div>
+ <div class='line'>THE PIPER.</div>
+ <div class='line'>THE BOOK OF THE LITTLE PAST. Illustrated in color.</div>
+ <div class='line'>THE SINGING LEAVES.</div>
+ <div class='line'>MARLOWE: A DRAMA.</div>
+ <div class='line'>FORTUNE AND MEN’S EYES.</div>
+ <div class='line'>OLD GREEK FOLK STORIES.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+</div>
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+ <div class='nf-center'>
+ <div>HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY</div>
+ <div><span class='small'><span class='sc'>Boston and New York</span></span></div>
+ </div>
+</div>
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+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c004'>
+</div>
+<div class='tnotes x-ebookmaker'>
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+<div class='nf-center-c0'>
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+ <div>TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES</div>
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+</div>
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+ <li>Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained.
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+ </ul>
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+<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75847 ***</div>
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