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+<body>
+<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 77609 ***</div>
+<figure class="figcenter illowp45" id="cover" style="max-width: 112.5em;">
+  <img class="w100" src="images/cover.jpg" alt="Book Cover">
+</figure>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="section">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_i">[i]</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<h1>
+A WINTER HOLIDAY
+</h1>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="section">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_ii">[ii]</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<div class='mt4 mb4'>
+<div class='poetry-container'>
+<div class='also bbox'>
+<p class='center fs110'><span class="smcap">By</span> BLISS CARMAN</p>
+<hr class='full100'>
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+ <tr>
+  <td class='tdl'>
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+  </td>
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+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+  <td class='tdl'>
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+  </td>
+  <td class='tdr'>1.25</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+  <td class='tdl'>
+     BY THE AURELIAN WALL. <br>
+       A Book of Elegies
+  </td>
+  <td class='tdr'>1.25</td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+<hr class='r50'>
+<p class='center fs110'><span class="smcap">With</span> RICHARD HOVEY</p>
+<table>
+ <tr>
+  <td class='tdl'>SONGS FROM VAGABONDIA</td>
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+</table>
+<hr class='full100'>
+<p class='center'>Small, Maynard &amp; Company<br>
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+</div></div></div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="section">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_iii">[iii]</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="center t0">A<br>
+WINTER HOLIDAY</p>
+
+<p class="center t1">BLISS CARMAN</p>
+
+<div class='t2'>
+<p class="center"><figure class="figcenter illowp-title" id="title" style="max-width: 28.0625em;">
+  <img class="w100" src="images/title.jpg" alt="Colophon">
+</figure>
+</div>
+
+<p class="center t3">Boston<br>
+Small, Maynard &amp; Company<br>
+1899</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="section">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_iv">[iv]</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<div class='copyright'>
+<p> <i>Copyright, 1899, by</i></p>
+<p> <span class="smcap">Small, Maynard &amp; Company</span></p>
+<p>(<span class='allsmcap'>INCORPORATED</span>)</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class='press'>
+<p> <span class='allsmcap'>THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="section">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_v">[v]</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<div class='dedication'>
+<p class='center'><i>To</i> T. B. M.</p>
+</div>
+<div class='d-city'>
+<div class='poetry-container'>
+<div class='stanza'>
+<p class='center'>Scituate, Massachusetts</p>
+<p class='center'>October, 1899</p>
+</div></div></div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_vi"></a><a id="Page_vii"></a>[vii]</span></p>
+
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="Contents">
+    Contents
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+<table class="autotable">
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl"></td>
+<td class="tdr">
+<span class="smcap">Page</span>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">
+<a href="#DECEMBER_IN_SCITUATE"><span class="smcap">December in Scituate</span></a>
+</td>
+<td class="tdr">
+3
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">
+<a href="#WINTER_AT_TORTOISE_SHELL"><span class="smcap">Winter at Tortoise Shell</span></a>
+</td>
+<td class="tdr">
+8
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">
+<a href="#BAHAMAN"><span class="smcap">Bahaman</span></a>
+</td>
+<td class="tdr">
+15
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">
+<a href="#FLYING_FISH"><span class="smcap">Flying Fish</span></a>
+</td>
+<td class="tdr">
+28
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">
+<a href="#IN_BAY_STREET"><span class="smcap">In Bay Street</span></a>
+</td>
+<td class="tdr">
+31
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">
+<a href="#MIGRANTS"><span class="smcap">Migrants</span></a>
+</td>
+<td class="tdr">
+35
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="tdl">
+<a href="#WHITE_NASSAU"><span class="smcap">White Nassau</span></a>
+</td>
+<td class="tdr">
+38
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_viii"></a><a id="Page_1"></a><a id="Page_2"></a><a id="Page_3"></a>[3]</span></p>
+
+
+  <p class='center half-title'>
+    A Winter Holiday
+  </p>
+</div>
+
+<figure class="figcenter illowp63" id="image003" style="max-width: 2em;">
+  <img class="w100" src="images/image003.jpg" alt="">
+</figure>
+
+ <h2 class="nobreak" id="DECEMBER_IN_SCITUATE">
+    DECEMBER IN SCITUATE
+  </h2>
+
+<div class='poetry-container'>
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Under a hill in Scituate,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where sleep four hundred men of Kent,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">My friend one bobolincolned June</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Set up his rooftree of content.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Content for not too long, of course,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Since painter’s eye makes rover’s heart,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And the next turning of the road</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">May cheapen the last touch of art.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Yet also, since the world is wide,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And noon’s face never twice the same,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Why not sit down and let the sun,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That artist careless of his fame,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Exhibit to our eyes, off-hand,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As mood may dictate and time serve,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">His precious, perishable scraps</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Of fleeting color, melting curve?</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[4]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And while he shifts them all too soon,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Make vivid note of this and that,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Careful of nothing but to keep</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The beauties we most marvel at.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Selective merely, bent to save</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The sheer delirium of the eye,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Which best may solace or rejoice</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Some fellow-rover by and by;</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">That stumbling on it, he exclaim,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">“What mounting sea-smoke! What a blue!”</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And at the glory we beheld,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">His smouldering joy may kindle too.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Merely selective? Bring me back,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0"><i>Verbatim</i> from the lecture hall,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Your notes of So-and-so’s discourse;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The gist and substance are not all.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The unconscious hand betrays to me</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">What listener it was took heed,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Eager or slovenly or prim;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">A written character indeed!</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[5]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Much more in painting; every stroke</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That weaves the very sunset’s ply,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Luminous, palpitant, reveals</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">How throbbed the heart behind the eye;</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">How hand was but the cunning dwarf</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Of spirit, his triumphant lord</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Marching in Nature’s pageantry,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Elated in the vast accord.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Art is a rubric for the soul,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Man’s comment on the book of earth,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The spellborn human summary</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Which gives that common volume worth.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">So at the pictures of my friend,—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">His marginal remarks, as ’twere,—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">One cries not only, “What a blue!”</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But, “What a human heart beat here!”</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And now, ten minutes from the train,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Over the right-hand easy swell,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">We catch the sparkle of the sea</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And the green roof of Tortoise Shell.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[6]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">(He guessed from slipshod excellence</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">What fable to his craft applied.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The tortoise for his monitor,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And <i>Cur tam cito</i> for his guide.)</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Here is the slanting open field,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where billow upon billow rolls</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The sea of daisies in the sun,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">When June brings back the orioles.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">All summer here the crooning winds</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Are cradled in the rocking dunes,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Till they, full height and burly grown,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Go seaward and forget their croons.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And out of the Canadian north</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Comes winter like a huge gray gnome,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To blanket the red dunes with snow</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And muffle the green sea with foam.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">I could sit here all day and watch</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The seas at battle smoke and wade,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And in the cold night wake to hear</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The booming of their cannonade.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[7]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Then smiling turn to sleep and say,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">“In vain dark’s banners are unfurled;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That ceaseless roll is God’s tattoo</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Upon the round drum of the world.”</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And waking find without surprise</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The first sun in a week of storm,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The southward eaves begin to drip,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And the faint Marshfield hills look warm;</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The brushwood all a purple mist;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The blue sea creaming on the shore;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As if the year in his last days</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Had not a sorrow to deplore.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Then evening by the fire of logs,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With some old song or some new book;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Our Lady Nicotine to share</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Our single bliss; while seaward, look,—</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Orion mounting peaceful guard</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Over our brother’s new-made tent,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Under a hill in Scituate</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where sleep so sound those men of Kent.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[8]</span></p>
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="WINTER_AT_TORTOISE_SHELL">
+    WINTER AT TORTOISE SHELL
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">“What wondrous life is this I lead!</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Ripe apples drop about my head.”</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">But as I read, that couplet seems</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The merest metaphor of dreams,—</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">A parable from Arcady</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Refuted by this wintry sea.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The summer was so long ago,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">I hardly can believe it so.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Did we once really live outdoors,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With leafy walls and grassy floors,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Through sultry morns and dreamy noons</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And red October in the dunes,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">With butterflies and bees and things</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That roamed the air on roseleaf wings?</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[9]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">There’s not a leaf on any bough</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To prove the truth of summer now;</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">There’s not an apple left on high</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To bear the red sun company.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The sun himself is gone away,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">A vagabond since yesterday,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And left the maniac wind to moan</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Through his deserted house alone.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Over the hills we watched him forth</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">From the low lodges of the North;</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And then a hand we did not know</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Dropped the tent-curtain of the snow.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">This morning all outdoors is gray</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And bleak as dead Siberia.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">But what is that to lucky me?</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Who would not love captivity,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where safe beneath their Tortoise Shell</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The Lady and the Tortoise dwell?</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[10]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The Tortoise is the Lady’s son;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">He makes procrastination</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">A fine art in this hurrying age</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Of grudging work and greedy wage.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">An open air impressionist,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">He swims his landscape in a mist,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And likes to paint his shadows blue,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">If it is all the same to you.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">If not, he does not call you blind;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">He waits for you to change your mind.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">His cunning knows how color lies</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Eluding the untutored eyes.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Perhaps within a year or two</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">You may believe his pictures true.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The Tortoise, for a pseudonym,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Is very suitable to him.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">At Tortoise Shell the rafters green</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Mimic a shady orchard screen,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[11]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The kindly half-light of the leaves,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And June songs running round the eaves.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The walls are hung with tapestries</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Of gold flowers bending to the breeze,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And paintings, drenched in light and sun,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Of Scituate shore and Norman town,—</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">A mute, unfading fairyland,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The glad work of a wizard hand,—</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">A small bright summer world of art</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The winter cherishes at heart.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Look, through the window, where the seas,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">A million strong, ride in with ease!</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">The mad white stallions in stampede.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">This is your wintry world, indeed.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">But summertime and gladness dwell</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Under the roof of Tortoise Shell.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Color, imperishably fair,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Is mistress of the seasons there.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[12]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And, ah, to-night the Gallaghers</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Will come in all their mitts and furs,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Across the fields to visit us.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Then Boston <i>urbs</i> may envy <i>rus</i>!</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">We’ll let the hooting blizzard shout;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">We’ll pull the little table out;</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And Andrew Usher, ever blessed,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Shall comfort us beneath the vest.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">So trim the light, and build the fire;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Bring out your oldest, sweetest briar.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">For half an hour, if you please,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">We’ll listen to <i>The Seven Seas</i>;</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Or Mr. Gallagher will sing—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">An opera or anything—</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">About the Duke of Seven Dials,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">About his Dolly and her wiles.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Then we will sit, but not for tea,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Around the smooth mahogany,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[13]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And watch while houses full of kings</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Are overthrown by knaves and things;</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And hear the pleasant clicking noise</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Of triple-colored ivories.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And Time may learn another trick</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To better his arithmetic,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">When wise content subtracts a notch</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For fuming weed and foaming Scotch.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">To-morrow, by the early train,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Light-hearted mirth will come again</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">To race across-lots with a crew</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Of St. Bernards,—contagious Lou.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Who would not quit, for joys like these,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">All idle Southern vagrancies,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">By purple cove and creamy beach,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And gold fruit hung within the reach?</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Since friendship is a thing that grows</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To sturdy height in Northern snows,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[14]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Who would not choose December weather,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where love and cold thrive well together,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And bide his days, content to dwell</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Under the eaves of Tortoise Shell?</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[15]</span></p>
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="BAHAMAN">
+    BAHAMAN
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">In the crowd that thronged the pierhead,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">come to see their friends take ship</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For new ventures in seafaring,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">when the hawsers were let slip</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And we swung out in the current,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">with good-byes on every lip,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Midst the waving caps and kisses,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">as we dropped down with the tide</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And the faces blurred and faded,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">last of all your hand I spied</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Signalling, Farewell; Good fortune!</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">then my heart rose up and cried,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">“While the world holds one such comrade,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">whose sweet durable regard</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Would so speed my safe departure,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">lest home-leaving should be hard,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">What care I who keeps the ferry,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">whether Charon or Cunard!”</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[16]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Then we cleared the bar, and laid her</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">on the course, the thousand miles</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">From the Hook to the Bahamas,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">from midwinter to the isles</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where frost never laid a finger,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">and eternal summer smiles.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Three days through the surly storm-beat,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">while the surf-heads threshed and flew,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And the rolling mountains thundered</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">to the trample of the screw,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The black liner heaved and scuffled</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">and strained on, as if she knew.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">On the fourth, the round blue morning</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">sparkled there, all light and breeze,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Clean and tenuous as a bubble</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">blown from two immensities,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Shot and colored with sheer sunlight</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">and the magic of those seas.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">In that bright new world of wonder,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">it was life enough to laze</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">All day underneath the awnings,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">and through half-shut eyes to gaze</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">At the marvel of the sea-blue;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">and I faltered for a phrase</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[17]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Should half give you the impression,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">tell you how the very tint</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Justified your finest daring,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">as if Nature gave the hint,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">“Plodders, see Imagination</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">set his pallet without stint!”</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Cobalt, gobelin, and azure,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">turquoise, sapphire, indigo,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Changing from the spectral bluish</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">of a shadow upon snow</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To the deep of Canton china,—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">one unfathomable glow.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And the flying fish,—to see them</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">in a scurry lift and flee,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Silvery as the foam they sprang from,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">fragile people of the sea,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Whom their heart’s great aspiration</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">for a moment had set free.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">From the dim and cloudy ocean,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">thunder-centred, rosy-verged,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">At the lord sun’s <i>Sursum Corda</i>,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">as implicit impulse urged,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Frail as vapor, fine as music,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">these bright spirit-things emerged;</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[18]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Like those flocks of small white snowbirds</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">we have seen start up before</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Our brisk walk in winter weather</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">by the snowy Scituate shore;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And the tiny shining sea-folk</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">brought you back to me once more.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">So we ran down Abaco;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">and passing that tall sentinel</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Black against the sundown, sighted,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">as the sudden twilight fell,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Nassau light; and the warm darkness</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">breathed on us from breeze and swell.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Stand-by bell and stop of engine;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">clank of anchor going down;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And we’re riding in the roadstead</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">off a twinkling-lighted town,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Low dark shore with boom of breaker</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">and white beach the palm-trees crown.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">In the soft wash of the sea air,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">on the long swing of the tide,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Here for once the dream came true,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">the voyage ended close beside</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The Hesperides in moonlight</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">on mid-ocean where they ride.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[19]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And those Hesperidian joy-lands</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">were not strange to you and me.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Just beyond the lost horizon,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">every time we looked to sea</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">From Testudo, there they floated,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">looming plain as plain could be.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Who believed us? “Myth and fable</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">are a science in our time.”</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">“Never saw the sea that color.”</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">“Never heard of such a rhyme.”</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Well, we’ve proved it, prince of idlers,—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">knowledge wrong and faith sublime.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Right were you to follow fancy,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">give the vaguer instinct room</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In a heaven of clear color,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">Where the spirit might assume</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">All her elemental beauty,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">past the fact of sky or bloom.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Paint the vision, not the view,—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">the touch that bids the sense good-bye,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Lifting spirit at a bound</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">beyond the frontiers of the eye,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To suburb unguessed dominions</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">of the soul’s credulity.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[20]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Never yet was painter, poet,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">born content with things that are,—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Must divine from every beauty</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">other beauties greater far,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Till the arc of truth be circled,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">and her lantern blaze, a star.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">This alone is art’s ambition,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">to arrest with form and hue</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Dominant ungrasped ideals,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">known to credence, hid from view,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In a mimic of creation,—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">To the life, yet fairer too,—</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where the soul may take her pleasure,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">contemplate perfection’s plan,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And returning bring the tidings</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">of his heritage to man,—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">News of continents uncharted</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">she has stood tiptoe to scan.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">So she fires his gorgeous fancy</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">with a cadence, with a line,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Till the artist wakes within him,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">and the toiler grows divine,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Shaping the rough world about him</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">nearer to some fair design.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[21]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Every heart must have its Indies,—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">an inheritance unclaimed</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In the unsubstantial treasure</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">of a province never named,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Loved and longed for through a lifetime,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">dull, laborious, and unfamed,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Never wholly disillusioned.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2"><i>Spiritus</i>, read, <i>hæres sit</i></div>
+      <div class="verse indent0"><i>Patriæ quæ tristia nescit</i>.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">This alone the great king writ</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">O’er the tomb of her he cherished</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">in this fair world she must quit.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Love in one farewell forever,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">taking counsel to implore</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Best of human benedictions</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">on its dead, could ask no more.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The heart’s country for a dwelling,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">this at last is all our lore.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">But the fairies at your cradle</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">gave you craft to build a home</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In the wide bright world of color,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">with the cunning of a gnome;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Blessed you so above your fellows</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">of the tribe that still must roam.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[22]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Still across the world they go,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">tormented by a strange unrest,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And the unabiding spirit</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">knocks forever at their breast,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Bidding them away to fortune</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">in some undiscovered West;</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">While at home you sit and call</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">the Orient up at your command,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Master of the iris seas</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">and Prospero of the purple land.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Listen, here was one world-corner</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">matched the cunning of your hand.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Not, my friend, since we were children,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">and all wonder-tales were true,—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Jason, Hengest, Hiawatha,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">fairy prince or pirate crew,—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Was there ever such a landing</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">in a country strange and new?</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Up the harbor where there gathered,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">fought and revelled many a year,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Swarthy Spaniard, lost Lucayan,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">Loyalist, and Buccaneer,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">“Once upon a time” was now,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">and “far across the sea” was here.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[23]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Tropic moonlight, in great floods</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">and fathoms pouring through the trees</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">On a ground as white as sea-froth</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">its fantastic traceries,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">While the poincianas, rustling</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">like the rain, moved in the breeze,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Showed a city, coral-streeted,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">melting in the mellow shine,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Built of creamstone and enchantment,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">fairy work in every line,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In a velvet atmosphere</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">that bids the heart her haste resign.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Thanks to Julian Hospitator,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">saint of travellers by sea,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Roving minstrels and all boatmen,—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">just such vagabonds as we,—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">On the shaded wharf we landed,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">rich in leisure, hale and free.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">What more would you for God’s creatures,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">but the little tide of sleep?</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In a clean white room I wakened,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">saw the careless sunlight peep</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Through the roses at the window,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">lay and listened to the creep</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[24]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Of the soft wind in the shutters,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">heard the palm-tops stirring high,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And that strange mysterious shuffle</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">of the slipshod foot go by.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In a world all glad with color,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">gladdest of all things was I;</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">In a quiet convent garden,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">tranquil as the day is long,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Here to sit without intrusion</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">of the world or strife or wrong,—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Watch the lizards chase each other,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">and the green bird make his song;</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Warmed and freshened, lulled yet quickened</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">in that Paradisal air,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Motherly and uncapricious,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">healing every hurt or care,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Wooing body, mind, and spirit</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">firmly back to strong and fair;</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">By the Angelus reminded,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">silence waits the touch of sound,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As the soul waits her awaking</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">to some <i>Gloria</i> profound;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Till the mighty Southern Cross</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">is lighted at the day’s last bound.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[25]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And if ever your fair fortune</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">make you good Saint Vincent’s guest,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">At his door take leave of trouble,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">welcomed to his decent rest,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Of his ordered peace partaker,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">by his solace healed and blessed;</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where this flowered cloister garden,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">hidden from the passing view,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Lies behind its yellow walls</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">in prayer the holy hours through;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And beyond, that fairy harbor,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">floored in malachite and blue.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">In that old white-streeted city</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">gladness has her way at last;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Under burdens finely poised,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">and with a freedom unsurpassed,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Move the naked-footed bearers</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">in the blue day deep and vast.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">This is Bay Street broad and low-built,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">basking in its quiet trade;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Here the sponging fleet is anchored;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">here shell trinkets are displayed;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Here the cable news is posted daily;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">here the market’s made,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[26]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With its oranges from Andros,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">heaps of yam and tamarind,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Red-juiced shadducks from the Current,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">ripened in the long trade-wind,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Gaudy fish from their sea-gardens,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">yellow-tailed and azure-finned.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Here a group of diving boys</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">in bronze and ivory, bright and slim,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Sparkling copper in the high noon,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">dripping loin-cloth, polished limb,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Poised a moment and then plunged</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">in that deep daylight green and dim.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Here the great rich Spanish laurels</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">spread across the public square</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Their dense solemn shade; and near by,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">half within the open glare,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Mannerly in their clean cottons,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">knots of blacks are waiting there</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">By the court-house, where a magistrate</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">is hearing cases through,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Dealing justice prompt and level,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">as the sturdy English do,—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">One more tent-peg of the Empire,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">holding that great shelter true.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[27]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Last the picture from the town’s end,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">palmed and foam-fringed through the cane,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where the gorgeous sunset yellows</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">pour aloft and spill and stain</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The pure amethystine sea</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">and far faint islands of the main.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Loveliest of the Lucayas,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">peace be yours till time be done!</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In the gray North I shall see you,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">with your white streets in the sun,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Old pink walls and purple gateways,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">where the lizards bask and run,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where the great hibiscus blossoms</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">in their scarlet loll and glow,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And the idling gay bandannas</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">through the hot noons come and go,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">While the ever stirring sea-wind</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">sways the palm-tops to and fro.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Far from stress and storm forever,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">dream behind your jalousies,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">While the long white lines of breakers</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">crumble on your reefs and keys,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And the crimson oleanders</div>
+      <div class="verse indent2">burn against the peacock seas.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[28]</span></p>
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="FLYING_FISH">
+    FLYING FISH
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where the Southern liners go,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In the push of the purple seas,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">When sky and ocean merge</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Their blue immensities,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">A creature novel and fine</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Will break from the foam and play,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Swift as a leaf on the wind,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Part of the light and spray.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Will scud like a gust of snow,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Silver diaphanous things,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">As if, when the sun gave will,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The sea for his part gave wings.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">For æons the Titan deep</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Forged and fashioned and framed,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In the great water-mills,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Forms that no man has named.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[29]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With hammer of thunderous seas,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With smooth attrition of tides,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Shaping each joint and valve,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Putting the heart in their sides,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Blindly he labored and slow,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With patience ungrudging and vast,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Moulding the marvels he wrought</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Nearer some purpose at last.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Not his own. Those creatures of his</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Were endowed with an alien spark,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And a hint of groping mind</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That made for an unseen mark.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">For part was the stroke of force,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Fortuitous, blind, and fell,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And part was the breath of soul</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Inhabiting film and cell.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Finer and frailer they grew;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Must dare and be glad and aspire,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Out of the nether gloom</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Into the pale sea-fire,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Out of the pale sea-day</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Into the sparkle and air,</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[30]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Quitting the elder home</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For the venture bright and rare.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Ah, Silver-fin, you too</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Must follow the faint ahoy</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Over the welter of life</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To radiant moments of joy!</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[31]</span></p>
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="IN_BAY_STREET">
+    IN BAY STREET
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indentq">“What do you sell, John Camplejohn,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In Bay Street by the sea?”</div>
+      <div class="verse indentq">“Oh, turtle shell is what I sell,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In great variety:</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indentq">“Trinkets and combs and rosaries,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">All keepsakes from the sea;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">’Tis choose and buy what takes the eye,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In such a treasury.”</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indentq">“’Tis none of these, John Camplejohn,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Though curious they be,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But something more I’m looking for,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In Bay Street by the sea.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indentq">“Where can I buy the magic charm</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Of the Bahaman sea,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That fills mankind with peace of mind</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And soul’s felicity?</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[32]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indentq">“Now, what do you sell, John Camplejohn,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In Bay Street by the sea,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Tinged with that true and native blue</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Of lapis lazuli?</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indentq">“Look from your door, and tell me now</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The color of the sea.</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where can I buy that wondrous dye,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And take it home with me?</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indentq">“And where can I buy that rustling sound,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In this city by the sea,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Of the plumy palms in their high blue calms;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Or the stately poise and free</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indentq">“Of the bearers who go up and down,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Silent as mystery,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Burden on head, with naked tread,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In the white streets by the sea?</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indentq">“And where can I buy, John Camplejohn,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In Bay Street by the sea,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The sunlight’s fall on the old pink wall,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Or the gold of the orange-tree?”</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[33]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indentq">“Ah, that is more than I’ve heard tell</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In Bay Street by the sea,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Since I began, my roving man,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">A trafficker to be.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indentq">“As sure as I’m John Camplejohn,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And Bay Street’s by the sea,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Those things for gold have not been sold,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Within my memory.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indentq">“But what would you give, my roving man</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">From countries over-sea,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For the things you name, the life of the same,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And the power to bid them be?”</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indentq">“I’d give my hand, John Camplejohn,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In Bay Street by the sea,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For the smallest dower of that dear power</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">To paint the things I see.”</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indentq">“My roving man, I never heard,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">On any land or sea</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Under the sun, of any one</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Could sell that power to thee.”</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[34]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indentq">“’Tis sorry news, John Camplejohn,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">If this be destiny,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">That every mart should know that art,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Yet none can sell it me.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indentq">“But look you, here’s the grace of God:</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">There’s neither price nor fee,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Duty nor toll, that can control</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The power to love and see.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indentq">“To each his luck, John Camplejohn,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Say I. And as for me,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Give me the pay of an idle day</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In Bay Street by the sea.”</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[35]</span></p>
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="MIGRANTS">
+    MIGRANTS
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Hello, whom have we here</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Under the orange-trees,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where the old convent wall</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Looks to the turquoise seas?</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">In his jacket of olive green</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">He slips from bough to bough,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With a familiar air</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">No venue could disavow.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Good-day to you, quiet sir!</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">We have been friends before,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">When lilacs were in bloom</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">By the lovely Scituate shore.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">When the surly hordes of snow</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Came down on the trains of the wind,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Two sojourners, it seems,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Were of a single mind.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[36]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Both from the storm and gray,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The stress of the northern year,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Seeking the peace of the world,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Found tranquillity here.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Here where there is no haste,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Lead we, each in his way,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Undistracted a while,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The slow sweet life of a day.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Busy, contented, and shy,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Through the green shade you go;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">So unobtrusive and fair</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">A mien few mortals know.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">It needs not the task be hard,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Nor the achievement sublime,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">If only the soul be great,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Free from the fever of time.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">And your glad being confirms</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The ancient <i>Bonum est</i></div>
+      <div class="verse indent0"><i>Nos hic esse</i> of earth,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With serene, unanxious zest,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza"><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[37]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Whether far North you fare,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">When too brief spring once more</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Visits the stone-walled fields</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Beside the Scituate shore,</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Or here in an endless June</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Under the orange-trees,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where the old convent wall</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Looks to the turquoise seas.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[38]</span></p>
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="WHITE_NASSAU">
+    WHITE NASSAU
+  </h2>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">There is fog upon the river, there is mirk upon the town;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">You can hear the groping ferries as they hoot each other down;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">From the Battery to Harlem there’s seven miles of slush,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Through looming granite canyons of glitter, noise, and rush.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Are you sick of phones and tickers and crazing cable gongs,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Of the theatres, the hansoms, and the breathless Broadway throngs,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Of Flouret’s and the Waldorf and the chilly, drizzly Park,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">When there’s hardly any morning and five o’clock is dark?</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">I know where there’s a city, whose streets are white and clean,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And sea-blue morning loiters by walls where roses lean,</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[39]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And quiet dwells; that’s Nassau, beside her creaming key,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The queen of the Lucayas in the blue Bahaman sea.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">She’s ringed with surf and coral, she’s crowned with sun and palm;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">She has the old-world leisure, the regal tropic calm;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The trade winds fan her forehead; in everlasting June</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">She reigns from deep verandas above her blue lagoon.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">She has had many suitors,—Spaniard and Buccaneer,—</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Who roistered for her beauty and spilt their blood for her;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">But none has dared molest her, since the Loyalist Deveaux</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Went down from Carolina a hundred years ago.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Unmodern, undistracted, by grassy ramp and fort,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In decency and order she holds her modest court;</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[40]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">She seems to have forgotten rapine and greed and strife,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In that unaging gladness and dignity of life.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Through streets as smooth as asphalt and white as bleaching shell,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where the slip-shod heel is happy and the naked foot goes well,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">In their gaudy cotton kerchiefs, with swaying hips and free,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Go her black folk in the morning to the market of the sea.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Into her bright sea-gardens the flushing tide-gates lead,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where fins of chrome and scarlet loll in the lifting weed;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With the long sea-draft behind them, through luring coral groves</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The shiny water-people go by in painted droves.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Under her old pink gateways, where Time a moment turns,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Where hang the orange lanterns and the red hibiscus burns,</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[41]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Live the harmless merry lizards, quicksilver in the sun,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Or still as any image with their shadow on a stone.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Through the lemon-trees at leisure a tiny olive bird</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Moves all day long and utters his wise assuring word;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">While up in their blue chantry murmur the solemn palms,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">At their litanies of joyance, their ancient ceaseless psalms.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">There in the endless sunlight, within the surf’s low sound,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Peace tarries for a lifetime at doorways unrenowned;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And a velvet air goes breathing across the sea-girt land,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Till the sense begins to waken and the soul to understand.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">There’s a pier in the East River, where a black Ward Liner lies,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">With her wheezy donkey-engines taking cargo and supplies;</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[42]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">She will clear the Hook to-morrow for the Indies of the West,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">For the lovely white girl city in the Islands of the Blest.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">She’ll front the riding winter on the gray Atlantic seas,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And thunder through the surf-heads till her funnels crust and freeze;</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">She’ll grapple the Southeaster, the Thing without a Mind,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Till she drops him, mad and monstrous, with the light ship far behind.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">Then out into a morning all summer warmth and blue!</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">By the breathing of her pistons, by the purring of the screw,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">By the springy dip and tremor as she rises, you can tell</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Her heart is light and easy as she meets the lazy swell.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">With the flying fish before her, and the white wake running aft,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Her smoke-wreath hanging idle, without breeze enough for draft,</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[43]</span></p>
+      <div class="verse indent0">She will travel fair and steady, and in the afternoon</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">Run down the floating palm-tops where lift the Isles of June.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0">With the low boom of breakers for her only signal gun,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">She will anchor off the harbor when her thousand miles are done,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">And there’s my love, white Nassau, girt with her foaming key,</div>
+      <div class="verse indent0">The queen of the Lucayas in the blue Bahaman sea!</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[44]</span></p>
+<div class="chapter">
+<div class='first-ed'>
+<div class="poetry-container">
+  <div class="poetry">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <div class="verse indent0"><i>This first edition of</i> <span class="smcap">A Winter Holiday</span></div>
+      <div class="verse indent0"><i>is printed for Small, Maynard &amp;</i></div>
+      <div class="verse indent0"><i>Company at The University Press in</i></div>
+      <div class="verse indent0"><i>Cambridge, U. S. A., November, 1899</i></div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+<div class="chapter transnote">
+  <h2 class="nobreak" id="Transcribers_Note">
+    Transcriber’s Note
+  </h2>
+
+<ul>
+  <li>Obvious typographic errors silently corrected.</li>
+  <li>Variations in hyphenation kept as in the original.</li>
+  <li>New original cover art included with this eBook is granted
+      to the public domain.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 77609 ***</div>
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