IN VERSE SPIDER-WEBS COLLECTION A LYRICS OF MOMENTS LEISURE FOR SPUN AT HOURS IDLE BY CHARLES Professor of Rhetoric Western "The WALLACE WILLIAM spider's Normal touch College how " Literature and exquisitely fine!" "Pope. SfP LINCOLN, STATE JOURNAL 189^ I NEB.: COMPANY, 1892. 26 PRINTERS hCO^ff^ Copyright 1892 BY C. W. WALLACE TO JUDGE T. WALLACE D. AND MRS. My Dear No Father word, or slight beneficence and great As my eyes glance and years the cradle, and the distant peaks of hand, of as both life. kiss, your leave and even in inscribe If counsel a in these the of cherished my this I agone father, and and ever cherishing filial mother, unknown ' and after of ' speed," God- loving still me, of reality mine to affection. unheeding seemed unmindful mother's a hand right of words words guiding a ever good to father's a of days mists dim the looking is memory of embrace fondly dim spective per- counseling with lingering fading unknown into love and forwards touch onwards dedicatory days a with both look the me the above hear ever-present directs now I the pass you rise life owe the in present that mother's a presence that of I Though and the to the repay me. along themselves horizons, guide I how mine, ever granted retrospect hope feel and father, a of and shadows been lose thence can whom to you has in be, may of love prosperity of and it soever of gift consecrated no of whatever Mother: and act, no WALLACE. OLIVE that I can of dearest but that love say that iv and moulding else all of It is the but I in stay out strong my that if Withal, together that hope the iris struck and beauty hope ; and in a that as I your your should reach tottering you yet years pressed so, be your but spared bosoms happy ; of crystals the spring the express and many Your both mercifully years early this Mother, can from wintry to I with dedicate my still pleasure, therefore, I and Sun the is, that love doing New were It do. guide, may whitening joy and slight one Father my and years by and guide the even filial counselor your w^hitened and you, children your nothing these that ; steady to so than to my that on " you desire volume your let and afford can more little hold you. heart's my somewhat to I be may arm around take in that therefore, hand my gentleness a likewise young throng is as and life my those through boast. just, should far so and can and right days later years of years firmness a reach love that shaping with heart my and counsel that both it TION. DEDICA be may in of youth. Son, CHARLES. the full as blossoms that of love BY the As of request importunities this volume it pleasure, book author is fall may introduction already make to well so selections prepared into them as chiefly for hands whose with acquainted need themselves agreeable by and friends, those that hoped are the that been consequently the and students intimate their by largely college most my in verses induced been former my of has collected these has of many the the form printed WAY. of presentation present their THE the formal no and company gaging en- companions. In only and should I justice, few a odd of pastime, with improvement, them permitting ever sovereign That lay is claim book the and making for linguistic distant invade to bad, boyhood, literary dream domains the find following my any modestly of of hearts much pages bring that quiet I desire nor degree of do love the befitting excellence will I popularity that but about; and that souls and pleasure sincerely forth goes great or to attempt with neither thus circulation nor may to that large women above in It a expect, and look little either neither men thus good, been my nor tains con- public. the attain and thought no of since ever pleasure, collection I have that verse this number vast life, busy a that say the of pieces hours own my of out indifferent at here tion satisfac- hope. to work my in the verses to PREFACE. VI herein presented. defects many in spirit,I have here and of As a meaning salt below of had to return the few the hope the six first have often, is is good, worthy dual are the other, in less mirrored or first,obscure at essential the if Certainly the one that this surface, will fall which is they poetry the " not the on poems, accorded thanks my selections that the edition before months what the for of the the hearty reception prospectus, the of recipients and will volume completed this of this it went productions for wish, therefore, given noting the thus substantial to fact the pectus pros- publicly large before use, the a engaged even press, that that was I should present earnest the volume announcement mere contemplated I heart pieces these on without pass determined was the reflection, and one, expectations I cannot too, upon of have. may nearly life, to of existence. whatever of the than soul reality ; poem. estimate here express any judgment the accorded share the judgment, my apparent worthy Also, these ideality, the of " the but I wish of second, this finer basis equal form first. preserving to human human of the true in be may presentation plain view, that, in meaning deemed of the the most finer of the the in one, " It is this far the consequence, distinct, the is and nor remove little else that gret re- effort. meaning image they and see neither now relations hereafter, serious can thought ever beautiful, and the I I contrary, defective of the interpretation the to which But, however repair. or Quite and I that, publication summer. to thank of their those who appreciation. vil PREFACE. opinion Any or suggestion any fit to but will reading, it does If or third, a soul life, and purer reading a and then again and again, like liquid, translucent it is The does the read it, poem and heart and halo the at reader the I do, interpretation of Believing, in (whether in hope, of good beauty as the others, may be be that grow better Divine in in the some some " song of nothing of each the be 22 June, 1892. less than heart I but can " brain heard, to some some verified. c. Lincoln, the both little waif be may experience having human the laughter), children heart for better. the these it is that poem reading of lake, aside. nobler is or the a poetry tears and of that of the cast and thus ennobling be soul the successive found, revealed, excellence and mirroring the a the enter clouds the in aim, again, and should and it and poem each mood entrusting the if it ; successive each of if reading; nobler a at out among and larger that if thereof poem, of plane, sidered. con- second a reading each beautifying image true no into bear not at come back sunset a not each only proof makes care view; pass other, the grander carefully fiftieth a better higher to and or a something heart, then and better grow lift the not fourth, a may encouraged, and will ment, arrange- reader the that received selection a thought, invited only not unfavorable, or on point, gratefully more. not does is most word One other or express, be correction or typography, see favorable criticism, or w. w. the CONTENTS. PAGE After barefoot the 6 Cows, ..... .62 May, Beautiful . .178 . . . . . of A, Sunset, ' . . . no . . . . .126 Shadows, the .12 The, Lot, Man's . . . . . Common . . . . . to 17 ...... The, Life, . . . The, Death-Howl, Demoniac, ....... A, Deploration, .122 . . the . .10 Evening Woods, the m . . . A, 109 . . . .18 Song, Echo . . Shop, Candy-man's April Dreamy ... 128 The, to 65 Threnody), (Double Deep unto .131 . . . . . Down .135 " . . . . . .124 . . Life, Death" . . . . A, Attachment, Deep i . . . "Chorus, Dead -141 . . . . . . . . . . . Buzz, Come " . . .116 Browning, Close .52 . . . . Bards, "Choral . Brains, Borrowing Boy . . . . . . . . . . . Womankind," ""False 32 ...... Family of the -36 Ephemera, . . . . " .148 Time, Father . Freedom's Gift and "Good-Night, Battle Giver, My Song, . . . . . 142 ...... 8 ....... Love, . . . . . -71 CONTENTS. X PAGE Good-Night Gravity I. II. III. From Sun What the The V. VII. and Heart, and Asking Hearts, a-Huntin', Halloween, Haunted Heart, If So, I Love the Angels' I'.se Seen I Wonder, .186 . . . . .144 . . . . -51 . . . .156 . . . . . . 135 .28 . Idiotic A, .66 . . . Year, New . . . . Chap, .46 . . . 123 ...... Keep, Light a .184 . . ...... Kate, You, .183 . . .20 Till Next Peace . . . . The, Dumpty Humpty . . . Rather! Well, . .182 . . . . . The, . . . . Yore, House, Human In of .180 .181 Glory, . Days Happy Ours, . . . 179 ..... God-given, Crowning .178 . . ? Crowd, the Immortal The VIII. . Much World -134 . " . Striving Courting VI. Sun, to is Too Hand IV. The, Earth, on . . . . . Thing Hot?" ...... Life, " Greatest Hal 68 (Song), . . in de Sky, -58 . . . 34 ..... 44 " . . . . . " . . . Just Usual, as Life, . . Lost Life's Philosophy, to Lone Lover's Memories Mist- The, . the The, . -33 . . 59 .... 140 . . . . . . . ...... . . . . . Past, Pie, Wing, .11 . . . . . . Wild-Rose, . of . . Complaint, Madrigal, Mince .120 . Lurlei, The, .52 . 125 . . Wayside . . ...... (A Triolet), Love Lonely! . . Skiff, Life's Life 121 ....... . . . . . . . . .111 . . .156 . . . -117 . .14 . . .15 xi CONTENTS. PAGE Modern Averted, Tragedy the 'Mong Mountains A, Mortal, . The, Old Tree, On Benoni Kingsley's Plucking Our Alma Part the Poet's Rex a . Shut Your New on the Sea, This Thought, Through To To To a . . . . . . . .118 . . -55 . . .5 . 42 ...... . . . Ol' . . .56 . 23 A, Bouquet, . . .138 . 14 ...... . .58 . . 71 . Bouquet, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 .69 . . . . -55 . Miss . .119 . . .47 , ..... Tale, . . . . . Eyes, . . Hand, Angel's Reverent . -9 . " . . . an Fancy, . 13 The, Wild-Rose . ...... . , .115 . . .40 . . . . , 118 . . . 50 . . . . . Sleep, to A, . Life's Thus . Laugh, of .150 . . . . Soul, Touch . " The, Laughter, a i33 " ...... of All, There's etc., . Go Life, Played-Out and " 2 . Song Tears . 124 . and Stars, Sweetest . Lament, . the My 150 147 . of of .30 , ' The, Song Soul 105 ...... Rhapsody, Sorto' ^ . ....... Flowers, of . 2 . Sleep (Sonnet), Sonnets . ..... England Eyes Slumber . ....... . of Sickle . 143 . ..... Crocus, Fugit, In, -25 . . . Farewell," Penury, Shut . . . . The, " Poor, of Soul, . Prayer, The, Press . 46 Mater, of the Pity the . ....... Nightmare, On A, . Defeat, My of .114 CONTENTS. xii PAGE To Morpheus, io8 ....... To Sleep, To Thee 49 ....... Above, log ....... Tough Mutton, Perhaps, .114 . Transformation, A The, . . Psychological " . Mystery, .151 . Twenty, 61 ....... Ups and Downs, .2 . . Useless . . . . ? 105 ....... Washington, 142 . Weather Fiend, . . . . What is Poetry and . . . . .129 . ? -76 . Wheel . The, . . . . . Shuttle, 49 ...... White-Enthroned Above Me, . . -59 . . Whither? . . Who . . . 147 . . Knows? 131 ....... Woodland Lay, . Words and from the Ago, -57 . . . . . Heart, .146 . Year . -117 . Write . . Thoughts, A, ....... . . . . 137 As in chorals Sing they clouds the notion a let SUNSET. OF CHORAL A I've VERSE IN SPIDER-WEBS at sky the billowy their down tresses kiss And The sunset sun "Good-bye!" And the That As the music gets into the Where Have Apart. at in left has Heaven shine in comes slipped the the portals heart, flower the leaves POETS THE That I would earth thou wouldst And blow I would to And tell to I would And thy rest that And hand tak'st world And For men And like Or The For hang some the best Like 'taters THE Brother Days Thro' Till Grant, the find and in years summer's brow, me as thou. behind and the 'em : drive 'em. cart, brag to four, must on " : must some fall wagon. TREE. BENONI do hand some 'tater rise OLD and you on top must some wrong; received and farmer's on and throbbing be ; me right coach ride must some a there as song DOWNS. AND is like to giv'st to would me UPS The breathing my thou from me, lay thy upon words the is wouldst thou to come whate'er me that And wouldst thou that blow thy purest me isles joy beguiles, with all the that celestial from Zephyr Sweet VER, PRAYER. POET'S THE A PR you remember spent we shiny apples dropped in together weather late vSeptember? THE Nurtured where We Hsped we Guess Hear the rhythm Fall fair Some To the that What the Slaughter's Fruit above I Apples As the yet that into Butter-yellow Taste For 'Ine-een as our " of of mine-een." Benoni blossom and lingle pink I think kissed Flemish as mellow " the ; fine fert-hi bony yellow " in Beauty burdensomest tor-I the (fallapples " winds Branches " the in see ; old those taste can clinging yet, hear " fert-hi tor-I Ine-een " in jingle smell can when us it nonsense ; grove brine and tell yet lolling kine of bells " mine-een." blossoms the yet, keeps singing, can I you? and thing- rise like hitching can Tho', and heart if I plagued Meant, ; sat distant fert-hi tor-I I'll be Of shell yet, eyes that of the that my we of past, my Ine-een " where echoes like " mine-een. shut can tree in, brother, my forgotten I shine suns another, one old the warm fert-hi you? TREE. then, haven't you Have See to tor-I Ine-een " the dreamers were As BENONI OLD pears cares mine-een." were) were, " THE Ah, boy, my Them when Just and Burst ha! Each might the In to ! " to days divine " a in mother, the other, mine-een." them lying (we had, too!) asking them, art, nor to When I'm fert-hi and had that to run have not tor-I the laddie my dirt found we'd all earth the skin stems fert-hi them. on Through Of the just watering Ine-een the scheming then, childish "Yes!" in mine-een." little ground the Glory wine fall into chuckling then Mouths vSounded for both then " tor-I her we Oh that some ! one Every " with fert-hi with Ine-een If out? us stain Innocence On juice rotten apples just half-dreaming look Fresh pounded we till almost were we Ripeness, Tell men what ha! off Knock let tor-I Ine-een Rascals " forgotten just squushing There Ha! haven't green tempting Mighty " you get the to TREE. wooden with How BENONI OLD trying masking in dine we'd got our certain, caught mine-een." days together lazy days of childhood the Long shade and Agone's shiny deep weather wildwood our stars And skies with glories gleam. dream. morning The And sleep, sleep I whistle And As And with they chatter foot my as THE above sunburnt my and nimble knees wren willow-trees. hedging in the and again mocking-bird the light COWS. little lane rolled trousers my rest, rest. the down plodding With and AFTER BAREFOOT am beam " Rest, I will sun dream. thy day infest, cares and Rest dream. rest, sleep and and dream sleep. vigils keep Dream, Sleep, rest, and dream sleep, sleep and and WS. CO sleep, their The Dream and dream dream, Dream, THE AFTER BAREFOOT the as airy wings they wear the Trips along And my feet bare little lane catch the again to-day; tinkle thro' silent the air Of the jingle-langle-inglefar away. " Klangle-ling ke-langle, Klingle-lang ke-lingle Dingle-lingle-langle down the dell; Jingle-langle lingle, Langle-lingle r-r-angle, Ringle-langle-lingle of the bell. mer sum- ; lane the From Down In I find ringle and of jangle bell. of the jangle dell dell, in the the ! the of hollows the " cattle the it's Shade lengthening " the By " ringle-rangle-jingle, the made, have cows going, going still, I'm hollows drowsy the 7 hill the o'er path the is Sun in the them I find And By sinking the For And to-night thought prairie little winding a my the across IVS. CO THE AFTER BAREFOOT bell, the " Klang-ke-link ge-lingle, Jangle-ling ke-langle, Klink ke-langle-lingledown the dell ; Klangle-link ke-langle, ke-linsfle, ke-lank K-link of the Lingle-link ke-langle As the hill the O'er Steals a silence their Where I whistle And That Call to answer the shadows, the back echoes the vale behind lengthened, darken wooded the o'er in the of the into the echoes left tangles of the dell ; echoes, message sinking broadened the toward wand'ring are in And and wind prairie homeward the across cows bell. " " the klangle of the bell one. behind. I that message sun, wind. : " Langle-langle lingle, Lingle-langle lingle, Lingle-lingle-langledown the dell the bell. ; D-r-r-ingle-langle-langle, R-r-angle-ringle-langle, Langle-lingle-r-r-angleof At the When I can Like lighting of my hear the the Candles tangled locks the have of the found langle-lingle, soft and cradle-rocking lulling of Night the pillow's rest, light. the blest. 8 And upon the Comes the For the of ear klangle lull angels GIVER. AND GIFT Fancy of " from dreaming me dreaming " Sleep, Dell dreamy distant a of born Fancy ; in their keep, To the klingle-langle-lingleof bell. the " Kling-ge-lang-ge-lingle, Klangle-lingle-langle, Langle-lingle-linglefrom dell ; the Kling-ge-ling-ge-langle, Ling-ge-lang-ge-lingle, Not Rich what give, we giftswax Not when the poet's prove Lifts the From Nearer the Nor the With in Lifts us From Nearer in the gift doing duty from the unto ; gold the full of gift of worth. the Makes earth, sod that's heart page God. of sense ; worth, common that's giver a the unto gold the edge soul the of Shakespeare. " book upon book from us unkind. and heart Lowell. " marble with the Makes this of thought each In But givers its leaves Nor Not share. binding the But we what but poor GIVER. AND GIFT bell. the Lingle-lingle-langleof the earth, common God. sod beauty A PLAYED-OUT SORTO' withered They're They've got I must shet So An' leaves the An' They've got they 'mind For We 'm got wan't They I stuck I touch 'em That I More 'T's a an' " sorto' then Than Good crick. tho', them Wil'-Rose His. Ol' Book an' died. I touch her in mine here I see 'an roses ones to ! wine. ol' bouquet, too; it's beautif'ler hand lips her played-out fresher at only cried. temptin'er Ol'-fashion' But this 'em put 'em see fer an' " June " out I have When in day they've smiled each here days they drooped 'fore Long An' in 'em sick, ol'-time good set smell about is flowers God That the crumpled ween. me style They's jistthe an' o' the 'long now, green. musty me no city Like at makes almost That an' crushed sorto' a withered red buds crinkled With ; tight up sorto' " are now, spell. their lost They've book a withered They're smell musty wait withered sorto' the an' set BOUQUET. OL' " a BOUQUET. OL PLAYED-OUT SORTO' A to vou. me me up lo DOIVN TO Jist let I look me Somehow An' I it sorto' all They've got vSo I must TO wait we All Down a Tell Hippety-hop we what Givin' Hippety-hop candy us Sets all in us Head-over-heels Into vSets us Goin' the it dandy know. you go, in you a know flurry. in a hurry. our our candy-man's all in dandy. a a Head-over-heels Givin' " go. he's we shop candy candy us candy he's of you SHOP. candy-man's stick Tell ; tight up of what a smell now, hippety-hop, the you for All withered spell. stick a to yet. CANDY-MAN'S go for there book THE Here back, comes musty a the an' yet ! sorto' " shet set DOWN smile her see SHOP. 'y jing! " there withered They're An' agin smile her see CANDY-MAN'S THE flurry hippety-hop. hurry shop ; LIFE hippety-hop, it 'Cause, you the Makin' 'Cause, you No how are we grumbles. never we grin, and come in we the we're wush pushin' ; a-wushin'. * * * * -5^ in. come crowdin' how knows * grin, candy-man matter He Jic see, the Here grumbles. never candy-man matter Makin' Jic see, just tumbles Everybody No shop just tum,bles, Everybody Goin' n candy-man's the Into LOVE. TO Return. Down Hang Here hand my we go A It is life With 'Tis the the With great just soul a It is life With to love heart's It is life For LOVE. Triolet. just a to heart's Above. love, just to devotion true law sweet, just a " hippety-hop. TO LIFE shop! Nellie, now, jelly, ma's candy-man's the to to better'n that's but L-l-lp! to wild " move emotion. love true devotion. : COME 12 THE TO COME like FalHng Come in the Songs like Falling Sweet tree-webs Borne Waft the by from Lydian his Lvdian his Aye Softest Love zephyrs of quiver bears quiver even airs. bears the sings airs, to star-flowers the to blossom star-flowers the of musical down ; of heaven. Night folding day Lies even of heaven, when when lis of love grove Night folding Day Aye ; grove. Idean of musical in Love around of measures Softest of love zephyrs measures in Love us. us vespers vespers some by the Borne around Idean some ; weave around the the us ever tree-webs the chime Sweet winds mantles from eve around chime in Waft of mantles the where Songs Pantoinn. shadows the to SHADOWS. THE TO A Come SHADOWS. sweetest to his bosom. blossom of themes; his bosom rapturous dreams. 14 MINCE " Wandering- Let Grate the on her bright Controlling thy rolling enfold fair form Her oh Whisper, Unto the thy Where whom fond from Heart heart, Facts For Lies the From in Nor Do often they e'er thy big soul from ninnbers slumbers mince liveries equipage Anger's dissever lie; as red of eyes disguise shore. river pie. LAUGHTER. AND are thy gently roll, muddled heavy so TEARS Tears in fact no the ; wold PIE. never can over or in great not me to waves MINCE Tell bore death-rivers forever never above. oar of the winds the from cold. Lethean soft ; caresses love thy they shall rest with bosom as fair Minevr! Farewell, LTnto whisper, one fondest thy on with soft her Rowing Love radiant with tresses dashing turbulent of my ear soul, thy breast. to prest thy plashing- and not Kiss and blest, of my heart the Aidenn, of the strand from shore thy to of angels the over stole Enviously Bore whom maiden the Unto PIE, stolen grief ; swollen the thief. my soul. MIST-WING. Tears Like Like foam the kisses true Like the Tears Like Like the the Wedded Like as day the Each kiss loved one's kin but the night and night, to and day Like heart my the mist- That And For I sang the wing I loved with angel Dwelt light was way. I of above. the fairy ; song was airy and enchanting, wanting eyes. ; after MIST-WING. Oh ; laughter. each other's the skies the adoring, are prepares sadness imploring for'er their ; show. better that waves, They Tears? be bow the their use may waves reflect They gladness, hold that they often may ; stars. pent-up joys lonely only of the clouds their That and bars vanish clouds the sad music cycles the Like ; sun. are ocean's often are Like tears, the With Tears of the music, the Like run they sparkle, Darling, the Tears, fretting foamy the At pettish, Darling, often are 15 1 6 MIST-WING. And In With But And Would Then not Mid-leap with to death Did There Turned There the Drone a thrilling chilling, his and hope my chilling ; fair Wing Mist- my filling, breath. Blasting Where awful blow demon a by dreamings, horror mist-wings her upon gleamings, move. froze Like For fast heart, with my with bound hands, my Aidenn ; blind were eyes my love my of robes mist-winged her maiden the clasped had I fain of dreams lie heart stone to ferried was buried, ; bygones dreary, ceasless, cheery weary Monotone. Where O'er fairy my ripples the Bound There And in of fancies haunting with river, the sleep, fondest my forever floats follow features hollow Vigils keep. PVom In her Fade From star a a light golden tresses Fair Hope; the the as phantoms is streaming gleaming faster, faster. Morning-star, Horoscope. life's vaster THE And and soul my Swift Joy body breaking apart. shall spiritsoon ! my And 17 waking-, waking, waking. is She LOT. COMMON forever enfold more Heart hold her her, heart. to LOT. COMMON THE CJior iambic. limb the All not to even the heart No, naught of O dove ! one O soul ! of 3 love there song on with sympathize every the deep stone Hope thy of for some dear heart above. river of tears rolls from the Angel of Hope moon over born alone. alone, croon to the the ; is thine home weep white-robed the love the loss ; mourning you dear, you, land soul the over : the save the dear, my with weep lured Yet then, you hearts your tone? ! weep one world sad the mournful yes singing alone. all make Why Ah sad bird, sitting so Sweet own, above ! throned in the white dome SONG. ECHO SONG. ECHO be Echo, Listen to I'll evermore, And that (Tho' adore I fain would That If a with And and smiles When and I'm A'Vith yoii pranks should do one to one sees her? (On soul), my her, don't and And at How acquainted see? you is painted ^he's heart my blind I'm her!" enough lily face her when Echo, well quite not I seize "See, But alas ! the That And Other of laws his feinted^ she, as can " meet "Seize But you through. should wiles what's Pray, entreat me maid radiant and rare done!" "Be hear you you) done. be to beseech, must bore know " but, sir, I you I sometimes What's Oh you, ; now, that augurs For woe my as implore I heartless, not her? sir." prohibit Love subjects see ; besides, explicitly inhibit sight than What blindness then? " See, I exhibit. to can ne " " nor " seize her. " Cease, sir." greet you, SONG. ECHO Echo But, friend Friend Love's commands (for you and counselor), I can't Hence imruly) most "seize nor it's idle But if this Now, been I've what It'll be ejaculating. passionating peregrinating death. my I let it? Must it!" "Let should Friend As play affected She's who friend answer Nor as amorously love's clamorously scattered sherds. Seeking " I will Nay, not Is Tell And me what I'll vary Truth Sir, from obtained in do from surcease " " cease! till satisfaction cease to words. thus you With seriously more grave upon quite wakens " breath. consuming stop its wild Doesn't her." Caesar! " Yes, that's ; sir, "see," "Cease," duly followed and blind most truly most are all be must .(Tho' himself 19 it a is, there Ann distraction this not and you. fraction. are two " Mary. "Marrv! " " THE HA O sweet 2 0 Tell Echo, me, and Oh What That should charm quite may I choose When tell me. truly tell wight other no USE. HO Echo, thralling sweet TED UN excel me me belle my matrimony For impel most " "Money." Tell without then me If you it Swear Whence equivocation health, value by the hills,j^our habitation. issue you like Which exhalation, an has one Truly to thee, answer " sir." Forthwith And the forth me find and jingling love-songs wealthiest I win Till part. never hie I will her And earn last he hears her mine. and Love Closing Locking Bearing after every every off the have key. her HOUSE. gone away window-blind. door wind her " years.] HAUNTED THE Hope in her heart "y4;/;/.'-dern [This pathfinder Love's Echo, sweet shall We wealth? the "Ann, Thanks " behind, mine! " ! 2 THE 2 But I would alas! Would that Might Tho' For at and Despair of only Minting metal by night, they, are ' night, white. ghostly and it fall and Hope Love feeds the and Love Closing door Leaving Bearing off the remove foul to there revels dead! are friends, my wed. Despair, inate high Love is Hate ! hold they Ere Hope quite, sounds and after his to And Ruin there, revelry. Wedded Good ! daytime 'tis haunted Hope might, each night, at hide both Coining " air. the Counterfeiters Aye, tho' Hate sights Ghosting Holding Love go the thro' Demons and they morn Quiet so! e'en USE. HO 'twere Hope return TED UN HA decay have pile, ; away. gone while. have and Ruin lone the key. gone away, closing behind. blind, : SONNETS LIFE. OF LIFE. OF SONNETS 23 I. A battle brilliant The flung his From the Drew forth With ten Night, quiver his planets joyously of the star-tipped, feathery, arrows, of breast by the from the sea and ; living blood dire wounds the in fire. Sun, of streams lay skyed all arrows of blades fire-tipped arrow every sorrowing the Night of the arrows thousand ten might, black'ning height, the wounded in And foeman's starry-spangled out ; armored his up Light, deadly fray, the thousand dripped Down living day iron-plated the Poured That far arms pierced And in 'neath vanquished with fought all the awearied Sun, Sank But Darkness battle brilliant A each flood. doming the one IL Grim Night Exulting with Reviving Sun Upflung forth And pierced With And hands, far into vanquished ever over Triumphant mail of breast up the of eastern gray. Divinity with God's Lethal power with Darkness, ruleth light, own Night, blood-rusting red, of Night Day, might, dazzling fire-tipped darts the height bleeding lay heaven-born shafts, white-hot the all blackened delight. own with countless Down vSank demon's again, his ; heaving shining quiver the From Drew his the upon a his of heaven ground the Along stretched Darkness Triumphant of all the ages Light, " Chaos damned of gold. dread dead old. the great Godhead! 1 SONNETS 24 SYMBOLS On submitting gleaned. Some light and truth the admit in these various surprising ignorance, else, opinions and the vice, in resembles can day, does, indeed, obscurity, of work both 'Tis of barism. bar- over some of out occultness symbolical phraseology. or possibly or squeeze with are victory its the and obscurity it that I and night I confess that ideas civilization or concomitant are of over say it somewhat is that and upon delineations Some consolation only for ; various it celebrates virtue wrong, interpretations. attend that is not The poet. think over so LIFE. description over nothing great Hteral a learning various though so right of' This as OF critics, I find that to Others ! error, triumph it take LIFE. SONNETS IN this poem darkness over OF all nously synchro- iconographic said 'tis so, " and 'tis sad! "Sing a black-birds tho' of the beauty new with its As to that this of old that read the what The be to a foregoing, piece and second a of sort Syinbols thus twenty meaningless, The "pie" twenty-four completed that delectation I have of subjoined suggest, In quence conse- those who these Notes. I. Darkness, Light, day, " black' quiver arrows, life (on earth). " one's " Su?i, death. " duration one's life. of " the faith iron-plated streams of life. 7iing height, of hour " planets, in breast the " of death. thoughts, desires, longings, hopes. future. of Night, living blood, " " gloom hope of others death. one's death. receive from the a jingle of Life. A7talogtie of Life. and give identical capitals throughout for the time, the are fact, it was Son7iets suggested and symbolized. symbols In four rye, black-birds" twenty jingle. of comparativ^ely is staring Carlylean poem all the and full etc., is know we etc., etc. title and I intended to day, pie," a four " symbols the care in unless the day, hours six-pence, pocket baked pleasing, is the o' song tian's Chris- MODERN A dire, di're i. e., " sea, sorrowing skyed the m only VERTED. friends. flood," d^oX.^, deeds, doinmg 25 Darkness. to sorrowing " A TRAGEDY the dead, in reflected especially in and humanity hearts the etc., of hopes, words, friends. of II. Sun, Reviving eastern soul, " mail of A7^///," sleep Last sonnet lines two This in permitted poetic than the images make nature life of and Too the close 'twould needs title and some ridiculous and naked the itself poem Life of the most than to can AVERTED. (/;/despondency). He heartless! Heartless! Oh, I know! Tho' And Tho' heart your Claim be own my no forget may my loved Still my To turned let day me stone me as one heart to my is true you. Still is true. Still is true! own, ; be exquisite any thoughts suggest explanation TRAGEDY MODERN cannot The nonsensical. them. A Eternal. interpretation of in the beautiful and death, over interpretation an make more infinitelymore day. resurrection day. indefinitelyextend literature never the triumphs resurrection poem: of morning earth, on somewhat. any poetic thought the resurrection. death. the begin aid may of all closes brings Last of dawning ^rrt_y," of morning on true poem and possibly 26 TRAGEDY MODERN A VERTED. A lly) (^faitJifu She . Heartless? Ah With Tho' So " ? no! long Tho' heartless! " With us burdened the the divide years deride waves To prayer, is true heart Still my care us still unanswered a of stream you, Still is true. Still is [joyously). He Then 'Tis 'Tis no! wronged If I've No! heartless?! not No, true. in thoughts my To love; madness move. is true heart Still my for nearest are you When mad I'm because that Dearest, you. you. Still is true. Still is true. {flippantly). She Then not Not Tho' so Of I thus Give ! the gave you very your at No! heartless? my it back treasure life to me, pleasure to you, you see ! " ; is true heart Still my To 27 VERTED. A TRAGEDY MODERN A you, Still is true, Still is {Inttcrlyand He and Stars the Oh Oh so! is world the All sadly). heartless! Heartless! 'Tis true. : ceased have love shine to weary weary, endlessly is mine that Night dreary To " is true heart Still my ! you, Still is true. Still is (tauntingly). She I'm Ha! No, I true. tho' heartless, ? no! only funning was And Never Into I didn't mean thought of love, To once ; " running great you 'Course, it my big dunce. is true heart you. Still is true, Still is heartless! Heartless! w^oe ! (in despair). He My true ! Flow, " ; THE Oh this HUMAN life is bitter Poison, Than ! " river, rope, death Any HEART. or gun " is fitter hearts two Still my thus heart To dead in one. is true you. Still is true Still is true. [infear She No heartless ! not No, I as don't Oh And ! ever; take I'll be Your imploringly). No ! no! true am ^ " life precious your forever darling own Still my To little wife. heart " is true you, Still is true, Still is true. HUMAN THE HEART. Birth. Laughter The For heart life is but God is and is music has music forgotten death, and revolving the is kin its tears Death years. to laughter : ; is the Life hereafter- NIGHTMARE. THE NIGHTMARE. THE the In With vStood of Wrought With I touched Stood that In whose the Oh, As the of Wrought In By my the terror of death breath. sweet power was pen ground to season killing reason demon had heart heart riven. must blacker fiery lacquer of lust ! given. my ink, made full his glutted palsied, broken surface born Persephone's golden from demon's quiver. shiver fiendish gold the lay. hour Love fiendish On stole that the its bosom frighted endless and Pen to that my grasp gloating ^'Golden Thus Ink blasting, heart ; hellish-lighted wasting, Chilling on own quaking fearful after Hour Love's self and Pluto's that good the of the day all the blighted gold, began fearful a Surface of demon lighted was from pen, my As throttle fire that sprite Every bottle, ghoulish ink murky fiendish a And and fierce a the With ink my fiery gleaming- a And of depths its dark uncertaintv." bury thee dust. THE Then And I To the demon the bottom that Would Love's Bind saw 'Round Darkness And far-off Tuned In and the ; the gold ! unlighted, deep, angel that of of Beauty distant disappointed mingled glory hold not half-frighted near, music to could twining angels then, demon's the By light. quiver demon the all-eternal sitting its drip shining reigned Silence ; never never, place, and Strange sight hold darkness the shaft the of out gold not radiance a the and gold-illumined again I me below of of me o'er could I knew Then For sank stream a saw That sickness demon the As 3^ before came loathing a For shadow a NIGHTMARE. a wail voices rejoices love that cannot fail. * Morning? And While Doubly God wife, tell what : " loving you our still against mine lie kisses bliss go seeing ! cheek and arms Before all being warm your loving your Warning let that is not seeming our Dear Thank " to is. " bed, don't eat mince pie ! ''FALSE 32 WOMANKIND!'' "FALSE ON READING A WOMANKIND!" SLUR THAT LACK-LOVE " and foolish Where E'en biting "As false "False the the To those Of roseless And It, thorns Of brow and ; " For the Unto this me In the heart In the human whose charge says paean None in " ever so False ages truth of have and crown bind and heart love twined kind twine or and false womankind! wind find humankind. heart false and loveless enshrined none pens wind mind enshrined. and they " mind my all, round the womankind!" mother's or crown, sweetheart-wife That As to whined. has imkind. wreath a thorns False, false " false thus sainted mind, heart from embrined pen, love," lie back shined. never of cut, the who sister's have woman's womankind, I hurl A love DAY. confined long too BY blind a many bitterness as Unkind a HER womankind!" Shakespeare's sweetest With " rails and ON ANNE's false heart, light MADE QUEEN womankind, wails And OF GAY, False Thus WAS so have : " blind lined mind the " THE 33 LONELY! None so true None so pure None so sweet None so great None so in As Jicr as find we and : kind, and good enshrined heart womankind, ' refined. so and ! mind, and heart of the womankind false womankind, False ' undermined, has heart the What " womankind! as LONELY! (long TO I lonelier, lonelier. Dear, to-day am Than And life is it heal Of I haunt Only A to lorn only over Than not the ever I am with purest of it tell. boom, world's has and room flown. fear I nor care lonelier, Dear, well-wonted the whirl. known. wide reason, life's shell, bittern's the as something know the will sea the from find its o'er solitude every nameless I know I and lonely the but naught Oh, wound every in sad so in shut so 5^ore. is heart my my Tho' of alway, foam-fretted ocean, only of days somehow But before: been old restless Moans 4 I've ever the And As dead.) ago moorland death-wept tear. I fare. ; pearl SEEN I'SE 34 That it, I'll I'll bear But at Far out A SEEN I'vSE (a Oh head My I'se Oh stay; noddin' well noway. Caze I'se I'se leab to chillun you I know Oh to gwine, gwine doan' An' SKY. DE grizzled, an' right I haint An' chime melody.) to got thee, IN got long hab " sea. plantation I haint An' ! glad-voiced the LIGHT gittin'ol' I'se in crystal the on it for bear SKY. time the long; join I may last DE IN ! how Dear lonely, How LIGHT A gwine cry; leab to you in de light a seen you, sky! Choriis. Oh yes! in Oh yes! caze Oh de I'se floatin' clouds white seen light a high, in de sky! I," I'se Oh I'se seen " seen a light, " I'se Oh I'se An' Oh gwine doan' I know Caze seen I'se away you I'se seen a light to leab chillun gwine a in de sky! you. cry! to light leab in de you sky! Oh I\SE SEEN dat light de An' A DE IX LIGHT SKY. a-g-ittin'brightah, am cloud nio-h a-comin' am " o Oh I know Fer de hits to dese home dey Twell in de wake I'se Gaze see doan' chilkm my high. on dey'll nebber eyes Hoh 7 comin' angels me carry Oh 35 seen cry! you happy light a you, " " mawnin, in de sky! Chorus. Oh yes! in de Oh yes! Oh white I'se caze seen I'se I'se seen in de sky! " a seen light, " I'se Oh I'se An' doan' Caze De mawnin' an' mawnin' Oh seen ! in leab de cry! leab light in de you'll you sky! plantation, gray! " dat's by-an'-by! happy see de " Day! heaben you sky! you. to gwine breakin' yes! in de Caze in de stop yo' weepin', I'll meet Hoh to growin' am yes light chillun a ol' am good-bye, De I'se de to a away you I'se good-bye seen gwine I know Oh Oh light a high, I," Oh Oh floatin' clouds comin' " mawnin', in de Light sky! Chorus. Oh yes! in de Oh yes! caze white you'll clouds see de floatin' Light in high! desky! 36 FA Oh MIL Y I," Oh I'se I'se seen " seen a light, " I'se I'se Oh gwine, gwine I know Oh Caze I'se OF FAMILY heard have and wonderful altogether you, de sky. and story Shut In.") where, or I beautifully strange of story a " " poem, when not beautiful strangely a meet following I know sometime, Somewhere, you, EPHEMERA. the with to light in a THE in connection read be gwine seen leab to sky! by-an'-byl you I'se in de light a seen I'll meet But (To EPHEMERA THE OF a pygmy people. *[n the of tide shore nor long, long of flow the rolling nor asleep, forgets that the Family As into the climb, to time the of in up During dimensions had of first a new Ephemera. of glint race " the the the the sing poets don't that all to the ever, Tradition, I don't dates, new Adam morning, night, sprung phenomenon, the to even ago gotten for- there know lived Ephemera. came existence. long so still antedates the sun whence rhyme), ever where (and lethal have years they used that clime the even the into slipped has where chime heavenly a ever, but Time the of that ago up, and by the built day's and a sun Eve the toad-stool of this beneath genii came race of shadowing over- darkness, first born kissed the of Family the derful won- called 38 MIL FA colonnades of around, for was them. and sun that great even one had by later nor horizon. made for aeons for earth it distance endowed them. more of want zenith. wisdom stood than still and came So pointed crumbled. New and Others died. been the those always was pointed been in were on how universe. created, and for them other none and people, made an placed the was blessings, happy a things ous. prosper- happy more prosperous. Centuries "It little world were the nearer philosophized exist to richest its all had them, another than that position a why alone, and their They Their and for all with above no toad-stool, towering great them that rejoiced They than and them, impossible was the how them; ; authenticated not and place ever, said, how- investigation, how how place They occupied the to taught in other but all inhabitants it not. had showed They immeasurable knew scientific ago oldest be to tradition, a pointed and all that in its present the sun spective per- upon rejoiced told They of the was and remained history even long, long the " always looked philosophers usi dim in the They them, memory there by history for known ever that sun wise the Nay, now. Their had sun in for above ted long, fret- the vanishing mystery. and "All said, and history beneath, down reaching tradition's of EPHEMERA. THE achievements grand their OF V the it ; nations took was telescopes Wiser Ephemera. of their great red sun, made for lis!'' from arose as their places. They toward were now the in stood sun mid-forenoon the toward tolerated. their of race of tJicre The went. the losopher phience exist- and said, Crowns chaos, flourished, Schools had fostered. mighty fret-work ways al- They of FAMILY the toad-stool OF above radial beams The students of into the huge history ; into the them, that the lore of they read with EPHEMERA. and their mathematicians; and into up the The "All declined " sun, said They could that, hearts that they brighter The gods, and over The with guarded sun in its old wandering lower the going down of As the Ephemera, hand waning in light up and out and glinted its gold Thus of passed Strange, strange last ray only two the of the into the on sable away story! the the all all for things, the a them. watched the of this and sank Family, their to rest eyes as the sky beyond, iron-bound of the over strange lone, turned zon. hori- decayed r^ce passed sun unfathomed race in their world, touched sun, Family A another clinking stars, and They strengthened, them, limb of west, future. alone. the hand, old and shot gates for They people. faith, placed in the to " alone. and them The ray golden and them, low. age. a they peopled sank of the the whom all The west. us! the again world, losopher phicells, different a grown meet better a With land all or and hope a the to them into creation, had should and for : their narrow for and similiar looked they down said, pointing made them, another also their at for was prophecy, claimed to Time 'twas looked own zenith, declining thus; conceive not With alway puted com- " Still, philosophers I 'Twas I us and with their to all for us, passed the sun race for heavens deep studied They they rim. delved they reasoned ; of number outer colleges nations. poets and, withdrawing they said, and ancestral their the its broad supported 39 " computed universities their earth THE the night the wrapped beautiful ! Ephemera. up in them- IN. SHUT 40 selves, peoples on A their ken the gods of as " the microscope, turned end for story ! strange strange, small the them to inverted an the in worlds unknown Olympus were rior supe- looking through are end the eye, and the at Events, night of the fits in perfectly day the we eye, die shall sky concave in. ! see not Of at the first if Who inhabit the ever Seeing myriads myriads a the of on orb silvery may of others myriads sky. far-intrusions. beyond thought silvery infinite in the systems on I wonder That glance suggestions, systems star-illusions if the sometimes I wonder Are and man Hu- descry in, to of every surface convex born been II. We be IN. has man the imto Still might we Time, upon narrowness Where Even there large SHUT the that ! race Oh ; Romans. the to own peoples beyond superior as little their like realms other innumerable be might there that dreaming; never more the eye. them confound mist. around may them. exist. IN. SHUT Oh do say, That As Ever each in its know they From the the of sun but in the sun-beam, a light mighty one of planet whirls, a bathed ones? dust the like course suns holy vestal same in dwell are fire of of similar myriads spiritsthat the Do in tiny frost-crystal each pent-up imagine or burning- Is the with burns dream Ever sprites of the 41 of but one beam of worlds? system III. the Oh narrowness And infinite the Even the unto in I know But The Will heart o'er range and soul desires die shall ! in w^orlds elysian eye, infinite an perfected, a and aspires. in that of every surface perfected a still descry in, to hopes he day the falling he my convex With of born been of his bounds night and Aspiring has man vision, infinite sky. IV. I dreamed For Of a And O An golden day in in sang rise thou The warder my infinite There's an soul, look is sim heart my shifting in the infinite the at up midnight time happy a thoughts leaped my And in dream, a this system dream golden the east ; the beyond -god's chime bars " prison, ; arisen. beyond the fiat : dark thy mortal has quiet, stars. SONG 42 I dreamed Like Leaned out And sang the And At music they and soft On deep in and Youth beautiful Beautiful, beautiful all the Whence Turn your Turn them And drink eyes, to the with depart. throng, music-waves. beautiful song maiden, love-laden. Stars the aye beam, Beam, are heart dream. Dream, We note finger-tips this heart my wide tide. my and soft into " night. that heavenly by the merged silence I heard And air of harps the the left in the of dream-touch of shall soul my each forever brighten forever never the The beautiful ; opening of swell the night nearer stars brighten And and beautiful, beautiful the Shall fell like and rose seemed heaven tune. that dreams sweeter grew olden an of of portals above bowers measures sweetest music And Ah the kanoon, soft her o'er skyey in sweet the the As their of I dreamed And maid eastern an golden stars, the when night one vSTARvS. THE OF SONG STARS. THE OF of portals portals glories turn, turn, happy them of " love, above shine heaven turn your eyes. skies sweet love : divine. :" SONG and Youth Beam, for Pray love-laden. at thine eyes, Turn them to the drink and he When the thine eyes, Turn them to And drink the them And A into the that star shall Turn thine eyes, Turn them to And drink the with " : eyes. divine. love maiden. beam, love-laden. heart thy sky thine for thine turn sweet and Stars seek sweetly start, dream. Youth Beam, thy heart, skies happy with of longing turn, turn, Dream, Youth, words and hoping " throbs sweet and Turn maiden, love-laden. caresses is divine. love beam, Stars his eyes, dream, Beam, Throbs way. shrine: thine turn sweet Youth still not pray, skies them Dream, Maiden, thou lighted holy turn, happy with do Love's Love's turn, " thy soul in radiant Turn And of depths thy guidance Kneeling- maiden, beam, Stars in the 43 dream, Dream, Youth, STARS. THE OF shall ever turn, happy them of a the " bright for thee turn, thy side at one vision alone turn thine glide, " shine eyes. skies sweet love divine. : " WONDER. / 44 beheld And Is But g-tiidingmy longer, I the vision, My That No dream the from I woke clasp My still I steps with its the hear Will he surely There's an Goes out the In the in Inspirit the in? that has daily left me unrest. if sometimes dust that quest Love my " departed, has heart my spirit of Love rekindle been? has come of sadness enter Love earnest spiritof I wonder That in ache meant. Death charms Music's there stay Laughter spirit of the Can And of where form Whence Oh, and I think voice alone. hearts our on will heart's of the ever return, dead urn. own fell that sent heart The Of has my the all my heart my ever get into As Can God music beams. dream, music if dreams. life WONDER. sometimes I wonder golden or sweet I The to night that stars vision Love Sweet can the From a a morn, long, happy Star, thro' longer no the filled my that vision sweet of tide the at ashes, " ; " 46 IF Too For will Borne Run just have the " wrong. gone returning. Dregs PEACE SO, never sweetly as " its music sing must from Clouds the coming, long! too " Waters the by Over fear, that hearts time long a River Love's Oh, I long, In IF 'Tis be! It may NEW-YEAR NEXT TILL PEACE SO, as the vSea, ever and Debris? TILL NEXT NEW-YEAR. (a dirge.) The Is at A With last here solemn Of the Takes an anti-bilious Sweeter pill! DEFEAT. than so?igs poet Year MY My the as sits still world The ! abated New any that sii7ig found no tongue. Whittier: In the Swim And universe a swift Like the swept myriad through infinite by the luminous my it oh bell!" ! hush breath the hark! Year!" New stars brains trains eyes of my and burning of the Triicniph. My soul, suns ; aether heavenly ones. they roll In I outstretch dreams my alas ! for But I with leave And of the thro' swift Fleet but the There's burns That That crackles And That And the the skin the frightens for bright gleam. the stars. shrivels the heart, LAUGH. that their demon of hearts their of life, like the end the ire. silence to fire, breath demoniac with of sockets the hobgoblin, their cars tow'rd aye parches to in soul my children ears in night at the their in and of the laugh rings heavenly from eyes shrieks and bellows There's That out sits a-dream the fiend the of laugh tread. may from A THERE'S flight mind of bed my my upreaching me round take angels delight when light arms with sing seraphs heart my vibrations While of 47 arms that angels whither me muse the vain my chorus the beckon And And of forms the For UGH. LA A THERE'S night, sobs, death-watch throbs. the There's from wild, screeching laugh the madman's lips his When That And haunts the Of Before The the tho' us, pierces There's wildly eyes heart the wretched " born, the of live the to from forget with laugh unearthly idiot tomb try start a and as the will. of pain. sickening leer ! dead of unknown generations brain. reechy we dagger Unfortunate sepulchre lives his have crimes. led ! ; 48 THERE'S blights That and bubbles That There's And in dies There's like born, spits scorn. from tho' with breath, awe death. of rattle the cracked wind's child, a sleeper's thick silence the of even the like throat the laugh, a in shivering the startles That lips laugh, sticks and gurgles That weird strange, a and hisses scorching the from it falls As and sputters it is wherein heart the e'en laugh blistering, withering blasting, the There's UGH. LA A whistle, that creaks And squeaks And sigh a For the There's As 'Tis free the The the it falls the the like with of laugh that I give to hear a from " oh the of of the laughs heart what sweet and would laugh the that " and my tired of balm the love, care prayer. of the throbbing my hearts, lips of Love, sweet full of soul, ; answers I not, " child. innocent an blessing wild heart my deer the as as fluttering temples sweetest gladdens I would But laugh and hart ; presage. boimds that laugh I love that sounds ominous soft, soothing laugh There's That the age sad. full heart the leap of the wild quiets the And what the as sweet, That from up old of pipes worn-out free, wild laugh There's 'Tis heaves know we the on mUvSic were mother it divine brain; mine. again. WHEEL Soft it sweeps While would Oh Asleep dream a the gleam star a billows cradle-rocked WHEEL of send thee fiax. his literal [Although differingslightlyfrom his the mother's sent her hour, boy, long the big spinning wheel thread, threads for intoxicating even "Spin, The And 5 the to experience, pleasing and then home-loom, scent used who back forwards, the in it the life,has and whirring then Proverb. " manhood, to fretfullytoddle dress, and lengthening to grown ago afar. azure SHUTTLE. AND will blest the In Of to rest, thy breast, on to God beam, !" Asweep On Spin: I star-born a rest, Rest " on dream may peacefully rest. vSo the quiet heaven to up There In breast thy on oblivious in soul the 49 SLEEP. TO Where SHUTTLE. AND this of on, so poem, the roses sadness.] spin! warp shuttle " is in never cling to she as backwards ran and forth less neverthe- slacks : to tiently pawith hour with of after its application lection, recol- Let thy fingers Heed " God the send will '* Let shuttles lacks never spin! Let is wheel ! the " the God has of the To woof thee of Press a ! is woven in, flax ! Penury nation's or its grum PENURY. wines statesmanship relax " OF choicest rouse thin standing dumb. PRESS THE The sent in, flax. threads Spin, spin!" Aye, weaving " ceased has loom the is " fingers carded the " thee Spin, spin! Thy hum woof the : thrum they send will " To flax. begin, as While Out thee distaff "Spin, For is thy spindle's endless God in, weaving woof wheels the Fill the Lo " Spin, spin!" The And behest, stern Spin, spin! While V. rest, never weaver's the PENUR OF PRESS THE 50 have blood poesy. flowed HALLOWEEN. less (Nor I make cycling Lincoln Some lifts his the " laws. that slips winding turns, sun all its Through Still counseling: shall who every cause people sing, a not With poet's statesman's but care the hearts to Than If 5^ or Burns some spirit to ) lips. our HALLOWEEN. AN INVITATION I wad na An' alane Sae wi' come oufe Where Hae But be Wi' or merry Halloween crack Mrs. an' C tassie. jauk an' like an' bogle nor guid be awa' gang spook flichter, blink, we'll Tho' an' nor o' ill ought goblins fight an' bogie me 31. lassie a their drink OCT. LADY, to-night pixies, elves, An' An' A alane gang leave Where Oh TO SENT do to ogle. the lave eerie. giddy till weary. 'have LIFE. 52 LIFE. What life? is Thrown And the the to billow And show. it ashore shell : strand. the washing is diveL to grand cast beautiful the fiow s elements that ! another See shell delicate loveliness its moment back Is a of quicksand bank s a Gone Tis up by Eternity Time' On ' " is ! more no "D. What 'Tis is life?" That And the in of sea rapturous it kisses As the But And List the ripples the ! the are Lend me sands of the ceased back Screeched a As deep And as his Like " As a whole hinge Lend they us gang that was seized my be ! its to me sea your goblin 'way dig a up creaked home, ! head down in hoarsely rusty, and mare's brains," his throat note. and brains, lend your to " BRAINS. could ever foam, in the deep highwayman he years. in breaking brains, lend your ; it swells BORROWING " bears music billow, gone tolling down Is eternity has billow of bells billow the A, screaked constantly us your at shrieked brains," the bit by the reins BRAINS. BORROWING 54 the Oh the pains, from they spooned When terrible the pains, skull my pains every speck of my both of my brains. with Then pries dragged for their spoons eyes they would they thought Oh And they planted When oh my For poets, you " And oh " know, my " fools oh ! what But they planted When brains in grain, their my to ! grow though underdone they see, know, noddles were fools ! what oh " they like are their in size. poets, you scholars, you brains my such be marvelous wonderful, such terrible of such head in my hole that Through ! dough " though were their noddles to grow! But crammed they in down Clear turned And over soon For they drove mad To And Thought Since handed And Then And And And there up my could sound ivas no loon has this with mare's been and with and happened a staring like back had my been. one had seen. ; atmosphere goblin as new spoon, will me. ; eyes bridle-reins solid mad me, of never to had the greatest the as seers. be. each as crazy, through as not crazy, they always brains back and never or my me left went ever as them me me away there Whether made restored They back both put them stark them ears, I had brains surprise they brought greatest my hare March a as see, you and sages the of one every goblins, the As they had rued they their to eyes my ill-gotten gain. pocket-like of their pokes the But For every be. ! pains^ flew TO It needn't at A WILD-ROSE all happen whatever But this cv-cr ev-cr nor go : befall, whatever or 55 all to way reins^ nigJit -marc's tJic gob-lins get your Un-lcss Dont do, you BOUQUET. brains! Icnd-tng your SLEEP. heart, and Thy E'en as The and With her tangles soothing healing Sleep Dear fold Come, Balm Seal her up eyes down planned that of the all sight bright, I sue. Wife Sweetheart- staring Night at ; ; refreshing gleams, sweet, life happy together; woo ! 'tis thee stare the and balm my lids with her visions, rather, We've about arms your light^ undo to day, world the out night lap ills,and of another visions of of the to shutteth eyes fall the upon sun-bred the tired at child Nature weary from mother her snarls Away Or a take Doth foldeth that Nurse Dear and her leave not till the light Of morn, TO with A Wild shall me, Laeda To Like shine Atween gave glad me to sad And and the lane the down Sweet her BOUQUET. WILD-ROSE roses from her kiss in June, me, mingled rain clouds aboon. dreams. 56 merrily Merrily, We'll the over we'll and laugh SEA. THE ON vSONG SEA. THE ON SONG sing wave and Merrily, merrily, joyous We'll the echo music of musical merrily the glad the and Rocking And joyous we the Cleaving We'll the set from the glad echoes Merrily, merrily We'll call the glad We'll mingle the the of their the glad musical echoes the on sea in their caves. caves laughing sweet out along waves with our song: " break. musical Roll, roll, wake, All waves. hide out merrily " break. that Roll, roll, break, Over foam wake echoes Merrily, merrily boat; with afloat: ocean musical Roll, roll, wake, All home our billow-rocked of echoes merrily the caves. white-feathered Roll, roll, break, Over " their in is sea our breakers sweet hide the rolling shout song: waves, that echoes our wake Roll, roll, wake, All brave break. Roll, roll, break, Over in waves along, bounding we're as waves. wake that hide in their caves. ; WOODLAND LAY. LAY. WOODLAND Oh to come Where And the the And Let world kiss lightly thro' shade of plod along w4th in sleeps the its brow" With soft drops gently joys reign where zephyr's vSun the woodland the 57 in brow, dream a wide-spreading the its stern, wrinkled deeply the touches leaves the supreme, with bough. face. solemn and thought with care; the Let While list to we The The bleating The the To Gentle as the The On of of the from let softly soft flakes rhythmical the In ear the winds of and the mortal, the harp fall on of snow notes and at earth to adown as joys, where sky the of " sweet as music spheres, feet Infinity's they reply. herds, cadence angelical as birds, soft of the as of leaves with air. wild, joyous lowing from music replace singing the nature listening air, ocean the and its of brooks, flocks business to-day's charm make to wooed And Like of breathing combine All of whisper life the of murm'ring The of pleasures ears. fall on tremblingly the deep, go silently sleep they melt as the snow. 5^ Let I would her For And With eyes And Let I'll meet that could But that heart a her one that wake in as will in the Awake " touch a could that soothe, full of love. not dead, one as asleep I morning, the ! lived, above and still, are know she as fallen has hands her her talk face, ; you just was remember me She as just so speak, her remember me her lips can't her dead closed, and are KEEP. dear, the on remember not eyes And Let look not me ANGELS' THE IN KEEP. ANGELS' THE IN angels' keep ; know, at call. my ! THOUGHT. alo7ie Thought 'i" 'Tis the 'Tis the the To 'Tis flings out the 'Tis touch the man; The stream And flight of lighthouse And of whisp'ring a of the angels, from gold where of Christ's breathed " Young. of brush its fetters soul its notes breath is eternal. the of hand that of in sings bay. upraiseth God wings; clay seraph Hope life's billowed on their the the dead; of nostrils " that join with shall the rise clouds from whence its mould-made in rain-drops bed it ran. with Tinged But It beckons And of Childhood the the and Faith the where fields to a "the White No soul So That And I passed her along sweet, love soul WILD weeds Where clover-blooming love Lonely Where There And by the the earth a its flowers in vain. wild all trodden wild palms grew, threw meadows winds wayside peeped stretched straying the upon ROSE. lane Where Sweet closes aboon. wilding and roses June, that WAYSIDE a white pure of heart the LONE THE ween. budding the Around I dream, blessed ope roses atween. hers, as lie and Here TREASURY, lily-lightencloses your pure GOLDEN white smiles Leda Fair by rose, like a lady " " sweet roses, Hope, ME. BEAUTY.") SLEEPING ; ope. presented PALGRAVE's grave wave Jerusalem bouquet IN PLACED AND the of ABOVE white-rose small 59 Mother palm-groves of joy-studded gates the WHITE-ENTHRONED (on of mortals, it smells of sadness ROSE. WILD WAYSIDE LONE THE lay, one a bright day. pleading child. POSITE OP- 6o LONE THE after Day It drank And To of The breath The sweetest drank The tint of Came lay I passed along When love I loved sad Such Such And said, Without I plucked must I set it And said, " Sweet wither flower the " in blooming the " Should night lane vain. die. must mould off " its stem Flower ! Life and thy breath else blest them." wild rose heart, my sweet life Death were for my its dear lie. must pass! must from thy beauty heart To-day ' ' bloom tomb. the death flower " born. was love such with the art heart, said, "Alas! and into beauty artless winds the know to its wilding that upon of full in was dew-bowl. morn was ever rose night's tide with rose, knows, of clouds flushing sweetness plucked The the flower the 'Tis from air its deathless desert The I the g-iven the has love that soul opening mortal blush when 'Twas birth that the earth array. its its cheek on fairest The of fleecy of timid far by the a heaven sweet and heaven sweet out that out And in soul from And from love beautiful It breathed day itself from lifted a after day, day ROSE. WILD YSIDE IVA rose close. " ! " depart 62 triple of twenty the Oh Phis than less none the yoii be May dainty same May, 'tis Beautiful May, Wild growing. Grasses booming Pheasants Beautiful May May-buds At day strings of life in peep robins chattering their To And June, May! every the of month than Beautiful putting " May, 'tis And flowing, brooks Wild May. blooming. flowers far of month Beautiful Lovelier May^ of beautiful Month Oh ! MAY. BEAUTIFUL Oh I ten girly-girlthen Sweet Is Y MA UTIFUL BEA mates asleep, those Always With flattering nodding And pates promises free tune. UriFUL BEA MA farmer The From The the the the like stars After Away the the dawn That skip They dance with At the the And Of Where pallor of fright light her June, soon. face each part earth's like " than May of her flashes month soon, light the soon so May, brightens Into May, moon soon, sweet lets the of play of the Beautiful Thus month away. lovelier a So Oh of the brightening sight. of morn away away the Affright Of and dizzy pales running- dawn. away, With the tree. moon, Away, After the away. all are from from Away running sheep the in are moon, is moon neWvS dawn playful Is after the others cherries That Oh asnooze they will keep That And 63 V. tresses dark lashes Astray day. each heart from each stray day diamonds at play. play 64 MAY. BEAUTIFUL And in deep Of one And For the goddesses the And With She delight Of the From Up their fountains the Where She skims And That She Of the winter And calls The bickering that green " from the Sweet, the rock-crypts dew-drop drips. plain train left bird-notes her merrily sips lower like the has lips. spring the sun the to frightens the whistles the at her they string as shot a to and that snows for bows gleam waters mountains the up creeps stream. they leap as fair, so fairy fair. of the glad rare sup May and rare nectars cup dutiful drinks She and perfumes That So wear billowy hair, in the beautiful the air, winds Distilled the like man's. soul a the in their their out pour to on sweet blooms its bonds from climbs breathes She run clod life the lift into Her doth sands the That And sands; of the soul the glittering,flying hands with Every And eyes spring's emprise the In Sinks her light from The on guard. soft and hard retreat feet winter te-weet, in prison wheat. has barred, DEEP UNTO DEEP Oh the Rolls Seems But from echo to the that the sea music unto fallen has boundless, of the breaking the their footstep a of billows of rhythm And THRENODY. of the bounding the DEEP. DOUBLE A 65 DEEP. UNTO me ; the on soundless billows the " lea deep. billow^s as they leap, While the of my the silence Makes of echoes the with sorrow grottoes the " them weep ; wildly grottoes start, Ever throbbing the to Throbbing Rocking the to Moaning Threnode Oh is Love my Sending With But the longing my the on the heart breaking Makes While the the the moaning " of my heart, ever billows of along the of the the heart. sea, to waves shells constant a in my sobbing 6 to the me along chorus ; the lea keep. message " the message deep, silence shells of my inly sorrow silence weep intoning, intoning impart Ever " ever, ever-singing from ; ever. moaning messages And music the to rocking Music heart rhythm, throbbing Rhythm of my threnode. the to music of my heart ; " ; griefs 66 HUMP A Sobbing UMP TY-D Intoning sobbing ever, both had Who little a once was a in ever CHAP. idiotic humpty-dumpty muzzle an' mug heart. my IDIOTIC HUMPTY-DUMPTY There heart,- my ever. Breaking, breaking A of breaking the to intoning Grief P. moaning, the to Breaking Silent CHA TIC silence, the to 10 ID TV chap, remarkable most to see. His tater An' his head like always gave cavity Jist forever punkin a it stantly. con- over-ripe with lemon like behind an' stalites the them from forever " or what he see, couldn't you appearance life's earliest Simply nachelly a-grinnin' an' a-grinnin Well, you done he a gap, the ; teeth the like meller an' grin an' puckered was front his To face awful simply sorto' was yaller gripe solitary thing but a that done he But An' do couldn't he An' help it, couldn't of call a 'em cave, " " beginnin' an' a-grinnin'. help it not a bit, 'Cause for some peculiar he reason was born jistthat- a-way. An' if Nater 'Cause to she have marks wants a feller that it stay. mark he had better for somepm, jistsubmit, an' she's goin HUMPTY-DUMPTY A Caint doctor no IDIOTIC make rose-bud a 67 CHAP. of busted-thistle a mouth, Nor he caint To this chap kind o' inside growin' to got knowed him it wa'n't earthly no use squeezin' be that's foot a south. sorto' Spect north turn a on didn't that lemon have bit o' a juice ; 'lowed "Maybe his ugly 'ould mug be a doin' of less sinnin' If he'd leave it jist a-grinnin' a-grinnin' an' an' a- grinnin'. 'Course he didn't sense But I reason it, on didn't he cause have no ; kindo' reckon sorto' that done he like others do" Jist down set he'd where up clum on top o' Nater's ol worm-fence An' let the While bile down sun plum thro' an' with busy boom him onto an' soak him clean thro' buzz an' the plunder'n' bug an' bumble-bee Went An' a-nosin' with one plum Up on An' thro' the clover squinted eye up where an' the rosy-posies t'other squinted be. down shet, top the there he jistlet fence, I spect, twixt brute an' human set, the whirly-gigy world whirl a-grinnin' an' off its dle spin- spinnin' While he joyed a-grinnin'. hisself a-grinnin' an' 68 GOOD-NIGHT. Hope enjoy hisself, did he Sense trouble what know to didn't he 'cause was, he " enough have idiotic a was chap. An' couldn't he tell to him save if voice a soft was or gruff For couldn't he an' An' his talk, nor kept a Jicar, nor not " hi n' only grin gap. that eyes winkin an' squintin a an* up down Never the let glorious sunlight paint picter no in his crown. Plum deef stone idiot Oh 't'ould the Rockin blind an' hunch-backed a " ! broke 'most-a sittin' On that at dumb an' heart, your see hira dyin' in an' mine, as to flat floor in back sich an' awful an forth, fix as a-grinnin' he was an' a-grinnin' an' a-ofrinnin'. GOOD-NIGHT. A SONG OF THE CLOSE OF LIFE. Infant. Good-night, The Sad good-night! sweetest Night shall Good-night, joys, weep " alas! her good-night, the must silent sweet brightest day fade the tears babe, must sight; o'er all " good-night. fall, FANCY. TO 70 the Deep in Leap with the Leap Sweep me, kisses rare. fay, my Row away in Out hair sea, to her Bearing O glee mermaiden's the Braiding sea shell, nautilus a Glowingly, Flowingly, Its rhythmical story the Greet the of the morn, Sweet its beauties and Night in rolling moon, dream gleam its deep some Star-like in the lagoon. and Bar to ride doming the Where Croon me. enskyed Far Down the from Thrown to beam the Lie sea, dream and Lie Asleep the return Bringing By morn foam Meet tell. borne Fleetly Over to the deep, wide tide moon asleep. ; RE UGH THRO VERENT good-night Good-night, dreams Thy Be sweet be dream, Oh And sleep, Above my Love, my Love, I faint My That after In Not me I've 'Tis in strange, So Not days strange love, And EYES. but sleep fail thus should a Love's this I fear only the strange ; " such change. barely three; time raptured century own love me love work Nay, " that seems, indeed Strange three? than hope light, Love. my transporting such lived, it Of and love should heart yet, within And with her. saw three more beams moon-light REVERENT THROUGH To-night deep. good-night, Good-night, light. as and sweet bright so chaste as star-laced While dreams. silent thy love, as dreams Thy ! to-night, dreams, Thy 7 LOVE. MY GOOD-NIGHT, YES. E of blissful mine, mid-life I strange so I do sometimes dream clime. love. watches through. ; 1 THRO 72 How many, I've And And awake the old, old longing Whose yes! to-night Sweet visions visions Along Who friends The And I later fear, I've often I've I've It I've wondered heard When of read love 'Twould 'Twould And 'Twould did love; and smite upon break the touch wake a a happy love of glad, youth, are, is. ah it, too! days, boyhood, there " but yes! what they guess? of thought that in come love; that to hour one, all-possessing power the chord faulty string more rise. my what truly an and truth. thought come eyes. lights in I've should write like none fair women, read ideal. my of speak men real childhood, loved is, I wonder I've And Yet ! her they fall of my ever heard and Friends age. I of before shore they? are the heart's come only! the some I sit and as form, some then for face is my image YES. passion-storm and ; soul-enlighted Sweet face, thrill of only momentary That E time some sudden hand VERENT is the upon felt the But RE many looked Fair Ah UGH melodious harmonious of ; self. in twain chord strain. ; And if I And love How To above I I but can I could Stand Ah ril and Adoring I fear The I do bowed And Instead the Among I stand And To like whom love sex as I night star scar. I hold awe and I I fear ; humbleness, revere. crowd, human I height? till high, stands it, too, all too noisy night rugged ; loving I, shines waning some with of the the silent dumbly love, and " more. mountain that revering not fairer ; no that silent height Must the me behind It sinks her loved. upon the watch reach down star a I fear ! yes at alone me adore, throughout gazing For and have men I alone Must above, her drag but other Yet they shine. I could that " gaze worship dream Nor and soar. stars because stand but can the as me and hold, to is divine I adore That sing, heart my woman a me far As for ; ago rise, and can sacred Too days short, happy few A 73 before knew ever is love what I wonder so YES. E VERENT RE UGH THRO stone pray inly moan. ; it is my thus And Me silent Still wanders call Men cold. me feel But Could the Too deep the the I catch image, the Embrace of heart Can And Its from gleam No No like That Still wanders Oh I could I could ! To To no ! my rise grow To lose more mvself pure in I, love night dome the above. drag down her thought a this sea love? to a clown must be selfish self only hope above dip the and not her wed " star or can woman's gratify not vSo selfish No a star. a down pluck would not, the down through I ask could ;" soundless angel day an are form, indeed I can more ;. loving lip? his more no unseal.. breast? the out it to press more, his eyes^ flows not pluck on feel. heart the vision, it I waters not man wear And silent dome. they reverent river mighty the deep Too thro' awe trackless tenth the sealed my sacred ! could Alas look might They tomb, Love's half, but they the with thro' YES. brings as down bowed heart My E reverence As woe. VERENT RE UGH THRO 74 in heart her sweet and ! ; hope, self. f THRO UGH I say, To-night, Who wakes I felt her An hand seemed And oh When I feel off music Ah Some and heart The not, Great God, And purify lead With I ask that I ask a I may Forever the and nor nevermore soul throng. realms hand heart to of love of Thine. fame, loving join that song of mine. the unfailing pure my day! sweet failing soul. my this heart wealth, nor as striving through me so. bright, some above lift up love, tell her " of my her to I know tell her may struggle rise faint, hours! word not can tongue To before grows is full of day, perhaps, My room, sweet yes, act my I dare ear. when heart my : voice, my my but near her thrilled ; ! her saw within ; breeze. away I heard : these as feel dreamy far 75 silently adore. every say the so " brave her? to Must alone love, thoughts and the but Tho' That in hand I can I talk Oh hand most one I such YES. her I sometimes her here E her; me yet, I knew And VERENT saw as far I touched The I in angel's She RE nor power heart to part. hers ; " 76 WHA And oh For then peace, face of my image objects of in whether reflecting the Maker's responsive finer the raidant God. seed and consecrated to is both poet is born, other ; is not fit; which But Poeta would, way, no nascitnr it faculties in greater we doubt, non that simply: others this be equally do ; but it the fit the " in the no gifts Else nascittir if, instead in poet the of the et misunderstood. and "The " are Poeta say, is rendered is, the and sense degree. true; both words, non poet, less the cultivation a the and That nascittir in or and highest time same must fit is literally,it means the in soul, the the Or, in other is true " and true, translated being same soul human proverb made finds dwells the both and Poeta the soul that growth. Giver. of aspiration at gift divine and light-receiving and seed's made. delicate finer once feelings, the gifts of for the every at words touch beauty possess It is thus and not of culture a the poetic, of beauty-loving a soul the the a to this Divine the born mirror the possess to is both soul poetic of is gift of growing in or The human of of poetry. To music. greatest poet of Divinity ideal. tuned the to words attainment a chord bodying her, appreciation such Only a real heart, presupposes nature hand. the POETRY? nature human divinely wrought the and conception of love peace ; and of IS Y? the heart's WHAT Proper POETR peace, soul-enlighted The IS old, old longing that And T an tory explana- possesses poetic of the faculty in 7^ T WHA flight,at least behold heights whence its whither the living soul waters POETR the mountain beauty-embodying rivers must Y? of eternal ever drink to soar of that purify mortality make soul bathed and of better the its know in them its purest and and reflect drunken and grandeur, vastness, own flow, and glory ;=-waters Divinity, them IS divinity. Until the itself thus can these truth, and of immortality the one, are reciprocal. it cannot as it and can said well be metrical in nearly Form as other said, that poetry well be the (or mechanism), vastness, its of the ; soul divinity know not knowledges two naturally rhythmical at vine Di- the interpreting defines in goodness, nearly scientifically as is and in the if the This defined of know language heart. streams bathed waters Thus, the own have never aestheticallyand human can can poetry. imaginative the its purifying know be know beheld have immortal it shall soul the beauty, It may and mighty flight shall in the until Likewise, of and feel never infinitude. drunk reflected divinely it poetry, by this upward soul as once, the single sentence, a Spirit, and Mission the of poetry. Form we and can anatomize define and cannot constitute a man. a alone Just as may both anatomize, just human and anatomize just poem, Spirit human alone not a and are soul as alone necessary not we etry po- cannot alone cannot stitute con- (in poetry just poem, though fine de- can Form constitute concrete life just body we spirit of soul. may constitute bodj as as The body. anatomize, the abstract) though soul and the define cannot we the define a to as living the man. constitute a :WH man, also "both so of any AT IS form his POETRY? and visible 79 spirit are to necessary art-creations, as a stitute con- poem. FORM. The iform requisites of accidents of form rhyme are has "while the "g. has metre Rhythm of with do with the with the each wave-length to the foot. poetic sea, Metre is, after all, a kind kind of rhythm, etc. of feet rise regular in fall of Thus larger of counted swell waves. line. a and the line, a being with the " in of feet number successive assonance, ebb the metre and flow rhythm. accidents The "eration, etc. of form, find we in much true tawdry of mistake meaning, do They well as their rightly not .grammatic precept, and to " advantageously When " you to creative heed have sons persay tickling jingle for the well nor those ; a sense, used in the yet attempting say, to create read used worthlessly for allit- stanza, mechanicians rhj^me desire rhyme, as as mere having nothing -something, for poetry, puppet-shows who, such worthily , the power. trite nothing to episay, it." ;say But these material aids used for not accidents to their Notwithstanding "uch as well as or the corresponds of several composed "sea, do corresponds waves of to etc., The metre. (consonance), "stanza, alliteration, onomatopoeia, Rhythm and rhythm are Paradise many the own this Lost not of form, I sometimes are say, thought.; indeed, always sakes but fact, many and epic, lack others ihese for the of our on when are meaning's greatest the sake. poems, epic order, accidents either as wholly in part. On the other hand, rhythm and metre are found in all 8o IVHA poetic forms, and of are that poetry T the are not only essentials of form, and constitute spirit of They are, visible since But that this has This is trash forms in for the meaning's sake rhythm's ]\Ietre,in diverted from fact some by metrical But its or " are not the dancing They poetry. of legs life and their solely whittled out but ephemeral and to variably in- often, great the unlovely on. of the form, sometimes sessed pos- spirit, and guiding in motion set puppets, tickle or the and by an jumping- judgment rubbish-heap existence. didactic arrangements members final trated illus- as farther and jiggle to all other by body, senseless the the is often memory, metrical the of wood indeed lively antics; and indwelling These sometimes, the and of an relegates them their used simply are arms with inspiring string. jacks, and into jingles not for but rhyme, mentioned as plication misap- used when and Thirty days," etc., and and much so poetry. rhythm purpose arrangements, a that. epigram some rhymes sometimes true to simply jingle ; quite at wdth company its poetry this true feeling's sake, alone, becomes jingle is that upon excess sake, the rhyming a to essential There ridicule carried when Rhythm, in poetry poetic. poetic garb throws inevitably itself. anything of the of terms. the the clothes to call to appearance masquerading in which thus are custom external metre spirit is. metre misapplication a the form essentials only body necessary as common the are inevitably as and rhythm complete and and rhythm it is the poem, the of the elements two they therefore, just or Y? Hence, but naturally poetry concrete only found. thus are POETR IS mob by of manity hu- forgets, IV HA It of is, I say, and rhythmical bnt verse, is verse it becomes ' ' the form of poetic spirit ; thus It requires I though of out loose usual it is verse; though form, because while it not for verse has dead the in do only verse \^ the body the same the body that is, not a loose simple of the and pure. it is not ry, poet- ninety-nine in stanza it is also is but without a of the verse, the It is not by poetry well sometimes we such etic po- As spirit. indeed call as not line one itself. form way) etc., that but (which man spirit poetry." form merely the hundred called poetry, a of requisite slightest touch nine of ten- one illustrate," To the have is poetry which perceive that to verse the November," that not "a it is not But call doubt way for constituting verse, thousand every not cidents ac- September, and without penetration no Indeed, into body hath Thirty days poetry all ; is the of any Hence, poetry. April, June, has poetry the form," ere verse. is poetry. verse of simply enter must all part is verse not, is or not thousandth it has 1 name Whatever verse. metrical, whether form of is name by the such dignify to proper 8 TRY? POE misnomer a The poetry. IS T the of name poetry. But man ; of his visible spirit,is dead Is it not of a a so? a Only weeklies, monthlies, millions much of of of all. at man art-creations, art, these mortality dead ;" at also poetry-bodies to the poetry, no and lie the is soul poem thousands our quaterlies, turn So of as poem look ; then the without man dead a of body the without at one all. of dailies, where whatnotlies, buried, smelling time-glorified Chaucer, Shakespeare, Burns, Milton, Homer, too tomes Virgil, 8 IVHA 2 and their Let this final the of concrete poetry), natural motions her rest at billows zephyrs or drifting clouds, birds is there sing, ; it beyond the of Nature. heaven. is and gold lake's hills pines, and trees ever wher- waters; rivers or to ; wherever bordering or the drive may bloom, run valleys sleep is there music, even kiss the through skies, or her ; ripples or green wake, waves snows flowers or All order. soughing smooth It is Nature's and crags, wherever realms speak. so may the the there rhythm, of rhythmic go on thunders wherever breath ripples dreaming or may I billow dependent hung are if beat wheat-fields drifts, or music the curl a a (taking have winds toss for the lie in forms wherever ; is rhythmical, Wherever sands said expression, are V? answer. be it may Rhythm, POETR co-endurers eternal be IS T Nature's ; ; " fect per- hannony. is it different Nor In iris happy tears life or again the death is rhythm. in the this in famine of all ; joys that cadences and peace woeful Passion's higher flow calms rhythm, inevitably seeks harmonies deep feeling aud " mournful sorrow's through ; in ; in bounteous love in hate, or existence, there man's only melody, of music the soul. feel for in ant. triumph- crown distress; woe's or and war or True, man in or pain ; Nature's man. lilting melody; laughter's plenty, of throes in like is of this " to put adjusting the hereafter. gently wimpling waters upon the in tune when But listen aroused, sands. there, to or its we while the the here soul's rhythmic like tle lit- by which process heart then beat, beat, beat 'tis life, although ebb surging WHA Hear the heaven; the beat in the immortal as in in the This them, it can it is that better the as result natural and, rhythm, to metre. rhythmic words the form only it is that thus ; spirit spiritof poetry. is the " in enters selves them- the by fit themselves about is the poetry divine, " express move rhythm itself not tender, and worlds too, fashioned that seeks comes and spontaneous Love, would inevitably passion, poetr}" of other soul the words, express fierce transported. of must through the hear ; to up sharp, quick, anger of tinkles that the wave-lengths, greater it is that of of outlet in Thus is poetry meditation long " thus ; highly-wrought feeling. great or thus unswervingly which dream the feeling, or that hark crying sorrow soothing lips passions words, enters the listen these of righteous and " you When that from Love things of 83 Y? joyousness laughter; surge music mellow the to of melody POETR cadences lonesome hsten IS T ^ SPIRIT. As in the that which Whatever in The or if can the world the to would we among towering valley, wood ; the the of beauty, of the its is felt meadow, great by the heart, skies of that June; ; or Transfiguration the river stretch ; scenes ; it. sees it. the Paradise the wren melodies perfume-drunken the just first have must we mountain lake soul the apple-blossoms; of soul-beauty; beautiful, is beautiful beauty fourth height or and ions fash- physical beauty. no is blue is beauty heart be find pouring peewee the within soul the man, True there white-flecked from or in proportion Thus is in that beauty of without. body without in all art so man, of of plain hill vedere Bel- Apollo Lost or ; " na- 84 WHA various ture's heart the to life, where is it gets, But is it in what beauty? The and beauty. British of the " corner the then his poet bodied, concrete Thus to would that of the ting getget we ; of Sitting ? and canvases lack they the musty left-hand upper all have newspaper, a the music from productions, " this beauty. no metre, the adise Par- a by lies the it has the to in art, the brush to that paper, beheld been needs in it shall which of mere them. Nature bodying Form which spirit;that which recognizes. chisel the ble, mar- the nor spirit, yet his on a not soul, but own To by others. take the to canvas, same within existed something and his touched it must all forms the and his the have form, inhabits soul possesses Hard indefinable never have eyes, are that but instinctively feels painter pen other by ; of rhythm, same sculptor would never and hundreds inside soul, soul the nor Give, paintings; the patent call the the and but ; Museum That ? admiring Had of beauty. no we full for the ; Transfiguration the Millions ? the man the springs gives, Apollo? marble and words, in in to beauty Transfiguration, a soul-hunger yearly tomes What giving. of are Lost ; but it the of the canvas The Paradise these But forth what Parian paints " mirrored gets this marble it, there brushes of feeds painted before no perpetual are Apollo, an unchiseled The '" that " rough, to have lose. we Lost they ever and proportioned and keep, is " empty. are beauty, Divinity what gives of Y? reproductions cavities whose soul soul, the and forms POETR IS T visible be seen body, a dwell. and all forms expressions is necessary, of of but Art, the soever, what- spirit only as a 86 great Divinity used to nature designate " not life, but the mirrored and He who, by this image of record its the heart human is in every soil of petals, " trampling some ate cre- from germ the the be there within soul it in- form that divinity flower, deep-rooted glories its muse-beloved will soul a It cannot blossoming the poet. great of that divine that ; the metrical partake this soul, light such poetry, breathing its soul, mirror must and painting sometimes from up of sometimes God, sometimes image, only Not spirit must that but habits, implants rhythmical the fashions that it first essential prime the spirit as of greatness creations. self. spiritual own show, the of his imbues imless form the to of is the humanity, of guidance the of the show, heads the it above hold spirit that new a its this proportion in the in this for the Just be picture, represent and has, inspirited, can words rhythmic of means and of record sort a : of guidance. its future life, historicize lamp ages of life name kind man, picture, the life, but a or through comes not image for paint this spirit; lamp a that kind that ; simply manifestation specific a is Art him. in works that Y? POETR IS T IVHA angel- to an of heaven on deepest-drawn blooms the to fumes perthrone above. in paint soul the Would that a picture, and a beauty It is this the statue, it ere soul the it be within maker that of the the comes of glory out picture, ; canvass paradise a immortal it breathe on ' ' see an of the the maker it figuration trans; would love eternal into gel an- would itself the within transfigured must must angel form the give behold must it live poem, it ere it statue, a " marble ere it write create words. maker of of the IS WHAT maker the melody, of the distinguishes that It is this true a chiseler of stone, a rhymer of lesser of It is this the and mechanism renders creator, in a of finger-tips as our into the dim it permeating of out of the poem and this unknown, own heart of the into the poem again, is lifted passes and so slips then admirer, still and higher habits, it in- that somehow admiring lifting the ever ble indefina- form that inscrutably, farther out same the the again, itself poem reach into his heart again his yond yet just be- within we spiritof beauty, shining through out artist,not placer of notes, a intangible soul, just touch of art. the of canvas, maker, a creations, nature. same farther but his enters mere that painter words, realm from within a and poem, art soul same 87 POETRY? and on soul on, the as higher. ever MISSION. This practical knife and glass," and " is it? And the to "What ness. As " relegate to if to fillingof the It is should long as of just and to not good for?", "Of tellect, in- of did right, indeed, other dwarf To one. Useless- of not go useless. were inquire, especially it does daily bread, or whatever and use cannot constituted were man stantly con- explain age Limbo Lethean alyzing an- what cannot the cash is way, "Of ; glass ready stomach, these and well thus sustenance is it and the to mind the pocket, into convert " whatever fact-loving intellect; it is wont and knife the for? good anatomizing, possible every is it whatever analyze and thus in its Avith century and botanizing ever scrutinizing asking, nineteenth "this age, ask what to as material is it?", age any things, by giving faculties concerning use that poetry, is simply so all "What to ask 88 IVHA in different a what that does to examine But discover human it is There of the three intellect and that is that not to know. do. These of knowledge, feelings must by which we we tute consti- feel. The resolve to we will do for sufficient the which the or our is for of for the for intellect examination the nature the to gives that end of the and action must naturally should is the the be are literature primary be rousing of is be may that ature liter- predominates. that should power be knowledge should there since mental each is, there in which since But there mind, will, there its chief intellect, ministers mind. inind, the feeling, emotion, has of be must Whatever the That the the resolution. of literature For for Whatever sensibilities, there element. food emotion sustenance. for On namely, ; feelings, are mind, t)f the rouse by and divisions receive that and Will. mind by which furnishes waken must will produced For and the explanations departments three the to forth mind the by which didactic. literature three of mind whatever knowing-power All to purpose. the the refer brought sensibilities, or mind the of Feelings, power of the of divisions or The power Therefore, to is poetry thus utilityof poetry. the naturally must we great is that power present verse uni- God's logically, and mission, thence Intellect, Sensibilties, think "Of ; utiUty. this, since in nothing is " for? good perceived. are The soul specifically and do to mind, there have not Vf is the There somewhat order In God!" a POETR IS What " form, is use T literature in and essential that literature resolution. literary products of the world, find we this that sustained. is philosophy treatises have we 89 POETRY? IS WHAT (as novels, etc.), histories, biographies, The etc. etc. knowledge; highest for This will, These doinain That of other the is Poetry its the mission Herein that of poetry lies the especially thing as meaning all to be chief with didactic of the heart. shall etc. most vated culti- is two. with ture litera- preceding. the mind of class a ; the monopolize of It of power mind the mission is the is this poetry, all writers that they tion, defini- the interpret the when mean of part of latter to consequently and feeling, feelings, poets by sensibilities. by the It feeling principle, must, same the here. to and what it fact, literature, in which that upon suggested human nish fur- lectures, orations, pervading literature minister subject But the as the is that other the the of namely, ; province therefore, to of and act it produced kind In compared department nature, as prose. dominating its very of harangues, departments the incidentally is the sermons, when in just course, present. have we is small two whole the are powers. exclusion the addresses, that other literature at the speeches, finds the cultivated to For that for almost of although, is to furnish They intellect. says, es- romances, these faculty does, they intellective largely in each food some is didactic, sense literature the satisfy to of object primary , ics, mathemat- sciences, the on tellect, in- the For say Divine the on it is the give pleasure. the limit of cause who those poetry. "pleasure" of that as Or thus word "pleasure great differences hold that of what used? The ion, opin- is such there rather, "? is the very true essence a IV//A 90 of pleasure, and emotion it at set at answer and higher this do is not touches poetry, give pain to Dunciad, Pope's and rest, now ever of wittv all reads such, and reads ever of them, having- read having written On not does hold having mission After the as hand, poetry to the better read not writer the who and verse having in his works," the Or, of the some a the of blest no- Tennyson, And Holmes? heart to for authors read, and negative emotion, ever or one. proof enough only let who, But Milton, Whittier, minister of not Burns, this merely in their or No, for is of viewers^ Re- Literature? on them, has all, hate Scotch illustrations, text some shrined Is not written? in greatest "great Lowell, authors illustrated Indeed, of these nobler as any reader. works." who desire of and "great Shakespeare, feel these absence it poetry? None. Bryant, not of not that or couched loves them? of Longfellow, who does what mind the world's in who them, works satisfy heart Bards venom, any except other the ter bet- ler's ButAcJiitopJiel, and the to the accounted are heard rest? the and to that one, any sets never these, bitterness ask, only meanest English Byron's unjustifiably designated me and Absalom gives enjoyment nor These to Dryden's Hudibras, at us, minister the even perfect gratification of hate, attempted whatsoever some knows. fully The does at are upon feelings, nobler gratify rest. itself poetry it is that gratified forces That emotions. the perfect once Y? pain, to when emotions What The opposed as POETR IS T does who of hearts that it is the higher love void, an for ; tions? emo- simply ache, a WHA All pain. drive illustrated their for the by No them. gratifying pain to if conscience, in say for his he doing heart listen, such that it stronger bitterness bad a away will as " and Byron, wherever nobler or The we happier or deed, feelings. but make Dryden, felt better fellow-mortal's a 91 farther Pope, and ever hate, a of revenge one Y? emotion better cases in fellows find the POETR g-ratifyit only to attempts rather or " IS T for or giving- ever-accusinghim permit never gratification has to him given pleasure. If, then, it is the whether matter no the mission its heart human be necessarily of of interpretation by tears or be to must give pleasure, to poetry the Divine in tration by laughter, its ministhe immortal of part man. the In light it is clear argument, is and object of it is not nor Their reflections their " God knows laugh of children of hand the to of at does not The us, of play, the pathos lips fill the heart of the with one the keeping primarily we to the teach their pain, of uncontrollable of provinces ; they must suggestions, lifts them, the death, love preach nor is above that cry primary teach are must the only incidentally, not Those Divinity why! to aiins verse delights a poetry. treasures sensibilities roses the or its that verse Swift, Butler, has Whatever discuss. breath of is not hosts, Poetry and Poems bloom. the to poetry. argue prose. their further all that that as If, therefore, ministers true such delivers teaching but teach, conclusive didactic? intellect. the nor of the what But of and Gay, Prior, without this, therefore, sarcastic, satiric, etc., Pope, us all of romping the needs touch no gument ar- emotion. These but the are in of verse the meaning The in found stands "Artificial the When Pope. and then better, and and now gem kind same of and world, its chief real a that it " But can the be enough Another the only heart placed on the question kinds which castic sar- and and logic this in is much larger, nobler, life? Only rare a felicitous line cut this we of literature the of at test and how as many Com.paratively, only stood the be to must, How poetry and a the of few test of their of works time good literature, feelings noble with in real great, true not can- spiritlesspoetic form possess? already have still stand inspires world's pressed ex- already spoken kind, mtich vaded. in- the left have when whole merely world the the that those " does poets, is how we single a Then, the other there element, poets few that in which length, of out also of of form and reason feel fountains couplet. verse we heart the in the then of "Artificial"? new wedded happily or it do of That head by path piece are see we as in better be satiric the Just didactic didactic the at rienced expe- prose poetry. forced named gives of not the out poetry makes that left there of are real well so types cut we as much "School" way. School," we didactic, do, how to other ill-feelingverse, all the true are the realm has he them. verse could with so in any of the which illustrious most kills solitarypurely a of Not prose. expressed be find cannot in and they as character from, departed and poet's themes, argument didactic You Y? Argument heart. the to is poetry without them the proportion of the sweetest reveal to POETR IS T WHA 92 and and that lofty purposes list. of verse. concerning pleasure arising from WHA 94 gathered and up thus of later the have bard of intellect, but the poet Shall then we Iliad, the and the is made thread a of up of a of poems subject; common is just is the single a marked, re- only poem. strung gems " the dise Para- or I have in roses " is natural. mind) of these none same; Odyssey, as the to to was the Queen, Viewed number a the Faery relation poem, he ^neid, poem? Burns did he close not heart. because the tive, narra- by ingenious poets nature's Tales, the (in its to view way Each that one that forth of lyric, all imaginable the lyrical when always say is each to days, Canterbury Lost true is he thread the on simple days lived, close of modern consequently, Y? From Epic. brought nature's best POETR been The day. IS finally strung making forms T a on common conservatory. Indeed, of a number great were gathered Each many is poems authors of the for collection a lyrics, indeed, and centuries, form to books form to they finally and umes. vol- contains Tales Canterbury together strung simply " pieced together one poems, Homer short many and up of of by sung " whole the of necklace one jewels. I ask and wonderful and prose, one book poems in are too from be a Lost Waller not the he can do that. with is considered as a great he might Not even true sense too many day, as (in the There are demands this Possibly forth that merit of these reading. read be calling concerning any one consequent for great to read single sitting. it, and somewhat length what of Paradise at and continuously comprehend word) had sit down works of that mind to one any the great it hath upon the very fact unjust epic, no " mark re- If its other." WHA Since a it should cause, :same if it is to -poetry smelled be must rose as can we 'One read can in through a thought is as of of passive receptivity, with order in other hand, and Consequently, line full We of page as .ally, as the the ,and in or and state to form perthe On in than densed con- it even presses. ex- single a attention flower from the heart flower-seeds the for the suggestion, and as a heart into it time give in the into bursts the appreciate to dissected Burns these He who the emotive do. and the it tries nature, There flower's soil. bloom, its full so Finmust perfection .is.an to the Need blossoms force the of scalpel. then we the soul intellect beauty-loving part intellectual it must beauty, by glass and daisy? and flowers does that analyzed botanizing go .anizing can growing labor more is prose. poem plant we the but thought stanza meaning spread beauty. Fully " the blossom poem its ordinary plant must grow, be of is but meaning. much as reason comparative fold single a require comprehension whole to sometimes may a the many out hour, with- suggested, expresses suggests reading. simple little active but always poetry form in very Moreover, simply comprehend to the for mind the fully expressed, leaving after sentences. rule, a of condensed, is not series not, mind, the read their By us. hour the as cannot manner continuously, thought long let We the vals, inter- at enjoyed, just different a prose prose, and for and judiciously it won't prose; seriously wearying that, 95 only occasionally. demand they natures read be appreciated be Y? brief, naturally, and be must poem POETR IS T delight to go of do of man, in not Did botman? what alone botanizing 96 in and picking feel. He know in his loves the can of ' ' with a divinity salve within to for this their fact, of "practical and " him these jingling whose a public that ; " " ages, that and the poet-priest as should they of To of taste sell the ; for strip of royal purple a and and wears glitter! that another cheap sweetheart or all should artist a mortality im- barter his fall not poetasters loudly jewelry and for the lic; pubsense, chapeaux of their more plauded ap- glitteringplatitudes,and necklaces, off in their is all about tin-panery, clamors for the are guffawing into penny into Here divine? art rough-and-ready sentiment chains "practical " of venders brightness wife by drops then cheap the " the of the vision they that ; is bloom. rattling, rollicking, banging loudly applauded a sod divinity prurient the to driveling jinglers,verse-makers, him, with the wonder of gifts, the consummate beset that corruptions the who glitter-jingle. a shall how But for them itching palm an wonder pander practical public so-called and divinely appointed should Almighty, the he It the of man, highest faculty divine," being of never that divine. soul, it is the the been ever endowed men and in full flower heart sincere earnest, it has as age, alone can it under turn to nostrils in the soul, the honest, an well heart beautiful pleasure immortal indeed heaven human the the that the supreme too gathered heart. is Poetry breath the simple daisy his in feels head the ure soul-inspiring pleas- sweet, botanizes who Y? analyzing beautiful of the love of the born that it is not but specimens, TR and pieces to POE IS T WHA and rings, mental gladdened by and pockets a glimpse things, before of its IV HA The the great, by in of means does does crowd walks throw him " soul. Aye, Was of highest type Book? Immortal one So them. within him. this of hearts and asks mentally of forever men, Divine Writers, inspirations it of the the make 'Tis be. ever teaches but how, old whose Beauty stagnations not those shall maudlin, stream some he poets, ruptions. cor- abhors and him at the with these sometimes this sets truly! so avoid to visible the majestically through corruptions it not in Divinity stones and ! these away how. our how of interpreter invisible the through that is despises, hates, He Glory flowing through human us it. 97 alone asks never aye, " crucify wash to who mortal, call, he ; crowd jeering and that to would Y? it, too, by obeying- that Obedient motley the words, He He poet, he true immortal POETR IS T vine Di- the Law. Such and soul poet, interpreting a thus attain may call " poet, as unpopular. that by His with him touching ever grow inevitably an better that numbers Thus ever strive with does will and better, though while to the his souls greater in ; and he in so on realityhe height, mend com- and on, seeming thus touches are and to remains the ones draw them. he whom an unappreciating, is common and him rescue souls, and more he existence. into greatness some lar "popu- quite generally him brings These a time-enduring of increasing posterity and more unchanged, ever have never is he but sense that Law great souls. to used, in the Divine will other is term Popular same soul that possibilities,we is He genius. a seeing, aspiring the that ity, Divin- mirroring illimitable its nearer original poet, an life idealizing and nature small-souled up 98 WHA would mob have into thus activity the " This time-enduring. in the of hearts would Who of that and illimitable the of drapery divine finallytriumphs jeers, triumphs even and more more and more I that of at all relation it from the Such a sense of the poet him all seen in very never in must that the In were write when he him," having his to latest and taunts still follows a the umphantly tri- dead, speak to us of the the taste that will words, this true all),must see genius no soul to that of his who, trumpet-soul other not same humanity fact of its commonness, opinion of the and sneers to for even create exactly words face ages. say, soul ; and about words time-enduring. relation never all not write, death, and, though over divine in the inevitably thus couch over poet, this genius (else he some of speak conscious must divinely through poet, him this, witness to who, ; within in immortal lives make genius? a still is obedient posterity his voice breath, more him for but the a all not sneers, vastness, obeyed Such and satisfaction, and soul's "wraps forever not were poetic genius who, revilings generation, present Wordsworth, ate cre- ness great- endure to of him and genius of proof divinity within sublime that for In heart make must of he the poet-genius that taste would unswerving soul's own this triumphantly were? in and must, the through Great. that taunts immortal penalty Who Milton, greatest I love then men. he Shakespeare, the is the suffer, and to " Y? is in himself that does, Thus call " POETR crucified,become reciprocal divinity humanity. IS T at ordinarily and way, seen, so but can its public opinion, transitory present and express recognize universality. in the ; but narrow through trials and great leads he much should I is that opinion; humanity's " it into develops that say, 99 enduring generally, and rather, public opinion, truer only opinion, equal of that to the a soul. great The great pander to follow, but never and within them, they drawn onwards thus thus the instinctively obey who "came for they by thus In greatly general a classes: two in follow the " them, the hear of God ; and whose souls, of that of other the ; " spirit of external nature Almighty one of the other ; but one and Shakespeare shall We shall we or is less the of Wordsworth is the Both obey the of same and are within voice mighty those or conscious, perhaps, manifold the find a in universal of exclusion many For cases one example. of extrospective the same in whom poet the to lations re- that representatives highest type classes the is dominant. the ; souls, Divinity through that of there whose distinctly hear find best our that extrospective, exists other the less " mankind. and hardly characteristics characteristic Browning the none these and nature, Voice. leading perceive the Divinity, unconsciously Master, minister to those or souls divine, but less the Him, poets of presence hearing, obey in two. the calls not of introspective, in binds aright, they unto, but say power which link divinely serving I may own Thus footsteps by upward way, standing ever and their path. leading humanity of never guiding same by that teachings His the the ministered to be not in others They follow but taste, upwards and lead. ever following lead and God, unto man public perverted a convictions; the it creates Y? POETR and suffering it, or broader, IS T WHA the ; while perfect union voice, and trospect in- of though mission and stood which has meant simply man's inspires the same purifying it is true test. is There good poem. will of the of men (as heart's light Is not only that is is at far so It is also guiding what to an Poetry thus ing minister- " a that an as the lamp, and guide a it is ' ' a of they to For present the not. different a go. of droop. It does takes the that, by would else ever of criticism idealization of rective cor- representation experiences side ; each one trolled con- comprehended Arnold's. opposes not utility that heart poem poetry attempt, making of a history. This, does crucial, the a the it),the says), that love, life, is Arnold history. of ters it bet- feelings, it is that has correct are of in idea looks Both in the simply is that ; greater this corrective corrects his the better a thinks angle. is the ; Matthew uplifting, Austin forces Austin Alfred long and the appreciated. guide a lived If mind the to is that by heart. feelings is if time, it is perceived same better ; is best test his When ministers life literature have true human the is not so, shall This mission Not The nobler controlling of Each the that ennobles feelings. be the (as of act at poetry " live. with poetry hearts bad heart extent life" and the when, to literature no by and the and a that this time. of test estate, the then said that good both the have not It is often poetry. true does whatever Indeed, life have sources, soul. human for Y? uplifting the perform, to POETR IS different through ministering in T WHA I oo indeed, philosophy poetry makes do? it The philosophy philosophy. poet is teaching ever by For a what else philosopher. experience? It I o T WHA 2 the rain all nor of depths poet laugh, he he because who Indeed, that. ponder blended, of country, the God, is who one God, the If dwell If these and beautiful, and the the dwell with them, a true, is of love not find his themes music, home, of image of is of the love be. his search shall world the ; and them love immortal divine must shall we heart, beautiful so man may poet's theme the laughs sometimes, human ideal, heart, he and through there not in his not ages the Well true, of or heart's love, is perfect harmony. good, the he laughter the gift in of mankind, If laughter. The laughter, love. beautiful, and the good, of the of divine that certainly love, and of law. mock. of the out ; for love divine may tears forms but are also is the ; he laughs never struck shine all is not poetry UUoa must This loves. hates iris of happy, hopeful by the tears f V felicitous most the shine, but if the But the Certainly other. POETR IS if love touch never hearts. our the But that must the love the painting, With of the of mists happy. and think tell. hold statue, make poet still the reaches beckons self thoughts under our of the communion stand may of touch sweet and ages We and it beautiful makes the to love whose the one all. us often may presence God, of only beauty by help the we tuned inquisitorial Almighty never we that poem, that thus poet-friends the the poets It is the is touched who melody, hearts through Valhalla of him makes hand, our stern, the qualities. It is thus our Maker's us soul Love poem. with in the him. to these possess the is not appreciated, be to poet, us alone the tongues out to to the in the of eye can IVHA Strolling in arm . That we with arm all the and meet may POETR IS fiery Phoebus " . T good Dan riseth up 103 Chaucer light," speare, Shake- immortal with company as bright so of the laugheth orient join Y? where the " Walks and with then where Tennyson and, the sands, upon as in to the we heights, the reverberant "The good of which we "What, And so, One In our my last Dryden we may of mount at shout lyric song grand, thy winning, echoes along to soul, was Preacher make sadder and him enjoying" but ; channeled the often thy errand here?" we dream death sweet song." we the doing Kingsley, not grave." the may life and moods to and do capable, are lovely things, "Do depths with it worth glory lead longing the to lowest Gray, of paths Whittier, Listening of soul valleys of the With think oh Think, hear utter me." the worth be world the could below, brave battling "If and of Laureate stand and slope him, the to With regained. golden-tipped top the the plunge may greatest Paradise a from to Milton in arise that thoughts the with with tongue my ; break, break, break the to hearts our that I would The rise in say "And With listen down hands clasp hill" eastern pass may we we high yond we clad, mantle russet of dew both them sea-shore the to the o'er in morn, . . . we them, and may, that with all vast greatest question, may learn to day long; forever Cowper, look 1 and kiss the and To In gone. sweet face and our gayer field flowers in field and, whether ; the shop or oursels see others as receiving from recollections us." see faint those of intimations early childhood, we realize may With has there "That Lowell advice the . . if Dr. canst not us daily we Wendell Oliver "Build Leaving shall then, the when Sun have at shall then night false be to wards on- shall we us, ; the day any man" said have ; with dear old low-vaulted from thou thine past nobler heaven at length last with "lies down go down all art a dome by I say, white-haired pleasant with the last, vast. more free, shell this, to soul. my ! than with outgrown done O roll ! seasons temple, new Till we thy thee as if ; within true stately mansions, swift the each the shall more Leave Shut conscience self be own drawn been Holmes, thee As Let have Divinity the follow it must Thou within plot, . And earth." it not." shall called to and cringe know we thine To " and link the that that climb divine heeded have souls of life pursuit that by with from glory a away feel may Sinais We If in the passed we Daily, " if recall gather may Wordsworth, immortality of mother a in love and somewhat learn " With we them garland kirk, or Burns with hours, of touch the Y? tide dark, Cimmerian the across POETR IS T WHA 04 a life's and unresting followed Bryant each sea" ; God of : us dreams," golden halo of glory ; reign Beauty, wedded eternal Beauty, in the heart forever ' 105 MORTAL. A fold Shall And that infest their tents, like ; day the Arabs, the away." silently steal as music filled with be cares the And Love, ; night shall the 'And immortal to USELESS? Flowers poetry are is Each to the heart! rain-drop drip from the Useful? The Both Aye, in Set in the of Soul poetry and Sweetest Lifting back us purest the to the Ever Ever goddesses, throw Round Does Ever to come a the the the clod. of Love heart the wild heart her I up can from know. below, above. wonder, mortal goddess from of birth, MORTAL. A Do God earth-child's God earth. enchantment of Venus realms hours. child-earth. new perfumes their Breathing dear blossoms " illume of the wing bloom and to " great the at clay, and the the heart the Flowers of sod the Set of love the are : in bloom. of earth clod a flowers poetry, ; mortal birth? wander above, shall io6 MORTAL. A Liveried in the from Stolen her Are of Curtained And the eyes Round I wonder Oh When For Ah, the rarest purest ye in Set Does ruby Aye, As the Have the Do Or the That Do the As the of to her wed music of motion Orphic orbs airy of tread the wandering planets her words this heart not a I have ? aether. divine. mortal worth? zephyr. lyric hand a seen? other. of the her a worship earth, each upon poetry Surely, surely 'Tis in heavens of attends With Draw fall down pearl-dight lips are waves the Have seeks. hundredth ripples morning serene, if the smile of of ocean, flowers the they kiss rays I wonder And he?' cheeks gems those When roses flower light your of white? brow upon scented light ; halo if the the Love? azure, rosy sunset blush Ever with smiling a of courts witching o'er golden a raiment rarest round of mine? goddess, seen ; them MORTAL. A Never goddess Never "She's the She's She's the And smile of Raised above of Caught from out And cheeks her Opening Laced with -Lydian An 'Caught from Hands Love Had the From 'Oh And "Still " And seas they sigh the To purest winds Never the love notes sunset. of stars night lips half of ; parted, iv'ry light. being swing hands the love toss of angels, hallowed of bells. heaven her lips; her kisses upon flowers the of the out their the flower spiritdwells, its birth E'en eye; blushing sky. rose in her that the " the her enchanted lashes and gleams music ocean Morning's the dawn, ; sky. wave are eyes and the the smile her eye golden the ^Oh every of glory mien. fairest, earth lid with the Hers the of light the Hers of features, of such rarest the such wore goddess 107 " " tiny finger-tips. enfold the draw and so down murmur pure forever planetary mountains seas the stars ever, as hers. rising " ; io8 MORPHEUS. TO Echo " back spheric music, in Never loved mortals as these. *- Heart heart to Drew With And head her As to Sweetest to she's As On the the worth toward me to Like the That afar its Throws it roses ; heavert earth. MORPHEUS. TO As angels. angels down her " might. rarest drawing I drew Of all the sister her me sands. night bosom loving by day her Sing For of presence. the summer scent its To own from me silent the angel hands, the upon Darling, my from in God's feet my Drew Day down her my clasped I star silver-wrought dreams peacefully cradle-swung billows of Oh on So let crest blue, breast thy Oh beams. me rest, rest, Rest, Till the kiss of the morning dew. CHORUS. no Oh A feet I know I find I life nor peace, nor love part. hour above. thee fly to nor silent the but Save rest nor I didst and thou T tolled requiem my When Heart thee, Sweet to Death For all is cold to but Save clouds. the amid heart My " sands, the upon head My stand, noisy crowds, 'mid crag My I thus ever CHORUS. Tripping and Light above. power of love. in its power Bindeth flower the Unto the Lifting the of its Up ether birds. the we gay, words our the as Love Out the as Breathing Sing and away, Blithesome Sweet naiads, sylphs and (By nymphs to common clod, low woe the bosom of God. dryads. in its Love might the Bindeth light shrouds like Whitened the Bindeth stream Unto the channels Lifting the trees Into a unto Never to heart part Joining Lifts gentle Every in the that find shall wind song. Only a moment Only a moment! moment ! endless the soul shall LURLEL THE moment hills of shall that Echoes a a lone, Sometime Only lyre responsive or Deep " strong, one, Happy *' and higher ever Finding Horn the dreaming Love's earth, birth. purer Heart of breeze by the Kissed a ray. in its dream Love Only dying last the with Red day, clouds the Flushing of shadow the Unto lit LURLEI. THE The Lurlei with me Til to staid : sell," I said, thee. " roll. LURLEL THE 112 Bartered Only Only "Sell the Buying " 'Tis but She layeth giveth She " Give reward She beckons hath She ' ' Fair I Here ^' give premature Here the Firm is She bendeth She Placeth *' my a will my staff in Farewell, for thy I kiss Thou thee hast a in form my of eternal youth." ; without age ruth, lengthened has curse thy tears. Tears of boldness command moment with wear." hand. withering bought thy wealth. must the at health. ; for thou with thy tread holdeth age snows pure of bloom hair brown thy long is spell. the with thy cheek Rosy time, cloud-peaks climb, the her a well." right under me ; its stead. whither me I hear thee, thy will for thee dear." my head. my as in lust me on heed but I pray me, I shall hand her choose I cannot ! thy honor, moment: a saith. she death of pottage ; child, it, innocent I sold and Oh, sm'iled thy birth-right," me gray, rime. Lurlei The ! moment a valley mountain-top's the Buying of the flowers Selling-the gay time, of moment a Lurlei the with I then remorse." to years; : soul-wealth a valley of LURLEI. THE ''' Give Somethingof " of Leg-ions Prayer She " Pleasures from She '"' *' the way. not, friend:" availeth in mine eye ; thy destine is the not; " end: or lie. the with soul my shineth upstart, me wicked Hell nor sun around curse a speareth The stone, roll. me pointing the placeth Heaven a place in the heart a Licentiousness "' like conscience," Lurlei: all of Reft not heart my from remorse hath Purity soul." from slide lone. Lurlei my quiet my to doth Conscience Clouds thee, I pray me, 113 and moon stars grope:" Night, sable-robed, doth upstart ; Love ruleth Pity, nor Hope:" not, nor Hate Hissing-tongued Only a Only a of moment her, with I bartered moment time. the Selling the good, the true, and Buying the glitter of crime ! her I sold That I sold I has moment her soul my bought for soul my all a Lurlei Combing Her voice Who pass 9 sits on her is the years top, hair; all must river there. : measure, ! mountain's golden the pleasure, Envoy. sirenic,and down to for bliss without Eternity'stears pure. of moment lengthened V The heart. my gnaws stop UGH TO 114 We they But If sJicep-tendcrs the hear is the that MISS TO Like Which leads Where all Around thy Life's that table, had while willows.] soul in youth contained one my to to its July in dinner, lazily reclining light, under thee guide hay-field, with the an o'er. shore. golden a love. white and pure celestial wild thee and peace so shed ocean waft And and joy Heaven May [Written is road above heaven to on us broad, peaceful that walk thou may'st Oh foam. and wild desert, life's Upon dome welkin ocean's billowy the tint And shine, the light that stars thine forever truth and love May of brow radiant that Upon it. spell they way it) tell it for responsible are ivetJicr^ tough atrocious having are (To PERHAPS. MUTTON, TOUGH PS. HA PER UTTON, M on a piece axle-grease wagon in the box shade of paper for of my the SHUT SHUT EYES YOUR KYRIELLE. A Dear, And All the the your eyes While the And Lay the Shut your I know Yes, Trembles Shut Let And Shut up your the Shut With forget and Touch eyes the go heart, pain. to to weep; and hour restless deep. and tears, go to love, sleep. wounded of " sleep. to hope, and tide the the night pillow waking your a to lip ; " sleep. heaving, stiflingsigh Through the go forget the care heal and Sorrow's Heaving For will eyes sleep. to go troubled your home, drags Over Oh fevered eyes your Heavy that heart of Shut and eyes your Dream sleep. arm. my eyes love your your " dream heaven upon on of Dreams come, to go ; angels vigils keep, head your and in creep will morn stars to-night, watches waning soon too Shut is tired heart your SLEEP. TO GO AND SLEEP. TO GO AND EYES YOUR touch of eyes like Love's and its prest, go woman's own pain to will keep " sleep. own. finger-tip, 115 ii6 BROWNING. smooth I will Shut your And Lay and eyes I will Gently soothe head Shut your pulse's leap ; arm, my and eyes " heart your upon brow, sleep. to go restless still your your throbbing your sleep. to go BROWNING. (by Browning be may if he is he's 'R Give me else Whose I caint endoor His hate Make Tho' the less your own poem The sum an' in nothin's an hold This you sings 'em ; he whenever 'at dribbles the ijitthat blame scribbles label an' it " Browning": gross; his weedy dose say? " rankness, Stop " sack Let life's too like frownin'! ! Browning go pipin' ivy leaf; his twings raw. 'nother advice, In Don't 'at in straw. styles all Take My know. poet a honey In it, full. of none show to of songs Jist fill you poet, a ; tweedle-um-twangles ^ An' so lots of soul With of smart anxious don't singer a farmer.) back, him not / a. right a thinks Some But w. a brief. fool a-snipin', 'em II 8 REX FUG IT. Thoughts laces are Finely wrought From the graces Bloom In has words break as In king But whole the When said. ' ' last sad sickle The The king has That Withered Rusts of lie the the ' ' FLOWERS. death the reaper flowers sickle performed, grave blooming ruthless the on laughter fleas. lies upon made sickle of ; after, OF rites ease with moment SICKLE THE The The a and roared class read he student. confidence with read usually prudent 'has,'" the rose Thus flees."" tall Latin Professor He laces. as FUGIT. The dignified, "Try tear we REX A vases; threads thought ''RexfHgit," do we shreds The Of " sherds Our We caught: the ; flowers clave. gathered, oround ; Dead And And Earth sittingby new-made a Of That and fond enter the heart celestial Bearing the Like the painless forever Lething In 'Tis the This And Of endless the of acme of touch it falls the on Priest a old an of sickle envelope flowers.] HAND. longings, " " fire. follows it benediction a gives, affliction heart's joy it leaves. life and of was of the the of ! angel-throngings like rest an dust ANGEL'S desire, that peace " back the realization hope ! to which on AN OF is the Happiness dust on grave TOUCH THIS Is five minutes ! mortals. of earth, and to about [Scribbledin it, rust on end the fade emblem is death's of Emblem " soonest flowers the its blade daily, daily sickle the Oh ! sickle upon flowers Sweetest 119 " mound the the blooms the decaying Are while of flowers the Oh HAND. S decaying, now within form the NGEL A blossoms the And AN OF UCH TO THIS the 1 end of living, angel's hand. heart the like Better the holy shriving Land. PHILOSOPHY. LIFE'S I20 PHILOSOPHY. LIFE'S ALLEGORY. AN this builds How Until of Suns the the Year " And by '' By round And the Thus The The The of in two the in the Autumn O fair tender the firm the shade and the plant? sleep Suns aslant thwart the head twine how dame, man, its : wed." are and vine? the doth arms love in one life's doth it lifts binds turn tree? ground." how its protects are gleaming the on sire plant, ''Adream Shoot in tree vine The two aged two, " tree the round a support the * degree. maid, tree's * youth, slow foot sweet the fair it adds by firm rose. a * year up vine, The smiled to tree, reaches Keeping Until have child? my snows * doth How What Spring * * * icy it, blushing, kissed And in wrapped all lies "It flower, budding they? vine, tree : " shine. it lies glowing skies ! ** The AS USUAL. JUST AS USUAL. Waxed fair night All Their And Clear The danced to The Sweet Sad Fair Love went down faint golden chilled That As sweet fears And Dan slunk Love arose Night light. ; Cupid's horn. back : pain; 'twas again ; horn soul. rapture's as at wind very my wound Morn, kept prowl willing the at mind my fears jealous morn, mellow with around blew Clear bright sweet ; ! rose night Cold again arose main 'twas : howl. mad horn, eastern back ; cold wind's Love Waxed My the Hope's My prowl gleained the slunk sun fold shepherd's the bears light. kept eyes flushed Fair All bears ; horn mellow the shining blew night at with around polar The 121 morn, golden faint moon's at sad sank sun The bright rose sun The JUST ! morn, DEFLORATION. A 122 DEFLORATION. A do We Cold think often is the Bleak as like At That So the seems in the hill neath the yet found Drifts So the crystal Of gleam my Slowly Drifts cold of gold. the my heart panned, not gold neath mould. binding in quartz Maybe every the sand the has : enfold, veins be may the Hand below snow, below and And mould doth rocks of with snow the 'neath mute. gleaming the Lie And Oh and heart my down Tho' Never and rocks That Deep rill mountain-top, the ; foot, lies frozen is the cold, old rookies mountain's the as is heart my AtioiiyDious. " hill the the Still worth. not of the peak yon Cov'ring and night, Chill White ourselves is of a and part. ice-bound stream gold-digger's a floe heart's frozen stream I know the gold of love's dream. dream ; I rapturously, Dreaming Kate, Dearest elate Full your Long, weary day. Each day, To glorious light the Of makes night my day. day summer's The bright boon. rarest summer's A The " earth's That A face, your me, I wait hours Each see to-night. side I seek To KATE. YOU, LOVE I23 KATE. YOU. LOVE I vernal and noon. eternity. noon Oh, sitting beauteously sceptered AVith all my O'er night To With eternal one shine aye last, and so on.] and Nor longer bid But say first light will you rhymes by " to-night; fate Kate! you, marry with wait, me "yes me I love above, love ; Because, [In the space aye And Oh sun thro' life and For sway way, Still of my Make aboon throne Love's Upon me " ! last, second with second from THE 124 THE MAN'S DEAD MAN\S after From That the Like the after Eve With dreamed O'er a after Morn With Only to Is fear find bought pity . the I the brainless the pity With The " much as a I poor sassiety Smacks the of wealth only " alone of myself in from bed of its truth, the booth. am poor, cuffs and nor I pity dude money likewise of bumble-bee collars far ; more. dollars. hare-brained only Dead POOR. rags sense night own. my hope THE starched wear was dream-god's they've neither For profound of the stars death the for poor Though But I the west full awake I risen PITY I the as and that at bed have morn the the Pacific I knew that corse down, myself weeping deep as Light. gone to west unrest. in my night silence has irised the port in the some still turned to night heaven's sun its restful after I have a the eyes even Night of sweet as prayed For In eve till noon discover might haven my I have thro' morn life my secretly prayed I have day LIFE. is^practically dead. ) ( TJiat Day LIFE. DEAD spendthrift wretch ; whose honey. droning speech 12 6 CLOSE A sea-birds The The A in scream ghostly CHMENT. TTA winged wail billows sleep, the hour ! Finale. Green emerald as And the Michigan tossing o'er wild ocean-child, orphan A again. boat Embracing The graves, infant my ; waves, ghosts in yawning Like Are is has that The rarest The fairest that ever been, ever was seen ! ATTACHMENT. CLOSE STORY STRANGE OF QUITO. AMOS k I have swept I have slept None this None door. world have drunk of and I have danced Where I have laughed I have I've That hummed never I think to blent. skipped found me frowns. rainbow fairest my me, sent"; the and sought rain-drop sweetest its colors but aught upon downs. have none offered the and ups its heaven-inission On But cloud-wing, heaven's loved have I have the upon o'er; peregrinations my Thro' rivers the entered I have in airy heavens, skimmed I have But the and sweetest the frolicked, songs attachment belongs. ; CLOSE A Of Is desiccated a Is the I'm And Hence On fairest the world's Of the to the None Now length at of from Rest And For I scorns sleepy am Let Let none Nor choose but always stay life's reached now, profane mar ecstatic and hands my ! hate to spare me, ! kind. and buffets. find. stay here to hum. golden chewing on " to first attachment stuck am story pinions. weary all men's I'll I've save mortal I cannot Where " of their And except " my reach ladies. everywhere hated have Out I loved have ; features old same Disappointment None me grate. babies and lords lover's to blushing maiden, on million doth soul lullabied a ; indifference the feasted I have fellows. my mighty I have ! affectionate most kissed I have dearth of the my 'Tis desert, sterile, arid a worth and wealth endless my 1 appreciation world's the Ah, CHMENT. TTA A acme, gum ! happy, not wildest tumblings disturb ; dreamings. curb. " 27 12 8 'twas Since DEMON! not in life C. A permitted s-i-p, write mankind May I blood his That THE : AMOS ! QUITO EVER HIM LET R.-I.-P. . DEMONIAC. THE ! and God Great And I can the I whom idle Each And heart stills Oh blight that This Might To to poisoned each the blooming grinning faithless lay dream its flesh lying on mine wine mantle downs ! hour ; damns- flower. skeleton doth of ! I live presence my woe. know deaths million I love For, whom with with heart wasting, poisoned Each I heart some some million, Ten wait, night? each living death 'tis My I thus must death I fill blast me sky? day imploring death, hour Each the blasting blight, dreaming And To in long How from Lord, O live, hand of sorrow's press long, I must die, never headlong Hurled How I, must hold off mould ! The leaf must The But FIEND. WEATHER THE fade, the day sweetest Death, Decay, and And Oh so, days The I've to creep ages the seen And slime that slimy things To live in I find no My self I very Unfit to And rest, no " live. to die ! WEATHER Of Ask We me. fly; far less fit to THE enjoy the us FIEND. weather whether it thus and If it suits What thus it boots us. much When it's Come complaining "it's And Of the to thing today." out please will us. raining. muddy It will ; us. If it matters That therein birth like love, unfit ease we'd rot sea. I know peace, ! weed sea- find death, years, ; deep crawling upon " centuries million ten live, must I ! life's tinfathomed In 10 Woe set, ; lengthened are like tossed die must so me years On I've and must sun must 129 us us like to say. THE I30 WEATHER When blizzard a Like lizard a Wriggles FIEND. and up Dont down fool-like, be Just keep cool, All "pickles" green If it's cold Don't When If he ' Gently S his With he frigid brow. knowing bound sleighing by If old Those that you be always file. stand For Heard wx a '//^, " as of saivs it " Yes, demand That by." of you can hot ifs " It's because We and clever your remarks Weather to siliver we When Tongue eye to "We're some " weather " It is sound Have he as your Say, so snowing, a within Wink out somebody melting If it's vine. the out, says mops like on sold be tell yoti spine, your it. weather bore. never such Originality before. clever THE DEA Ah wide I glide For the Or a the plashes lacing star-lightlashes, 'mid sea lightning gashes their With me 'mid waters Of 1 flows Where Either 3 I" me the Deep 1 KNOWS! WHO O'er WL. TH-HO booming knows Who Ah In cannon-crashes " ! me! wide the tide River's Still flows For Either Or a bearing waters From the its that waves muddy With me of sea knows Ah die I shall to-night, the pebbles, trebles " ! me, Ah THE pelt troubles melancholy Who bubbles me! DEATH-HOWL. dear mother, I have heard the long death-howl, That long plaintive, lost soul. mournful cry like the wail of some 1 DEA THE 2 3 And it sounded like WE TH-HO spirit crying a through distant a storm, form for Of the put should exchange on brutish the " brother-spirit a its form that hound, baying Irish But should ! that Wailing mortal another that ^loaning worse, darling mother of the death-rhymed rat. mother, my or ! old Pythagoras was wrong. For I'll die And the dies heard I've Yet, " death-howl the is room death-howl, that to-night and away, I hear mother, the and angel- I know " filling,fillingwith a strange, unearthly light ! Oh that glorious sight the Where and Dearest light and with go mother, af e song in the yonder out leading eternity vast ! oh come " come ! me mother! mother, whata joyous, joyous sight ! Each glad soul angel-white The Good-night now died dreamed sweet dear away, to-night mother, mother, has it clad in purest ! death-howl's dying life as mother, " and I'm ! " earth's dear good-night ! angel, once more 1 VITY"LIFE. GRA 34 olden-golden anthered ! Thy saffron pistil-tips stamens Thy " And So in wrap be, when just others To meet verses thou'dst that all them embalm here I could Would roll, ! sweet as should years Envoy. soul-inspiredpoet, thus, O 'Tis world shall pluck it from The Shall amidst die To Death Shall pluck Shall So may'st be Shall The thy and do LIFE mind " Life world-stuff then several after.) miles call we cannot it, thrall it " is it not? Where of " ! what? " Attraction Life " life. thy (After Browning Yet be harbinger, GRAVITY" Gravity and rife. riches welcome of heart, be. with crocus " mother's thy from live Death, That soul crocus. thee unto come thou the of thy embalmer Shall " throng. the thee song thy throbbing plucker thus, O And thy greet of man? truly it is! " " His, and not his! HOT?" RATHER! WELL. 'Tis of all matter ; thus 'Tis of all space, and Matter, Each " fits It is Who Mind Life leaf nor and Sun fare, day all the and ; is there song ; w^ay. hope are dreaming and love with wake will ! all the nor spring " I moor Sweetly, sweetly Life strife. LIFE. barren Barren, at it wrought lonely Lonely, span. it? chain 'tis the o'er other the DEATH" Sadly world's what? " cannot ! how ; life! explain can man the spans ; with each to Life? God 'tis of Gravity, man! I35 bright, there ; light. Joyous, joyous everywhere. HOT The round, With To ear, he Then An' a us how a his an' from an' teeth shook 'tarnal a-sittin' grin smilin' perdigeous most showed laughed think Fer " to hot with face ear space! slapped all his 't'ould still 'fore ! hills the crost red, shinin', broadened That To peekin' come sun RATHER WELL, ?" be night. his sides might 136 HOT?" 'Twas this "purtywarm 'Twas o'clock eight Before At the twelve No All " The Full An' day of then, 'fore night, Like The when steeples on drawed Was the to That The melted churches shingles An' An' The crystallized in cubes. wagon-tires all They melted Men An' growed in Nickie to a the follered so chuck suit awful ; fast by the up ; root. harvest-field cracklin's way off off tumbled pulled was in fried A-sizzlin' Old barrels wire 'to' warped up their 'fore nieht. wax bows. of forests to in little tubes doubled water hoops rolled fall. times three all ripe all in Big saw-logs The like ; an' stretched weather-boardin' An' growed it in the more'n off "" " dry 'twas lightnin'-rods was two; heat! mornin' shuck you at pupo'tional ears " that light as chaff, made hisse'f " yet knew! ever hot round. hot" the that corn foot two I awful " and hot", with dyin' hottest stalks Why, An' "I'm said, found 'twas tenth meltin' " 'fore an' "hot", b'ilin' " 'twas stop; then minute-hand's 'twas " mornin' ; an' then ''Quite warm"; RATHER! WELL, an' laug-h ! height, In Smith But His flesh (But I can't It him begin be begin to the That From A all that fancy flower And by I lost I a Beneath While this fondest the I should year ago. A year ago its " chime ! " beneath my soft, enchanting of year ago. A year ago of peace the dreams should A sill smell time A bed part ever ! golden bloomed heart, opes, A all count slept That hopes touched mem'ry's cough). ago year that Sweet a AGO. YEi\R dreamed Nor of rest. to fondest ever died hot A I held bones guessed. even try A off hot tell how all-infernal so I can't " took chap caught cold, and ; it can't " It's still to his in 'round lolled it killed was This (Sid. Smith). an' 137 all died big city, folks one AGO. YEAR A stars like of dews never year skies summer o'erdropt cease ago ! " my eyes 138 SWEETEST THE A Soft Should The mine A year ago A year ago skies And mingled Upon Love To-day And The love ago And tears But the " vine leaned year ago. A year ago to to life sun : heart my nought half for tears pity of excess of death but part can begun year of demeaned mine you A : ourselves Heart, you Song ! sweetly sun and " ago. SWEETEST tears tears sister made A are hung. noon year that THE lake Love A I fold and and ago. from know these sweet year had Love like bees, moon. A Dear we, of ! highest brother a Thus Twas Life each then When the upon their near wings " light-kissedthe sun Then, the be endlessly Rode with whisperings that Glad And ago year whispering Foretold There ALL. morning-g-lory vine, My ' OF OF and rapture of love joy are tears and must the ALL. of woe, pain will fall ; flow. sweetest of all. the There's the And The of the the Oh be May The There of the There But And There But of that the smiles of kiss the kiss of the are songs are the is the love sing that the that songs that songs of a listening vsing love are like the of cheer fall ; they of of finger tips. fall; lips. mother's of all. key, minor heart the fear, all. tear-drops sweetest in all. of the ; child, the sweetest the cherishing of hall smiles from of wild, thoughts the are when kiss songs the good-bye a of wherever sweet-blown kiss the all. and sweetest banish love brain, of free and gladden smiles the to laugh contentment that pain banqueting is the love all. enthrall heart farm-boy, the sage, of sweetest boisterous of laugh the are the are There's There of the smiles There's The love the smiles are And But in laugh But of of sighs balm and soul life, sweetest the wife, ; of the that hope the laugh laugh The of sighs the There's and of sorrow sorrow is the love 139 recall no the remorse to sweet the But of sighs the And of sorrow sighs knows and death the husband, that sorrow sorrow But of sorrow ALE OF SWEETEST THE appall constant sweetest ; sea. of all. 1 THE 40 ' VER LO Willy-willy-waly ril I loved bonnie lass, Willy-willy-waly bonnie Bonnie, Willow- Here this upon hang On my head my a dee. will she ever place my and tho' you, AVillow-willow which, of to going off perhaps, the the and sorry! about to to " before be ; also die, somewhat in wars thus hat, wailing utter revenged the and custom leaning a of la quicker, modern, his hanging up death, of his harp Job's turkey, new-fangled a love The custom to tree I presume, methods get killed, \"y making green-willow (they of had they as a " and willow-tree sweetheart a ! forsaken hoping false the or on " wearing against know thing. same desperation on she will " all the course, lover's disappointed a her lover, is, of the ! death, my emblematical is willow-tree [The ! so breath, Willy-will}'-waly, waly-oh vStill I love ! so sleeping bride my know? hand weeping farewell, ! garland. green Willow-willow Then go? woe my weep Willy-willy-waly wailing On she harp, and I'll heart my did willow-tree, willow, Willow- alas! whither Willy-willy-waly I will ! woe my weep Love, willow, low. sweeping weeping, a ! woe my willow-tree, Willow-willow For weep the wear INT. pleasures dee, and live Sorrows LA MP COMPLAINT. LOVER'S THE And CO S garland no used lover's fences) to do getting TON. SHIXG ^A 142 WASHINGTON. Feb. 22 glorious Our In ; admired war Of of Was mightiest The years ruling spangled And O of night our love God's think And the sing fight the We And thoughts the right the world all the ! SONG. songs they have old same thought. fathers our old same battles imfurled, VETERANORUM. FILIIS CANTUS morn, boon, BATTLE FREEDOM'S We of " thee. greatest best noblest, grandest, blue, I of all are for of day; white the blue of strand nation's the hand heights own golden dawn, home liberty and To thro' of emblems all the Are exalted far yon red thy Jove's is made day the thee For ; than more and because more peace foe the beat who I thou save nation every from us this thee For to in to to men hearth, yet every Still of mightiest Wast died Lincoln land the of father ! Dear Washington Great ; fought, wrongs. CHORUS. Hurrah! Hurrah hurrah! ! hurrah O'er thee for O Land my aye, oh ! the thou home, its colors may of the banner Land sweet wave, our Land fathers of free. gave, Liberty. We still ; will. dauntless with strike they unsheathed, that sword the Unsheathe SOUL. breathed, fathers our freedom Inspiring And air the breath, THE OF MOUNTAINS THE 'MONG Chorus. " the Behold The old same old same in out love home. happy Freedom's On dome spang-led shining Forever above. sun CJioriis. " guard We'll And fight stand We'll home our the latest foe by won ; loyal gun every Freedom's Where fathers the flow. streamers CJwriis. " red stripes of the Beneath blue. starry spangled And Right through. battle fight the We'll of God the by Protected white and CJl07'llS. defiance bid We'll God And ring, flag unfurled dauntless Freedom's With world the welkin the make And to above, King. our Clioriis. " My grief Tell Tell Like Or lies all within. not me me sad like that Shaks^ere, " tears not that drops of streams THE OF MOUNTAINS THE 'MONG are grief rain in Rich. sorrow, must flow descending, valleys low. SOUL. II. 143 A-HUNTIN\ HAL 144 and Mute In sweet heart the is There the From Clouds of And of Nought Deep grief of Clouds vShrouding Oh, Sad grief of Streams we Pa'n' 'N' / went Rover. Have 'N' did, we 'long " ist the Pa, w'y of a-huntin', went me, roll, A-HUNTIN'. HAL Onct gloom. deep may mountains the 'Mong raining, valleys, river's Charon's as 'N' an' we he tookt ol' tookt did fun mostest a mountains. come, be channeled the along doth hill in every relief. great soft may grief ; moaning. give night the as with of soul's the mourning. with nor can raining eyes. burst may of tears among Silent with bleed may weeping Nought rise, weeping soul the sorrow, never can in heart the Oh, of silent themselves congeal To grief all tear-relief. woe dissolve And with mournful. and shame heart slumber, own dumb that's eloquence, doth That Death's as I gun. " be the flowing soul. A-HUNTIN\ HAL ist skecrt Rove Outen 'N'en grass, he shooted Pa ! how landy Pd Wushed pas'. they had a 'em at they runned When My rabbits the the 145 a ! run ! ofun " ist shooted Pa Hard^ Kill A-huntin' Go 'twan't sich didn't fun no a gun. rabbits them scootin' a ! " after'm, ist Rover 'N' " wif ! but My shoot, tc'j' wouldn't. " said Pa Jic'd when 'cause gun 'N'en couldn't but 'em, The 'em, at a- Skallyhootin' ! 'N' said, Pa comed he (When 'N'en the Laft ' What (in fun), Of 'em It How Guess II we " dog-gone Ma when 'N' all, he 'em a-lookin' a 'N'en ist man skun Solemn-like ' ivif Jiis gun! ^^ shook'n' he'd Said, done" he home) hired an' When what "see she fried 'em a-eatin' was up. gun. Ma said 'at beatin' was that he's dog the could run goodest ! " gun ! " 146 scowled He Awful, at " tell for? Pa'd Wusht he take green Rabbits from the for Write the as satisfaction, June Slowly unfolding the From from Then I That the swear Perfumes rush the let its of sweet seem heart its song the inside out redoubt. its Power's breathing petals, almost the human portals ecstacy. in show petals thro' out outward best blossoms, from drunkenest your Breathe the rose ports outwards feelings glow, the straight Always So straight soul's the HEART. THE you'll fashion And In why? heart divinely I me! eat FROM WRITE Write too Wonder not! When him wif " might Guess laft! they me 'at I'm says Awful Write 'N'en again; Huntin' But go'n' haft 'd you ! what To little rascal, see Young Here me said, "You 'n' HEART. got red, an' face Pa's 'N'en THE FROM WRITE your like poem a living rose. to me, OUR its with vSweet from Write CaringWrite Nor from the how forget show glitter and the showers the as sfoes. straight outwards, heart for it soul unto the not perfumes deepest-drawn soul from As 147 MATER. ALMA ; " heaven, sweet blow. roses WHITHER? this Whither this Whither this Whither this Whither oh Whither, But Tomb? points who Thou Of And In light prop and thro' strength'ning E'en 'Tis in ours to taught all our thy trials to-day as in and Clan." in spire! " dome. azure MATER. thro' all the infant our who weakness would us Class ? the ! thou truth Ruth." " ! beloved hast into ALMA Mater of its marble whither. OUR Alma Sire with it home the to Fame Tomb voiceless Dear Love of Highway, silent the wild." Flowers the Man? Highway, realms to Youth? of Fields the "Through Flowers," Highway, the "Through "To of Field the "To Child? Highway, never feet hast let thee prosperity! thy adversity the been ! thou ! west way our whose rest, stay zest 148 aid To And as In east " broader To thy fields to is made the Of Of the I have who Him Of I have of Fairest Into Shall Oh the Of Blend With be tears and of and sorrows in and music in of step of has parted. laughter. hereafter world the kings that worn the pities. who him flowers. sorrows the ; stations. life's garlands cities to-morrows joy woven and and sad death but That nations, broken-hearted. of chains Into ; fountain. homes the Russia, a best!" quiver and scorns forged I have west strengthen to mountain the all their given from aye river. men up builded I have grow, doth of rainbow raised I have for roll'd, the of that sunlight the In the of and sea, home, TIME. father the am old, dearest, the FATHER I of strong, world all the of us. and shout thee by ours, ruined live lengthened the 'Tis forth fiery test. bird Phoenix, thou, like the from this thro' thee thee, speed Comest To TIME. FATHER bowers. Eden's the pleasures faultless their Father rhyme measures Time. thee, PART I50 OF PART ON Lived and in where day one shot they kicked Bioux-hioux, the stand Let's listen Along its As to the the ' Be him of top Do And lovely music so make the rabbled D'Bioux. song. of river the of echoes not life, and One on let dream death, soul ever us and that sweet " be can them, grand, throng roll: who tain; foun- mountain his Farewell and Kingsley's grand his valleys maid, things, of moral channeled sweet " drink above threnode-throbbing good, " bioux-hioux! let's Their ^ ! "FAREWELL." Of Oh they grioux TcrJnvytt-in-tJie-Twinkle sun-tipped the LTpon huUabalioux, steeps, with and thrioux KINGSLEY'S climb Let's him bioux-hioux, " ON blioux, they grioux, awful an up blizzards the and 189I. BULL, Sioux other they grioux, And And land the SITTING OF the LAMENT. ENGLAND NEW KILLING THE LAMENT. ENGLAND NEW THE Bull Sitting Till THE OF all clever day vast song." long. forever ; THE TRANSFORMATION. THE TRANSFORMATION. A I things method which shadow a I had in of sweet vision when suddenly and now I there was I that yet sounds, a peculiar have not for ; Indeed, and brows this but the pleasurable in truly happy the surely have that a of a mortal, was quickly or what roused that I cannot without moment a pleasure every say was to this say between my born local no of residence together producing hope of I imagine But, you has the say, ; but not earth sensation from being. this its I pain. altogether was that experience there pain. a after I teriously mys- ing transportwhole possess. pain. no pain, was seemed had fibre, both weird, of it my crown, world next have angels pleasure For I the I cannot as my a sensation a way exhilarating feeling that learned, that And to and nerve indescribable that is back into Moreover, peculiar, almost sensation, which in every was and felt, a kind permeate a mind, my head, my of sleep pain, starting immediately running no sleeping room. indefinable to is glimmer my my since a seemed been presence, in or some with that from dirge, in natural any flittingthrough sensation in mingled rapture a tain cer- mind. faint strange before never pain a of as that all, there had the startled a But us own and only of of in my then was lively consciousness mournful lives usual as least. explain by the with night, one in the doubt a bed to gone soundly MYSTERY. cannot we happen may longer PSYCHOLOGICAL superstitious, not not am 151 awaking, going their on. fullest I could But tell not my keenness, senses I soon where being saw I THE 152 in was and own my sound I had been merely the that was Have whoever Still I tried to entered my room barred the retiring. in at it shake I looked and the the breeze and " wantoned the stronger faintest streak a that the in it had houses, it as really room, my reached could viction, con- I shut my somewhere from came to asleep. presence nor shining, virgin May were be and answer fact, just of ; myself sounds it seemed. wonderful most " in until grown rid not mournful everywhere, Suddenly of still the night, over in There possibly not this was among ing know- iny was murmur bud. the I could I could to moon soft a consciousness Still, that ears The I climbed have I turned me. road, everything, I knew stronger waken with that barns, the and as securely door, before story without nervous window. just lately from leaves was, will I had possibly second had one bed-room my fancy. some custom, could one so swayed trees light the of the out no am slightest sound the also of the when is my as sound, mere that not ever, How- the not feeling had like? and were fancy that the presence were, the door, Besides, for ; off for, ; front the myself waking my done never you persuade dream the presence solved. to that of they windows my and that whatever or easily trying hallucination realized soon time, a of the matter so dreaming yet passed away. I not was lay quietly for I the But room. weird the TRANSFORMATION. of light creep tell ! to " the saw farther wall perhaps, occupy the up I very of my room. All than much that full a I have related minute, longer. did though not, I must confess more it seemed TRANSFORMATION. THE thread The before through moon by Wait! It reached the breeze it that light the above could it be I You Possibly know you too, had hands would and if your whole and I as vSuddenly, forehead, whatever bed, then which whole my sensation a if your the world once, was on I sat body bolt struck the floor, film, of a I put mingled So, once. with ever whatif But thralling a would probably struck do that at if ; and pain the at and by more did rapture it it, arrested), some natural supera upon was ing cling- touch than touch filmy brush to suddenly shaken the on time up (if I really my off same I As mysterious hand something bed. in the on me bounded me seemed as was thread case. lay motionless, upright my it hand my trembled It such at feet you that I touched doubt, for room? fascinated. forehead. when you, investigate flash, something a in do thrilled were at instantly power. was diately imme- inexplicable. or light following it, and But I all like it my away. along in your thing a I would " move, being down of to not lie there " and rose, thread cate deli- a got in investigate doubtful, pain did, time, a strange, rapture window? Wouldn't would you would you many your such see what say I said was just should you not may it ray gently was it crept What stopped. A " such When me. breathless, wondering. friend, if my with Then held ! almost lay it ever ! the imperceptible, toward head, my that through ceiling. almost was have it be curtain blowing ceiling diagonally the could What slit in the a lights I all ceiling rapidly, and the attention. moved it toward breathless of the from light, different moved seen, in me of i53 light, " it, that almost be- THE 154 yond it, and unable bed and film ; for I resist to started follow to somehow that was stood on excitement I would help, have cried or of rapidity ! steps my from passed the to that When the down. was seen an many Then desk, possible, beheld, on me. screamed for Even I marched martial to as that music capable spider! different, was me I " a tell I another very like just me was of blank of resisting exerting nothing more supernatural you, I intently. from any the it, of end of that less lay horrified, than most ever and on if What before. supernatural have to thread other paper than spider, I similar the was this nor on at writing have it. riveted eyes the I me. over since beheld I time ently obedi- I desk, my power power led. was at first and before pile less what the ent obedi- study, my supernatural object appeared eyed over seen. a to which this chair, my and and for time any in my I sat thread since extreme upon control, and of the by exerting light, suddenly ugly sweat impossible. was study-chair my object at never my thread I reached object that the by room, solemnly, slightest inclination sat As of all of beads I suppose, sleeping-room my controlled but whatever dead. the I it under was and conscious fully the but and slowly, deliberately, of " light this influence from "murder my or Great partly by hastened from brain, and my whoever partly, and of to from drop rose thread of resist. caused I did, Though not body, my nervous the I could I attached will it. hand my that up the let what it seemed controlled doing, was I doing involuntarily obeyed it I survive. to power my TRANSFORMATION. a I ence influ- horrible, certainly; before or TRANSFORMATION. THE I As and in the paper large and rather really Wonder the to too, of army and that did seem vision of spiders had these larger only to move ; swear if to nevertheless controlled and the upon both thread imtil each of began first the they paper. But paid no cut paper, to could was his through be the it now irregularity also began to the other, action of the other, As mutual. their the they shining, filmy intent every upon left behind, web went the to right-hand the left,and motions. similar meaning As proof. as reached thread, and of so to almost go of I ; acts was left attention vSuch, indeed, impression other but the one, paper iny one the by the each spider, having again What dance? I that of noticed the upon motion side I moved, on the persuaded other the visionary only reality, am possession each, unconscious influence I it Yet but in moving the was destruction, my present, But my whole a picket-guards? ease. in move, work This, too, there paper that be somewhere mind. was the began as not really the I one, one was one my was still have this the spider, existing a believe, to this only its appearance it to more light (attached, made Could convened were of thread finer a paper. two that present spider the first,and the than spider's thread), pile of made very spider began moving, the smaller even first another on I with seen, As ! somewhat one, dimly wonder upon another so awkward. first look at the Being imaginable. ungraceful, not up on his movements, clumsy-looking, irregular though round and motions irregular most moving began round forth, and and back down, it spider, the watching sat i55 of this seemed and mystic to clumsiness be; spiderfor had my now 156 worn away, unison, of of could the measured The ink, had Days it be read and of pleasant Thus of old us, it been glowing the the other of web distinct as the were I would this day, chum Happy to Days solve and of the the dear Yore, " mystery of and distinct I what hand the of Past. each deeper my oath, and that was of my friend. of the portend less of taken Memories these that then Memories old galaxy a eyes, by the handwriting present about? Heavens spider. have life,past me the deeper why knows! alone caught growing that in my it it been But there Could words, willingly had my nothing I writing, too, taunt before But again. web. if written as I looked own to God eye of something trailed No, and my were my mystery boyhood words future? a moment. be meditating, chum, was I had dreaming? glowing a regretful. dark a There, to above read, Happy to as style a was there history make of something will I derful won- " the own, again in in memories. could Here the glanced left, and shines so I not sworn those life's whole my had my looked woven that My next! I plainly. writing that, out was day, as Could present, glow in harmony curtains, yet sun was " have of words? words the and and plain instead those or read I would that ink the work as in and fect per- dimly lighted by spider sworn possible? it was, say, their page woven grace in be Yore! of there have to in under first top of^ the seemed the but true as " been Could and and the ! would I with slipped web now was spiders relate the motions room that glowing at web was and the see there in their moon to in and rhythm. rays at TRANSFORMATION. THE the Past. weaving of How these 158 of THE the second and of words my in the woven Oh how Oh When the 'Mong Life lay smiling No All regrets, the Life rejoiced Still before the seemed conscious Indeed, in all that ! have to it. solve and it up. philosophers My interest before. spider cannot Again as in was melody to I in and more you, I have finally in turned wove. possible, " it to cept ex- " able more and have lesser other it. greater even markable re- depths weakness upon attention my at and fact, savant its into satisfy themselves if met or and most ever sage their ence. pres- really one the it, wondered more or latter is : neither place, This me. tell thought action vSpencer, McCosh, it of as another yet found tried now, I anything because other's problem ever Herbert w^ell as existing intricacies, and subtle than already said, only have they got as more given Many I gleams. the follows, have nor " its remarkable psychological one ever music only psychologically present shown beams. remarkable of other ; the present was prize or inore I as beauty. sunlight I should similarity of and flowers! me, golden and wonderful spider its that light " forests bright with the wonderful more was more its light. unconfined. wide not of these behind; cares whene'er Thinking with thread and trees seemed Scattered distant hours the all before freedom was Miss and no earth the melody, happy through birds ing, weav- days of boyhood, those I rambled likewise caught delicate those dear how I sweeter finer,more sweet spider, and eyes, deeper, sadder, a I delicate more before passed strains TRANSFORMATION. the than present Oh those days of Oh those days with I known Had What struck Piled Both the to So Hves. their hsten those days has Time Of a All Start Not wrote (I music and I of life's path seek the the of those goes, the first air of " knowledge, wisdom wear. spiders two that flowers, and wasted the pearls gems little had morning be in bubbles hours, thorns would moment that faculties those the time to or about as spider had Could That already begun I live I spent again those in idle as I as am the days plays the this, for meditate rapidly ing work- now were thought, same with endowed were help saying they wrote) can't to over, life's fair unison, inspired by feeling? and phantom live them but faculties,and in look, to cost ; away a again I would human should weaving- joyous yesterday. Chasing it be them in And tion inspira- forever; gone careless, happy a weaving that least again those O'er thus were deeper melody. seems now I could If are lives very were at very and wafted Happiness if their as hastened I richer other Ah, Could yore. they the live, though might heap on letters,that in illnminated it away both days happy door; heap of inspiration,and ephemeral an smiled, me wisdom's on weaving- rapidly, were child a round knowledge up those but ! wild, exulting leap a I'd have fraught rapture blessings ! thought sweetest when great With In 159 TRANSFORMATION. THE rapidly as same both slow writing this; third stanza. " i6o TRANSFORMATION. THE And could I'd not waste And Till I then that I those completed I removed the finished instant and the same the psychologically accomplished was end to remove And Had my the With conscious bending floated I of of And have my it heart it dreams Of the silent thus they were to pleted. com- " brought. have of of ; pondered burned ; Nature divine laws to learned the me beauty design. first spider, apparently waited; direction, again away grows sighs in sad As wits' beauty have this, the in that latter ages empire to and upwards Oh, I'd abstraction, had my eyes my and truth till morning Omnipotent listened of power I would shown that pleasure fraught, I would lamp at their at I heard. and this how are as second bygone books broad soon wisdom's of of have Of as one I continued close done, removed though- ; the its wealth Should one finding had visible act same the bards the the ; but both psychologists my Tho' the to lore From While of trophies the All sheet mines Golden O'er indeed days with the All as from From other page, sheets those yore. a visible I known In of the Even now flame to by finished the soar turned even explain. " fame beacon days happy involuntarily it had the ; would wings caught mirth in hill of the wisdom's on In time my climb I would learning's worth, of know the to weak long and ago. of the heart-felt complaint its dreams but woe faint. again on sad words. melody " THE And Not In What alone turned those the to and for 'twas I'd the read Traced by all In High In But my So ! what of each music, the lamp of vain of knowledge its light; it seek to pleasures bright ! mountain footsteps strayed: " only regrets made. are unutterable sadness the last words strange some expression of sadder words. even strains sorrowing Ah that sorrow yes like was That with Her bright her She And those Breathlessly In as her happy Ere days days to the breast light and I turned those as the of idle blue hue. golden lovely within As a darkest w^ere eyes hair rose overflows. sweetness was Heart radiant a day. she bore bright of and gay yore. cadence dreaming, life's toils I'd entered in, of the other. of the ! to " And " land. seek dreary itself into She 12 and suggesting to words. hand sea all who'd of up, timed first,listen! and for wisdom my train called force must a similar ody, mel- revelation weary 'tis not That mournful to I glorious planet, the Have listening to? was words Creator's our glare upon I spirit in these oft I scorned the Oft of that for how Ah, dart yore. weaver bright Shone of this be sky and sorrow's could our the lore, days same have Over wisdom's happy second caught heart, my pierced by tale strange is at pain a For i6i TRANSFORMATION. " i62 THE TRANSFORMATION. framed Fanc}' Of It the But that Soon And heart, spiders are the that words gold-enlighted " the that happy we'd walk As we'd We then the those of itself "in the it be harmony a these their weave weaver, ? pleasing above sweet memory, and ; notes. by: over lovers oft would days of the do; explore flowers fragrant the clover yore. image, lifting upward same and clover-blooms like comes words grew to weave the passed quicker though and boyish fancies by youth's bright hopes replaced; Were Gay on companions Every pleasure among There was those one were around we embraced. friends and surpassing me, " schoolmates, fair forest- peace " Time And the I, four-leaved second, away, and meadows happy the to she the the woods the In still sad thus chords gone seen Where benediction can should time for the Hunting of But rhythmic playmates, were Oft flowers sings ever " In and feet. love. silver first captive me her they to To ! We And complete to me story of human recollection. only old, old story that human more maiden lead to bring to heart. charms power fancy, my on That ; in framed ideal's have win. part a graven " image an and romance played said, And me woo image, my Shall Once idle was I Of 'tis the an ideal My Ah, one I'd in was for : of a to THE Light her Blue heart her Then her first such three. How knew weirdness in each, I being of beauty the knew, I while old chum, else can the of be all these Both of fact the two the manuscript and more first had that to him, and Oft when Over We In would By the In oft so beside those other. " side by side eventide we'd the happy on been the of hill before. water-mill days the of my no one uation sit- same the following slept, school-house that rapidly, that wander golden Where Or vale was spiders robbed is. now the to one work, twilight slowly crept hill and the their more I turned music work if the to handwriting, my even woven thus " and of interest as but fact of each web not fascinating features, wove This the the together; thoughts, him, by revealed " wrought an itself present neither anything illuminated songs No, I of represent was second, wonderfully that that to actually before now only when thus words, approach. even should should the the fascinated of the other. the ; supernaturally not other gave " weave think being of the pages much it all to characters of two ugly spiders other, and heaven. given. too were imconscious that from smiles was unconscious into woven hair. they would more by gold finished psychologically though me footstep, her mortals to now that her gifts of beauty reality of stories two light gentle spirit like are much and and divine thought. nor the eyes had one and abroad Seldom The and pure Shone Ah, 163 TRANSFORMATION. yore. and whole it was page TRANSFORMATION, THE l64 those Oh days, round Ever Fitful When little the And In those New friends pain nor Oh close Folding As those In Here ghded the the days of yore the she she'd Of other when daily and She I the From the Hours and Treasures each Left Long Some to hours sunbeam ceasing tide distant returning seaside gathering shifting sand receding on the o'er the strand. stately vessels the countries " rolled. wander, the watch over. billows bound foam, steering, for to master-melody like the the me chanted strolled we'd proudly for for lea; the were restless its wonders Riding Some tasks from we'd o'er together ebbing the then moment, melody. hamlet Where this like 'tw^as gone, enchanting Oft As of the gladness Shedding When and 'twas aloud half I read a waited and page came, ! paused dreamer page When life's stream happy leaf, while illuminated Lenore fond my adown top of the I dream sailed sad-voiced the to we grew knew. sorrow nor spent; were lovers to went; ones last at fondly did how planned old years from And future as came Childhood's We store. days of yore. happy years hand in hand country mystic bright so wandered we the To time the back plays delight, dear Fancy's Bringing there mind my days! happy sweet, " home. move re- from : " 1 66 TRANSFORMATION. THE Just here the completed billows of subdued perfect time did immediately I minstrel. music of the the bright first the and so, words Aveaver's not moved re- ing harmony-breathat the through swept I had that me of page rupted inter- right forefinger my reminded and music, the in sharp pain a in the once to room the strelsy. min- portentous " In Then Sealed our As walked we Where In But the And, When the And those Could we Frozen Happy And For would Here happy days the paused two, a both moment of happy the the our loving freeze hearts no more, fitful starts of the ; yore. difference poems) passionately ; breeze striking grasp eyes lips would days dumb but emprise, come two " yore. death-cold would ; hearts to sigh with to more no life of we'd come, dim on rise should life's on would days throughout of be call the I noticed run 'tis well; would future's those to tell is to what laughs Chilled one yore. can veil mystic tears the of woe, gaze Rippling were otherwise, reveal Hearts As or were Happiness In none weal if it For, used days future or thought brooklet happy kiss. own heretofore as the those Love's and hope ; bliss holy with vow and Heart ring engagement and sweet m spring, merry the I gave And and and full (the only between the wishes beautifully put, meaning. ference dif- But and only THE a for moment, symphony form that I continuing. was In the began Not So from that strife in in two and I worked by And each Who Clouds dark it Evylyn, had to Had I found or poets pitied The and them so slower, sad, and Did the hand. fast; very danger, no be soon day by day cherished shall continued muffled spring I list the music. and and with rather, in " ; letter sympathy and past. stated. message cheerful, bright, deeply, All the in land. letter a admit life would faded " drooping. was musicians, first melodist came fading been myself gathered, stranger's a each me thought. Ethiop's there months, She seashore darkness would short Many the as alone. brought message in my said, she Though a dark Drooping, Her endeavors, beside by waited, my day Written and on the as own. thought ever last my one one was at Yet pathetic parting dreamed week that P'rom ' spider's lot ; that smiled Fortune One in spot, our claim and Cheered But poet earnest, from years return loved of my complaining I'd the enchanting city- western away For this delicate, beautiful, and more distant a Already in " Far I long-er. the was interested too was wait to 167 TRANSFORMATION. more I the spider say seraph-song. ? " two spiders form loved mournfully, " summer gay. long " " that I them. and to 1 68 TRANSFORMATION. THE But when With a My autumn to In those autumn As the the So Darling m}' the Crossed While we In those In the Came the angels round the simple head in sorrow, both the from the with so, the heart With For Once Ere the Death blue to see my snatched mysterious bard I bowed my full of as if dome and and pity sweet dying above, " I started sea, Darling his of the pathos, the but mournfulness minne-singer. heart feeling ; to way the and beside home again ! yore notes, other aching her " noble-hearted the of the an of heart my of Lenore, of tale threnodic distance dead the forget me and afflicted bed; above, music this weaving bright, easily gives the of ! Love days made words night her away who plaintiveness of with saddest man a yore was radiant here knell of seraphs named the the echoing dearth starry not o'er funeral the Saddest, I did her When AVafting As tolled parting days Whom was waters angelic, ! farewell last they numbered died and silent deepest My that and sky, bride dome And am cloudless intended long a ! yore die drooped dear my of and and cold 'Neath blast chilHng fade ; Lenore days flowers With I fond the Yielded fast faded blossom radiant, my And sound, sighing, mournful sweet And around came prize from me. for love departed. away thus in the came But the Passed Surely, surely, divine? too I looked eyes, and ; the it be Could on dream? I dashed " hand. it when light was this in I brain, my these to top of the marveled spun still his how be the a whole stranger star often new body to in away the forms body, of the script, manu- that mercy no the spider glided he did so, I his a through For All was spirits, of page for had transformation: that. brighter flew thought as he left my but spiders; me. smaller all, some even finished and page, ! tears. screamed made much spiritembodying "as fifth the lo ! I almost revelations more this As softer about was my not were disguise. removed when words the through seen Surely, surely, rather, from How so with doubt No awake. that desk. my eyes my nor tear-dimmed this, after from tears wide was too, that There, than I No, " the I think now be, yet to Wasn't possible! felt through strangely brighter the light seemed in absorbed themselves I page shall or though to say, words. harmony " so spiders the at more once been perhaps ended nearly human too had I that. of breathers are web-woven were songs above. They scarcely noticed illuminated their treasure, these thought, for " love, my that, strange songs not, I had the I ugly spiders. be shining portals, world brighter the ; home, starlit dome. eternal of me wafted was Evylyn, my To two eastern distant Breathing the that the beyond Through I say o'er soul angelic Far cannot hung I reached Ere Her fate cruel a 169 TRANSFORMATION. THE dim mists, as grown, halo that and if he had web. glowing about saw him, of But like light, such doubtless had a lyo been forming from the itself in half a moving music the trembled these gold-enlighted olden melody. the In years Since that her Thoughts of The glorious even in of him ever in his turned own who, heart, almost away. thought the as and sore, stone of yore. affect death I ; and the days ; sod. lone beneath heart, can of beyond me this old and affected me gray, that and I could I did so, endure " O still my no sweet pression. ex- darling girl^ feel,and but unfailing constancy broken. But 'neath of the grown so upon trod always true by the more love seemed her dead gone I've happy child a and grieved sleeps the o'er of yore. sad is heart those wild looked paths laid she Since rhythm now. but come Still I wander, For one flowers I've face we Still my trailed and solemn of brow days have weary Since spheric being me the I wandered happy Many Many lost spot when same those in transformed before and when as This light-enhaloed a nook, scented the Bright In shaded loved my Grow live, shape little brook, pallid lip and Over I as Almighty through babbling Sleeps tion, revela- new " quiet, a true the page words themselves. songs like noticed not by this this the across By of scroll words, angel light of the the ; and form across to set in haloing light, as human I had although steadily, transfixed that saw first absorbed too looked I I star TRANSFORMATION. been it,having As THE fied glorieternal keeps own her heart more, angels and of THE ! mercy TRA there was no TION. XSFORMA " gifted musician, spirit-embodied, the eyes, first,met listen to that had my the to and a was Where old by loving ocean sings There the As Of the of Fragments On the of and Many weary Years Since O'er her While Seems Oft in Hear As Bowed with sound, and wept angel-images to await voice the I see voice of as the my two of " back my woe. grief tear to shut grief happier marriage low ; every that one. and " arms gladness divine. grief, tearless throne. ocean, music brings back in soft as far-off dawn the lost my unutterable head my lone, still shine, stars her it choked that the bear of and round beside dreams the sad song to grave. vanished, wild her But her tide's strain a seraphs the the prospects. in angelic spirit grave Lovingly " and ring, pure the Joined drifting wave have years that a lying of wand' yore. are hopes my Wrecked, of of surface Emblem shore, wreck a flowing mem'ries times happy requiem is sacred up pathetic melody most sands. the upon it calls will my hands a tide summer I stand And the upon against seashore,. the by like " laid Evermore I buried heart. down grave She forced was 1 heaven- other halo-enshrouded plaintive, most yet grieved my In I the there ? escape 7 1 had that into out alone gone in eternal can was sight weep. Home, union vere se- heart, my both so " and The forever there, I THE 172 down looking saw TRANSFORMATION. compassionately, left behind mourners toward hands of the and it over, in back my again When both had their spirit,it more each and as the and visible less like more first Oh, it And it dreams Of the And All Soon the those I'll greet Where we'll Soon I'll reach Where I'll will sink of yore. bright my meet to the clasp oar, waves days happy her brink; river's the dip the golden beneath woe ago. reached I've I'll Soon long groan of its dreams silent the lone and heaving sighs with As But is sad heart my became into part golden Lenore no more; sands angel hands; or my to call scarcely and more embodying an the soul itself away wove what disembodied became human a without more though a of spirit-like halo. the like more page, rapidly, I could grew but, ; ing echo- the so now that through human and not small so and embodiments constantly I know " times some- above. changing on tips finger- sometimes upon these moment more grew Less soul. going Home dim the near, away looked be bodies not no, " dying that could every two ! I heard music tremulous, eyes become the of that be been now halo that human dome transformed distinguish And fevered had Both " my music change notice. them the and verse if the the in the sometimes sometimes if it could I wondered and ; and sweet ken touching again, over ear, from Yes ! and far, always sounding almost unseen over, their beyond ones sometimes and unknown, the constantly reaching- upwards were loved those while human body the of each, of halo final web. " TRANSFORMATION. THE 174 the with in unison meister singers^ perfect beauty than expect to see, like a I ever heaven disembodied palms out-reaching through which memory, my into How possible allied in my all vivid so my Could it be? I had where I had the seen but no I put my it. does in my forefinger, There surely left When was the was lead like for- I that pain related instantly flashed be to I got up was follow the the wall to enough, just dream. a There went forehead I removed my dull a no just rose True web snap opened I have I me. my to pain to bed-room. it when to keys night-dress. my spider. hand portals mingled it must longer illuminated, wondering. the again scene controlled that thread, seen to as the unrefreshing I my my recollection, and no whole to went and slid in spent. sitting in out until, when I sat gave When thought was and chair spirit strange the I bed, just my I the beam a Beauty, closed circumstances that mind. across my the but far was ment, mo- of oblivion. river knowing. morning head, from of a ceased, seemed I have sleep, to ever following eyes consciousness of the I for by intense there, drowned sat means the were I long getfulness eyes, flow lethean the my and never and heart-chords, very my had rarer glory passing thus the two a night time same relaxed, which beauty of vanished they rarest darkness them, the with With again. at form that like bles trem- the millions, the of out toward nerves rapture, in embodiments glory passing and struck vanished and these their before, the radiantly glory into of darkness angel still that of hearts in saw shone heaven, from distance blue the through trembling there was where I had one often as it,there, clinging had clung to my 'THE 1S[q, I forehead. this; that There on desk, my of "Vvhole poem liand. the But had into They that line tone of and for:me iit off as for and ^writing ; if I had and by human black all the I written been better palmed " of hand- similarity with tricks the my style to this with the trifled never affirm have stopped as own had it would of spirit,as of the thereafter. anuses J looked it couLd not desk for on my be found;; for, to "present confirmation' Temarkable tthan I have what .the By -and mail got my "cervTed -As a letter 1 opened my mind fell he with on my toldime .two in mail (I but from once table. few ! that substantially week, spirit-singers " "^psychologicallypresent, one each dated the most sixteen re- I had spiritof beauty quarto present, unconscious I 8, 1885. that experience them country May poem second of in Saturday) on identical of the remarkable more chum, same really was I had was preceding. by the the it days teaching letter a before, it while even " was old wrought In a the a my it, behold seen me, of this related next very to alas! but poem, said I have as In else. one some other the -only psychologicallypresent in lay the illuminated. as occurrence account on own my this I had if you confir- out, too, in my Perhaps poetry. were declare I before never and all made though well- first longer no paper, at the written been were chair. there by the woven if it had the were handwriting, mT'orld seen for ; all my to remarkable more awake been characters burnt returned I still a as everyway ink. tof saw I had that dreamed involuntarily glanced having my in perfect I and asleep begn not as spot, I :mation *own had 175 plain enough. was remembered 'They TRANSFORMATION. of pages, of himself the the other other, 176 THE yet each " influencing as I have In speaking he wrote: ' I ' here the be two this but of the two before page at sincerely the I write whole far ; and produced follow the perspective, and produced almost these me the again. of then same ife^I this dim the lege sacri- be that know reach cannot still that I had here night, ated delineIn the marshals this long psychological phenomenon with of me here their and the hidden dreamed mind's my ing vanish- again, only of some I have this across brain. mystery, reality of the on has pen my follow before what my distance the thus were memorable lines unfathomable I that across original manuscripts the only mysteries glance reason return, Though fancy the it would I than approaching lost in am of flashing that causes as vivid line in had, it is the lying are scene more comes you, I I had that solve Indeed, They of memory, until still abide." believe I cannot quick, bright light I may they vanished, they original manuscripts as them, of into mortals we thought it. brate cele- poems spirits of beauty they same other none the that where with me it for maidens that, when wrought. vivid, far, myself spirit-forms, two spirits were verse though these mysteriously eye, way it. attempt desk of I most have. I still have ; the their woven is the connected are to two poems, conclusion, correct those it ; and for these still do more indefinable some of vanishing embodiments Strange, that the believe better entered and of they have two the in other related. angel-forms ; that these the " firmly than TRANSFORMATION. this constantly set so again that causes ones. all lose to down. I could did not remind They TRANSFORMATION. THE free are facts for the world the challenge good, bad, poems, wish to produce two such verify the related. I have I all who of inspection 177 to indifferent, written or similar under such markable re- circumstances. The I have events boyhood, have hesitated be might few a their reality. more wonderful in these to to only read for you, it. As strange far, far true strange that they will we no means intimate most our within us and teach others God's making wed of at that and itself to Use Love 13 that shall two ingly seem- the this far, far the story weirdest, for no ; most of the the Soul by weaving in fancy that action of most our the it our by minds by the spiritualpower above us ; that despised of ; that influenced are Beauty its life into the in the independent, but most dent inci- an with some mere means own, of account please time same dwell have you are possibly make friends, and care, me cumstance exist, the cir- written psychological out it and poems knowledge our the to strange of than story, I strange more were take by are the far truth may the to some moments ; published facts by hundredfold write. can it are doubt all their strange, can me that circumstances, by of to life rational minds I my waken may they than me therefore of these as which story pen have there would a of truth felt the strange more wonderful I to a too so I have under more this think I Indeed, than them is the me think friend, you know. makes that I facts. impossible My of fiction who days what But of my events for fear them publish to the are rather, faithfully told. early manhood, or long recorded here human creatures may an heart it may cofne of and angel-image forever. 178 BARDS. BOY BARDS. BOY TO The we thought, Together we wrought And and ever light the Oh So the the From the THE in pain " wrought and rain. never no in the summer was humming-bird the Has gently stirred leaves by the open room. THING GREATEST caught bloom morning-glory's Where The clouds shine never, scent caught were iris mingled Such never no distraught sweet Oh Muse our rhyme. colors With Of of of dripping the dews like heart never, rainbow From life of Time and buds the Between fraught were the From ; ever dripped That Such H. Together golden days With L. E. ON EARTH. I. FROM From Till We sun to SUN SUN. TO sun life is done still aspire, Still have some wish not gratified; With E'en We breath every death unto " " higher, still reach hearts Our EARTH. ON THING TEST GREA THE still unsatisfied. are II. What STRIVING? THE WHAT this means striving, toil, this This bargaining This fast too labor, endless This with our living, This wishing, this This constant thronging Of of thoughts What ! not it means longing. what? " ! I know Gods neighbor, " all. Philosopher, rise This hope This This Of constant man every Or rich Or poor, With Or fall, and and fear. changing and station nation. koh-i-noor bacon flitch. other, Still envying Still striving 'gainst some some And justling And hustling And rushing And pushing brother 179 i8o As by mighty a And it as Made the half Or small to begin it means in, gyrate half even What world, narrow were all too For hurled cyclone midway Headlong EARTH. ON THING TEST GREA THE " all. Philosopher? rich, the The The the high, The good, (And bickering And chaffering everything and buy and more earth, Gone Be or sell more though as staring Whether God, tell?) can dickering They Of bad, And On Of low, the who Keep For poor. mad. the laws tmequal neither or man, Activity o'ermatching Some In must the strife rise cause one, both, or tardy sloth, and of all for fall must some all. III. THE That Of WORLD IS there should wealth and TOO be MUCH OURS. imjust division life and station i82 THE GREA Can cure No, naught heal That To But this in the Some is To dim And that His Nay, with For Must On who reach the labor; must alone? neighbor. a hand each sun. stepping our the fall must hand against heart all, mirrored the hope. begun. ('tislaw) with But of earth the all True, and love scarce of clay up earth hearts life Ere spray- birth immortal bubbles life and With fountain's birth at fountain purify clay. humanity. heart every mortal eternal heart the EARTH. ON ills of that save gives Can In cankered the That THING TEST and climbs door stone? the heart, rather; above of stepping-stones Him of our Father love. V. COURTING Our We the court The crowd Mere make we wrongs crowd laughs, puppets We The that and dandled world our make tickle we ; jingle CROWD. THE us the by the it throng. laughter, follows public with laugh we wrong after " : ear ; always ; we're THE GREA As We TEST if it in bow The were money our world Hey-nonny We praise The world Comes We The hey-nonny. and when If The But A And Deceived We too so yet we ; needy, " greedy, ^ living we're giving funny something there's then " ; erected, neglected, hey-nonny. world is all worship by dross much honey we're dead, ! the the while Hey-nonny So, clatter hey-nonny. world stone, a is too loved always " we're Hey-nonny We're flatter, we with world " "good-morrow," after ask ; sorrow, bids 183 EARTH ON THING of court a its feet. at and gold hand the cheat gloss and not VI. IMMORTAL AND and Sowing Glutting and What do World reaping. greed, our Getting World GOD-GIVEN. keeping, we need? spinning. ever never slack. of the art, heart. 1 84 THE World winning, ever it lack? does What EARTH. ON THING TEST GREA "What? What not?" earth, The greatest thing The greatest, too, in heaven " The God-given, and Immortal above, of greatest good greatest on worth. " Love! Love With Love And Love that bids honeyed, that And Love Nor Love The and that shop or ungreedy; teaches toilless forgets ne'er its tomb and laughs of Love throne wounded hands kirk, or to a heart neglected and weeps This This ever erected. Is HEARTS. driving, rushing, This an too fast endless sleeps, ; pushing, This work. that VIL ASKING heart needy. mortal no depart sorrow. and leaves that in field loves leaves that the balms too, with sorrows, that soul "good-morrow"; sweet binds Unselfish Love stricken no livingstriving keeps THE Resulting Porever peace, An endless Sweet is Love, beat the "The Have At And us. the And We set Love hand nations fame Our lives Still clings And fetters And so, We follow And and the ; about us still laugh, to follow and be without unattaining Die Some : on mortal but all bootless, and still a us clay down. through life, mortal flatter,and not away crown. strife, fret, and unsatisfied, wish ; ; barter feet, still drags earth weep, we slave zone and power gods have. narrow on why. not and sweat we birth. at would heart earth's and our still the know we " work would had child- world what to earth regret strive, wealth ; we wild-wood, of childhood. of the found That, followed, fly,we For wide it! are by lights around Allured keep fretting: innocence the attaining the ) birth. at world's of the only strive, and not heart hearts We " noisy loss of we so, this earth. feature. the in sweet searched, and the above. endlessly regretting is like Time-long " Love, still of tangles loss of that world and asking and higher, still looks fast-graven Remorsefully The something line image lives-long our We quest, good by nature, in every is the rest, hopes beyond even Stamped There for up 185 EARTH. ON desire: no debased, though heathen Our No world the And (The unsatisfied from reaching For THING GREATEST gratified! " die ! " 1 86 THE ON THING GREATEST EARTH:.. VIII. Labor night Howsoe'er toil And moil Still coping In endless Result of Life cause ; we needs must time changing mouldy earth mortal God, unto His home of love find in endless at birth,. life Above of all crown Is " The be this clod Above The know climb may man laws. of hearts heart our Through And of the seek to Law Back aspiration. great Law far Of of short the That fall must Far The it all with in life, easier An For strife hoping And Tis sweatings fretting, Forever Nor may ceaselesss Yet day and we And With ' GLORY. CROWNING THE crown our strife Love, of all creation. W 18 so- Ho^ %^^ ^.p.i'^' c^ - ^oK t 0- , N ^ .HO^ ""^-v vO' * -" ^ *"'/'""' O,. ^^ * " - S " " /^ "owo -*t^6^ ,4o". .^"^ 'o W ^ArT^ ^OV^
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