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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Silk-Hat Soldier + And Other Poems in War Time + +Author: Richard le Gallienne + +Release Date: September 19, 2006 [EBook #19313] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SILK-HAT SOLDIER *** + + + + +Produced by Jason Isbell, Daniel Griffith and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + <div class="works"> + <a name="page1" id="page1" title="1"></a> <a name="page2" id="page2" + title="2"></a> + <h2> + THE WORKS OF<br />RICHARD LE GALLIENNE + </h2> + <hr /> + <p> + <b>Robert Louis Stevenson:</b> An Elegy, and Other Poems, Mainly + Personal. + </p> + <p> + <b>English Poems.</b> Revised. + </p> + <p> + <b>Rudyard Kipling: A Criticism.</b> + </p> + <p> + <b>George Meredith: Some Characteristics.</b> With a bibliography (much + enlarged) by John Lane. + </p> + <p> + <b>The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance.</b> + </p> + <p> + <b>The Romance of Zion Chapel.</b> + </p> + <p> + <b>The Worshipper of the Image:</b> A Tragic Fairy Tale. + </p> + <p> + <b>Sleeping Beauty and Other Prose Fancies.</b> + </p> + <p> + <b>Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:</b> A Paraphrase from Several Literary + Translations. New edition with fifty additional quatrains. With cover + design by Will Bradley. + </p> + <p> + <b>Retrospective Reviews: A Literary Log.</b> (New edition.) 2 vols. + </p> + <p> + <b>Prose Fancies.</b> First series. With portrait of the author by + Wilson Steer. + </p> + <p> + <b>Prose Fancies.</b> Second series. + </p> + <p> + <b>Travels in England.</b> New edition. + </p> + <p> + <b>New Poems.</b> + </p> + <p> + <b>Attitudes and Avowals. With Some Retrospective Reviews.</b> + </p> + <p> + <b>The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems.</b> + </p> + </div> + <div class="frontmatter"> + <h1> + <a name="page3" id="page3" title="3"></a>THE<br />SILK-HAT SOLDIER<br /><small>AND + OTHER POEMS IN<br /> WAR TIME</small> + </h1> + <p> + BY<br /><big>RICHARD LE GALLIENNE</big> + </p> + <p> + NEW YORK—JOHN LANE COMPANY<br />LONDON—JOHN LANE—THE + BODLEY HEAD<br />MCMXV + </p> + <p class="sc"> + <a name="page4" id="page4" title="4"></a>Copyright, 1915, by<br />JOHN + LANE COMPANY + </p> + <p> + Press of<br />J. J. Little & Ives Co.<br />New York + </p> + <p class="sc dedication"> + <a name="page5" id="page5" title="5"></a>To<br />His Majesty<br />ALBERT + I.<br />King of the Belgians<br /><span class="lower">THE HEROIC CAPTAIN<br />OF + AN<br />HEROIC PEOPLE</span> + </p> + </div> + <h2> + <a name="page6" id="page6" title="6"></a><a name="page7" id="page7" + title="7"></a>CONTENTS + </h2> + <table class="toc" summary="Table of Contents"> + <tr> + <td></td> + <td class="right lower"> + PAGE + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + To Belgium + </td> + <td class="right"> + <a href="#page9">9</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + The Silk-Hat Soldier + </td> + <td class="right"> + <a href="#page11">11</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + The Cry of the Little Peoples + </td> + <td class="right"> + <a title="Original reads 15" href="#page14">14</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + The Illusion of War + </td> + <td class="right"> + <a href="#page20">20</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + Christmas in War-time + </td> + <td class="right"> + <a href="#page22">22</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + “Soldier Going to the War” + </td> + <td class="right"> + <a href="#page29">29</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + The Rainbow + </td> + <td class="right"> + <a href="#page30">30</a> + </td> + </tr> + </table> + <div class="poetry"> + <h2 class="italic"> + <a name="page8" id="page8" title="8"></a><a class="pagebreak" + name="page9" id="page9" title="9"></a>TO BELGIUM + </h2> + <p class="italic"> + <span class="i0">Our tears, our songs, our laurels—what are these</span><br /> + <span class="i1"> To thee in thy Gethsemane of loss,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Stretched in thine unimagined agonies</span><br /> <span + class="i1"> On Hell's last engine of the Iron Cross.</span> + </p> + <p class="italic"> + <span class="i0">For such a world as this that thou shouldst die</span><br /> + <span class="i1"> Is price too vast—yet, Belgium, hadst + thou sold</span><br /> <span class="i0">Thyself, O then had fled from out + the earth</span><br /> <span class="i1"> Honour for ever, and + left only Gold.</span> + </p> + <p class="italic"> + <span class="i0">Nor diest thou—for soon shalt thou awake,</span><br /> + <span class="i1"> And, lifted high on our victorious shields,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Watch the new sunrise driving for your sons</span><br /> + <span class="i1"> The hated German shadow from your fields.</span> + </p> + <blockquote> + <p class="italic"> + <a class="pagebreak" name="page10" id="page10" title="10"></a>“British + colonists resident in London volunteer, and not even silk hats are + doffed before training begins” + </p> + <p class="right italic"> + —New York Times + </p> + </blockquote> + <h2> + <a class="pagebreak" name="page11" id="page11" title="11"></a>THE + SILK-HAT SOLDIER + </h2> + <p> + <span class="i0">I saw him in a picture, and I felt I'd like to cry—</span><br /> + <span class="i2"> He stood in line,</span><br /> + <span class="i2"> The man “for mine,”</span><br /> + <span class="i0">A tall silk-hatted “guy”—</span><br /> + <span class="i2"> Right on the call,</span><br /> + <span class="i2"> Silk hat and all,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">He'd hurried to the cry—</span><br /> <span + class="i0">For he loves England well enough for England to die.</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">I've seen King Harry's helmet in the Abbey hanging high—</span><br /> + <span class="i2"> The one he wore</span><br /> + <span class="i2"> At Agincourt;</span><br /> <span + class="i0"><a class="pagebreak" name="page12" id="page12" title="12"></a>But + braver to my eye</span><br /> <span class="i2"> That + city toff</span><br /> <span class="i2"> Too keen + to doff</span><br /> <span class="i0">His stove-pipe—bless him—why?</span><br /> + <span class="i0">For he loves England well enough for England to die.</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">And other fellows in that line had come too on the fly,</span><br /> + <span class="i2"> Their joys and toys,</span><br /> + <span class="i2"> Brave English boys,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">For good and all put by;</span><br /> <span class="i2"> O + you brave best,</span><br /> <span class="i2"> Teach + all the rest</span><br /> <span class="i0">How pure the heart and high</span><br /> + <span class="i0">When one loves England well enough for England to die.</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">One threw his cricket-bat aside, one left the ink to + dry;</span><br /> <span class="i2"><a class="pagebreak" name="page13" + id="page13" title="13"></a> All peace and play</span><br /> + <span class="i2"> He's put away,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">And bid his love good-bye—</span><br /> <span + class="i2"> O mother mine!</span><br /> <span + class="i2"> O sweetheart mine!</span><br /> <span + class="i0">No man of yours am I—</span><br /> <span class="i0">If I + love not England well enough for England to die.</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">I guess it strikes a chill somewhere, the bravest won't + deny,</span><br /> <span class="i2"> All that you + love,</span><br /> <span class="i2"> Away to + shove,</span><br /> <span class="i0">And set your teeth to die;</span><br /> + <span class="i2"> But better dead,</span><br /> + <span class="i2"> When all is said,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Than lapped in peace to lie—</span><br /> <span + class="i0">If we love not England well enough for England to die.</span> + </p> + <h2> + <a class="pagebreak" name="page14" id="page14" title="14"></a>THE CRY OF + THE LITTLE PEOPLES + </h2> + <p> + <span class="i0">The Cry of the Little Peoples went up to God in vain;</span><br /> + <span class="i0">The Czech and the Pole, and the Finn, and the Schleswig + Dane:</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">We ask but a little portion of the green, ambitious + earth;</span><br /> <span class="i0">Only to sow and sing and reap in the + land of our birth.</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">We ask not coaling stations, nor ports in the China + seas,</span><br /> <span class="i0">We leave to the big child-nations + such rivalries as these.</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0"><a class="pagebreak" name="page15" id="page15" + title="15"></a>We have learned the lesson of Time, and we know three + things of worth;</span><br /> <span class="i0">Only to sow and sing and + reap in the land of our birth.</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">O leave us little margins, waste ends of land and sea,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">A little grass, and a hill or two, and a shadowing + tree;</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">O leave us our little rivers that sweetly catch the + sky,</span><br /> <span class="i0">To drive our mills, and to carry our + wood, and to ripple by.</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">Once long ago, as you, with hollow pursuit of fame,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">We filled all the shaking world with the sound of our + name,</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0"><a class="pagebreak" name="page16" id="page16" + title="16"></a>But now are we glad to rest, our battles and boasting + done,</span><br /> <span class="i0">Glad just to sow and sing and reap in + our share of the sun.</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">Of this O will ye rob us,—with a foolish mighty + hand,</span><br /> <span class="i0">Add with such cruel sorrow, so small + a land to your land?</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">So might a boy rejoice him to conquer a hive of bees,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Overcome ants in battle,—we are scarcely more + mighty than these—</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">So might a cruel heart hear a nightingale singing + alone,</span><br /> <span class="i0">And say, “I am mighty! See how + the singing stops with a stone!”</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0"><a class="pagebreak" name="page17" id="page17" + title="17"></a>Yea, he were mighty indeed, mighty to crush and to gain;</span><br /> + <span class="i0">But the bee and the ant and the bird were the mighty of + brain.</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">And what shall you gain if you take us and bind us and + beat us with thongs,</span><br /> <span class="i0">And drive us to sing + underground in a whisper our sad little songs?</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">Forbid us the very use of our heart's own nursery + tongue—</span><br /> <span class="i0">Is this to be strong, ye + nations, is this to be strong?</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">Your vulgar battles to fight, and your grocery + conquests to keep,</span><br /> <span class="i0">For this shall we break + our hearts, for this shall our old men weep?</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0"><a class="pagebreak" name="page18" id="page18" + title="18"></a>What gain in the day of battle—to the Russ, to the + German, what gain,</span><br /> <span class="i0">The Czech, and the Pole, + and the Finn, and the Schleswig Dane?</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">The Cry of the Little Peoples goes up to God in vain,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">For the world is given over to the cruel sons of Cain;</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">The hand that would bless us is weak, and the hand that + would break us is strong,</span><br /> <span class="i0">And the power of + pity is nought but the power of a song.</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">The dreams that our fathers dreamed to-day are laughter + and dust,</span><br /> <span class="i0">And nothing at all in the world + is left for a man to trust;</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0"><a class="pagebreak" name="page19" id="page19" + title="19"></a>Let us hope no more, or dream, or prophesy, or pray,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">For the iron world no less will crash on its iron way;</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">Yea! nothing is left but to watch, with a helpless, + pitying eye,</span><br /> <span class="i0">The kind old aims for the + world, and the kind old fashions die.</span> + </p> + <h2> + <a class="pagebreak" name="page20" id="page20" title="20"></a>THE + ILLUSION OF WAR + </h2> + <p> + <span class="i0">War</span><br /> <span class="i0">I abhor,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">And yet how sweet</span><br /> <span class="i0">The + sound along the marching street</span><br /> <span class="i0">Of drum and + fife, and I forget</span><br /> <span class="i0">Wet eyes of widows, and + forget</span><br /> <span class="i0">Broken old mothers, and the whole</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Dark butchery without a soul.</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">Without a soul—save this bright drink</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Of heady music, sweet as hell;</span><br /> <span + class="i0">And even my peace-abiding feet</span><br /> <span class="i0">Go + marching with the marching street,</span><br /> <span class="i0"><a + class="pagebreak" name="page21" id="page21" title="21"></a>For yonder, + yonder goes the fife,</span><br /> <span class="i0">And what care I for + human life!</span><br /> <span class="i0">The tears fill my astonished + eyes</span><br /> <span class="i0">And my full heart is like to break,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">And yet 'tis all embannered lies,</span><br /> <span + class="i0">A dream those little drummers make.</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">O it is wickedness to clothe</span><br /> <span + class="i0">Yon hideous grinning thing that stalks</span><br /> <span + class="i0">Hidden in music, like a queen</span><br /> <span class="i0">That + in a garden of glory walks,</span><br /> <span class="i0">Till good men + love the thing they loathe.</span><br /> <span class="i0">Art, thou hast + many infamies,</span><br /> <span class="i0">But not an infamy like this;</span><br /> + <span class="i0">O snap the fife and still the drum,</span><br /> <span + class="i0">And show the monster as she is.</span> + </p> + <h2> + <a class="pagebreak" name="page22" id="page22" title="22"></a>CHRISTMAS + IN WAR-TIME + </h2> + <h3> + 1 + </h3> + <p> + <span class="i0">This is the year that has no Christmas Day,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Even the little children must be told</span><br /> <span + class="i0">That something sad is happening far away—</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Or, if you needs must play,</span><br /> <span class="i0">As + children must,</span><br /> <span class="i0">Play softly children, + underneath your breath!</span><br /> <span class="i0">For over our hearts + hangs low the shadow of death,</span><br /> <span class="i0"><a + class="pagebreak" name="page23" id="page23" title="23"></a>Those hearts + to you mysteriously old,</span><br /> <span class="i0">Grim grown-up + hearts that ponder night and day</span><br /> <span class="i0">On the + straight lists of broken-hearted dead,</span><br /> <span class="i0">Black + narrow lists no tears can wash away,</span><br /> <span class="i0">Reading + in which one cries out here and here</span><br /> <span class="i0">And + falls into a dream upon a name.</span><br /> <span class="i0">Be happy + softly, children, for a woe</span><br /> <span class="i0">Is on us, a + great woe for little fame,—</span><br /> <span class="i0">Ah! in + the old woods leave the mistletoe,</span><br /> <span class="i0">And + leave the holly for another year,</span><br /> <span class="i0">Its + berries are too red.</span> + </p> + <h3> + <a class="pagebreak" name="page24" id="page24" title="24"></a>2 + </h3> + <p> + <span class="i0">And lovers, like to children, will not you</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Cease for a little from your kissing mirth,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Thinking of other lovers that must go</span><br /> <span + class="i0">Kissed back with fire into the bosom of earth,—</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Ah! in the old woods leave the mistletoe,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Be happy, softly, lovers, for you too</span><br /> <span + class="i0">Shall be as sad as they another year,</span><br /> <span + class="i0">And then for you the holly be berries of blood,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">And mistletoe strange berries of bitter tears.</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Ah! lovers, leave you your beatitude,</span><br /> <span + class="i0">Give your sad eyes and ears</span><br /> <span class="i0">To + the far griefs of neighbour and of friend,</span><br /> <span class="i0"><a + class="pagebreak" name="page25" id="page25" title="25"></a>To the great + loves that find a little end,</span><br /> <span class="i0">Long loves + that in a sudden puff of fire</span><br /> <span class="i0">With a wild + thought expire.</span> + </p> + <h3> + 3 + </h3> + <p> + <span class="i0">And you, ye merchants, you that eat and cheat,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Gold-seeking hucksters in a noble land,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Think, when you lift the wine up in your hand,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Of a fierce vintage tragically red,</span><br /> <span + class="i0">Red wine of the hearts of English soldiers dead,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Who ran to a wild death with laughing feet—</span><br /> + <span class="i0">That we may sleep and drink and eat and cheat.</span><br /> + <span class="i0"><a class="pagebreak" name="page26" id="page26" + title="26"></a>Ah! you brave few that fight for all the rest,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">And die with smiling faces strangely blest,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Because you die for England—O to do</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Something again for you,</span><br /> <span class="i0">In + this great deed to have some little part;</span><br /> <span class="i0">To + send so great a message from the heart</span><br /> <span class="i0">Of + England that one man shall be as ten,</span><br /> <span class="i0">Hearing + how England loves her Englishmen!</span><br /> <span class="i0">Ah! think + you that a single gun is fired</span><br /> <span class="i0">We do not + hear in England. Ah! we hear,</span><br /> <span class="i0">And mothers + go with proud unhappy eyes</span><br /> <span class="i0">That say: It is + for England that he dies,</span><br /> <span class="i0">England that does + the cruel work of God,</span><br /> <span class="i0">And gives her well + beloved to save the world.</span><br /> <span class="i0"><a + class="pagebreak" name="page27" id="page27" title="27"></a>For this is + death like to a woman desired,</span><br /> <span class="i0">For this the + wine-press trod.</span> + </p> + <h3> + 4 + </h3> + <p> + <span class="i0">And you in churches, praying this Christmas morn,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Pray as you never prayed that this may be</span><br /> + <span class="i0">The little war that brought the great world peace;</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Undazzled with its glorious infamy,</span><br /> <span + class="i0">O pray with all your hearts that war may cease,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">And who knows but that God may hear the prayer.</span><br /> + <span class="i0">So it may come about next Christmas Day</span><br /> + <span class="i0">That we shall hear the happy children play</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Gladly aloud, unmindful of the dead,</span><br /> <span + class="i0"><a class="pagebreak" name="page28" id="page28" title="28"></a>And + watch the lovers go</span><br /> <span class="i0">To the old woods to + find the mistletoe.</span><br /> <span class="i0">But this year, + children, if you needs must play,</span><br /> <span class="i0">Play very + softly, underneath your breath;</span><br /> <span class="i0">Be happy + softly, lovers, for great Death</span><br /> <span class="i0">Makes + England holy with sorrow this Christmas Day;</span><br /> <span class="i0">Yes! + in the old woods leave the mistletoe,</span><br /> <span class="i0">And + leave the holly for another year—</span><br /> <span class="i0">Its + berries are too red.</span> + </p> + <p> + [<i>Christmas, 1899—Written during the Boer War.</i>] + </p> + <h2> + <a class="pagebreak" name="page29" id="page29" title="29"></a>“SOLDIER + GOING TO THE WAR” + </h2> + <p> + <span class="i0">Soldier going to the war—</span><br /> <span + class="i1"> Will you take my heart with you,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">So that I may share a little</span><br /> <span + class="i1"> In the famous things you do?</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">Soldier going to the war—</span><br /> <span + class="i1"> If in battle you must fall,</span><br /> <span + class="i0">Will you, among all the faces,</span><br /> <span class="i1"> See + my face the last of all?</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">Soldier coming from the war—</span><br /> <span + class="i1"> Who shall bind your sunburnt brow</span><br /> + <span class="i0">With the laurel of the hero,</span><br /> <span + class="i1"> Soldier, soldier—vow for vow!</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">Soldier coming from the war—</span><br /> <span + class="i1"> When the street is one wide sea,</span><br /> + <span class="i0">Flags and streaming eyes and glory—</span><br /> + <span class="i1"> Soldier, will you look for me?</span> + </p> + <h2> + <a class="pagebreak" name="page30" id="page30" title="30"></a>THE + RAINBOW + </h2> + <p> + <span class="i0">“These things are real,” said one, and bade + me gaze</span><br /> <span class="i1"> On black and mighty + shapes of iron and stone,</span><br /> <span class="i0">On murder, on + madness, on lust, on towns ablaze,</span><br /> <span class="i1"> And + on a thing made all of rattling bone:</span><br /> <span class="i0">“What,” + said he, “will you bring to match with these?”</span><br /> + <span class="i1"> “Yea! War is real,” I said, + “and real is Death,</span><br /> <span class="i0">A little while—mortal + realities;</span><br /> <span class="i1"> But Love and Hope + draw an immortal breath.”</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0"><a class="pagebreak" name="page31" id="page31" + title="31"></a>Think you the storm that wrecks a summer day,</span><br /> + <span class="i1"> With funeral blackness and with leaping + fire</span><br /> <span class="i0">And boiling roar of rain, more real + than they</span><br /> <span class="i1"> That, when the + warring heavens begin to tire,</span><br /> <span class="i0">With tender + fingers on the tumult paint;</span><br /> <span class="i1"> Spanning + the huddled wrack from base to cope</span><br /> <span class="i0">With + soft effulgence, like some haloed saint,—</span><br /> <span + class="i1"> The rainbow bridge eternal that is Hope.</span> + </p> + <p> + <span class="i0">Deem her no phantom born of desperate dreams:</span><br /> + <span class="i1"><a class="pagebreak" name="page32" id="page32" + title="32"></a> Ere man yet was, 'twas hope that wrought him + man;</span><br /> <span class="i0">The blind earth, climbing skyward by + her gleams,</span><br /> <span class="i1"> Hoped—and the + beauty of the world began.</span><br /> <span class="i0">Prophetic of all + loveliness to be,</span><br /> <span class="i1"> Though God + Himself seem from His station hurled,</span><br /> <span class="i0">Still + shall the blackest hell look up and see</span><br /> <span class="i1"> Hope's + rainbow on the summits of the world.</span> + </p> + </div> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Silk-Hat Soldier, by Richard le Gallienne + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SILK-HAT SOLDIER *** + +***** This file should be named 19313-h.htm or 19313-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/1/19313/ + +Produced by Jason Isbell, Daniel Griffith and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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Revised. + + Rudyard Kipling: A Criticism. + + George Meredith: Some Characteristics. + With a bibliography (much enlarged) by John Lane. + + The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance. + + The Romance of Zion Chapel. + + The Worshipper of the Image: A Tragic Fairy Tale. + + Sleeping Beauty and Other Prose Fancies. + + Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: + A Paraphrase from Several Literary Translations. + New edition with fifty additional quatrains. + With cover design by Will Bradley. + + Retrospective Reviews: A Literary Log. + (New edition.) 2 vols. + + Prose Fancies. First series. + With portrait of the author by Wilson Steer. + + Prose Fancies. Second series. + + Travels in England. New edition. + + New Poems. + + Attitudes and Avowals. With Some Retrospective Reviews. + + The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems. + + + + +THE SILK-HAT SOLDIER + +AND OTHER POEMS IN WAR TIME + +BY RICHARD LE GALLIENNE + + + NEW YORK--JOHN LANE COMPANY + LONDON--JOHN LANE--THE BODLEY HEAD + MCMXV + + + COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY + JOHN LANE COMPANY + + + Press of + J. J. Little & Ives Co. + New York + + + To His Majesty + + ALBERT I. + + King of the Belgians + + THE HEROIC CAPTAIN OF AN HEROIC PEOPLE + + + + +CONTENTS + + PAGE + + To Belgium 9 + + The Silk-Hat Soldier 11 + + The Cry of the Little Peoples 15 + + The Illusion of War 20 + + Christmas in War-time 22 + + "Soldier Going to the War" 29 + + The Rainbow 30 + + + + +TO BELGIUM + + + Our tears, our songs, our laurels--what are these + To thee in thy Gethsemane of loss, + Stretched in thine unimagined agonies + On Hell's last engine of the Iron Cross. + + For such a world as this that thou shouldst die + Is price too vast--yet, Belgium, hadst thou sold + Thyself, O then had fled from out the earth + Honour for ever, and left only Gold. + + Nor diest thou--for soon shalt thou awake, + And, lifted high on our victorious shields, + Watch the new sunrise driving for your sons + The hated German shadow from your fields. + + + + +"British colonists resident in London volunteer, and +not even silk hats are doffed before training begins" + + --New York Times + + + + +THE SILK-HAT SOLDIER + + + I saw him in a picture, and I felt I'd like to cry-- + He stood in line, + The man "for mine," + A tall silk-hatted "guy"-- + Right on the call, + Silk hat and all, + He'd hurried to the cry-- + For he loves England well enough for England to die. + + I've seen King Harry's helmet in the Abbey hanging high-- + The one he wore + At Agincourt; + But braver to my eye + That city toff + Too keen to doff + His stove-pipe--bless him--why? + For he loves England well enough for England to die. + + And other fellows in that line had come too on the fly, + Their joys and toys, + Brave English boys, + For good and all put by; + O you brave best, + Teach all the rest + How pure the heart and high + When one loves England well enough for England to die. + + One threw his cricket-bat aside, one left the ink to dry; + All peace and play + He's put away, + And bid his love good-bye-- + O mother mine! + O sweetheart mine! + No man of yours am I-- + If I love not England well enough for England to die. + + I guess it strikes a chill somewhere, the bravest won't deny, + All that you love, + Away to shove, + And set your teeth to die; + But better dead, + When all is said, + Than lapped in peace to lie-- + If we love not England well enough for England to die. + + + + +THE CRY OF THE LITTLE PEOPLES + + + The Cry of the Little Peoples went up to God in vain; + The Czech and the Pole, and the Finn, and the Schleswig Dane: + + We ask but a little portion of the green, ambitious earth; + Only to sow and sing and reap in the land of our birth. + + We ask not coaling stations, nor ports in the China seas, + We leave to the big child-nations such rivalries as these. + + We have learned the lesson of Time, and we know three things of worth; + Only to sow and sing and reap in the land of our birth. + + O leave us little margins, waste ends of land and sea, + A little grass, and a hill or two, and a shadowing tree; + + O leave us our little rivers that sweetly catch the sky, + To drive our mills, and to carry our wood, and to ripple by. + + Once long ago, as you, with hollow pursuit of fame, + We filled all the shaking world with the sound of our name, + + But now are we glad to rest, our battles and boasting done, + Glad just to sow and sing and reap in our share of the sun. + + Of this O will ye rob us,--with a foolish mighty hand, + Add with such cruel sorrow, so small a land to your land? + + So might a boy rejoice him to conquer a hive of bees, + Overcome ants in battle,--we are scarcely more mighty than these-- + + So might a cruel heart hear a nightingale singing alone, + And say, "I am mighty! See how the singing stops with a stone!" + + Yea, he were mighty indeed, mighty to crush and to gain; + But the bee and the ant and the bird were the mighty of brain. + + And what shall you gain if you take us and bind us and beat us with + thongs, + And drive us to sing underground in a whisper our sad little songs? + + Forbid us the very use of our heart's own nursery tongue-- + Is this to be strong, ye nations, is this to be strong? + + Your vulgar battles to fight, and your grocery conquests to keep, + For this shall we break our hearts, for this shall our old men weep? + + What gain in the day of battle--to the Russ, to the German, what gain, + The Czech, and the Pole, and the Finn, and the Schleswig Dane? + + The Cry of the Little Peoples goes up to God in vain, + For the world is given over to the cruel sons of Cain; + + The hand that would bless us is weak, and the hand that would break us + is strong, + And the power of pity is nought but the power of a song. + + The dreams that our fathers dreamed to-day are laughter and dust, + And nothing at all in the world is left for a man to trust; + + Let us hope no more, or dream, or prophesy, or pray, + For the iron world no less will crash on its iron way; + + Yea! nothing is left but to watch, with a helpless, pitying eye, + The kind old aims for the world, and the kind old fashions die. + + + + +THE ILLUSION OF WAR + + + War + I abhor, + And yet how sweet + The sound along the marching street + Of drum and fife, and I forget + Wet eyes of widows, and forget + Broken old mothers, and the whole + Dark butchery without a soul. + + Without a soul--save this bright drink + Of heady music, sweet as hell; + And even my peace-abiding feet + Go marching with the marching street, + For yonder, yonder goes the fife, + And what care I for human life! + The tears fill my astonished eyes + And my full heart is like to break, + And yet 'tis all embannered lies, + A dream those little drummers make. + + O it is wickedness to clothe + Yon hideous grinning thing that stalks + Hidden in music, like a queen + That in a garden of glory walks, + Till good men love the thing they loathe. + Art, thou hast many infamies, + But not an infamy like this; + O snap the fife and still the drum, + And show the monster as she is. + + + + +CHRISTMAS IN WAR-TIME + + + 1 + + This is the year that has no Christmas Day, + Even the little children must be told + That something sad is happening far away-- + Or, if you needs must play, + As children must, + Play softly children, underneath your breath! + For over our hearts hangs low the shadow of death, + Those hearts to you mysteriously old, + Grim grown-up hearts that ponder night and day + On the straight lists of broken-hearted dead, + Black narrow lists no tears can wash away, + Reading in which one cries out here and here + And falls into a dream upon a name. + Be happy softly, children, for a woe + Is on us, a great woe for little fame,-- + Ah! in the old woods leave the mistletoe, + And leave the holly for another year, + Its berries are too red. + + + 2 + + And lovers, like to children, will not you + Cease for a little from your kissing mirth, + Thinking of other lovers that must go + Kissed back with fire into the bosom of earth,-- + Ah! in the old woods leave the mistletoe, + Be happy, softly, lovers, for you too + Shall be as sad as they another year, + And then for you the holly be berries of blood, + And mistletoe strange berries of bitter tears. + Ah! lovers, leave you your beatitude, + Give your sad eyes and ears + To the far griefs of neighbour and of friend, + To the great loves that find a little end, + Long loves that in a sudden puff of fire + With a wild thought expire. + + + 3 + + And you, ye merchants, you that eat and cheat, + Gold-seeking hucksters in a noble land, + Think, when you lift the wine up in your hand, + Of a fierce vintage tragically red, + Red wine of the hearts of English soldiers dead, + Who ran to a wild death with laughing feet-- + That we may sleep and drink and eat and cheat. + Ah! you brave few that fight for all the rest, + And die with smiling faces strangely blest, + Because you die for England--O to do + Something again for you, + In this great deed to have some little part; + To send so great a message from the heart + Of England that one man shall be as ten, + Hearing how England loves her Englishmen! + Ah! think you that a single gun is fired + We do not hear in England. Ah! we hear, + And mothers go with proud unhappy eyes + That say: It is for England that he dies, + England that does the cruel work of God, + And gives her well beloved to save the world. + For this is death like to a woman desired, + For this the wine-press trod. + + + 4 + + And you in churches, praying this Christmas morn, + Pray as you never prayed that this may be + The little war that brought the great world peace; + Undazzled with its glorious infamy, + O pray with all your hearts that war may cease, + And who knows but that God may hear the prayer. + So it may come about next Christmas Day + That we shall hear the happy children play + Gladly aloud, unmindful of the dead, + And watch the lovers go + To the old woods to find the mistletoe. + But this year, children, if you needs must play, + Play very softly, underneath your breath; + Be happy softly, lovers, for great Death + Makes England holy with sorrow this Christmas Day; + Yes! in the old woods leave the mistletoe, + And leave the holly for another year-- + Its berries are too red. + +[Christmas, 1899--Written during the Boer War.] + + + + +"SOLDIER GOING TO THE WAR" + + + Soldier going to the war-- + Will you take my heart with you, + So that I may share a little + In the famous things you do? + + Soldier going to the war-- + If in battle you must fall, + Will you, among all the faces, + See my face the last of all? + + Soldier coming from the war-- + Who shall bind your sunburnt brow + With the laurel of the hero, + Soldier, soldier--vow for vow! + + Soldier coming from the war-- + When the street is one wide sea, + Flags and streaming eyes and glory-- + Soldier, will you look for me? + + + + +THE RAINBOW + + + "These things are real," said one, and bade me gaze + On black and mighty shapes of iron and stone, + On murder, on madness, on lust, on towns ablaze, + And on a thing made all of rattling bone: + "What," said he, "will you bring to match with these?" + "Yea! War is real," I said, "and real is Death, + A little while--mortal realities; + But Love and Hope draw an immortal breath." + + Think you the storm that wrecks a summer day, + With funeral blackness and with leaping fire + And boiling roar of rain, more real than they + That, when the warring heavens begin to tire, + With tender fingers on the tumult paint; + Spanning the huddled wrack from base to cope + With soft effulgence, like some haloed saint,-- + The rainbow bridge eternal that is Hope. + + Deem her no phantom born of desperate dreams: + Ere man yet was, 'twas hope that wrought him man; + The blind earth, climbing skyward by her gleams, + Hoped--and the beauty of the world began. + Prophetic of all loveliness to be, + Though God Himself seem from His station hurled, + Still shall the blackest hell look up and see + Hope's rainbow on the summits of the world. + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Silk-Hat Soldier, by Richard le Gallienne + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SILK-HAT SOLDIER *** + +***** This file should be named 19313.txt or 19313.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/1/19313/ + +Produced by Jason Isbell, Daniel Griffith and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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