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diff --git a/19313.txt b/19313.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e27d79f --- /dev/null +++ b/19313.txt @@ -0,0 +1,835 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Silk-Hat Soldier, by Richard le Gallienne + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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 + + + + + +THE WORKS OF RICHARD LE GALLIENNE + + + Robert Louis Stevenson: An Elegy, and Other Poems, Mainly Personal. + + English Poems. 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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