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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: O May I Join the Choir Invisible! + and Other Favorite Poems + + +Author: George Eliot + + + +Release Date: March 4, 2007 [eBook #20742] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE!*** +</pre> +<p><a name="startoftext"></a></p> +<p>Transcribed from the 1884 D. Lothrop and Company edition by +David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/cover.jpg"> +<img alt="Book cover" src="images/cover.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h1>O MAY I JOIN<br /> +THE CHOIR INVISIBLE!</h1> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">by</span><br /> +GEORGE ELIOT</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">and other +favorite poems</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>ILLUSTRATED</i></p> +<p style="text-align: center">BOSTON<br /> +D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY<br /> +<span class="smcap">franklin and hawley streets</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 1--><a +name="page1"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 1</span>Copyright by<br +/> +<span class="smcap">D. Lothrop and Company</span><br /> +1884</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p0.jpg"> +<img alt="“May I reach that purest Heaven!”" +src="images/p0.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h2><!-- page 2--><a name="page2"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +2</span>O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE!</h2> +<p>O may I join the choir invisible<br /> +Of those immortal dead who live again<br /> +In minds made better by their presence; live<br /> +In pulses stirred to generosity,<br /> +In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn<br /> +Of miserable aims that end with self,<br /> +In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars,<br /> +And with their mild persistence urge men’s minds<br /> +To vaster issues.</p> +<p> So to live is heaven:<br /> +To make undying music in the world,<br /> +Breathing a beauteous order that controls<br /> +With growing sway the growing life of man.<br /> +So we inherit that sweet purity<br /> +For which we struggled, failed and agonized<br /> +With widening retrospect that bred despair.<br /> +Rebellious flesh that would not be subdued,<br /> +A vicious parent shaming still its child,<br /> +Poor, anxious penitence is quick dissolved;<br /> +<!-- page 3--><a name="page3"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +3</span>Its discords, quenched by meeting harmonies,<br /> +Die in the large and charitable air;<br /> +And all our rarer, better, truer self,<br /> +That sobbed religiously in yearning song,<br /> +That watched to ease the burden of the world,<br /> +Laboriously tracing what must be,<br /> +And what may yet be better—saw rather<br /> +A worthier image for the sanctuary<br /> +And shaped it forth before the multitude,<br /> +Divinely human, raising worship so<br /> +To higher reverence more mixed with love—<br /> +That better self shall live till human Time<br /> +Shall fold its eyelids, and the human sky<br /> +Be gathered like a scroll within the tomb<br /> +Unread forever.</p> +<p> This is life to come,<br /> +Which martyred men have made more glorious<br /> +For us who strive to follow.</p> +<p> May I reach<br /> +That purest heaven—be to other souls<br /> +The cup of strength in some great agony,<br /> +Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love,<br /> +<!-- page 4--><a name="page4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +4</span>Beget the smiles that have no cruelty,<br /> +Be the sweet presence of a good diffused,<br /> +And in diffusion ever more intense!<br /> +So shall I join the choir invisible<br /> +Whose music is the gladness of the world.</p> +<h2><!-- page 5--><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +5</span>HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX.</h2> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p1.jpg"> +<img alt="At Aerschot up leaped of a sudden the Sun" +src="images/p1.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris and he:<br /> +I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three;<br /> +“Good speed!” cried the watch as the gate-bolts +undrew,<br /> +“Speed!” echoed the wall to us galloping through.<br +/> +Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest,<br /> +And into the midnight we galloped abreast.</p> +<p>Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace—<br /> +Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place;<br /> +I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight,<br /> +Then shortened each stirrup and set the pique right,<br /> +Rebuckled the check-strap, chained slacker the bit,<br /> +Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.</p> +<p>’Twas moonset at starting; but while we drew near<br /> +Lokeren, the cocks crew and twilight dawned clear;<br /> +At Boom a great yellow star came out to see;<br /> +<!-- page 6--><a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +6</span>At Düffeld ’twas morning as plain as could +be;<br /> +And from Mecheln church-steeple we heard the half-chime—<br +/> +So Joris broke silence with “Yet there is time!”</p> +<p>At Aerschot up leaped of a sudden the sun,<br /> +And against him the cattle stood black every one,<br /> +To stare through the mist at us galloping past;<br /> +And I saw my stout galloper Roland at last<br /> +With resolute shoulders, each butting away<br /> +The haze, as some bluff river headland its spray;</p> +<p>And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back<br /> +For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track,<br /> +And one eye’s black intelligence—ever that glance<br +/> +O’er its white edge at me, his own master, askance;<br /> +And the thick heavy spume-flakes, which aye and anon<br /> +His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on.</p> +<p>By Hasselt, Dirck groaned; and cried Joris, “Stay +spur!<br /> +Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault’s not in her;<br /> +“We’ll remember at Aix”—for one heard the +quick wheeze<br /> +<!-- page 7--><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering +knees,<br /> +And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank,<br /> +As down on her haunches she shuddered and sank.</p> +<p>So we were left galloping, Joris and I,<br /> +Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky;<br /> +The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh;<br /> +’Neath our feet broke the brittle bright stubble like +chaff;<br /> +Till over by Delhem a dome spire sprung white,<br /> +And “Gallop,” gasped Joris, “for Aix is in +sight!</p> +<p>“How they’ll greet us!”—and all in a +moment his roan<br /> +Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone;<br /> +And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight<br /> +Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate,<br /> +With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim,<br /> +And with circles of red for his eye-sockets’ rim.</p> +<p>Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall,<br /> +Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all,<br /> +Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear,<br /> +Called my Roland his pet name, my horse without peer—<br /> +<!-- page 8--><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>Clapped my hands, laughed and sung, any noise, bad or +good,<br /> +Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood.</p> +<p>And all I remember is friends flocking around,<br /> +As I sate with his head twixt my knees on the ground;<br /> +And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine<br /> +As I poured down his throat our last measure of wine,<br /> +Which (the burgesses voted by common consent)<br /> +Was no more than his due who brought good news from Ghent.</p> +<h2><!-- page 9--><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +9</span>MOTHER AND POET.</h2> +<p>Dead! one of them shot by the sea in the east,<br /> +And one of them shot in the west by the sea.<br /> +Dead! both my boys! When you sit at the feast<br /> + And are wanting a great song for Italy free,<br /> + Let none look at <i>me</i>!</p> +<p>Yet I was a poetess only last year,<br /> + And good at my art for a woman, men said,<br /> +But <i>this</i> woman, <i>this</i>, who is agonized here,<br /> + The east sea and west sea rhyme on in her head<br /> + Forever instead.</p> +<p>What art can woman be good at? Oh, vain!<br /> + What art <i>is</i> she good at, but hurting her +breast<br /> +With the milk-teeth of babes, and a smile at the pain?<br /> + Ah, boys, how you hurt! you were strong as you +pressed,<br /> + And <i>I</i> proud by that +test.</p> +<p><!-- page 10--><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +10</span>What’s art for a woman? To hold on her +knees<br /> + Both darlings! to feel all their arms round her +throat<br /> +Cling, strangle a little! To sew by degrees,<br /> + And ’broider the long clothes and neat little +coat!<br /> + To dream and to dote.</p> +<p>To teach them . . . It stings there. <i>I</i> made +them indeed<br /> + Speak plain the word ‘country.’ I +taught them, no doubt,<br /> +That a country’s a thing men should die for at need.<br /> + <i>I</i> prated of liberty, rights, and about<br /> + The tyrant turned out.</p> +<p>And when their eyes flashed, oh, my beautiful eyes!<br /> + I exulted! nay, let them go forth at the wheels<br +/> +Of the guns, and denied not. But then the surprise,<br /> + When one sits quite alone! Then one weeps, +then one kneels!<br /> + —God! how the house +feels.</p> +<p>At first happy news came, in gay letters moiled<br /> + With my kisses, of camp-life and glory, and how<br +/> +<!-- page 11--><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +11</span>They both loved me, and soon, coming home to be +spoiled,<br /> + In return would fan off every fly from my brow<br /> + With their green laurel bough.</p> +<p>Then was triumph at Turin. ‘Ancona was +free!’<br /> + And some one came out of the cheers in the +street,<br /> +With a face pale as stone to say something to me.<br /> + My Guido was dead! I fell down at his feet<br +/> + While they cheered in the +street.</p> +<p>I bore it—friends soothed me: my grief looked sublime<br +/> + As the ransom of Italy. One boy remained<br /> +To be leant on and walked with, recalling the time<br /> + When the first grew immortal, while both of us +strained<br /> + To the height he had gained.</p> +<p>And letters still came—shorter, sadder, more strong,<br +/> + Writ now but in one hand. I was not to +faint,<br /> +One loved me for two . . . would be with me ere long,<br /> + And ‘Viva Italia’ <i>he</i> died for, +our saint,<br /> + Who forbids our complaint.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p2.jpg"> +<img alt="Dead! One of them shot by the sea in the east,
And one +of them shot in the West by the sea" src="images/p2.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p><!-- page 12--><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>My Nanni would add, ‘he was safe and aware<br /> + Of a presence that turned off the balls . . . was +imprest<br /> +It was Guido himself, who knew what I could bear,<br /> + And how ’twas impossible, quite +dispossessed,<br /> + To live on for the +rest.’</p> +<p>On which, without pause, up the telegraph line,<br /> + Swept smoothly the next news from +Gaeta—<i>Shot</i>.<br /> +<i>Tell his mother</i>. Ah, ah! ‘his,’ +‘their’ mother: not ‘mine.’<br /> + No voice says ‘<i>my</i> mother’ again +to me. What!<br /> + You think Guido forgot?</p> +<p>Are souls straight so happy that, dizzy with Heaven,<br /> + They drop earth’s affection, conceive not of +woe?<br /> +I think not. Themselves were too lately forgiven<br /> + Through that Love and Sorrow which reconciled so<br +/> + The Above and Below.</p> +<p>O Christ of the seven wounds, who look’dst through the +dark<br /> + To the face of thy mother! consider, I pray,<br /> +How we common mothers stand desolate, mark,<br /> + Whose sons, not being Christs, die with eyes turned +away,<br /> + And no last word to say!</p> +<p><!-- page 13--><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +13</span>Both boys dead! but that’s out of nature. We +all<br /> + Have been patriots, yet each house must always keep +one.<br /> +’Twere imbecile hewing out roads to a wall,<br /> + And when Italy’s made, for what end is it +done<br /> + If we have not a son?</p> +<p>Ah! ah! ah! when Gaeta’s taken, what then?<br /> + When the fair, wicked queen sits no more at her +sport<br /> +Of the fire-balls of death crashing souls out of men?<br /> + When your guns of Cavalli, with final retort,<br /> + Have cut the game short—</p> +<p>When Venice and Rome keep their new jubilee,<br /> + When your flag takes all Heaven for its white, +green, and red,<br /> +When <i>you</i> have your country from mountain to sea,<br /> + When King Victor has Italy’s crown on his +head,<br /> + (And I have my dead)</p> +<p>What then? Do not mock me! Ah, ring your bells +low!<br /> + And burn your lights faintly. <i>My</i> +country is there,<br /> +Above the star pricked by the last peak of snow.<br /> + <i>My</i> Italy’s there—with my brave +civic Pair,<br /> + To disfranchise despair.</p> +<p><!-- page 14--><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +14</span>Forgive me. Some women bear children in +strength,<br /> + And bite back the cry of their pain in +self-scorn,<br /> +But the birth-pangs of nations will wring us at length<br /> + Into wail such as this! and we sit on forlorn<br /> + When the man-child is born.</p> +<p>Dead! one of them shot by the sea in the west!<br /> + And one of them shot in the east by the sea!<br /> +Both! both my boys! If, in keeping the feast,<br /> + You want a great song for your Italy free,<br /> + Let none look at <i>me</i>!</p> +<h2><!-- page 15--><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +15</span>NATURE’S LADY.</h2> +<p>Three years she grew in sun and shower,<br /> +Then Nature said, “A lovelier flower<br /> +On earth was never sown;<br /> +This child I to myself will take,<br /> +She shall be mine, and I will make<br /> +A lady of my own.</p> +<p>“Myself will to my darling be<br /> +Both law and impulse: and with me<br /> +The Girl, in rock and plain,<br /> +In earth and heaven, in glade and bower,<br /> +Shall feel an overseeing power<br /> +To kindle or restrain.</p> +<p>“She shall be sportive as the fawn<br /> +That wild with glee across the lawn<br /> +Or up the mountain springs;<br /> +And hers shall be the breathing balm,<br /> +And hers the silence and the calm,<br /> +Of mute insensate things.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p3.jpg"> +<img alt="She shall be sportive as the fawn" src="images/p3.jpg" +/> +</a></p> +<p><!-- page 16--><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +16</span>“The floating clouds their state shall lend<br /> +To her; for her the willows bend;<br /> +Nor shall she fail to see<br /> +Even in the motions of the storm<br /> +Grace that shall mould the maiden’s form<br /> +By silent sympathy.</p> +<p>“The stars of midnight shall be dear<br /> +To her; and she shall lean her ear<br /> +In many a secret place<br /> +Where rivulets dance their wayward round,<br /> +And beauty born of murmuring sound<br /> +Shall pass into her face.”</p> +<h2><!-- page 17--><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +17</span>TO A SKYLARK.</h2> +<p> Hail to thee, blithe spirit—<br /> + Bird thou never wert—<br /> + That from heaven or near it<br /> + Pourest thy full heart<br /> +In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.</p> +<p> Higher still and higher<br /> + From the earth thou springest,<br +/> + Like a cloud of fire;<br /> + The blue deep thou wingest,<br /> +And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.</p> +<p> In the golden lightning<br /> + Of the sunken sun,<br /> + O’er which clouds art bright’ning,<br /> + Thou dost float and run,<br /> +Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.</p> +<p> <!-- page 18--><a name="page18"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 18</span>The pale purple even<br /> + Melts around thy flight;<br /> + Like a star of heaven,<br /> + In the broad daylight<br /> +Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight—</p> +<p> Keen as are the arrows<br /> + Of that silver sphere<br /> + Whose intense lamp narrows<br /> + In the white dawn clear<br /> +Until we hardly see, we feel, that it is there.</p> +<p> All the earth and air<br /> + With thy voice is loud,<br /> + As, when night is bare,<br /> + From one lonely cloud<br /> +The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.</p> +<p> What thou art we know not;<br /> + What is most like thee?<br /> + From rainbow-clouds there flow not<br /> + Drops so bright to see<br /> +As from thy presence showers a rain of melody:—</p> +<p> <!-- page 19--><a name="page19"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 19</span>Like a poet hidden<br /> + In the light of thought,<br /> + Singing hymns unbidden,<br /> + Till the world is wrought<br /> +To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not;</p> +<p> Like a high-born maiden<br /> + In a palace tower,<br /> + Soothing her love-laden<br /> + Soul in secret hour<br /> +With music sweet as love which overflows her bower;</p> +<p> Like a glow-worm golden<br /> + In a dell of dew,<br /> + Scattering unbeholden<br /> + Its aerial hue<br /> +Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view;</p> +<p> Like a rose embowered<br /> + In its own green leaves,<br /> + By warm winds deflowered,<br /> + Till the scent it gives<br /> +Makes faint with too much heat these heavy-winged thieves;</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p4.jpg"> +<img alt="Thou art unseen, but yet I hear they shrill delight" +src="images/p4.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p> <!-- page 20--><a name="page20"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 20</span>Sound of vernal showers<br /> + On the twinkling grass,<br /> + Rain-awakened flowers—<br /> + All that ever was<br /> +Joyous and clear and fresh—thy music doth surpass.</p> +<p> Teach us, sprite or bird,<br /> + What sweet thoughts are thine:<br +/> + I have never heard<br /> + Praise of love or wine<br /> +That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.</p> +<p> Chorus hymeneal,<br /> + Or triumphal chaunt,<br /> + Matched with thine, would be all<br /> + But an empty vaunt—<br /> +A thing wherein we feel there is some hidden want.</p> +<p> What objects are the fountains<br /> + Of the happy strain?<br /> + What fields, or waves or mountains?<br /> + What shapes of sky or plain?<br /> +What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain?</p> +<p> <!-- page 21--><a name="page21"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 21</span>With thy clear keen joyance<br /> + Languor cannot be:<br /> + Shadow of annoyance<br /> + Never came near thee:<br /> +Thou lovest, but ne’er knew love’s sad satiety.</p> +<p> Waking or asleep,<br /> + Thou of death must deem<br /> + Things more true and deep<br /> + Than we mortals dream,<br /> +Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream?</p> +<p> We look before and after,<br /> + And pine for what is not;<br /> + Our sincerest laughter<br /> + With some pain is fraught;<br /> +Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.</p> +<p> Yet, if we could scorn<br /> + Hate and pride and fear,<br /> + If we were things born<br /> + Not to shed a tear,<br /> +I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.</p> +<p> <!-- page 22--><a name="page22"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 22</span>Better than all measures<br /> + Of delightful sound,<br /> + Better than all treasures<br /> + That in books are found,<br /> +Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!</p> +<p> Teach me half the gladness<br /> + That thy brain must know,<br /> + Such harmonious madness<br /> + From my lips would flow<br /> +The world should listen then as I am listening now.</p> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE!***</p> +<pre> + + +***** This file should be named 20742-h.htm or 20742-h.zip****** + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/7/4/20742 + + + +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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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: O May I Join the Choir Invisible! + and Other Favorite Poems + + +Author: George Eliot + + + +Release Date: March 4, 2007 [eBook #20742] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE!*** + + + + +Transcribed from the 1884 D. Lothrop and Company edition by David Price, +email ccx074@pglaf.org + +{Book cover: cover.jpg} + + + + + +O MAY I JOIN +THE CHOIR INVISIBLE! + + +BY +GEORGE ELIOT + +AND OTHER FAVORITE POEMS + +_ILLUSTRATED_ + +BOSTON +D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY +FRANKLIN AND HAWLEY STREETS + +Copyright by +D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY +1884 + +{"May I reach that purest Heaven!": p0.jpg} + + + + +O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE! + + +O may I join the choir invisible +Of those immortal dead who live again +In minds made better by their presence; live +In pulses stirred to generosity, +In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn +Of miserable aims that end with self, +In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, +And with their mild persistence urge men's minds +To vaster issues. + + So to live is heaven: +To make undying music in the world, +Breathing a beauteous order that controls +With growing sway the growing life of man. +So we inherit that sweet purity +For which we struggled, failed and agonized +With widening retrospect that bred despair. +Rebellious flesh that would not be subdued, +A vicious parent shaming still its child, +Poor, anxious penitence is quick dissolved; +Its discords, quenched by meeting harmonies, +Die in the large and charitable air; +And all our rarer, better, truer self, +That sobbed religiously in yearning song, +That watched to ease the burden of the world, +Laboriously tracing what must be, +And what may yet be better--saw rather +A worthier image for the sanctuary +And shaped it forth before the multitude, +Divinely human, raising worship so +To higher reverence more mixed with love-- +That better self shall live till human Time +Shall fold its eyelids, and the human sky +Be gathered like a scroll within the tomb +Unread forever. + + This is life to come, +Which martyred men have made more glorious +For us who strive to follow. + + May I reach +That purest heaven--be to other souls +The cup of strength in some great agony, +Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, +Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, +Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, +And in diffusion ever more intense! +So shall I join the choir invisible +Whose music is the gladness of the world. + + + + +HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX. + + +{At Aerschot up leaped of a sudden the Sun: p1.jpg} + +I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris and he: +I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; +"Good speed!" cried the watch as the gate-bolts undrew, +"Speed!" echoed the wall to us galloping through. +Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, +And into the midnight we galloped abreast. + +Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace-- +Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; +I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, +Then shortened each stirrup and set the pique right, +Rebuckled the check-strap, chained slacker the bit, +Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit. + +'Twas moonset at starting; but while we drew near +Lokeren, the cocks crew and twilight dawned clear; +At Boom a great yellow star came out to see; +At Duffeld 'twas morning as plain as could be; +And from Mecheln church-steeple we heard the half-chime-- +So Joris broke silence with "Yet there is time!" + +At Aerschot up leaped of a sudden the sun, +And against him the cattle stood black every one, +To stare through the mist at us galloping past; +And I saw my stout galloper Roland at last +With resolute shoulders, each butting away +The haze, as some bluff river headland its spray; + +And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back +For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track, +And one eye's black intelligence--ever that glance +O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance; +And the thick heavy spume-flakes, which aye and anon +His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. + +By Hasselt, Dirck groaned; and cried Joris, "Stay spur! +Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her; +"We'll remember at Aix"--for one heard the quick wheeze +Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees, +And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank, +As down on her haunches she shuddered and sank. + +So we were left galloping, Joris and I, +Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky; +The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh; +'Neath our feet broke the brittle bright stubble like chaff; +Till over by Delhem a dome spire sprung white, +And "Gallop," gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight! + +"How they'll greet us!"--and all in a moment his roan +Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; +And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight +Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, +With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, +And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. + +Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, +Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, +Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, +Called my Roland his pet name, my horse without peer-- +Clapped my hands, laughed and sung, any noise, bad or good, +Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. + +And all I remember is friends flocking around, +As I sate with his head twixt my knees on the ground; +And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine +As I poured down his throat our last measure of wine, +Which (the burgesses voted by common consent) +Was no more than his due who brought good news from Ghent. + + + + +MOTHER AND POET. + + +Dead! one of them shot by the sea in the east, +And one of them shot in the west by the sea. +Dead! both my boys! When you sit at the feast + And are wanting a great song for Italy free, + Let none look at _me_! + +Yet I was a poetess only last year, + And good at my art for a woman, men said, +But _this_ woman, _this_, who is agonized here, + The east sea and west sea rhyme on in her head + Forever instead. + +What art can woman be good at? Oh, vain! + What art _is_ she good at, but hurting her breast +With the milk-teeth of babes, and a smile at the pain? + Ah, boys, how you hurt! you were strong as you pressed, + And _I_ proud by that test. + +What's art for a woman? To hold on her knees + Both darlings! to feel all their arms round her throat +Cling, strangle a little! To sew by degrees, + And 'broider the long clothes and neat little coat! + To dream and to dote. + +To teach them . . . It stings there. _I_ made them indeed + Speak plain the word 'country.' I taught them, no doubt, +That a country's a thing men should die for at need. + _I_ prated of liberty, rights, and about + The tyrant turned out. + +And when their eyes flashed, oh, my beautiful eyes! + I exulted! nay, let them go forth at the wheels +Of the guns, and denied not. But then the surprise, + When one sits quite alone! Then one weeps, then one kneels! + --God! how the house feels. + +At first happy news came, in gay letters moiled + With my kisses, of camp-life and glory, and how +They both loved me, and soon, coming home to be spoiled, + In return would fan off every fly from my brow + With their green laurel bough. + +Then was triumph at Turin. 'Ancona was free!' + And some one came out of the cheers in the street, +With a face pale as stone to say something to me. + My Guido was dead! I fell down at his feet + While they cheered in the street. + +I bore it--friends soothed me: my grief looked sublime + As the ransom of Italy. One boy remained +To be leant on and walked with, recalling the time + When the first grew immortal, while both of us strained + To the height he had gained. + +And letters still came--shorter, sadder, more strong, + Writ now but in one hand. I was not to faint, +One loved me for two . . . would be with me ere long, + And 'Viva Italia' _he_ died for, our saint, + Who forbids our complaint. + +{ Dead! One of them shot by the sea in the east, +And one of them shot in the West by the sea: p2.jpg} + +My Nanni would add, 'he was safe and aware + Of a presence that turned off the balls . . . was imprest +It was Guido himself, who knew what I could bear, + And how 'twas impossible, quite dispossessed, + To live on for the rest.' + +On which, without pause, up the telegraph line, + Swept smoothly the next news from Gaeta--_Shot_. +_Tell his mother_. Ah, ah! 'his,' 'their' mother: not 'mine.' + No voice says '_my_ mother' again to me. What! + You think Guido forgot? + +Are souls straight so happy that, dizzy with Heaven, + They drop earth's affection, conceive not of woe? +I think not. Themselves were too lately forgiven + Through that Love and Sorrow which reconciled so + The Above and Below. + +O Christ of the seven wounds, who look'dst through the dark + To the face of thy mother! consider, I pray, +How we common mothers stand desolate, mark, + Whose sons, not being Christs, die with eyes turned away, + And no last word to say! + +Both boys dead! but that's out of nature. We all + Have been patriots, yet each house must always keep one. +'Twere imbecile hewing out roads to a wall, + And when Italy's made, for what end is it done + If we have not a son? + +Ah! ah! ah! when Gaeta's taken, what then? + When the fair, wicked queen sits no more at her sport +Of the fire-balls of death crashing souls out of men? + When your guns of Cavalli, with final retort, + Have cut the game short-- + +When Venice and Rome keep their new jubilee, + When your flag takes all Heaven for its white, green, and red, +When _you_ have your country from mountain to sea, + When King Victor has Italy's crown on his head, + (And I have my dead) + +What then? Do not mock me! Ah, ring your bells low! + And burn your lights faintly. _My_ country is there, +Above the star pricked by the last peak of snow. + _My_ Italy's there--with my brave civic Pair, + To disfranchise despair. + +Forgive me. Some women bear children in strength, + And bite back the cry of their pain in self-scorn, +But the birth-pangs of nations will wring us at length + Into wail such as this! and we sit on forlorn + When the man-child is born. + +Dead! one of them shot by the sea in the west! + And one of them shot in the east by the sea! +Both! both my boys! If, in keeping the feast, + You want a great song for your Italy free, + Let none look at _me_! + + + + +NATURE'S LADY. + + +Three years she grew in sun and shower, +Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower +On earth was never sown; +This child I to myself will take, +She shall be mine, and I will make +A lady of my own. + +"Myself will to my darling be +Both law and impulse: and with me +The Girl, in rock and plain, +In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, +Shall feel an overseeing power +To kindle or restrain. + +"She shall be sportive as the fawn +That wild with glee across the lawn +Or up the mountain springs; +And hers shall be the breathing balm, +And hers the silence and the calm, +Of mute insensate things. + +{She shall be sportive as the fawn: p3.jpg} + +"The floating clouds their state shall lend +To her; for her the willows bend; +Nor shall she fail to see +Even in the motions of the storm +Grace that shall mould the maiden's form +By silent sympathy. + +"The stars of midnight shall be dear +To her; and she shall lean her ear +In many a secret place +Where rivulets dance their wayward round, +And beauty born of murmuring sound +Shall pass into her face." + + + + +TO A SKYLARK. + + + Hail to thee, blithe spirit-- + Bird thou never wert-- + That from heaven or near it + Pourest thy full heart +In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. + + Higher still and higher + From the earth thou springest, + Like a cloud of fire; + The blue deep thou wingest, +And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. + + In the golden lightning + Of the sunken sun, + O'er which clouds art bright'ning, + Thou dost float and run, +Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. + + The pale purple even + Melts around thy flight; + Like a star of heaven, + In the broad daylight +Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight-- + + Keen as are the arrows + Of that silver sphere + Whose intense lamp narrows + In the white dawn clear +Until we hardly see, we feel, that it is there. + + All the earth and air + With thy voice is loud, + As, when night is bare, + From one lonely cloud +The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed. + + What thou art we know not; + What is most like thee? + From rainbow-clouds there flow not + Drops so bright to see +As from thy presence showers a rain of melody:-- + + Like a poet hidden + In the light of thought, + Singing hymns unbidden, + Till the world is wrought +To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not; + + Like a high-born maiden + In a palace tower, + Soothing her love-laden + Soul in secret hour +With music sweet as love which overflows her bower; + + Like a glow-worm golden + In a dell of dew, + Scattering unbeholden + Its aerial hue +Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view; + + Like a rose embowered + In its own green leaves, + By warm winds deflowered, + Till the scent it gives +Makes faint with too much heat these heavy-winged thieves; + +{Thou art unseen, but yet I hear they shrill delight: p4.jpg} + + Sound of vernal showers + On the twinkling grass, + Rain-awakened flowers-- + All that ever was +Joyous and clear and fresh--thy music doth surpass. + + Teach us, sprite or bird, + What sweet thoughts are thine: + I have never heard + Praise of love or wine +That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. + + Chorus hymeneal, + Or triumphal chaunt, + Matched with thine, would be all + But an empty vaunt-- +A thing wherein we feel there is some hidden want. + + What objects are the fountains + Of the happy strain? + What fields, or waves or mountains? + What shapes of sky or plain? +What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain? + + With thy clear keen joyance + Languor cannot be: + Shadow of annoyance + Never came near thee: +Thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety. + + Waking or asleep, + Thou of death must deem + Things more true and deep + Than we mortals dream, +Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream? + + We look before and after, + And pine for what is not; + Our sincerest laughter + With some pain is fraught; +Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. + + Yet, if we could scorn + Hate and pride and fear, + If we were things born + Not to shed a tear, +I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. + + Better than all measures + Of delightful sound, + Better than all treasures + That in books are found, +Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! + + Teach me half the gladness + That thy brain must know, + Such harmonious madness + From my lips would flow +The world should listen then as I am listening now. + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK O MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE!*** + + +******* This file should be named 20742.txt or 20742.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/7/4/20742 + + + +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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