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diff --git a/20742.txt b/20742.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8de9096 --- /dev/null +++ b/20742.txt @@ -0,0 +1,865 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, O May I Join the Choir Invisible!, by George +Eliot + + +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: 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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