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+<title>A PRELUDE</title>
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+<meta name="DC.Creator" content="Francis Sherman" />
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+<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 39797 ***</div>
+<div class="document" id="a-prelude">
+<h1 class="center document-title level-1 pfirst title"><span class="x-large">A PRELUDE</span></h1>
+
+<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em">
+</div>
+<p class="noindent pfirst" id="pg-produced-by"><span>Produced by Al Haines.</span></p>
+<div class="vspace" style="height: 1em">
+</div>
+<p class="noindent pfirst"><span></span></p>
+</div>
+<div class="align-None container titlepage">
+<p class="center pfirst"><span class="x-large">A PRELUDE</span></p>
+<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em">
+</div>
+<p class="center pfirst"><span class="medium">Francis Sherman</span></p>
+<div class="vspace" style="height: 3em">
+</div>
+<p class="center pfirst"><em class="italics medium">Privately Printed</em><span class="medium">
+<br /></span><em class="italics medium">at Christmas</em><span class="medium">
+<br /></span><em class="italics medium">1897</em></p>
+</div>
+<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em">
+</div>
+<p class="center pfirst"><span class="x-large">A Prelude</span></p>
+<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em">
+</div>
+<!-- -->
+<blockquote>
+<div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Watching the tremulous flicker of the green</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Against the open quiet of the sky,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>I hear my ancient way-fellows convene</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>In the great wood behind me. Where I lie</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>They may not see me; for the grasses grow</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>As though no foot save June's had wandered by;</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Yet I, who am well-hidden, surely know,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>As I have waited them, they yearn for me</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>To lead them whither they are fain to go.</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Weary as I, are they, O Time, of thee!</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Yea, we, who once were glad only of Spring,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Gather about thy wall and would be free!</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>With wounded feet we cease from wandering,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>And with vain hands beat idly at thy gate;</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>And thou,—thou hast no thought of opening,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>And from thy peace are we still separate.</span></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+</blockquote>
+<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em">
+</div>
+<!-- -->
+<blockquote>
+<div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Yet, comrades, though ye come together there,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>And search across the shadows for my face,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Until the pines murmur of your despair,</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>I think I shall not tell my hiding-place,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>For ye know not the path ye would pursue,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>And it is late our footsteps to retrace.</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Too weak am I, and now not one of you—</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>So weary are ye of each ancient way—</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Retaineth strength enough to seek a new;</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>And ye are blind—knowing not night from day;</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Crying at noontime, "Let us see the sun!"</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>And with the even, "O for rest, we pray!"</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>O Blind and fearful! Shall I, who have won</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>At last this little portion of content,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Yield all to be with you again undone?</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Because ye languish in your prisonment</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Must I now hearken to your bitter cry?</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Must I forego, as ye long since forewent,</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>My vision of the far-off open sky?</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Nay! Earth hath much ungiven she yet may give;</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>And though to-day your laboring souls would die,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>From earth my soul gaineth the strength to live.</span></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+</blockquote>
+<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em">
+</div>
+<!-- -->
+<blockquote>
+<div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>O covering grasses! O Unchanging trees!</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Is it not good to feel the odorous wind</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Come down upon you with such harmonies</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Only the giant hills can ever find?</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>O little leaves, are ye not glad to be?</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Is not the sunlight fair, the shadow kind,</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>That falls at noon-time over you and me?</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>O gleam of birches lost among the firs,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Let your high treble chime in silverly</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Across the half-imagined wind that stirs</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>A muffled organ-music from the pines!</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Earth knows to-day that not one note of hers</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Is minor. For, behold, the loud sun shines</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Till the young maples are no longer gray,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>And stronger grow their faint, uncertain lines</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Each violet takes a deeper blue to-day,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>And purpler swell the cones hung overhead,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Until the sound of their far feet who</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>About the wood, fades from me; and, instead,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>I hear a robin singing—not as one</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>That calls unto his mate, uncomforted—</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>But as one sings a welcome to the sun.</span></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+</blockquote>
+<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em">
+</div>
+<!-- -->
+<blockquote>
+<div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Not among men, or near men-fashioned things,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>In the old years found I this present ease,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Though I have known the fellowship of kings</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>And tarried long in splendid palaces.</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>The worship of vast peoples has been mine,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>The homage of uncounted pageantries.</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Sea-offerings, and fruits of field and vine</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Have humble folk been proud to bring to me;</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>And woven cloths of wonderful design</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Have lain untouched in far lands over-sea,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Till the rich traffickers beheld my sails.</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Long caravans have toiled on wearily—</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Harassed yet watchful of their costly bales—</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Across wide sandy places, glad to bear</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Strange oils and perfumes strained in Indian vales,</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Great gleaming rubies torn from some queen's hair,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Yellow, long-hoarded coin and golded dust,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Deeming that I would find their offerings fair.</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>—O fairness quick to fade! Ashes and rust</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>And food for moths! O half-remembered things</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Once altar-set!—I think when one is thrust</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Far down in the under-world, where the worm clings</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Close to the newly-dead, among the dead</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Not one awakes to ask what gift she brings.</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>The color of her eyes, her hair outspread</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>In the moist wind that stifles ere it blows,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Falls on unwatching eyes; and no man knows</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>The gracious odors that her garments shed.</span></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+</blockquote>
+<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em">
+</div>
+<!-- -->
+<blockquote>
+<div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>And she, unwearied yet and not grown wise,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Follows a little while her devious way</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Across the twilight; where no voice replies</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>When her voice calls, bravely; and where to-day</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Is even as yesterday and all days were.</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Great houses loom up swiftly, out of the gray.</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Knocking at last, the gradual echoes stir</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>The hangings of unhaunted passages;</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Until she surely knows only for her</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Has this House hoarded up its silences</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Since the beginning of the early years,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>And that this night her soul shall dwell at ease</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>And grow forgetful of its ancient fears</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>In some long-kept, unviolated room.</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>And so the quiet city no more hears</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Her footsteps, and the streets their dust resume.</span></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+</blockquote>
+<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em">
+</div>
+<!-- -->
+<blockquote>
+<div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>But what have I to do with her and death</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Who hold these living grasses in my hands,—</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>With her who liveth not, yet sorroweth?</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>(For it shall chance, however close the bands</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Of sleep be drawn about her, nevertheless</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>She must remember alway the old lands</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>She wandered in, and their old hollowness.)</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>—Awaiting here the strong word of the trees,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>My soul leans over to the wind's caress,</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>One with the flowers; far off, it hears the sea's</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Rumor of large, unmeasured things, and yet</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>It has no yearning to remix with these.</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>For the pines whisper, lest it may forget,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Of the near pool; and how the shadow lies</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>On it forever; and of its edges, set</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>With maiden-hair; and how, in guardian-wise,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>The alder trees bend over, until one</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Forgets the color of the unseen skies</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>And loses all remembrance of the sun.</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>No echo there of the sea's loss and pain;</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Nor sound of little rivers, even, that run</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Where with the wind the hollow reeds complain;</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Nor the soft stir of marsh-waters, when dawn</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Comes in with quiet covering of rain:</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Only, all day, the shadow of peace upon</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>The pool's gray breast; and with the fall of even,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>The noiseless gleam of scattered stars—withdrawn</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>From the unfathomed treasuries of heaven.</span></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+</blockquote>
+<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em">
+</div>
+<!-- -->
+<blockquote>
+<div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>And as the sea has not the strength to win</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Back to its love my soul, O Comrades, ye—</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>In the wood lost, and seeking me therein—</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Are not less impotent than all the sea!</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>My soul at last its ultimate house hath won,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>And in that house shall sleep along with me.</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Yea, we shall slumber softly, out of the sun,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>To day and night alike indifferent,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Aware and unaware if Time be done.</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Yet ere I go, ere yet your faith be spent,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>For our old love I pass Earth's message on:</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>"In me, why shouldst thou not find thy content?</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>"Are not my days surpassing fair, from dawn</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>To sunset, and my nights fulfilled with peace?</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Shall not my strength remain when thou art gone</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>"The way of all blown dust? Shall Beauty cease</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Upon my face because thy face grows gray?</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Behold, thine hours, even now, fade and decrease,</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>"And thou hast got no wisdom; yet I say</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>This thing there is to learn ere thou must go:</span></div>
+<div class="line"><em class="italics">Have no sad thoughts of me upon the way</em></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>"</span><em class="italics">Thou takest home coming; for thy soul shall know</em></div>
+<div class="line"><em class="italics">The old glad things and sorrowful its share</em></div>
+<div class="line"><em class="italics">Until at last Time's legions overthrow</em></div>
+<div class="line"><em class="italics">The House thy days have builded unaware.</em><span>"</span></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+</blockquote>
+<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em">
+</div>
+<!-- -->
+<blockquote>
+<div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>Now therefore am I joyful who have heard</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Earth's message plain to-day, and so I cry</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>Aloud to you, O Comrades, her last word,</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><span>That ye may be as wise and glad as I,</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>And the long grasses, and the broad green leaves</span></div>
+<div class="line"><span>That beat against the far, unclouded sky:</span></div>
+</div>
+<div class="line-block outermost">
+<div class="line"><em class="italics">Who worships me alway, who alway cleaves</em></div>
+<div class="line"><em class="italics">Close unto me till his last call rings clear</em></div>
+<div class="line"><em class="italics">Across the pathless wood,—his soul receives</em></div>
+<div class="line"><em class="italics">My peace continually and shall not fear.</em></div>
+</div>
+</div>
+</blockquote>
+<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em">
+</div>
+<p class="center pfirst"><span class="large">A PRELUDE WRITTEN BY FRANCIS
+<br />SHERMAN IS PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR
+<br />HIM AND FOR HERBERT COPELAND
+<br />AND F. H. DAY AND THEIR FRIENDS
+<br />CHRISTMAS M D CCC XCVII</span></p>
+<div class="vspace" style="height: 6em">
+</div>
+<!-- -*- encoding: utf-8 -*- -->
+<div class="backmatter">
+</div>
+<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 39797 ***</div>
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