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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - -Title: Some Poems of Roger Casement - -Author: Roger Casement - -Release Date: September 28, 2016 [EBook #53162] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOME POEMS OF ROGER CASEMENT *** - - - - -Produced by Demian Katz and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy -of the Digital Library@Villanova University -(http://digital.library.villanova.edu/)) - - - - - -[Illustration: The Talbot Press Booklets: Some Poems of Roger Casement] - - - - -[Illustration: The Talbot Press books.] - - - - - Some Poems of - Roger Casement - - - - -[Illustration: ROGER CASEMENT] - - - - - SOME POEMS OF - ROGER CASEMENT - - [Illustration] - - DUBLIN LONDON - The Talbot Press T. Fisher Unwin - (LIMITED) (LIMITED) - 89 Talbot Street 1 Adelphi Terrace - - 1918 - - - - - Printed at - - THE TALBOT PRESS - - 89 Talbot Street - Dublin - - - - -Contents - - - Page - - Introduction ix - - "The Heart's Verdict" 1 - - "Mio Salvatore" 2 - - "Love's Horizon" 3 - - "Love's Cares" 4 - - The Peak of the Cameroons--I. 5 - - The Peak of the Cameroons--II. 6 - - Hamilcar Barca 7 - - Verses sent from the Congo Free State in response - to Mr. Harrison's appeal for the restoration of - the Elgin Marbles to Greece 8 - - Lost Youth 9 - - The Streets of Catania 10 - - The Irish Language 12 - - Parnell 14 - - Benburb 15 - - Oliver Cromwell 21 - - The Triumph of Hugh O'Neill 22 - - Translation from Victor Hugo's "Feuilles - d'Automne" 25 - - - - -Introduction - - -In giving these few poems of Roger Casement to the Irish people I -do not claim for them any special value as Irish literature. Roger -Casement was not a poet, he would have been the last to lay claim to -any such title, but, like the greater part of his fellow-countrymen, he -felt from time to time the impulse to express some particular thought -in verse, and he used to jot down, sometimes in a letter to a friend, -sometimes on an odd half sheet of paper, the thought clothed in a -poetic form just as it came into his mind. - -His was a nature of peculiar delicacy and refinement and of -singular simplicity; he had but one passion, Ireland, but one deep -sympathy--compassion for the helpless and oppressed. - -Even as a little boy he turned with horror and revulsion from cruelty -of every description: he would tenderly nurse a wounded bird to -life, and stop to pity an overloaded horse. This gentleness and -tender-heartedness was one of his most marked characteristics; it led -him to champion the cause of the Congo native and the Putumayo Indian, -and to spend his slender means in later life in trying to relieve the -wretched fever-stricken inhabitants in Connemara when typhus was raging -among them, or to provide a mid-day meal for children in the Gaeltacht, -who after walking perhaps for miles to school, through storm and rain, -would have gone hungry all day if his kindly heart had not pitied them. -When he was stricken with misfortune, it was these same children whose -touching letters to him and whose words of consolation, with their -prayers, brought tears to his eyes. - -The act which brought him to his death was the result of long years -of brooding over Ireland and her destiny; it was not a sudden and new -impulse as some have endeavoured to prove. To say that his interest -in Ireland began with his retirement from the service of the British -Foreign Office is to misrepresent the facts entirely. Roger Casement -from his earliest days was before everything else a lover of Ireland. -In his school days he begged from the aunt, with whom he spent his -holidays, for possession of an attic room which he turned into a little -study, and the writer remembers the walls papered with cartoons cut out -of the _Weekly Freeman_, showing the various Irish Nationalists who had -suffered imprisonment at English hands for the sake of their belief -in Ireland a Nation. Many years later, when he himself was a prisoner -in an English gaol he wrote: "I have felt this destiny on me since I -was a little boy; it was inevitable; everything in my life has led up -to it." He seemed in a curious way to have a foreboding of his fate. -Once, years before his retirement, he was joking with a friend about -some wonderful plan that was conceived in a mood of playfulness, and -the carrying out of which would have involved considerable danger. The -friend pointed out that the disadvantage of it all lay in the fact that -they might accidentally kill someone, and "then," she added, "we'd be -hanged." Roger Casement was silent for a moment, his deepset eyes fixed -on an invisible goal, and then he said very quietly, "I think I shall -be hanged for Ireland." A friend tells me that later he made a similar -observation to a man who spoke of old rebellions and the fate of their -leaders, "I shall be hanged, too, for leading an attack on Dublin -Castle." - -An incident is told of his life in South Africa, about the time of the -Boer War. He was one day, with two companions on the verandah of a -hotel, when a lady who had been observing them from a distance for some -time approached them. She excused herself for addressing strangers and -explained that she had felt compelled to do so as they had interested -her profoundly. Explaining that she had the gift of second-sight, she -asked permission to tell their fortunes, to which they consented, -looking upon the matter as a joke. Having told the fortunes of the lady -and of the second companion, she turned at last to Roger Casement, -and stated that his was the most interesting fate. She described his -adventurous life in broad outline, and then said, "You must take care: -at the age of 52 you will come to a violent end." Roger Casement was -within a month of his fifty-second birthday when he died. - -There was a curious remoteness about him at times. He used to sit for -long periods silent in a reverie, and would awaken from it with a -sudden start. In his habits he was always simple and frugal; he rose -very early in the morning and was always at work before breakfast; -he cared nothing for society in the worldly sense, but he loved his -friends and was always and invariably happy in the company of children -of all ages and classes. Once the writer was walking with him through -the streets of an old country town when a tired woman after a shopping -expedition was vainly urging an equally tired, and, I am bound to say, -naughty little boy to "come on." When at last in exasperation she -called out, "Very well, I'll go home without you," the culprit set up -an ear-piercing yell and flung himself down on the ground. Roger turned -round at once, to hasten back. "Ah! poor soul," he said, "his heart is -broken, God help him; I'll pick him up." - -Small children always adored him. The tiny three-year-old child of -a charwoman working in the house where he was staying used to creep -in from the kitchen, and try to catch his eye as he sat writing. He -always had a smile and caress for her, and one day her mother found her -trying with both hands to turn the handle of the study door and scolded -her. She hung her head and said, "I wanted to see the gentleman with -the kind eyes." - -Many a little beggar child in Dublin knew the smile in those kind eyes, -and they used to greet him with smiles in return and always get their -copper or two. We used to tease him, and say he walked through the -streets of Dublin "buying smiles at a penny each." I do not think any -Irish man, woman, or child ever appealed to him for sympathy and help -that he did not give. - -On a motor tour through Donegal with some friends he met an old woman -whose son and his wife had died and left to her care a family of small -children. They looked poor and hungry, and the old woman found it hard -to make her little farm support them all. "Wouldn't they be better for -some milk?" asked Roger, seeing them make a scanty meal, with water to -drink. "Indeed they would if I could be getting it for them," said -the grandmother. Roger made no answer, but at the next market town he -bought a cow and had it sent out to the old lady. - -It was in Ireland he always felt at home; he hated big cities, noise, -music-halls, and restaurants. He wrote from London on one visit, "I -feel more and more of a foreigner here"; but in the Irish country, with -the simple country folk, he was always content. One of the happiest -experiences of his life in later years was a short visit he paid to -Tory Island in 1912, when he organised a Ceilidh, to which everyone -on the island was invited. He sat in the crowded schoolroom, watching -the boys and girls dancing their reels and jigs, and listening to the -Gaelic songs till far on into the night, when the Ceilidh broke up. He -loved the Tory people and used to plan many times to go back and visit -them. Tory has a sort of fascination about it, it looks so remote and -unreal, "like an opal jewel in a pale blue sea," he described it once -in a letter. - -During all the time of his varied experiences abroad in Africa and -South America, his mind turned always with longing and affection to -Ireland. He looked upon himself as an Irishman before all things. He -eagerly watched for the rare arrival of mails bringing word of Ireland -and her doings. "Send me news of Ireland," he wrote from South America, -"and also what the papers say about the Congo, but chiefly Ireland; -Ireland first, last, and for ever." - -Although not a rich man (he had no private means) he contributed -generously to all Irish schemes for furthering the National life. He -helped several of the Gaelic Colleges, gave prizes in schools for the -study of Irish, and did his best to help along many of those newspapers -and periodicals which were founded by young and hopeful Irishmen to -expound their views and which alas! so often came to an untimely end. - -With his singularly generous nature money mattered nothing at all -to him save for the use he could make of it to help the work he had -at heart. He spent little upon himself, in fact he denied himself -all luxuries, and even comforts, that he might have to give to Irish -causes or to the Irish poor. Those who said of him that he sold -himself for money knew nothing of the man they were slandering. He -was wholly indifferent to money for its own sake. His scrupulous -integrity as to public funds was illustrated by the following:--When -he was called to give evidence before a certain commission, as he was -waiting his turn with others who had to travel to London for the same -purpose, one of the secretaries remarked to a witness, "Do you see that -man?" (pointing to Roger Casement), "Well, all the rest have charged -first-class railway fares, but he has put down third." - -He wrote much on the Irish question. Letters from his pen appeared in -many Irish newspapers, and not a few English ones, and his essays, -which will, it is hoped, be published later, show not only a deep -insight but much literary skill. His speech from the dock was described -by a leading English literary man as an effort "worthy of the finest -examples of antiquity." - -At the age of 52 he came to a violent end.... So have many others -who died for Ireland; he stands among his peers, the Irish martyrs. -He would not have chosen to die otherwise, the love of his life was -Kathleen ni Houlihan; when he thought he heard her voice calling from -her four green fields he had no choice but to obey, though he knew it -led to death; but death which comes in such a form to the body leaves -the spirit but freer to carry on its purpose. - -The men of 1916 are not dead in any real sense, for - - "They shall be remembered for ever, - They shall be alive for ever, - They shall be speaking for ever, - The people shall hear them for ever." - - GERTRUDE PARRY. - - - - -_SOME POEMS OF ROGER CASEMENT_ - - - - -"The Heart's Verdict" - - - Oh! hearts that meet, and hearts that part! - The world is full of sorrow: - Men love and die--th' almighty mart - Puts up new hearts to-morrow. - - Was this Creation's scheme at start? - Oh! then I little wonder - That Lucifer's proud human heart - Preferred to God His thunder. - - - - -"Mio Salvatore" - - - "Were I a king, my crown of gold - I should not for a moment hold, - Did not thy brow its glory share, - Were thou not ever next my chair. - - "Were I a God, my heaven would be - One long, lone, vast sterility, - Eternal only in its woe - Did thou not all its purpose know. - - "Were I a saint, my midnight cell - Would be the portico of hell, - Did not my scourging heart attest - Thy love dwells in a stricken breast." - - - - -"Love's Horizon" - - - Love is the salt sea's savour, - Love is the palm-tree's sheen, - Love is the sky of evening. - That softly sets between. - - Love is the ocean's purple, - Love is the mountain's crest, - Love is the golden Eagle - That hither builds his nest. - - The wind that lists at morning. - The first song of the bird, - The leaves that stir so lightly - Before a limb has stirred: - - These are my love's harbingers - By gathering music drawn. - Oh! wake my love and own them, - Thou life voice of the Dawn. - - - - -"Love's Cares" - - - Oh! what cares Love for a sunburnt skin? - Love laughs and sighs for it all the same; - Love seeks a blush that is far within - From the glow of his asking eyes that came-- - - Oh! what cares Love for untidy hair? - He sleeps where never a comb has passed, - And holds his breath in the tiny snare - Of a curl his kiss shall undo at last-- - - Oh! what cares Love for a tender heart? - His eyes are filled to their glorious brim; - On tears, on tears from a shining start - Love bears it gently away with him. - - Oh! what cares Love for a wounded breast? - Love shows his own with a broader scar: - 'Tis only those who have loved the best - Can say where the wounds of loving are. - - - - -The Peak of the Cameroons - - -I. - - The Heavens rest upon thee that the eye - Of man may not, for when thou sittest hid - In thunderstorm of lofty pyramid - Of thwarting sea-cloud whitening up the sky, - Then are the clouds set on thee to forbid - [A]That man should share the mystery of Sinai; - Then are thy ashen cones again bestrid - By living fire--impenetrably nigh. - - For thus, by the Dualla, art thou seen, - Home of a God they know, yet would not know; - But I, who far above their doubts have been - Upon thy forehead hazardous, may grow - To fuller knowledge, rooted sure and slow - Where lava slid--like pines Enceladine. - - -[A] To this line there is a note:--"This line is inadmissible in a -sonnet." - - -II. - - And I have seen thee in the West's red setting - Stand like some Monarch in a crimson field, - With fleeing clouds empurpling as they yield. - And sunset still the glorious sham abetting. - While high above thy purple forest's fretting - Thy mighty chest in tranquil gold concealed, - And on thy brows of the dead days begetting - A light that comes from higher things revealed. - - So shows there in a passing soul's transgression - A light of hope beyond these prison bars - Divinely rendered, that, when doubting mars - Our day's decline, we still may find progression - Of light to light, as day with silent cession - Makes o'er to night--articulate with stars. - - - - -Hamilcar Barca - - - Thou that didst mark from Heircte's spacious hill - The Roman spears, like mist, uprise each morn, - Yet held, with Hesper's shining point of scorn, - Thy sword unsheathed above Panormus still; - Thou that were leagued with nought but thine own will, - Eurythmic vastness to that stronghold torn - From foes above, below, where, though forlorn, - Thou still hadst claws to cling, and beak to kill-- - Eagle of Eryx!--When the Ęgation shoal - Rolled westward all the hopes that Hanno wrecked - With mighty wing, unwearying, didst thou - Seek far beyond the wolf's grim protocol, - Within the Iberian sunset faintly specked - A rock where Punic faith should bide its vow. - - - - -Verses - - (_Sent from the Congo Free State in response to Mr. Harrison's appeal - for the Restoration of the Elgin Marbles to Greece._) - - - Give back the Elgin marbles; let them lie - Unsullied, pure beneath an Attic sky. - The smoky fingers of our northern clime - More ruin work than all the ancient time. - How oft the roar of the Piraen sea - Through column'd hall and dusky temple stealing - Hath struck these marble ears, that now must flee - The whirling hum of London, noonward reeling. - - Ah! let them hear again the sounds that float - Around Athene's shrine on morning's breeze,-- - The lowing ox, the bell of climbing goat - And drowsy drone of far Hymettus' bees. - Give back the marbles; let them vigil keep - Where art still lies, o'er Pheidias' tomb, asleep. - - _Lukunga Valley, - Cataract Region of the Lower Congo._ - - - - -Lost Youth - - (_Written on receiving a letter from a friend, T. H., who had spent - the best years of his life as a missionary in Central Africa, in - which he speaks of "the glorious superfluity of strength and spirits - one remembers as a lad, but alas! only remembers."_) - - - Weep not that you no longer feel the tide - High breasting sun and storm, that bore along - Your youth on currents of perpetual song: - For in these mid-stream waters, still and wide, - A sleepless purpose the great deep doth hide; - Here spring the mighty fountains pure and strong, - That bear sweet change of breath to city throng, - Who, had the sea no breeze, would soon have died. - So though the sun shines not in such a blue, - Nor have the stars the meaning youth deviced, - The heavens are nigher, and a light shines through - The brightness that nor sun nor stars sufficed; - And on this lonely waste we find it true - Lost youth and love, not lost, are hid with Christ. - - - - -The Streets of Catania - - (_The streets of Catania are paved with blocks of the lava of Aetna._) - - - All that was beautiful and just, - All that was pure and sad - Went in one little, moving plot of dust - The world called bad. - - Came like a highwayman, and went, - One who was bold and gay, - Left when his lightly loving mood was spent - Thy heart to pay. - - By-word of little streets and men, - Narrower theirs the shame, - Tread thou the lava loving leaves, and then - Turn whence it came. - - Aetna, all wonderful, whose heart - Glows as thine throbbing glows, - Almond and citron bloom quivering at start, - Ends in pure snows. - - - - -The Irish Language - - - It is gone from the hill and the glen-- - The strong speech of our sires; - It is sunk in the mire and the fen - Of our nameless desires: - We have bartered the speech of the Gael - For a tongue that would pay, - And we stand with the lips of us pale - And all bloodless to-day; - We have bartered the birthright of men - That our sons should be liars. - It is gone from the hill and the glen, - The strong speech of our sires. - - Like the flicker of gold on the whin - That the Spring breath unites, - It is deep in our hearts, and shall win - Into flame where it smites: - It is there with the blood in our veins, - With the stream in the glen, - With the hill and the heath and the weans - They shall _think_ it again; - It shall surge to their lips and shall win - The high road to our rights-- - Like the flicker of gold on the whin - That the sun-burst unites. - - - - -Parnell - - (_October 6th, 1891._) - - - Hush--let no whisper of the cruel strife, - Wherein he fell so bravely fighting, fall - Nigh these dead ears; fain would our hearts recall - Nought but proud memories of a noble life-- - Of unmatched skill to lead by pathways rife - With danger and dark doubt, where slander's knife - Gleamed ever bare to wound, yet over all - He pressed triumphant on--lo, thus to fall. - Through and beyond the breach he living made - Shall Erin pass to freedom and to will, - And shape her fate: there where his limbs are laid - No harsh reproach dare penetrate the shade; - Death's angel guards the door, and o'er the sill - A mightier voice than Death's speaks "Peace, be still!" - - - - -Benburb - - - Since treason triumphed when O'Neill was forced to foreign flight, - The ancient people felt the heel of Scotch usurper's might; - The barren hills of Ulster held a race proscribed and banned - Who from their lofty refuge viewed their own so fertile land. - Their churches in the sunny vales; the homes that once were theirs, - Torn from them and their Faith to feed some canting minion's prayers: - Oh Lord! from many a cloudy hill then streamed our prayers to Thee, - And like the dawn on summer hills, that only watchers see, - Thy glorious hope shone on us long before the sleeping foe - Knew that their doom had broken on the sword of Owen Roe. - - 'Twas dawn of fair June morning, while Blackwater still drew grey, - His valley'd mists about him that we saw at Killylea, - The Scottish colours waving as they headed to the ford - Where never foemen waded yet, but paid it with the sword; - And fair it was to see them in the golden morning light, - Climb up the hill by Caledon and turn them to the right; - As they neared Yellow Ford, where Bagnall met O'Neill, - Joy gathered in our throats and broke above their cannons' peal, - And oh! a thrill went through our ranks, as straining towards the foe, - Like hounds in leash we panted for the word of Owen Roe. - - Not yet--altho' O'Ferrall's horse come riding in amain; - Not yet--altho' fierce Cunningham pursues with slackened rein; - Not yet--altho' in skirmish and in many a scattered fight - We hold them--still with waiting eye, O'Neill smiles in despite; - Till slanting on our backs the sun full on their faces fell. - Then blinding axe and battle spear rose with a sudden swell - "For God, and Church, and Country now--upon them every man; - But hold your strength until ye see them scarce a pike-length's span; - The Red Hand, ever uppermost, strike home your strongest blow"; - And with a yell our feet outsped the words of Owen Roe. - - Like heaving lift of yellow wave that drags the sandy shore - On with it to its foaming fall, our rushing pikemen bore - Horse, foot, and gun, and falling flags, like streamers of red wrack, - Torn from their dripping hold, in one broad swell of carnage back; - Stout Blayney's gallant horse withstood that seething tide in vain; - It bore them down, and redder raced with life-blood of the slain; - One regiment only fought its way from out that ghastly fight, - And Conway slew two horses on the Newry road that night; - While Monroe fled so fast he left both hat and wig to show - How full the breeze that lifted up the flag of Owen Roe. - - Ho! Ironsides of Cromwell, ye've got grimmer work to do, - Than when on Naseby's ruddy morn your ready swords ye drew-- - Than when your headlong charges routed Rupert's tried and best, - Ere yet the glare of battle fainted in the loyal West. - Those swords must break a stouter foe ere ye break Erin's weal - Or stamp your bloody title-deeds with Cromwell's bloodier seal; - The dead men of Elizabeth's red reign for comrades call, - The Scots we sent to-day have need of ye to bear their pall; - There's room for undertakers still, and none will say ye no - To such fair holdings--measured by the sword of Owen Roe. - - Ho! ring your bells, Kilkenny town; ho! Dublin burghers pass - In open day, with open brow, to celebrate the Mass. - The Sword of State that Tudor hate laid sore on Church of God, - Hath fallen here with shattered hilt and vain point in the sod. - Ho! holy Rinnuncini, and ye high lords of the Pale - Lay by your sheets of parchment, and put on your sheeted mail, - For God hath spoke in battle, and His face the foe is toward, - And ye must hold by valour what He hath freed by sword. - Yea, God in fight hath spoken, and thro' cloud hath bent His brow - In wrath upon the routed--but in hope o'er Owen Roe. - - - - -Oliver Cromwell - -1650-1659 - - (_Addressed to the Liberal Members who "went back" on their previous - vote and rejected the grant for his statue._) - - - "Tear out the page his hand hath writ in blood." - Aye! tho' a decade filled with mighty deeds - That page records; what though in it the seeds - Of greater freedom sprung, than ever stood - On any shore, to shadow freedom's brood. - The lordly oak from which a fleet proceeds - May fall unhonoured; can mere party needs - Fill _your_ hands too, with this consenting mud? - We Irishmen found only shade to die - Within the shadow of that mighty tree; - But you base Englishmen it bore on high, - And girt your commerce safe on many a sea: - O! may the people Cromwell taught, deny - Your right within these walls, and turn the key! - - - - -The Triumph of Hugh O'Neill - - _Beal an Altra Buidhe_ (_The Fight of the Yellow Ford, 1598._) - - - Speed the joyful news of victory from Dungannon to Gweedore, - Let the shout of triumph echo 'mid the cliffs of dark Benmore, - Let the flame that gleams on Sperrin light a flame on every strand, - Till one mighty blaze shall tell it to all men throughout the land. - - The haughty Saxon boasted he would ravage broad Tyrone, - And lay our fields in ashes, and make our flocks his own, - Nor hold his hand 'till humbled each Irish kerne should kneel - To England's monarch only, and not to Hugh O'Neill. - - But vain was all his boasting, and vain was all he swore, - For, like the storms of winter when from the hills they pour, - With clouds of long-haired spearmen, and ranks of flashing steel, - O'er the broken host of Saxons swept the children of O'Neill. - - Arquebus and gun were fired, yet were fired all in vain, - For their owners' heads were cloven by the lightening sweeping _skean_, - But the sturdy English yeomen, who had ne'er been known to reel, - Like the withered leaves of autumn, fell before the fierce O'Neill. - - Blackwater's tide ran darker than e'er it ran before, - The "Yellow Ford" was crimsoned, the fields were drenched with gore. - The Saxon host had vanished; and Armagh rang out a peal - Of triumph o'er the vanquished, and of welcome to O'Neill. - - No more the feet of foemen shall taint our Northern soil, - No more the waving cornfields shall be the Saxon's spoil. - Our flag no longer drooping, each fold shall now reveal, - And wave for God and Erin and our darling Hugh O'Neill. - - - - -Translation from Victor Hugo's "Feuilles d'Automne" - - - "I hate oppression with a hate profound, - And wheresoever in the wide world round, - Beneath a traitor king, a cruel sky, - I hear appeal a strangled people's cry-- - Where mother Greece, by Christian kings betrayed - To butcher Turks, hangs disembowelled, flayed. - Where Ireland, bleeding on her Cross expires, - And German truth in vain fronts royal liars. - - "Oh then, upon their heads my curse I launch, - These kings whose steeds pace bloody to the paunch: - I feel the poet speaks their judgment, and - The indignant Muse, with unrelenting hand, - Shall bind them pilloried to their thrones of shame, - And press their dastard crowns to shape a name - That on their brows the poet's hand shall trace-- - So Man may read their calling in their face." - - - - -New Plays and Poems. - - - =PLAYS OF GODS & MEN.= Containing "The Laughter of the Gods," "The - Queen's Enemies," "The Tents of the Arabs" and "A Night at an Inn." 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