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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/77901-0.txt b/77901-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a800345 --- /dev/null +++ b/77901-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1708 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 77901 *** + + + + + This eBook was created in honour of + Distributed Proofreaders’ 25th Anniversary. + + + + +[Illustration] + +PUCK IN PASTURE + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + PUCK IN PASTURE + + _VERSE & DECORATIONS BY_ + + ELIZABETH MACKINSTRY + + [Illustration] + + Published by _Doubleday, Page & Co._, + at their _Country Life Press_, + GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK + MCMXXV + + + + + COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE + & COMPANY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. + PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE + COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. + + FIRST EDITION + + + + +_To Emily Howland Lyman_ + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +CONTENTS + + + PAGE + + PUCK IN PASTURE 1 + + THE FAIRY RAIDERS 8 + + THE LEPRECAUN 10 + + TIR-N’AN-OG 12 + + THE ELFIN ANGELUS 13 + + GIRL’S SONG 19 + + FAWN O’MERA 20 + + THE ELFIN HILLS 24 + + THE ELFIN FAIR 28 + + THE PLAINT OF THE CAPTIVE FIELD MOUSE 31 + + THE MAN THAT GOT THE CALL 32 + + THE OLD SHIP 35 + + TO THE WIND 39 + + MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT 40 + + THE CARAVAN 42 + + THE GYPSY BABY 45 + + THE WILD GEESE 46 + + A FAIRY SONG 48 + + THE NIXIE’S POOL 50 + + THE BECKONING OUT 52 + + SONG 56 + + THE OSPREY FOLK 57 + + MERLIN 61 + + THE PRINCESS OF YAN 69 + + THE SPELL OF COLD 74 + + THE OLD POET FORETELLS THE MANNER OF HIS DEATH 77 + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +PUCK IN PASTURE + + + ’Twas after a wild and a hedgerow night + I woke from my sleep the morn, + And I heard a Parson saying his prayers + All under a sweet white thorn. + + O solemn and lovely the words he said, + Each word like a homing dove, + Till I grew ashamed of my ill-spent life + And the fern-seed manner thereof. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + “O I will go down to Farmer Brown + His cot in the rushy glen, + And ask for work, and I’ll bear my part, + A man in the world of men.” + + So I routed me up to a mortal size + With a voice that I thickened rough, + “And could I have bed for milking the cows, + And the milk would be board enough?” + + “I’m thinking you’ve milked more purses than cows,” + Says the Farmer astraddle the lea + With his two big boots in a cowslip bed, + “So it’s see and believe, for me!” + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + Well, the first that I tackled was old Brown Bess, + And she was a shirker sure, + But I shot her stiff with a few cold words + On her ways wi’ the Bull o’ the Moor. + + And I milked her hard, and I milked her fast, + And she dared not flicker one red + Square half inch of her old cow hide, + And the eyes popped out of his head. + + “Well, I milked her boy, and I milked her man, + But never in all my days + Has the old cow frothered up such a pail!” + And the milk sang a roundelays, + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + Hollow and sweet in the empty pail, + Tinkling round the brim, + Hushy and soft when the pail was full, + And O that was the beat of him. + + +II + + Once out in the pasture I shunted size + And I mounted a mullein stalk, + And I gave the cattle (the ill-geered folk!) + The a-hem of a Fairy talk. + + Then I drove them here, and I drove them there, + Wherever the grass was sweet, + Till their bellies bulged like a turnip top + Set over their rootlet feet. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + O I hunted them here, and I hunted them there, + With whoop and halloo between, + Till little they grew, and nimble and sweet + Like the droves of the Fairy Queen. + + O the milk came out of those wee brown cows + Creamy and rich and great, + And white as a wreath of the Fairy foam + With the floods of the Hills in spate. + + And the milkmaids milked, and the Goodwife milked, + And the farmlads milked like mad, + And the Goodman buttoned his breeches tight + For the wad of a purse he had. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + But wow! One night when the moon was full, + At the minchiken Hour o’ Mouse, + The de’il got into the cattle AND + They danced it about the house. + + O! the Goodman swore, and the Goodwife swooned + And the children were frantic things, + But the de’il got into the cattle AND + They danced it about in rings. + + Wi’ crumplety horns, and twinklety hoofs, + They danced to a jigglety tune, + While old Brown Bess in the van gave tongue + To “The Cow Jumped over the Moon.” + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + O they sent for the Parson who brought the Book, + And he hammered it out wi’ blows, + And that was a wonderful, woeful night, + And I went under the rose. + + O I dared not go, and I dared not stay, + And my belly was cold the dawn, + But break o’ the day, I was up and away, + And over the fern seed gone! + + O I’ll not go back, and I daren’t go back, + And the mortals may mind their cows, + But the Goodman knows that the purse was full + With Puck of the Hills to house. + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE FAIRY RAIDERS + + “_With hazel wands and singing._”--OLD SONG. + + + As old as little birds the Fairy babies + As old, and wise, and quaint, with tearless eyes + Grave with the solemn lore of Fairy splendour, + But O, the little human child is tender, + And silly soft, and weak, and oft it cries. + + The Spinning Spiders tend the Fairy babies, + Content to weave them silken cradles hung + In lonely moor, or fen, or shadowy heather, + But O, the human child is housed from weather + In inglenooks, and warm, where songs are sung. + + Through dreams of strange dominion, known to Merlin, + Or craving for small fingering hands it seems, + The Fairy Raiders haunt our cradles, bringing + Exquisite pointed faces and soft singing + To lure away the child that hears in dreams. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + The Fairy Raiders bear away the children, + Unseen, to Elfin pasture lands they pass, + And deep in nodding daisy nests they place them + Where by the low, red, rosy glow you trace them, + And rings of singing larks down in the grass. + + There they are one with long heart-breaking sunsets + In gay, unearthly lands, and radiant dawns, + Till good they grow, and great, and have no sorrow-- + But O, the mothers’ mortal woe the morrow + To find the changeling left, the true child gone! + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE LEPRECAUN + + _If you can catch a Leprecaun you are a made man!_ + + + Oho! The Elves of Ireland + They dance so hard at night + They dance their very shoes away + In splendour and delight. + God bless their Elemental souls, + You cannot see them for the holes! + + The only Elf in Ireland + That has a trade at all + It is the cobbler Leprecaun + Who makes and mends them all + The shoes they dance away by night + In green and moony demi-light. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + He is the first of cobblers + And best of craftsmen too. + For why?--He works at happy things + By gaiety worn through. + God send us each a Leprecaun + To mend the heart of us at dawn! + + He’s caught the secret of the Earth, + Sun, wind, and Summer rain + To better happy things that pass + Or build them up again. + They’re few of mortal men that look + So far into the Great Green Book. + + If you can catch a Leprecaun + And steal away his cap + You’ll maybe get a Pot o’ Gold + In an exchange, but hap + The Leprecaun has never told + His secret--what’s a Pot o’ Gold? + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +TIR-N’AN-OG[1] + + + O it may be the path that the sea gull takes + Will bring us to Tir-n’an-Og to-night, + The sorrowful spell of the sea foam makes + Their wings so white. + + Or it may be the gold and the crimson proud + Of to-morrow’s sunset will see us come + Where far from the trouble of wind and cloud + The soul finds home. + + I’ll be holding you close in a quiet place + And may be the trouble will cease + That came from wanting your beautiful face, + Or turn to peace. + +[Illustration] + + +FOOTNOTE + +[1] Tir-n’an-Og, Land of the Fay, Land of the Young. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE ELFIN ANGELUS + + + Are all the roads to Elfland closed, + Are all the gates locked fast? + And is there not some Fairy spot, + Or deep, remote, and sylvan grot + Left open where they passed? + Ah! hark to what the twilight tells + On silver bells, on silver bells! + + Say all the lovely, lonely spells, + Swing free the doors again! + Lo! from the open Hills we ride + Through moss and moonlight, far and wide + No rider rides in vain! + We fight the old, victorious wars + ’Neath silver stars, ’neath silver stars. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + Though earth is weary with its scars, + King Arthur, as it seems, + Lies done to death in Avalon, + Yet living eyes shall look upon + The mercy of their dreams. + Sure is each hope on vision stayed, + Though long delayed, though long delayed. + + Those airy shapes toward which man prayed + In Nature’s holy name, + In shapes as light, as cool, as green + As dancing leaves high boughs between, + They put him not to shame. + Sure help in all high wars men win + From Fairy kin, from Fairy kin. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + For, lo! the veil between is thin + And easy cast aside, + And when the call of man is heard + The heart of all the Hills is stirred + And all the doors swing wide. + And man is succoured and reprieved, + Though sorely grieved, though sorely grieved. + + For no man is by hope deceived + Though spells may cast their lure, + And though the aspect suffer change + To things unearthly sweet, or strange, + Or dreadful to endure. + Each man shall win, unless he tire, + His Heart’s Desire, his Heart’s Desire! + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + Those things toward which good men aspire + Although the world condemn, + And though they seem to die, apart, + Safe hid in Nature’s holy heart, + Grow great to comfort them. + So peace from earth be with you still, + Men of good will, men of good will. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +GIRL’S SONG + + + O Angus Og has four love birds + That follow him where-so-ever; + And two cry out, “I go, I go,” + And two cry out, “Come hither.” + + They are plumed like the blue-green water, + And the four birds call to me, + “I go, I go,” and “Come hither.” + I’m thinking they call from the sea. + + O maybe I’ll go one sunrise + Where the breakers curl and comb, + And bare my breast to the four love birds + And cry, “Come home, Come home.” + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +FAWN O’MERA + + + Had you never, Fawn O’Mera, + Never heard the magic bell + Tolling from the belfries airy + Of the towered land of Fairy + Where the Elfin people dwell? + + Had you never, Fawn O’Mera, + Seen the Laughing People ride, + Gold, and green, and rowan, trooping + Like a flock of sea gulls swooping + Out to sea, by some roadside? + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + Little bits of sticks, and snatches + Tattered too, of roadside straw; + Here and there the dead leaves whirling + In the wind; the gray dust pearling + Over them was all they saw! + + They, the New Born souls, that newly + Grow to threescore year and ten, + Ancient only in the cradle, + Crafty with the porridge ladle, + Children still as greedy men. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + But the lovely, loving, lilting, + Laughing Wise Ones who are Old, + Whom a thousand years make tender, + And whose kind eyes know the splendour + Of the Dawn, saw fairy gold! + + Hear them singing, Fawn O’Mera! + Girlhood guessed the song before. + Now, the candles flare and dwindle, + And a burden grows the spindle, + And the flax falls to the floor. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + Leave the young, whose love is asking, + Leave the old whose love’s a chain, + Ere they strew your head with ashes, + Dim the eyes and dew the lashes, + Come into your own again. + + I will take you, Fawn O’Mera, + To the Fairy Glades apart, + And where green leaves know no falling, + Hush the old unhappy calling, + Wake your soul, and still your heart. + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE ELFIN HILLS + + + O I shall go up to the Elfin Hills, + Heather, and heath, and stone, + ’Neath the cold red drift of the sunset cloud, + For Folk in Housen are hard and proud, + And ever I’ll pipe alone. + + For O, I went down to the Folk in House, + Bold in the russet dawn, + Drawn to the bone by the mortal call, + The pink, and the white, and the rose, and all + Of the sweet flesh they have on. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + I met three children wi’ berry pails, + Bound for the tangled briars + Over the moors, and I piped a tune, + Gathered their laughter an afternoon; + They fled with the first lit fires: + + The wonderful fires the Folk in House + Scatter like daffodils, + Streaming in light from the ragged thatch, + Rosy and warm by the lifted latch, + And gay in the long gray hills. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + ’Twas over the fires I met my love, + Piped to her soft and low, + Sweet was the glint o’ her milk-white feet, + Threading the fields, and the meadow-sweet, + Like pearl in the afterglow. + + Ever I piped, and ever she came, + But when my piping ceased, + She fled from me with a startled cry, + The little old moon toiled up the sky + From out of an empty East. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + Empty of heart, and empty of hand, + ’Twas only the pipe they heard! + Maybe my eyes they are too cold, + The Fairy blood may be too old + To mix with the blood it stirred. + + I will go back to the Elfin Hills, + Wander and pipe alone, + Answer the call of the peewit’s note + Where sunshine wavers, and gray clouds float + Past heather and heath and stone. + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE ELFIN FAIR + + + A gay and a good old woman + Once went to an Elfin Fair + And all that most fit is for Fairs in the cities + And is told of in ditties + And sung of in songs, was there + _Grown teeny tiny O_. + + ’Twas down by the red rose bushes + (She picking her way between) + And the first thing she found was a Merry-go-round + To the scarlet top of a tulip bound, + In the midst of a Village Green + _Grown teeny tiny O_! + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + There was a Strong Man lifting + An acorn up, cup and all; + And a peddler, it seems, crying, “Honey of Dreams! + Threepence a cup, O brightly it gleams!” + And the Gentry were giving a Ball, + _Grown teeny tiny O_. + + The Photygraph Man was snapping them all + (And the Villagers) one by one, + Or else in a group; with his waddle and stoop, + And his head in a cloth, and his legs like a hoop, + By the aid of the laughing Sun + _Grown teeny tiny O_. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + But the Farmers were down by a Paddock + Where of all unusual things, + A real Carrot stood, as big as a wood, + And rooting around it all pleasant and good, + Were wee little Pigs with Wings, + _Grown teeny tiny O_! + + Right there was her own good Landlord, + Though she doubted the thing herself + Till to him she ran, and cried, “Mr. McCann! + Whatever on earth are you doing, my man, + With Wings and a Coat like an Elf-- + _Grown teeny tiny O_!” + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE PLAINT OF THE CAPTIVE FIELD MOUSE + + (This Field Mouse, by the way, was in the Elfin Fair) + + + I am the one living Field Mousie + In captivity + (O pity me!) + Ah! why did I leave my warm soft housie + Sae easily! + + A silver collar, all bent about too, + Round my neck is curled. + (O pity me!) + I am a captive, who went out to + See the world! + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE MAN THAT GOT THE CALL + + + O it’s not for fame and glory + And the guns of Trafalgar, + Nor to walk with foreign lady + In a cypress garden shady, + Nor to court to get a star, + That he’s going, Captain Spanish; + Captain Spanish leaves you all! + O he’s careless, careless, careless, + He’s the man that got the call! + + O it wasn’t in the morning, + And it wasn’t by the stream + Where the birches’ lovely daughters + Dip their tresses in the waters, + For they summoned in a dream. + Weep your gallant, Dublin ladies, + Captain Spanish leaves you all! + O he’s careless, careless, careless, + He’s the man that got the call! + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + Pretty Lady Kitty Cooley, + Nor your taffeta, nor lace, + Nor your gold can bring him nearer; + You can look into your mirror, + He has seen another face, + A White Woman with the Green Blood! + Captain Spanish leaves you all, + O he’s careless, careless, careless, + He’s the man that got the call! + + Father Hogan of the hunters + Better stay the county sport! + Go and tell his mother weeping, + That she set his hounds to leaping + Round the ancient Fairy fort. + Where the sunset turned it emerald + Near a bit of rosy wall, + Captain Spanish left the ladies ... + _He’s the man that got the call._ + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE OLD SHIP + + When the long, low clouds about the West + Are rose, ash-gray, and amethyst, + And the sky between pours saffron-gold, + And the wind along the dykes runs cold, + + A huge old bark with an orange sail, + Mellowed and tattered by many a gale, + Will slowly come through the estuary, + Old, sea-haggard, and strange, and merry. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + Where the red, warm moon rounds slowly over + The low, flat fields that breathe sweet clover, + Through banks of poppies on either hand + The dykes run liquidly into the land. + + The old, old ship will come up from the sea + Farther afield than a ship should be, + And sail on softly, softly and still, + And dock inland by a wooded hill. + + Then will come silently, flocks of sheep + Silver as clouds remembered in sleep, + Cross to the moonlight and leap the stile; + And he who shepherds them all will smile, + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + Play on his pipes and smile to see + The gay old sails lift over a tree. + His feet will dance on the grass like foam + And he will play “When the ship comes home.” + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +TO THE WIND + + _The lights hung out in the milky way + The star belt glittered and wheeled, + The heights and the depths of the night were full + Of the scent of the new-ploughed field._ + + Wonderful Elder Brother, the Wind, + Why do you rattle the window sill, + And drum on the pane with your finger tips, + And pipe in the chimney shrill? + + And why do you harass the poplar tops, + And the pollard willow, his leaves, + And why do you winnow with ceaseless wings + The crest of the gabled eaves? + + From the chin of the moon to the turnpike road + (A ribbon and girdle of white) + Is room and enough for the wind to blow, + With never a cloud in sight! + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT + + “Wally, what’s at the keyhole?” + “Whist, Jane, whist! Speak low.” + “If someone were outside peering in + Would we know?” + _What’s that at the keyhole?_ + Granny said, “’Tis the wind you hear + Wandering to and fro.” + + “Whist, Jane! What’s at the window?” + “Wally, whistle a tune!” + “There’s a gay light goes from the old blue plate + To the pewter spoon.” + _What’s that at the window?_ + Granny said, “’Tis the tree-low light + Of an old, old moon.” + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + “Whist, Jane! What’s by the rose bush?” + “Wally, it is fourscore + Wee green Riders on snow-white steeds, + With the Queen before!” + _What’s that by the rose bush?_ + Granny said, “There were Good Folk once + But they come no more.” + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE CARAVAN + + Far off the Fairy Horns are blowing + Through the morning, through the dew, + The trees of emerald green, the blue, + The windy clouds all white and new, + _O, come-all-ye--Gypsies!_ + + There is a rustle in the leaves, a ripple in the grass, + A singing in the heart my love, + The brook’s as clear as glass, + And there the far horizon lies, + An invitation to new skies, + _O, come-all-ye--Gypsies!_ + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + We’ll pack the green striped caravan, + Put yellow shirts on every man, + And red cloaks on the lasses, + And when the old have wreathed their locks, + And packed their fiddles in a box + We’ll trundle through the grasses. + We’ll carry through this windy morn + Hearts fit to meet the Fairy Horn, + _O, come-all-ye--Gypsies!_ + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE GYPSY BABY + + A ring of great red poppies + Swayed in the golden corn, + And there I lay beside the van + And heard the larks at morn. + + And like a small, far picture + The distant town rose pink, + And little streams flowed round it + With daisies at their brink. + + And little trees grew in it + All soft, and round, and bright; + A wandering sun sailed in the sky + Too brilliant for the sight. + + Years and years it sailed the sky + And like a ball it set, + Near, and big, and sad, and red, + And all the grass was wet. + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE WILD GEESE + + Low across a crimson sun + Setting in a crimson sky, + And across a crimson lake + The Wild Geese fly. + + Hark! the poet on the bank + Pipes a reedy tune, + Piping to the rising wind + And the silver moon. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + “I have neither house nor barn, + Kith nor kin have I, + But I know the Elfin Folk + When the Wild Geese fly. + + “’Neath another crimson sun + On a ruddy strand, + I have piped a wilder tune + In an eerie land. + + “Here, and there, and back again + Bid the music ply, + When across the crimson lake + The Wild Geese fly!” + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +A FAIRY SONG + + We never weep because we see + Pale moon flowers on the barren tree; + A lovely light that takes the shape + Of bud and bloom that is to be. + + It glows, a soft and emerald light, + Along the branching trees by night; + We know it weaves the coming leaves + And never grieve when snows are white. + + We dance with winds that chill the rose + As to her frosty death she goes, + Because we see the changeless bloom + Towards which she lifts again and grows. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + So when the weeping tempest saith + “Hush!” to the woodlands with his breath + We ride the skeletons of leaves + And dare an airy jest with death. + + Ah, no! we do not weep because + We live in light that without pause + Runs sparkling down the sky, the life + Of all the world, and all its cause. + + Oft when celestial things are near + We see new rainbows shining clear, + And follow them from glade to glade, + And voices in the winds we hear. + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE NIXIE’S POOL + + Coming through the green-gold beech woods + Where the great, gray tree boles are, + Where the fallen leaves are bronze, + He found, like a star + The little pool, + Leaf patterned, dark and cool. + + Not by his hound, + Nor by his unhappy lady + Will he be found. + The horn has not yet wound + Reveille through the shady + Or barren mountain pass + Which can recall him from that pool of glass. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + Ice to the barren twigs will come + And winter. It will not befall + Him in that green-gold gloom. + + He will not change at all + Though armour melt like ice, and castles be + Eaten by mothy Time like tapestry. + And Time grow so staggering, gay, and old + That all of his pulses manifold + Run together and stop. Still will he + Kneel, stern, and young, and cool, + Wooing that Nixie in that pool. + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE BECKONING OUT + + The coppers were gone from the old brown teapot, + Gaunt sorrow and care were crowned kings of the spot, + And the little old woman who knelt on the floor + To blow up the ashes, was hoping no more. + + O the door was blown open and into the place + A Winged Stranger came with a gay, handsome face + And with two laughing eyes that looked out of his head + Like some fair woman’s son, and, “Give over,” he said. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + “Whist, Mother! give over. Come out in the light + While the throstle’s astir, and the dawn is as bright + As when, come forty years, you were up and away, + With the dew to your feet, on the first morn o’ May. + + “Is it children you grieve for? I’ll be as your son + For I’m old as the hills, yet a mother I’ve none. + Is it shelter you wish for? I’ll find you a home + like a cot in green valleys where no winters come. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + “Do you grieve for the good things went out by the door? + Now cross but the threshold, you’ll miss them no more, + Or it may be the winds that run laughing with God + Have but kept them awhile, or the sweet smelling sod. + + “Is it lonely you were? There’s a bird in your breast + Was but spreading his wings; lone delight is his nest. + There is never a tie could have kept him for long, + I could lure him aloft with the lilt of a song! + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + “You have dreamed overmuch, as the old do alone + When the fire is low, and the children have gone. + But have done with the dreams, for to youth is the day; + You are young again, Colleen! Come out in the May!” + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +SONG + + + Ding-a-ding! The sun is high. + Ding-a-ding! The dragon-fly + Wakes to dart about the stream. + Now is mortal morning come; + Let us find a bluebell dome + And sleep and dream. + + Belfries bluer than the sky + Shall intone a lullaby. + Ring, ah! ring a drowsy song! + From this azure hollowed gloam, + Fays, why should we farther roam? + Ding-a-ding, ding-dong. + Ding-dong! + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE OSPREY FOLK + + + _Alas! for the child that the Osprey Folk + Circle around at birth; + Never for him are the good green fields + And the lap of the old brown earth + And the whet of the scythe in the afternoon + And the joy of the homespun mirth._ + + But all day long at the turn of the tide + At morn, at noon, or even, + He hears in his ears that whistle of winds + (And the winds of the seas are seven). + And each one brings him the smack of the fogs + And the salt in the sea winds driven. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + He has never a mate like the common folk + But out of the whir and wheel + Of the Osprey wings is a voice that calls + With the strength of a mate’s appeal. + And the darkness putteth its lips to his lips + When the rims of the sky line reel. + + O, I was born where the Osprey Folk + Cross to the Finnish rocks, + And the caw and the call of their throats are more + Than the power of ban or locks; + So never for me will the uplands be + Gray with the feeding flocks. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + Shrilling of wind in the cordage taut + And churn of the flying spume, + The pound of the waves like a cannon shot + And the air like a drumming loom, + And I shall go back to the Osprey Folk + For this is the Osprey Doom. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +MERLIN + + “_But Nemuë imprisoned him in a tower built of air, + and like to glass._” + --MERLIN. + + + When Nemuë built for Merlin + A tower of the air, + She wove the blue of Heaven + In azure fabrics fair, + Aërial, ethereal, + Clear, crystalline, and rare. + + She lapped him in it deeper, + With rod, and bell, and book, + Than ever fly in spider’s web + Beside the inglenook, + Or cocoon in his cradle hung + Above a running brook. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + Aërial, ethereal + And crystal clear as glass, + Or mirrored surface of the pool + Before the storm clouds pass, + The elfin charm drave up the air + And scarcely stirred the grass. + + The elfin charm drave up, and up, + As swallows wheel and poise, + And ever as the charm went up + It made a small sweet noise, + As if the winds were whispering + Like children to their toys. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + When, looking in the wizard globe + You see the magic scene + So small, so bright, thus Merlin lay + The elfin walls between, + His hair and beard o’erflowed his book, + His mantle was bright green. + + +II + + Sir Cawdore came at sunset, + Belated, belted knight, + The last rays took his hauberk and + Danced back in points of light + From off his blue-tipped, white ash spear + His eyes were wild and bright. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + He saw the rolling, wooded hills, + The pine tree’s ruddy stem, + The fallen needles burned to brown + About the far pool’s hem, + The pointed glossy osier twigs; + A faint wind harried them. + + The silver-tinted clouds uprose + About the pallid moon, + The rosy west lay to his back + Before him lay the gloom, + His mortal eyes saw not the wall + Which stopped him, of that room. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + But like the voice of Dryads all + Complaining round a pool, + Or Pan pipes scarce articulate + Where forest ways are cool, + He heard a voice without a form + Said, “Stand awhile, thou fool! + + “What news of royal Arthur? Speak!” + “He sleeps in Avalon.” + “How went the battle in the west?” + “The steel clad hosts are gone, + Are scattered as the dry red leaves + The first blast blows upon. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + “The Holy Grail has left the land, + By minster, weir, and lock + No book, no bell, no angels’ wing; + The coming shadows flock; + All, all are broken in their pride, + A wave upon a rock.” + + “And Guinevere?”--“At Almsbury + Her glory and her gold + Are shaken as a cup upheld + In palsied hands, and old, + Before the altar of God’s wrath + In some dark chancel cold. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + “But who art thou that speakest thus? + Between the setting sun + And yonder pallid, rising moon + The wold lies cold and dun; + I hear a voice speaks in mine ear, + But presence there is none.” + + Aërial, ethereal, + Athwart the gleam and glow, + The airy charm wheeled slowly up, + And slowly, and more slow, + “Lo, I am Merlin,” spake the voice, + “And thus our glories go!” + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE PRINCESS OF YAN + + + _Nu-Nu-Nu!_[2] (And the daisies are piled like a flood!) + We never shall see the Chalcydian Sea + Nor the place where the Yakadil stood, + Nor suspended by silk, and far whiter than milk + Aladdin’s famed egg of the Roc, + But I know, where the breeze sighs beneath the pine trees, + Where the Maids of the Yan Princess walk, + With their wide, floating hair, and mysterious air, + And finger on lips as they talk, + With their azure, pale, trailing silk robes, and their veiling + As they wonder, and whisper, and talk. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + _Zo-Zo-Zo!_ (And the glow of the sun on the gorse!) + They stole her away at the close of the day + With gongs and enchantments, of course, + While a dragon of old rolled his amber and gold, + Burnt orange, and umbers that gleam + In the marvellous scrolls that the Chinese unrolls + On lacquer and teak--in the gleam + Twixt the dusk and the dark all the people cried, “Hark! + They have shut her away in a dream. + Where waters are falling, and white storks are calling, + In a brittle, blue, beautiful dream!” + + _Na-Na-Na!_ (And the poppies are bright in the corn) + When the desert is red, and the sun goes to bed + In the piles of the purple clouds torn + By the wings of the Djin, ’tis a crime and a sin + To loiter, in camel or man, + Lest the soul’s vital spark be extinguished ere dark-- + By Allah! you ride as you can. + But the end of your toil through the gray, slipping soil + Is more near than the Princess of Yan. + The mirages glimmer no dearer, no dimmer + Than the faraway beauties of Yan! + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + _Tsi-Tsi-Tsi!_ (And the elm trees are drowsy with shade!) + Neither peacock-eye whorls, nor platters of pearls + Nor a palace of treasures in jade, + Nor a jewelled palanquin borne by Negroes in green, + Nor olives of far Samarcand + Can buy you a ship that will dock in the slip + Where the green running seas meet the land, + And the red granite frowns, that her tall tower crowns + Nor the glimpse of one nail of her hand, + Through the silver-soft curtain, the rosy, uncertain + O, the flitting half moon of her hand! + + _Bang-Bang-Bang!_ (And the heroes are coming to war!) + In terrible throngs, with cymbals and gongs + The heroes and conquerors are + All arming their hordes with lances and swords + With scimitar, yataghan, drum. + In the dust and the heat, see the elephants’ feet, + And the camels, bedizened and dumb! + Even Sindbad himself, with a beard like a shelf, + Even Kameralzamen has come, + His horse’s hoofs tingle, his silver bells jingle, + Even Kameralzamen has come! + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + _Crash-Bang-Crash!_ (And the Princess aloof like the moon!) + They have fought the good fight in abysmal night + With comet, cyclone, and simoon. + The eclipse was unchained, and the shooting stars rained + In tempest and vapour and wrack, + But they warred for their prize with implacable skies + And the heroes were all beaten back. + Like the nebulæ thin, by the wings of a Djin + Were blown out, and extinguished in black, + Like the last thunder moaning, with wailing and groaning + In a deep and imponderable black. + + _Tso-Tso-Tso!_ (And it’s time we were home for our tea!) + And why should we weep for a Princess they keep + In a pearl on a rock in the sea? + Lo! the butterflies’ wings with unutterable things + Are dusted: with portents they run, + Golden, freckled with zones, and the red, tawny ones + And the blue, and the black, and the dun + Say, “With barter and pain, you shall never attain, + Turn away and the Princess is won, + Where you loiter and play, where you half turn away + At a touch the Yan Princess is won.” + + +FOOTNOTE + +[2] Chinese music sounds, to be said through the nose. + + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE SPELL OF COLD + + + Ah! What unearthly music plays so still + So hushed, about the window sill, + Aërial more than an æolian harp, + Or with chromatic risings sharp + Whistles the heart away into the ice-cold moon? + It fluted through the dawn wind; soon + The snow’s white, woven dance will come + And close the little room + In soft-fluffed, crystal silence, with the trees. + Still, still in silvery cadencèd degrees + The heavenly gradual + Will rise and fall. + Ah! what god in the forest plays + One instant that makes all our days, + And sends great music so about a little room? + We would have quiet now in all our ways, + And with the winter night, quiet and candlelight ... + Ah! what unearthly music plays! + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + Haunted! Not here nor there, + Nor from the forest hollows bare, + Nor shining-particled, chill air, + Nor star hung, and swan-breasted hill, + But closer, closer still, + Weaving between the nerve and bone + The melody flows on. + We would have quiet in the winter grays, + And for the winter gloom, embers and a quiet room ... + Ah! what unearthly music plays? + + Spell-bound! + Not coolly rippling ivory. + Nor cithers slowly sighing a nocturne, + Nor mournful clarion of silver horn, + Nor bells at midnight, hollowly forlorn, + Could swell this tide of sound, nor turn + This tide away from one who hears + This music in between the ears + And brain, from one who sees + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + Too long, the snow’s slow woven dance of imageries. + No, nor the thousand forest Seraphs of the violin + Shiver and clamour up, and cry, “Give over and give in!” + So wildly! Hush! This is the spell the winter weaves; + The song for which the tree sheds all its leaves, + The high, chaste comfort for which worlds grow old. + This is the glamour of the frost and cold + Heard by the stars. It is the breath + And premonition of the requiem of death + Higher and colder than all. The frost crystal rays, + And ice in the moon sing, when this unearthly music plays. + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE OLD POET FORETELLS THE MANNER OF HIS DEATH + + I shall not hear men’s voices soon + For the silvery music of the Shee; + Between me and the world a veil + Will fall of woven imagerie, + With cooling green of boyhood’s leaves, + With whorls of water light that weaves. + + I shall not bring to mind the tasks + I laboured at so long ago, + But I shall marvel much that man + On dewy earth should travail so + To bring small matters to an end + Where all things weave, and change, and blend. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + I’ll mind me how like morning light + Love was before it turned unkind, + But when the change, or what the harm, + I shall not search the past to find + While burning questions, cried to God, + Flow off, like wind waves over sod. + + The evils that I wrought myself + Like hoarse war bugles, sea-ward driven + Will pass; the evils men did me + Be half forgotten, all forgiven. + I’ll think the worst to God must seem + Like small, sick movements in a dream. + + This body that like marble was + For heaviness and weight of care + Will burn with a celestial fire, + And fade, and free me to the air + Where I shall never know again + Old troubles born of nerve and vein. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + Meanwhile a spacious loveliness, + A quiet, brooding sense of light, + Majestic freedom, and fine strength + Will near me. Led by visions bright + Of natural beauty I’ll be drawn + Toward greater loves than I have known. + + I’ll seem to sleep. 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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. + PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE + COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.</p> +<p class='center c2'> + FIRST EDITION +</p> +</div></div></div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_v">[v]</span></p> + + <p class='center dedication'> + <i>To Emily Howland Lyman</i> + </p> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="i_v" style="max-width: 28.0625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_v.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_vi"></a><a id="Page_vii"></a>[vii]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="i_vii" style="max-width: 102.375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_vii.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="CONTENTS"> + CONTENTS + </h2> +</div> + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdr"> +<span class='allsmcap'>PAGE</span> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#PUCK_IN_PASTURE">Puck in Pasture</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_1'>1</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#THE_FAIRY_RAIDERS">The Fairy Raiders</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_8'>8</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#THE_LEPRECAUN">The Leprecaun</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_10'>10</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#TIR-NAN-OG1">Tir-n’an-og</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_12'>12</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#THE_ELFIN_ANGELUS">The Elfin Angelus</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_13'>13</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#GIRLS_SONG">Girl’s Song</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_19'>19</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#FAWN_OMERA">Fawn O’Mera</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_20'>20</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#THE_ELFIN_HILLS">The Elfin Hills</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_24'>24</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#THE_ELFIN_FAIR">The Elfin Fair</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_28'>28</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#THE_PLAINT_OF_THE_CAPTIVE_FIELD">The Plaint of the Captive Field Mouse</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_31'>31</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#THE_MAN_THAT_GOT_THE_CALL">The Man That Got the Call</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_32'>32</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#THE_OLD_SHIP">The Old Ship</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_35'>35</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#TO_THE_WIND">To the Wind</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_39'>39</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#MIDSUMMERS_NIGHT">Midsummer’s Night</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_40'>40</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#THE_CARAVAN">The Caravan</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_42'>42</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#THE_GYPSY_BABY">The Gypsy Baby</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_45'>45</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#THE_WILD_GEESE">The Wild Geese</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_46'>46</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#A_FAIRY_SONG">A Fairy Song</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_48'>48</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_viii">[viii]</span> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#THE_NIXIES_POOL">The Nixie’s Pool</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_50'>50</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#THE_BECKONING_OUT">The Beckoning Out</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_52'>52</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#SONG">Song</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_56'>56</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#THE_OSPREY_FOLK">The Osprey Folk</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_57'>57</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#MERLIN">Merlin</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_61'>61</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#THE_PRINCESS_OF_YAN">The Princess of Yan</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_69'>69</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#THE_SPELL_OF_COLD">The Spell of Cold</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_74'>74</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +<span class="smcap"><a href="#THE_OLD_POET_FORETELLS_THE_MANNER">The Old Poet Foretells the Manner of His Death</a></span> +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href='#Page_77'>77</a> +</td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_viii" style="max-width: 46.5em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_viii.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class='section'> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_ix">[ix]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_ix" style="max-width: 48.0em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_ix.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class='section'> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_x">[x]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="i_x" style="max-width: 24.1875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_x.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> +</div> + + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_1">[1]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp40" id="i_001" style="max-width: 64.1875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_001.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="PUCK_IN_PASTURE"> + PUCK IN PASTURE + </h2> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">’Twas after a wild and a hedgerow night</div> + <div class="verse indent2">I woke from my sleep the morn,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And I heard a Parson saying his prayers</div> + <div class="verse indent2">All under a sweet white thorn.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">O solemn and lovely the words he said,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Each word like a homing dove,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Till I grew ashamed of my ill-spent life</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And the fern-seed manner thereof.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="i_001b" style="max-width: 36.9375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_001b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">[2]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp40" id="i_002" style="max-width: 72.125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_002.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“O I will go down to Farmer Brown</div> + <div class="verse indent2">His cot in the rushy glen,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And ask for work, and I’ll bear my part,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">A man in the world of men.”</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">So I routed me up to a mortal size</div> + <div class="verse indent2">With a voice that I thickened rough,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">“And could I have bed for milking the cows,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And the milk would be board enough?”</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“I’m thinking you’ve milked more purses than cows,”</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Says the Farmer astraddle the lea</div> + <div class="verse indent0">With his two big boots in a cowslip bed,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">“So it’s see and believe, for me!”</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="i_002b" style="max-width: 31.75em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_002b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[3]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp25" id="i_003a" style="max-width: 36.6875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_003a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Well, the first that I tackled was old Brown Bess,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And she was a shirker sure,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">But I shot her stiff with a few cold words</div> + <div class="verse indent2">On her ways wi’ the Bull o’ the Moor.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">And I milked her hard, and I milked her fast,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And she dared not flicker one red</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Square half inch of her old cow hide,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And the eyes popped out of his head.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“Well, I milked her boy, and I milked her man,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">But never in all my days</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Has the old cow frothered up such a pail!”</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And the milk sang a roundelays,</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp60" id="i_003b" style="max-width: 83.125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_003b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[4]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp15" id="i_004a" style="max-width: 18.8125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_004a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Hollow and sweet in the empty pail,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Tinkling round the brim,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Hushy and soft when the pail was full,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And O that was the beat of him.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<h3 class='poetry-section' id="II"> + II +</h3> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza mtn1"> + <div class="verse indent0">Once out in the pasture I shunted size</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And I mounted a mullein stalk,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And I gave the cattle (the ill-geered folk!)</div> + <div class="verse indent2">The a-hem of a Fairy talk.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Then I drove them here, and I drove them there,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Wherever the grass was sweet,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Till their bellies bulged like a turnip top</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Set over their rootlet feet.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="i_004b" style="max-width: 108.0em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_004b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[5]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="i_005a" style="max-width: 21.4375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_005a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">O I hunted them here, and I hunted them there,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">With whoop and halloo between,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Till little they grew, and nimble and sweet</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Like the droves of the Fairy Queen.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">O the milk came out of those wee brown cows</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Creamy and rich and great,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And white as a wreath of the Fairy foam</div> + <div class="verse indent2">With the floods of the Hills in spate.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">And the milkmaids milked, and the Goodwife milked,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And the farmlads milked like mad,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And the Goodman buttoned his breeches tight</div> + <div class="verse indent2">For the wad of a purse he had.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp25" id="i_005b" style="max-width: 32.25em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_005b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[6]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_006a" style="max-width: 43.6875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_006a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">But wow! One night when the moon was full,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">At the minchiken Hour o’ Mouse,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The de’il got into the cattle AND</div> + <div class="verse indent2">They danced it about the house.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">O! the Goodman swore, and the Goodwife swooned</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And the children were frantic things,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">But the de’il got into the cattle AND</div> + <div class="verse indent2">They danced it about in rings.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Wi’ crumplety horns, and twinklety hoofs,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">They danced to a jigglety tune,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">While old Brown Bess in the van gave tongue</div> + <div class="verse indent2">To “The Cow Jumped over the Moon.”</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp35" id="i_006b" style="max-width: 51.625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_006b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[7]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp45" id="i_007a" style="max-width: 66.875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_007a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">O they sent for the Parson who brought the Book,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And he hammered it out wi’ blows,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And that was a wonderful, woeful night,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And I went under the rose.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">O I dared not go, and I dared not stay,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And my belly was cold the dawn,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">But break o’ the day, I was up and away,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And over the fern seed gone!</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">O I’ll not go back, and I daren’t go back,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And the mortals may mind their cows,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">But the Goodman knows that the purse was full</div> + <div class="verse indent2">With Puck of the Hills to house.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp15" id="i_007b" style="max-width: 24.25em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_007b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[8]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp35" id="i_008a" style="max-width: 47.0em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_008a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_FAIRY_RAIDERS"> + THE FAIRY RAIDERS + </h2> +</div> + +<p class="center fs80"> +“<i>With hazel wands and singing.</i>”—<span class="smcap">Old Song.</span> +</p> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">As old as little birds the Fairy babies</div> + <div class="verse indent2">As old, and wise, and quaint, with tearless eyes</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Grave with the solemn lore of Fairy splendour,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">But O, the little human child is tender,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And silly soft, and weak, and oft it cries.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">The Spinning Spiders tend the Fairy babies,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Content to weave them silken cradles hung</div> + <div class="verse indent0">In lonely moor, or fen, or shadowy heather,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">But O, the human child is housed from weather</div> + <div class="verse indent2">In inglenooks, and warm, where songs are sung.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Through dreams of strange dominion, known to Merlin,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Or craving for small fingering hands it seems,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The Fairy Raiders haunt our cradles, bringing</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Exquisite pointed faces and soft singing</div> + <div class="verse indent2">To lure away the child that hears in dreams.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="i_008b" style="max-width: 34.4375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_008b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[9]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="i_009a" style="max-width: 112.375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_009a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">The Fairy Raiders bear away the children,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Unseen, to Elfin pasture lands they pass,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And deep in nodding daisy nests they place them</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Where by the low, red, rosy glow you trace them,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And rings of singing larks down in the grass.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">There they are one with long heart-breaking sunsets</div> + <div class="verse indent2">In gay, unearthly lands, and radiant dawns,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Till good they grow, and great, and have no sorrow—</div> + <div class="verse indent0">But O, the mothers’ mortal woe the morrow</div> + <div class="verse indent2">To find the changeling left, the true child gone!</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp25" id="i_009b" style="max-width: 40.75em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_009b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[10]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="i_010a" style="max-width: 96.0em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_010a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_LEPRECAUN"> + THE LEPRECAUN + </h2> +</div> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry fs80"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0"><i>If you can catch a Leprecaun you are a made man!</i></div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent4">Oho! The Elves of Ireland</div> + <div class="verse indent2">They dance so hard at night</div> + <div class="verse indent4">They dance their very shoes away</div> + <div class="verse indent2">In splendour and delight.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">God bless their Elemental souls,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">You cannot see them for the holes!</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent4">The only Elf in Ireland</div> + <div class="verse indent2">That has a trade at all</div> + <div class="verse indent4">It is the cobbler Leprecaun</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Who makes and mends them all</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The shoes they dance away by night</div> + <div class="verse indent0">In green and moony demi-light.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_010b" style="max-width: 42.6875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_010b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[11]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp60" id="i_011a" style="max-width: 73.125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_011a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent4">He is the first of cobblers</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And best of craftsmen too.</div> + <div class="verse indent4">For why?—He works at happy things</div> + <div class="verse indent2">By gaiety worn through.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">God send us each a Leprecaun</div> + <div class="verse indent0">To mend the heart of us at dawn!</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent4">He’s caught the secret of the Earth,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Sun, wind, and Summer rain</div> + <div class="verse indent4">To better happy things that pass</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Or build them up again.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">They’re few of mortal men that look</div> + <div class="verse indent0">So far into the Great Green Book.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent4">If you can catch a Leprecaun</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And steal away his cap</div> + <div class="verse indent4">You’ll maybe get a Pot o’ Gold</div> + <div class="verse indent2">In an exchange, but hap</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The Leprecaun has never told</div> + <div class="verse indent0">His secret—what’s a Pot o’ Gold?</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp15" id="i_011b" style="max-width: 18.6875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_011b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[12]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="i_012a" style="max-width: 97.5em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_012a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="TIR-NAN-OG1"> + TIR-N’AN-OG⁠<a id="FNanchor_1_1" href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> + </h2> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">O it may be the path that the sea gull takes</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Will bring us to Tir-n’an-Og to-night,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The sorrowful spell of the sea foam makes</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Their wings so white.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Or it may be the gold and the crimson proud</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Of to-morrow’s sunset will see us come</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Where far from the trouble of wind and cloud</div> + <div class="verse indent2">The soul finds home.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">I’ll be holding you close in a quiet place</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And may be the trouble will cease</div> + <div class="verse indent0">That came from wanting your beautiful face,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Or turn to peace.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<div class="footnotes"> +<h3 id="FOOTNOTES"> + FOOTNOTE +</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_1_1" href="#FNanchor_1_1" class="label">[1]</a> Tir-n’an-Og, Land of the Fay, Land of the Young.</p></div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp75" id="i_012b" style="max-width: 93.25em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_012b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[13]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="i_013a" style="max-width: 72.5em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_013a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_ELFIN_ANGELUS"> + THE ELFIN ANGELUS + </h2> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Are all the roads to Elfland closed,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Are all the gates locked fast?</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And is there not some Fairy spot,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Or deep, remote, and sylvan grot</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Left open where they passed?</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Ah! hark to what the twilight tells</div> + <div class="verse indent0">On silver bells, on silver bells!</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Say all the lovely, lonely spells,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Swing free the doors again!</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Lo! from the open Hills we ride</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Through moss and moonlight, far and wide</div> + <div class="verse indent2">No rider rides in vain!</div> + <div class="verse indent0">We fight the old, victorious wars</div> + <div class="verse indent0">’Neath silver stars, ’neath silver stars.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="i_013b" style="max-width: 70.625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_013b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[14]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp60" id="i_014a" style="max-width: 89.9375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_014a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Though earth is weary with its scars,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">King Arthur, as it seems,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Lies done to death in Avalon,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Yet living eyes shall look upon</div> + <div class="verse indent2">The mercy of their dreams.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Sure is each hope on vision stayed,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Though long delayed, though long delayed.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Those airy shapes toward which man prayed</div> + <div class="verse indent2">In Nature’s holy name,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">In shapes as light, as cool, as green</div> + <div class="verse indent0">As dancing leaves high boughs between,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">They put him not to shame.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Sure help in all high wars men win</div> + <div class="verse indent0">From Fairy kin, from Fairy kin.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp45" id="i_014b" style="max-width: 68.5em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_014b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[15]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp35" id="i_015a" style="max-width: 46.875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_015a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">For, lo! the veil between is thin</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And easy cast aside,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And when the call of man is heard</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The heart of all the Hills is stirred</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And all the doors swing wide.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And man is succoured and reprieved,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Though sorely grieved, though sorely grieved.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">For no man is by hope deceived</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Though spells may cast their lure,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And though the aspect suffer change</div> + <div class="verse indent0">To things unearthly sweet, or strange,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Or dreadful to endure.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Each man shall win, unless he tire,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">His Heart’s Desire, his Heart’s Desire!</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp25" id="i_015b" style="max-width: 41.5em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_015b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[16]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp35" id="i_016a" style="max-width: 46.3125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_016a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Those things toward which good men aspire</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Although the world condemn,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And though they seem to die, apart,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Safe hid in Nature’s holy heart,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Grow great to comfort them.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">So peace from earth be with you still,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Men of good will, men of good will.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_016b" style="max-width: 37.8125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_016b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class='section'> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[17]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="i_017" style="max-width: 38.1875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_017.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class='section'> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[18]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp60" id="i_018" style="max-width: 87.6875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_018.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[19]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp35" id="i_019a" style="max-width: 49.5625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_019a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="GIRLS_SONG"> + GIRL’S SONG + </h2> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">O Angus Og has four love birds</div> + <div class="verse indent2">That follow him where-so-ever;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And two cry out, “I go, I go,”</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And two cry out, “Come hither.”</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">They are plumed like the blue-green water,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And the four birds call to me,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">“I go, I go,” and “Come hither.”</div> + <div class="verse indent2">I’m thinking they call from the sea.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">O maybe I’ll go one sunrise</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Where the breakers curl and comb,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And bare my breast to the four love birds</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And cry, “Come home, Come home.”</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp65" id="i_019b" style="max-width: 98.0625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_019b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[20]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp25" id="i_020a" style="max-width: 45.8125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_020a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="FAWN_OMERA"> + FAWN O’MERA + </h2> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Had you never, Fawn O’Mera,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Never heard the magic bell</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Tolling from the belfries airy</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Of the towered land of Fairy</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Where the Elfin people dwell?</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Had you never, Fawn O’Mera,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Seen the Laughing People ride,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Gold, and green, and rowan, trooping</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Like a flock of sea gulls swooping</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Out to sea, by some roadside?</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp15" id="i_020b" style="max-width: 24.0em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_020b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[21]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_021a" style="max-width: 45.6875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_021a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Little bits of sticks, and snatches</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Tattered too, of roadside straw;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Here and there the dead leaves whirling</div> + <div class="verse indent0">In the wind; the gray dust pearling</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Over them was all they saw!</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">They, the New Born souls, that newly</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Grow to threescore year and ten,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Ancient only in the cradle,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Crafty with the porridge ladle,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Children still as greedy men.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp15" id="i_021b" style="max-width: 23.9375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_021b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[22]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="i_022a" style="max-width: 31.6875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_022a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">But the lovely, loving, lilting,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Laughing Wise Ones who are Old,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Whom a thousand years make tender,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And whose kind eyes know the splendour</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Of the Dawn, saw fairy gold!</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Hear them singing, Fawn O’Mera!</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Girlhood guessed the song before.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Now, the candles flare and dwindle,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And a burden grows the spindle,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And the flax falls to the floor.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp25" id="i_022b" style="max-width: 43.3125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_022b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[23]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp35" id="i_023a" style="max-width: 54.1875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_023a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Leave the young, whose love is asking,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Leave the old whose love’s a chain,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Ere they strew your head with ashes,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Dim the eyes and dew the lashes,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Come into your own again.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">I will take you, Fawn O’Mera,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">To the Fairy Glades apart,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And where green leaves know no falling,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Hush the old unhappy calling,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Wake your soul, and still your heart.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp40" id="i_023b" style="max-width: 62.0625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_023b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[24]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp40" id="i_024a" style="max-width: 66.1875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_024a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_ELFIN_HILLS"> + THE ELFIN HILLS + </h2> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">O I shall go up to the Elfin Hills,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Heather, and heath, and stone,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">’Neath the cold red drift of the sunset cloud,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">For Folk in Housen are hard and proud,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And ever I’ll pipe alone.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">For O, I went down to the Folk in House,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Bold in the russet dawn,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Drawn to the bone by the mortal call,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The pink, and the white, and the rose, and all</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Of the sweet flesh they have on.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_024b" style="max-width: 41.75em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_024b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[25]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp40" id="i_025a" style="max-width: 60.5em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_025a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">I met three children wi’ berry pails,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Bound for the tangled briars</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Over the moors, and I piped a tune,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Gathered their laughter an afternoon;</div> + <div class="verse indent2">They fled with the first lit fires:</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">The wonderful fires the Folk in House</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Scatter like daffodils,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Streaming in light from the ragged thatch,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Rosy and warm by the lifted latch,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And gay in the long gray hills.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="i_025b" style="max-width: 73.0625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_025b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[26]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="i_026a" style="max-width: 32.875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_026a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">’Twas over the fires I met my love,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Piped to her soft and low,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Sweet was the glint o’ her milk-white feet,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Threading the fields, and the meadow-sweet,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Like pearl in the afterglow.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Ever I piped, and ever she came,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">But when my piping ceased,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">She fled from me with a startled cry,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The little old moon toiled up the sky</div> + <div class="verse indent2">From out of an empty East.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp60" id="i_026b" style="max-width: 80.6875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_026b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[27]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp55" id="i_027a" style="max-width: 86.5625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_027a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Empty of heart, and empty of hand,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">’Twas only the pipe they heard!</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Maybe my eyes they are too cold,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The Fairy blood may be too old</div> + <div class="verse indent2">To mix with the blood it stirred.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">I will go back to the Elfin Hills,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Wander and pipe alone,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Answer the call of the peewit’s note</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Where sunshine wavers, and gray clouds float</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Past heather and heath and stone.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp25" id="i_027b" style="max-width: 40.625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_027b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[28]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp40" id="i_028a" style="max-width: 69.3125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_028a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_ELFIN_FAIR"> + THE ELFIN FAIR + </h2> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">A gay and a good old woman</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Once went to an Elfin Fair</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And all that most fit is for Fairs in the cities</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And is told of in ditties</div> + <div class="verse indent4">And sung of in songs, was there</div> + <div class="verse indent8"><i>Grown teeny tiny O</i>.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">’Twas down by the red rose bushes</div> + <div class="verse indent2">(She picking her way between)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And the first thing she found was a Merry-go-round</div> + <div class="verse indent0">To the scarlet top of a tulip bound,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">In the midst of a Village Green</div> + <div class="verse indent8"><i>Grown teeny tiny O</i>!</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp40" id="i_028b" style="max-width: 66.375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_028b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[29]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp40" id="i_029a" style="max-width: 49.125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_029a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">There was a Strong Man lifting</div> + <div class="verse indent2">An acorn up, cup and all;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And a peddler, it seems, crying, “Honey of Dreams!</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Threepence a cup, O brightly it gleams!”</div> + <div class="verse indent4">And the Gentry were giving a Ball,</div> + <div class="verse indent8"><i>Grown teeny tiny O</i>.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">The Photygraph Man was snapping them all</div> + <div class="verse indent2">(And the Villagers) one by one,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Or else in a group; with his waddle and stoop,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And his head in a cloth, and his legs like a hoop,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">By the aid of the laughing Sun</div> + <div class="verse indent8"><i>Grown teeny tiny O</i>.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp25" id="i_029b" style="max-width: 37.1875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_029b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[30]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp45" id="i_030a" style="max-width: 71.0625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_030a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">But the Farmers were down by a Paddock</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Where of all unusual things,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">A real Carrot stood, as big as a wood,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And rooting around it all pleasant and good,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Were wee little Pigs with Wings,</div> + <div class="verse indent8"><i>Grown teeny tiny O</i>!</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Right there was her own good Landlord,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Though she doubted the thing herself</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Till to him she ran, and cried, “Mr. McCann!</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Whatever on earth are you doing, my man,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">With Wings and a Coat like an Elf—</div> + <div class="verse indent8"><i>Grown teeny tiny O</i>!”</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_030b" style="max-width: 48.25em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_030b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[31]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="i_031a" style="max-width: 29.875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_031a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_PLAINT_OF_THE_CAPTIVE_FIELD"> + THE PLAINT OF THE CAPTIVE FIELD + MOUSE + </h2> +</div> + +<p class='center'>(This Field Mouse, by the way, was in the Elfin Fair)</p> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">I am the one living Field Mousie</div> + <div class="verse indent6">In captivity</div> + <div class="verse indent6">(O pity me!)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Ah! why did I leave my warm soft housie</div> + <div class="verse indent6">Sae easily!</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">A silver collar, all bent about too,</div> + <div class="verse indent6">Round my neck is curled.</div> + <div class="verse indent6">(O pity me!)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">I am a captive, who went out to</div> + <div class="verse indent6">See the world!</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp25" id="i_031b" style="max-width: 39.5625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_031b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[32]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp35" id="i_032a" style="max-width: 46.1875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_032a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_MAN_THAT_GOT_THE_CALL"> + THE MAN THAT GOT THE CALL + </h2> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">O it’s not for fame and glory</div> + <div class="verse indent4">And the guns of Trafalgar,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Nor to walk with foreign lady</div> + <div class="verse indent0">In a cypress garden shady,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Nor to court to get a star,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">That he’s going, Captain Spanish;</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Captain Spanish leaves you all!</div> + <div class="verse indent2">O he’s careless, careless, careless,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">He’s the man that got the call!</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">O it wasn’t in the morning,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">And it wasn’t by the stream</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Where the birches’ lovely daughters</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Dip their tresses in the waters,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">For they summoned in a dream.</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Weep your gallant, Dublin ladies,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Captain Spanish leaves you all!</div> + <div class="verse indent2">O he’s careless, careless, careless,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">He’s the man that got the call!</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp25" id="i_032b" style="max-width: 43.75em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_032b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[33]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_033a" style="max-width: 38.125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_033a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Pretty Lady Kitty Cooley,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Nor your taffeta, nor lace,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Nor your gold can bring him nearer;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">You can look into your mirror,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">He has seen another face,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">A White Woman with the Green Blood!</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Captain Spanish leaves you all,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">O he’s careless, careless, careless,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">He’s the man that got the call!</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Father Hogan of the hunters</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Better stay the county sport!</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Go and tell his mother weeping,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">That she set his hounds to leaping</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Round the ancient Fairy fort.</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Where the sunset turned it emerald</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Near a bit of rosy wall,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Captain Spanish left the ladies ...</div> + <div class="verse indent4"><i>He’s the man that got the call.</i></div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp70" id="i_033b" style="max-width: 104.125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_033b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class='section'> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[34]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="i_034" style="max-width: 69.75em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_034.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[35]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp45" id="i_035a" style="max-width: 69.6875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_035a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_OLD_SHIP"> + THE OLD SHIP + </h2> +</div> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">When the long, low clouds about the West</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Are rose, ash-gray, and amethyst,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And the sky between pours saffron-gold,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And the wind along the dykes runs cold,</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">A huge old bark with an orange sail,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Mellowed and tattered by many a gale,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Will slowly come through the estuary,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Old, sea-haggard, and strange, and merry.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp60" id="i_035b" style="max-width: 83.6875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_035b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[36]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp75" id="i_036a" style="max-width: 104.375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_036a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Where the red, warm moon rounds slowly over</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The low, flat fields that breathe sweet clover,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Through banks of poppies on either hand</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The dykes run liquidly into the land.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">The old, old ship will come up from the sea</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Farther afield than a ship should be,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And sail on softly, softly and still,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And dock inland by a wooded hill.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Then will come silently, flocks of sheep</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Silver as clouds remembered in sleep,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Cross to the moonlight and leap the stile;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And he who shepherds them all will smile,</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp40" id="i_036b" style="max-width: 61.125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_036b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[37]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp40" id="i_037a" style="max-width: 64.25em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_037a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Play on his pipes and smile to see</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The gay old sails lift over a tree.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">His feet will dance on the grass like foam</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And he will play “When the ship comes home.”</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp35" id="i_037b" style="max-width: 56.6875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_037b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class='section'> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[38]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="i_038" style="max-width: 98.875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_038.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[39]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp55" id="i_039a" style="max-width: 86.6875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_039a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="TO_THE_WIND"> + TO THE WIND + </h2> +</div> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent2"><i>The lights hung out in the milky way</i></div> + <div class="verse indent4"><i>The star belt glittered and wheeled,</i></div> + <div class="verse indent2"><i>The heights and the depths of the night were full</i></div> + <div class="verse indent4"><i>Of the scent of the new-ploughed field.</i></div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Wonderful Elder Brother, the Wind,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Why do you rattle the window sill,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And drum on the pane with your finger tips,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And pipe in the chimney shrill?</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">And why do you harass the poplar tops,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And the pollard willow, his leaves,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And why do you winnow with ceaseless wings</div> + <div class="verse indent2">The crest of the gabled eaves?</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">From the chin of the moon to the turnpike road</div> + <div class="verse indent2">(A ribbon and girdle of white)</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Is room and enough for the wind to blow,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">With never a cloud in sight!</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp10" id="i_039b" style="max-width: 16.375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_039b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[40]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp25" id="i_040a" style="max-width: 33.9375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_040a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="MIDSUMMERS_NIGHT"> + MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT + </h2> +</div> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“Wally, what’s at the keyhole?”</div> + <div class="verse indent2">“Whist, Jane, whist! Speak low.”</div> + <div class="verse indent0">“If someone were outside peering in</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Would we know?”</div> + <div class="verse indent0"><i>What’s that at the keyhole?</i></div> + <div class="verse indent0">Granny said, “’Tis the wind you hear</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Wandering to and fro.”</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“Whist, Jane! What’s at the window?”</div> + <div class="verse indent2">“Wally, whistle a tune!”</div> + <div class="verse indent0">“There’s a gay light goes from the old blue plate</div> + <div class="verse indent2">To the pewter spoon.”</div> + <div class="verse indent0"><i>What’s that at the window?</i></div> + <div class="verse indent0">Granny said, “’Tis the tree-low light</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Of an old, old moon.”</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="i_040b" style="max-width: 33.5em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_040b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[41]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp45" id="i_041a" style="max-width: 72.125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_041a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“Whist, Jane! What’s by the rose bush?”</div> + <div class="verse indent2">“Wally, it is fourscore</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Wee green Riders on snow-white steeds,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">With the Queen before!”</div> + <div class="verse indent0"><i>What’s that by the rose bush?</i></div> + <div class="verse indent0">Granny said, “There were Good Folk once</div> + <div class="verse indent2">But they come no more.”</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp25" id="i_041b" style="max-width: 40.4375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_041b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[42]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="i_042a" style="max-width: 101.875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_042a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_CARAVAN"> + THE CARAVAN + </h2> +</div> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Far off the Fairy Horns are blowing</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Through the morning, through the dew,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">The trees of emerald green, the blue,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">The windy clouds all white and new,</div> + <div class="verse indent4"><i>O, come-all-ye—Gypsies!</i></div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">There is a rustle in the leaves, a ripple in the grass,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">A singing in the heart my love,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The brook’s as clear as glass,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And there the far horizon lies,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">An invitation to new skies,</div> + <div class="verse indent4"><i>O, come-all-ye—Gypsies!</i></div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="i_042b" style="max-width: 104.625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_042b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[43]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="i_043a" style="max-width: 102.5em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_043a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">We’ll pack the green striped caravan,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Put yellow shirts on every man,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And red cloaks on the lasses,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And when the old have wreathed their locks,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And packed their fiddles in a box</div> + <div class="verse indent2">We’ll trundle through the grasses.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">We’ll carry through this windy morn</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Hearts fit to meet the Fairy Horn,</div> + <div class="verse indent4"><i>O, come-all-ye—Gypsies!</i></div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="i_043b" style="max-width: 31.625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_043b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class='section'> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[44]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp60" id="i_044" style="max-width: 100.25em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_044.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[45]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp75" id="i_045a" style="max-width: 98.4375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_045a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_GYPSY_BABY"> + THE GYPSY BABY + </h2> +</div> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">A ring of great red poppies</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Swayed in the golden corn,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And there I lay beside the van</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And heard the larks at morn.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">And like a small, far picture</div> + <div class="verse indent2">The distant town rose pink,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And little streams flowed round it</div> + <div class="verse indent2">With daisies at their brink.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">And little trees grew in it</div> + <div class="verse indent2">All soft, and round, and bright;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">A wandering sun sailed in the sky</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Too brilliant for the sight.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Years and years it sailed the sky</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And like a ball it set,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Near, and big, and sad, and red,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And all the grass was wet.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp15" id="i_045b" style="max-width: 31.5em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_045b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_46">[46]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp70" id="i_046a" style="max-width: 90.0em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_046a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_WILD_GEESE"> + THE WILD GEESE + </h2> +</div> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Low across a crimson sun</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Setting in a crimson sky,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And across a crimson lake</div> + <div class="verse indent2">The Wild Geese fly.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Hark! the poet on the bank</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Pipes a reedy tune,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Piping to the rising wind</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And the silver moon.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="i_046b" style="max-width: 74.4375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_046b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_47">[47]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="i_047a" style="max-width: 83.9375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_047a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“I have neither house nor barn,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Kith nor kin have I,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">But I know the Elfin Folk</div> + <div class="verse indent2">When the Wild Geese fly.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“’Neath another crimson sun</div> + <div class="verse indent2">On a ruddy strand,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">I have piped a wilder tune</div> + <div class="verse indent2">In an eerie land.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“Here, and there, and back again</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Bid the music ply,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">When across the crimson lake</div> + <div class="verse indent2">The Wild Geese fly!”</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp15" id="i_047b" style="max-width: 29.0625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_047b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_48">[48]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_048a" style="max-width: 30.4375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_048a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="A_FAIRY_SONG"> + A FAIRY SONG + </h2> +</div> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">We never weep because we see</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Pale moon flowers on the barren tree;</div> + <div class="verse indent2">A lovely light that takes the shape</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Of bud and bloom that is to be.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">It glows, a soft and emerald light,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Along the branching trees by night;</div> + <div class="verse indent2">We know it weaves the coming leaves</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And never grieve when snows are white.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">We dance with winds that chill the rose</div> + <div class="verse indent0">As to her frosty death she goes,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Because we see the changeless bloom</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Towards which she lifts again and grows.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="i_048b" style="max-width: 33.8125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_048b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_49">[49]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="i_049a" style="max-width: 29.9375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_049a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">So when the weeping tempest saith</div> + <div class="verse indent0">“Hush!” to the woodlands with his breath</div> + <div class="verse indent2">We ride the skeletons of leaves</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And dare an airy jest with death.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Ah, no! we do not weep because</div> + <div class="verse indent0">We live in light that without pause</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Runs sparkling down the sky, the life</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Of all the world, and all its cause.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Oft when celestial things are near</div> + <div class="verse indent0">We see new rainbows shining clear,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And follow them from glade to glade,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And voices in the winds we hear.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="i_049b" style="max-width: 31.375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_049b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_50">[50]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="i_050a" style="max-width: 75.875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_050a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_NIXIES_POOL"> + THE NIXIE’S POOL + </h2> +</div> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Coming through the green-gold beech woods</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Where the great, gray tree boles are,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Where the fallen leaves are bronze,</div> + <div class="verse indent6">He found, like a star</div> + <div class="verse indent8">The little pool,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Leaf patterned, dark and cool.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent8">Not by his hound,</div> + <div class="verse indent6">Nor by his unhappy lady</div> + <div class="verse indent8">Will he be found.</div> + <div class="verse indent4">The horn has not yet wound</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Reveille through the shady</div> + <div class="verse indent6">Or barren mountain pass</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Which can recall him from that pool of glass.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp65" id="i_050b" style="max-width: 87.5625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_050b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_51">[51]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="i_051a" style="max-width: 79.625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_051a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent4">Ice to the barren twigs will come</div> + <div class="verse indent6">And winter. It will not befall</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Him in that green-gold gloom.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent6">He will not change at all</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Though armour melt like ice, and castles be</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Eaten by mothy Time like tapestry.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And Time grow so staggering, gay, and old</div> + <div class="verse indent4">That all of his pulses manifold</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Run together and stop. Still will he</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Kneel, stern, and young, and cool,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Wooing that Nixie in that pool.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="i_051b" style="max-width: 74.4375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_051b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_52">[52]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_052a" style="max-width: 38.0625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_052a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_BECKONING_OUT"> + THE BECKONING OUT + </h2> +</div> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">The coppers were gone from the old brown teapot,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Gaunt sorrow and care were crowned kings of the spot,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And the little old woman who knelt on the floor</div> + <div class="verse indent0">To blow up the ashes, was hoping no more.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">O the door was blown open and into the place</div> + <div class="verse indent0">A Winged Stranger came with a gay, handsome face</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And with two laughing eyes that looked out of his head</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Like some fair woman’s son, and, “Give over,” he said.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp25" id="i_052b" style="max-width: 43.8125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_052b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_53">[53]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp40" id="i_053a" style="max-width: 67.5em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_053a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“Whist, Mother! give over. Come out in the light</div> + <div class="verse indent0">While the throstle’s astir, and the dawn is as bright</div> + <div class="verse indent0">As when, come forty years, you were up and away,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">With the dew to your feet, on the first morn o’ May.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“Is it children you grieve for? I’ll be as your son</div> + <div class="verse indent0">For I’m old as the hills, yet a mother I’ve none.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Is it shelter you wish for? I’ll find you a home</div> + <div class="verse indent0">like a cot in green valleys where no winters come.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_053b" style="max-width: 50.1875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_053b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_54">[54]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp40" id="i_054a" style="max-width: 62.0em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_054a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“Do you grieve for the good things went out by the door?</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Now cross but the threshold, you’ll miss them no more,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Or it may be the winds that run laughing with God</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Have but kept them awhile, or the sweet smelling sod.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“Is it lonely you were? There’s a bird in your breast</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Was but spreading his wings; lone delight is his nest.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">There is never a tie could have kept him for long,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">I could lure him aloft with the lilt of a song!</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp40" id="i_054b" style="max-width: 65.6875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_054b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_55">[55]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp35" id="i_055a" style="max-width: 50.0625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_055a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“You have dreamed overmuch, as the old do alone</div> + <div class="verse indent0">When the fire is low, and the children have gone.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">But have done with the dreams, for to youth is the day;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">You are young again, Colleen! Come out in the May!”</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp35" id="i_055b" style="max-width: 50.625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_055b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_56">[56]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp40" id="i_056a" style="max-width: 58.8125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_056a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="SONG"> + SONG + </h2> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Ding-a-ding! The sun is high.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Ding-a-ding! The dragon-fly</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Wakes to dart about the stream.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Now is mortal morning come;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Let us find a bluebell dome</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And sleep and dream.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Belfries bluer than the sky</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Shall intone a lullaby.</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Ring, ah! ring a drowsy song!</div> + <div class="verse indent0">From this azure hollowed gloam,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Fays, why should we farther roam?</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Ding-a-ding, ding-dong.</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Ding-dong!</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_056b" style="max-width: 39.9375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_056b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_57">[57]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="i_057a" style="max-width: 75.5625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_057a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_OSPREY_FOLK"> + THE OSPREY FOLK + </h2> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0"><i>Alas! for the child that the Osprey Folk</i></div> + <div class="verse indent0"><i>Circle around at birth;</i></div> + <div class="verse indent0"><i>Never for him are the good green fields</i></div> + <div class="verse indent0"><i>And the lap of the old brown earth</i></div> + <div class="verse indent0"><i>And the whet of the scythe in the afternoon</i></div> + <div class="verse indent0"><i>And the joy of the homespun mirth.</i></div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">But all day long at the turn of the tide</div> + <div class="verse indent0">At morn, at noon, or even,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">He hears in his ears that whistle of winds</div> + <div class="verse indent0">(And the winds of the seas are seven).</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And each one brings him the smack of the fogs</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And the salt in the sea winds driven.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp45" id="i_057b" style="max-width: 68.5625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_057b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_58">[58]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="i_058a" style="max-width: 81.5em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_058a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">He has never a mate like the common folk</div> + <div class="verse indent0">But out of the whir and wheel</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Of the Osprey wings is a voice that calls</div> + <div class="verse indent0">With the strength of a mate’s appeal.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And the darkness putteth its lips to his lips</div> + <div class="verse indent0">When the rims of the sky line reel.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">O, I was born where the Osprey Folk</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Cross to the Finnish rocks,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And the caw and the call of their throats are more</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Than the power of ban or locks;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">So never for me will the uplands be</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Gray with the feeding flocks.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp75" id="i_058b" style="max-width: 93.5625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_058b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_59">[59]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp75" id="i_059a" style="max-width: 91.75em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_059a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Shrilling of wind in the cordage taut</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And churn of the flying spume,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The pound of the waves like a cannon shot</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And the air like a drumming loom,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And I shall go back to the Osprey Folk</div> + <div class="verse indent0">For this is the Osprey Doom.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp75" id="i_059b" style="max-width: 99.0em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_059b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class='section'> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_60">[60]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp80" id="i_060" style="max-width: 92.9375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_060.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_61">[61]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_061a" style="max-width: 47.1875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_061a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="MERLIN"> + MERLIN + </h2> +</div> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry fs80"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“<i>But Nemuë imprisoned him in a tower built of air, and like to glass.</i>”</div> +<p class="right mt0 pr1"> + —<span class="smcap">Merlin</span>. +</p> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">When Nemuë built for Merlin</div> + <div class="verse indent0">A tower of the air,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">She wove the blue of Heaven</div> + <div class="verse indent0">In azure fabrics fair,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Aërial, ethereal,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Clear, crystalline, and rare.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent2">She lapped him in it deeper,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">With rod, and bell, and book,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Than ever fly in spider’s web</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Beside the inglenook,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Or cocoon in his cradle hung</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Above a running brook.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp45" id="i_061b" style="max-width: 65.125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_061b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_62">[62]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp25" id="i_062a" style="max-width: 31.9375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_062a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Aërial, ethereal</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And crystal clear as glass,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Or mirrored surface of the pool</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Before the storm clouds pass,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The elfin charm drave up the air</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And scarcely stirred the grass.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent2">The elfin charm drave up, and up,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">As swallows wheel and poise,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And ever as the charm went up</div> + <div class="verse indent2">It made a small sweet noise,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">As if the winds were whispering</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Like children to their toys.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp10" id="i_062b" style="max-width: 17.625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_062b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_63">[63]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp35" id="i_063a" style="max-width: 56.375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_063a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">When, looking in the wizard globe</div> + <div class="verse indent0">You see the magic scene</div> + <div class="verse indent0">So small, so bright, thus Merlin lay</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The elfin walls between,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">His hair and beard o’erflowed his book,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">His mantle was bright green.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<h3 id="II_1"> + II +</h3> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Sir Cawdore came at sunset,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Belated, belted knight,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The last rays took his hauberk and</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Danced back in points of light</div> + <div class="verse indent0">From off his blue-tipped, white ash spear</div> + <div class="verse indent0">His eyes were wild and bright.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp15" id="i_063b" style="max-width: 23.1875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_063b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_64">[64]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp40" id="i_064a" style="max-width: 62.375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_064a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">He saw the rolling, wooded hills,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The pine tree’s ruddy stem,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The fallen needles burned to brown</div> + <div class="verse indent0">About the far pool’s hem,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The pointed glossy osier twigs;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">A faint wind harried them.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent2">The silver-tinted clouds uprose</div> + <div class="verse indent2">About the pallid moon,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">The rosy west lay to his back</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Before him lay the gloom,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">His mortal eyes saw not the wall</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Which stopped him, of that room.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp35" id="i_064b" style="max-width: 57.4375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_064b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_65">[65]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp60" id="i_065a" style="max-width: 95.75em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_065a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">But like the voice of Dryads all</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Complaining round a pool,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Or Pan pipes scarce articulate</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Where forest ways are cool,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">He heard a voice without a form</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Said, “Stand awhile, thou fool!</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent2">“What news of royal Arthur? Speak!”</div> + <div class="verse indent2">“He sleeps in Avalon.”</div> + <div class="verse indent2">“How went the battle in the west?”</div> + <div class="verse indent2">“The steel clad hosts are gone,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Are scattered as the dry red leaves</div> + <div class="verse indent2">The first blast blows upon.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp45" id="i_065b" style="max-width: 73.375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_065b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_66">[66]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp45" id="i_066a" style="max-width: 79.5625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_066a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“The Holy Grail has left the land,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">By minster, weir, and lock</div> + <div class="verse indent0">No book, no bell, no angels’ wing;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The coming shadows flock;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">All, all are broken in their pride,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">A wave upon a rock.”</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent2">“And Guinevere?”—“At Almsbury</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Her glory and her gold</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Are shaken as a cup upheld</div> + <div class="verse indent2">In palsied hands, and old,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Before the altar of God’s wrath</div> + <div class="verse indent2">In some dark chancel cold.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp45" id="i_066b" style="max-width: 75.9375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_066b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_67">[67]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_067a" style="max-width: 48.625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_067a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">“But who art thou that speakest thus?</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Between the setting sun</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And yonder pallid, rising moon</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The wold lies cold and dun;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">I hear a voice speaks in mine ear,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">But presence there is none.”</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent2">Aërial, ethereal,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Athwart the gleam and glow,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">The airy charm wheeled slowly up,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And slowly, and more slow,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">“Lo, I am Merlin,” spake the voice,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">“And thus our glories go!”</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="i_067b" style="max-width: 39.4375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_067b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class='section'> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_68">[68]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp55" id="i_068" style="max-width: 56.5625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_068.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_69">[69]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp65" id="i_069a" style="max-width: 92.4375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_069a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_PRINCESS_OF_YAN"> + THE PRINCESS OF YAN + </h2> +</div> + + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0"><i>Nu-Nu-Nu!</i>⁠<a id="FNanchor_2_2" href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> (And the daisies are piled like a flood!)</div> + <div class="verse indent4">We never shall see the Chalcydian Sea</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Nor the place where the Yakadil stood,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Nor suspended by silk, and far whiter than milk</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Aladdin’s famed egg of the Roc,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">But I know, where the breeze sighs beneath the pine trees,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Where the Maids of the Yan Princess walk,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">With their wide, floating hair, and mysterious air,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And finger on lips as they talk,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">With their azure, pale, trailing silk robes, and their veiling</div> + <div class="verse indent2">As they wonder, and whisper, and talk.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp65" id="i_069b" style="max-width: 91.5625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_069b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_70">[70]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp25" id="i_070a" style="max-width: 32.125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_070a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0"><i>Zo-Zo-Zo!</i> (And the glow of the sun on the gorse!)</div> + <div class="verse indent4">They stole her away at the close of the day</div> + <div class="verse indent4">With gongs and enchantments, of course,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">While a dragon of old rolled his amber and gold,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Burnt orange, and umbers that gleam</div> + <div class="verse indent0">In the marvellous scrolls that the Chinese unrolls</div> + <div class="verse indent2">On lacquer and teak—in the gleam</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Twixt the dusk and the dark all the people cried, “Hark!</div> + <div class="verse indent2">They have shut her away in a dream.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Where waters are falling, and white storks are calling,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">In a brittle, blue, beautiful dream!”</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0"><i>Na-Na-Na!</i> (And the poppies are bright in the corn)</div> + <div class="verse indent4">When the desert is red, and the sun goes to bed</div> + <div class="verse indent4">In the piles of the purple clouds torn</div> + <div class="verse indent4">By the wings of the Djin, ’tis a crime and a sin</div> + <div class="verse indent4">To loiter, in camel or man,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Lest the soul’s vital spark be extinguished ere dark—</div> + <div class="verse indent2">By Allah! you ride as you can.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">But the end of your toil through the gray, slipping soil</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Is more near than the Princess of Yan.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The mirages glimmer no dearer, no dimmer</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Than the faraway beauties of Yan!</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp15" id="i_070b" style="max-width: 23.5625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_070b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_71">[71]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="i_071a" style="max-width: 24.8125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_071a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0"><i>Tsi-Tsi-Tsi!</i> (And the elm trees are drowsy with shade!)</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Neither peacock-eye whorls, nor platters of pearls</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Nor a palace of treasures in jade,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Nor a jewelled palanquin borne by Negroes in green,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Nor olives of far Samarcand</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Can buy you a ship that will dock in the slip</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Where the green running seas meet the land,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And the red granite frowns, that her tall tower crowns</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Nor the glimpse of one nail of her hand,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Through the silver-soft curtain, the rosy, uncertain</div> + <div class="verse indent2">O, the flitting half moon of her hand!</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0"><i>Bang-Bang-Bang!</i> (And the heroes are coming to war!)</div> + <div class="verse indent4">In terrible throngs, with cymbals and gongs</div> + <div class="verse indent4">The heroes and conquerors are</div> + <div class="verse indent4">All arming their hordes with lances and swords</div> + <div class="verse indent4">With scimitar, yataghan, drum.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">In the dust and the heat, see the elephants’ feet,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And the camels, bedizened and dumb!</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Even Sindbad himself, with a beard like a shelf,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Even Kameralzamen has come,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">His horse’s hoofs tingle, his silver bells jingle,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Even Kameralzamen has come!</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp15" id="i_071b" style="max-width: 19.5em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_071b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_72">[72]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="i_072a" style="max-width: 33.3125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_072a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0"><i>Crash-Bang-Crash!</i> (And the Princess aloof like the moon!)</div> + <div class="verse indent4">They have fought the good fight in abysmal night</div> + <div class="verse indent4">With comet, cyclone, and simoon.</div> + <div class="verse indent4">The eclipse was unchained, and the shooting stars rained</div> + <div class="verse indent4">In tempest and vapour and wrack,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">But they warred for their prize with implacable skies</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And the heroes were all beaten back.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Like the nebulæ thin, by the wings of a Djin</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Were blown out, and extinguished in black,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Like the last thunder moaning, with wailing and groaning</div> + <div class="verse indent2">In a deep and imponderable black.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0"><i>Tso-Tso-Tso!</i> (And it’s time we were home for our tea!)</div> + <div class="verse indent4">And why should we weep for a Princess they keep</div> + <div class="verse indent4">In a pearl on a rock in the sea?</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Lo! the butterflies’ wings with unutterable things</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Are dusted: with portents they run,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Golden, freckled with zones, and the red, tawny ones</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And the blue, and the black, and the dun</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Say, “With barter and pain, you shall never attain,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Turn away and the Princess is won,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Where you loiter and play, where you half turn away</div> + <div class="verse indent2">At a touch the Yan Princess is won.”</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + + +<div class="footnotes"> +<h3 id="FOOTNOTES_1"> + FOOTNOTE +</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_2_2" href="#FNanchor_2_2" class="label">[2]</a> Chinese music sounds, to be said through the nose.</p></div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp15" id="i_072b" style="max-width: 18.0625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_072b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class='section'> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_73">[73]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="i_073" style="max-width: 62.5em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_073.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_74">[74]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp70" id="i_074a" style="max-width: 97.75em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_074a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_SPELL_OF_COLD"> + THE SPELL OF COLD + </h2> +</div> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent2">Ah! What unearthly music plays so still</div> + <div class="verse indent8">So hushed, about the window sill,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Aërial more than an æolian harp,</div> + <div class="verse indent8">Or with chromatic risings sharp</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Whistles the heart away into the ice-cold moon?</div> + <div class="verse indent6">It fluted through the dawn wind; soon</div> + <div class="verse indent6">The snow’s white, woven dance will come</div> + <div class="verse indent10">And close the little room</div> + <div class="verse indent0">In soft-fluffed, crystal silence, with the trees.</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Still, still in silvery cadencèd degrees</div> + <div class="verse indent12">The heavenly gradual</div> + <div class="verse indent12">Will rise and fall.</div> + <div class="verse indent6">Ah! what god in the forest plays</div> + <div class="verse indent10">One instant that makes all our days,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">And sends great music so about a little room?</div> + <div class="verse indent8">We would have quiet now in all our ways,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And with the winter night, quiet and candlelight ...</div> + <div class="verse indent10">Ah! what unearthly music plays!</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="i_074b" style="max-width: 29.3125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_074b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_75">[75]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="i_075a" style="max-width: 76.0em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_075a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent8">Haunted! Not here nor there,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Nor from the forest hollows bare,</div> + <div class="verse indent8">Nor shining-particled, chill air,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Nor star hung, and swan-breasted hill,</div> + <div class="verse indent8">But closer, closer still,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Weaving between the nerve and bone</div> + <div class="verse indent10">The melody flows on.</div> + <div class="verse indent2">We would have quiet in the winter grays,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And for the winter gloom, embers and a quiet room ...</div> + <div class="verse indent10">Ah! what unearthly music plays?</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent16">Spell-bound!</div> + <div class="verse indent10">Not coolly rippling ivory.</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Nor cithers slowly sighing a nocturne,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Nor mournful clarion of silver horn,</div> + <div class="verse indent4">Nor bells at midnight, hollowly forlorn,</div> + <div class="verse indent10">Could swell this tide of sound, nor turn</div> + <div class="verse indent6">This tide away from one who hears</div> + <div class="verse indent10">This music in between the ears</div> + <div class="verse indent8">And brain, from one who sees</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_075b" style="max-width: 45.0625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_075b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_76">[76]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp45" id="i_076a" style="max-width: 67.1875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_076a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent2">Too long, the snow’s slow woven dance of imageries.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">No, nor the thousand forest Seraphs of the violin</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Shiver and clamour up, and cry, “Give over and give in!”</div> + <div class="verse indent4">So wildly! Hush! This is the spell the winter weaves;</div> + <div class="verse indent2">The song for which the tree sheds all its leaves,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">The high, chaste comfort for which worlds grow old.</div> + <div class="verse indent6">This is the glamour of the frost and cold</div> + <div class="verse indent8">Heard by the stars. It is the breath</div> + <div class="verse indent6">And premonition of the requiem of death</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Higher and colder than all. The frost crystal rays,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">And ice in the moon sing, when this unearthly music plays.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_076b" style="max-width: 58.1875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_076b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_77">[77]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp70" id="i_077a" style="max-width: 105.5625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_077a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_OLD_POET_FORETELLS_THE_MANNER"> + THE OLD POET FORETELLS THE MANNER + OF HIS DEATH + </h2> +</div> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">I shall not hear men’s voices soon</div> + <div class="verse indent2">For the silvery music of the Shee;</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Between me and the world a veil</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Will fall of woven imagerie,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">With cooling green of boyhood’s leaves,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">With whorls of water light that weaves.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">I shall not bring to mind the tasks</div> + <div class="verse indent2">I laboured at so long ago,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">But I shall marvel much that man</div> + <div class="verse indent2">On dewy earth should travail so</div> + <div class="verse indent0">To bring small matters to an end</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Where all things weave, and change, and blend.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp45" id="i_077b" style="max-width: 74.625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_077b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_78">[78]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp40" id="i_078a" style="max-width: 64.5625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_078a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">I’ll mind me how like morning light</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Love was before it turned unkind,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">But when the change, or what the harm,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">I shall not search the past to find</div> + <div class="verse indent0">While burning questions, cried to God,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Flow off, like wind waves over sod.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">The evils that I wrought myself</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Like hoarse war bugles, sea-ward driven</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Will pass; the evils men did me</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Be half forgotten, all forgiven.</div> + <div class="verse indent0">I’ll think the worst to God must seem</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Like small, sick movements in a dream.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">This body that like marble was</div> + <div class="verse indent2">For heaviness and weight of care</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Will burn with a celestial fire,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">And fade, and free me to the air</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Where I shall never know again</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Old troubles born of nerve and vein.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp40" id="i_078b" style="max-width: 64.1875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_078b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_79">[79]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="i_079a" style="max-width: 74.5em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_079a.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<div class="poetry-container"> + <div class="poetry"> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">Meanwhile a spacious loveliness,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">A quiet, brooding sense of light,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Majestic freedom, and fine strength</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Will near me. Led by visions bright</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Of natural beauty I’ll be drawn</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Toward greater loves than I have known.</div> + </div> + <div class="stanza"> + <div class="verse indent0">I’ll seem to sleep. Disturb me not,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">For while Incarnate Light draws near,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">A last gift of the race to clay,</div> + <div class="verse indent2">Sweet music of the Shee I’ll hear,</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Lulled and withdrawn by soft preludes</div> + <div class="verse indent0">Through deep, expectant solitudes.</div> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_079b" style="max-width: 49.625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_079b.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class='section'> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_80">[80]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="i_080" style="max-width: 90.0625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_080.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class='section'> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_81">[81]</span></p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp50" id="i_081" style="max-width: 102.3125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_081.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure></div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class='section'> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp10" id="i_082" style="max-width: 13.9375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_082.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</figure> +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter transnote"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_82">[82]</span></p> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="Transcribers_Notes"> + Transcriber’s Notes + </h2> + + +<ul> +<li>Footnotes renumbered consecutively.</li> + +<li>Obvious typographic errors have been silently corrected.</li> +</ul> +</div> + +<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 77901 ***</div> +</body> +</html> diff --git a/77901-h/images/colophon.jpg b/77901-h/images/colophon.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..58138e5 --- 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