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IDYLLS, LEGENDS 
 
 AND 
 
 LYRICS 
 
IDYLLS, LEGENDS 
 
 LYRICS 
 
 A. GARLAND MEARS 
 
 LONDON 
 
 KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER, & CO. Ltd. 
 
 1890 
 
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PREFACE 
 
 The chief thought that possesses an author when 
 launching forth his work on the sea of the world's 
 favour, is, whether it will float gallantly along the 
 current, bearing its burden of the golden grain of 
 instruction ; the pleasant fruit of romance ; or the 
 music of poesy to the homes of the people around, 
 or will his barque be shattered against the rocks of 
 dispraise, or be permitted to sink into the quick- 
 sands of neglect. 
 
 It is with this feeling I launch my little shallop 
 on the ocean, laden, not with science or philo- 
 sophy, or the studied phrases of the polished poet, 
 but with the simple music of the love-song, or old 
 love-story. 
 
 The object of music is to yield pleasure to the 
 mind ; the design of poetry is the same ; it should 
 
PREFACE 
 
 appeal either to the imagination or to the emotions. 
 Its true object is not attained when it becomes 
 chiefly the vehicle for philosophical or metaphysical 
 instruction, reaching only the reasoning faculties. 
 
 I do not attempt those deeps of erudition : 
 nevertheless, in the perusal of the legends some- 
 thing may be learned of old-time manners, and 
 the thought of our ancestors ; and in the idylls the 
 pictures portrayed of human life and of human 
 love I trust will prove pleasurable contemplation 
 to the reader. 
 
 No one likes listening to a long symphony 
 heralding a song ; or wearying speech before a 
 lecture, or a lengthy preface to a book ; therefore 
 I will not tire the reader with further argument for 
 the raison d'etre of this work. 
 
 THE AUTHOR. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Ilamea : a Dramatic Idyll . • • 3 
 
 Honoria's Love . . . . . 35 
 
 To Amy, on her Twenty-first Birthday 55 
 
 To J. W. S., ox his Birthday, March 31 . . 56 
 
 Faith . . . -57 
 
 The Evangelist 58 
 
 Edain : an Ancient Legend of Ireland . 61 
 
 The Bursting of 'Conemaugh Lake' . . 99 
 
 To J. F. T. Birthday Ode . . .109 
 
 Apostrophe to the Ocean ... 112 
 
 Souvenir of Oxford .116 
 
 The Love of Uther : or, Leaves from Ancient 
 
 Annals 121 
 
 Caedmon : an Early English Idyll . 165 
 
 The Storm 209 
 
 Maternal Devotion. Part I. ... 213 
 
 ,, » ,, II 215 
 
 „ „ ., HI- • • . . 217 
 
 ,, » IV. . . 219 
 
 The Cry of the Deserted One 221 
 
 To My Brother .... . . 224 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Battle of Life 226 
 
 My Choice ... . . 229 
 
 New Year's Thoughts . . . 231 
 
 Christmas . . . 233 
 
 Waiting for the First-foot . 234 
 
 Memory 238 
 
 Love's Miseries .... 241 
 
 The Irish Maiden's Adieu . . . 244 
 
 The Sailor's Song 249 
 
 To James Watson Sewell : Acrostic ... 251 
 
 Too Modest By Far .... . . 255 
 
 Friendship . . . 
 
 The Monkeys 
 
 The Maiden's Choice . . 262 
 
 A Letter . 268 
 
 A Valentine .... 
 Reflections of a Student 
 
 257 
 259 
 
 271 
 273 
 
 On a Lady's Portrait painted on an Ash-tray . 276 
 
ILAMEA 
 
 A DRAMATIC IDYLL 
 
ILAMEA 
 
 A Dramatic Idyll 
 
 ILAMEA 
 
 SEE, how the sun now dips his glorious rays 
 In yonder crystal lake, and changes its 
 Pellucid face to sheet of molten gold ! 
 How grand and beautiful his state, to sit 
 Enthroned on high, far into distant space, 
 And know that life in all its varied forms 
 Throughout the universe subsists upon 
 His smiles ! 
 
 COUNT 
 
 Now, rather watch the fleecy clouds, which weave 
 And interweave with one another, like 
 Fair soul with soul commingling close, that 
 Seek no new condition for continuance 
 
4 ILAMEA 
 
 Of bliss, but sweet propinquity. 
 
 Fair lady, even so would life near thee 
 
 Be one long dream of joy. Thou fill'st the space 
 
 Encircling thee with influence divine, 
 
 That gives my soul a strange new element 
 
 On which to live. 
 
 Ilamea, I love thee ; chide me not, 
 
 My sweet, for Love is peremptory — prompt, 
 
 And will bide no hiding. Why should I try 
 
 To put on some disguise ? Thou knowest full well 
 
 In sweetest thraldom I am daily held, 
 
 And bright the moments speed when thou art near. 
 
 How quickly time hath fled since errand of 
 
 My own brought me to Rome ! When just returned 
 
 From roaming distant lands, Fate sent me here. 
 
 While on my proper business, oft I heard 
 
 Of the beautiful Ilamea ; she 
 
 As talented as beautiful, as chaste 
 
 As either. Then good Fortune smiled ; I met 
 
 This queen of women, her I made my friend ; 
 
 Friendship hath ripened into love, yes, love 
 
 All strong, abiding, fervent, pure, to last 
 
 A long eternity. [Count kneels. 
 
ILAMEA ; 
 
 Mine is no passion born of mere desire, 
 
 Because thou art so fair. Ripe Womanhood 
 
 Becomes thee, who so full of knowledge art, 
 
 And versed in works of lettered heroes great, 
 
 Thyself no less. And I have studied well 
 
 The deep imaginings of thine own pen, 
 
 And there reflected shines the beauty of 
 
 Thy soul. Nay, blush not thus, I know not how 
 
 I should express a thousandth part of all 
 
 My thoughts concerning thee. Can little babe 
 
 To its fond mother tell the reason why 
 
 It clings so closely, frets that it may lie 
 
 Upon her bosom soft ? 
 
 Ah, no ! it is mere instinct at the first ; 
 
 It hath no power of thought or speech ; its cries 
 
 Are Nature's eloquence. Even so, unused 
 
 To framing language suited to my thought, — 
 
 In such a case as this, — I needs must plead 
 
 An infant's helplessness, and throw myself 
 
 Upon thy mercy. Know, a cause so new 
 
 And strange as this unutterable joy, 
 
 This gradual change — completion of myself — 
 
 This absorption of another soul in mine, 
 
 Is inexpressible, and utterance fails ; 
 
6 ILAMEA 
 
 I did exist before, but now I LIVE, 
 For Love hath made Ilamea mine own ! 
 
 ILAMEA 
 
 [She motions him to rise. 
 Oh, say not so, my lord, and cease to plead 
 Thy suit. I must not — dare not listen it. 
 On me the sun of Love may never shine ; 
 Know then, nor love, nor wedded bliss, nor aught 
 Of happiness can ever be for me. 
 Henceforward I must tread my path alone ; 
 'Tis vain to say thou lovest me ; if 'twere 
 Now possible to give a thousand times 
 More love to me than what thou sayest, 
 I could not take it. 
 
 COUNT 
 
 This surely is a jest, Ilamea ! 
 
 'Tis the cruel coquetry of thy sex 
 
 That's bubbling up within thee ! Yet I thought 
 
 Thee far beyond such trifling. Cultured, clear 
 
 Thy mind ; thy soul all perfect— beautiful, 
 
I LAME A 
 
 And free from petty thought. Most true thy 
 
 heart, 
 And good, its motions governed by pure love. 
 
 Now tell me hath another gained thy love ? 
 
 What is this mystery — what hidest thou ? 
 
 Is it honourable to treat me thus ? 
 
 Oh, surely thou hast seen how my poor soul 
 
 Hath been wrapt up in thee ! If thou but moved, 
 
 Mine eyes would follow as if magnetised. 
 
 All other women's beauty faded where 
 
 Thou wert. Thy voice breathed music to my 
 
 soul ; 
 When thou didst sing a sweet romance for me, 
 Where Love told some pathetic, tender tale, 
 Thy dear voice trembled ; thy white bosom heaved 
 If once thine eyes met mine. Impossible ! 
 Thou canst love none but me. 
 
 ILAMEA 
 
 It is impossible to love thee not ; 
 
 'Tis even as thou sayest. 
 
 My lord, I'm in a great dilemma now, 
 
ILAMEA 
 
 For all the weary years of my young life 
 
 Must be gone through in lonely solitude, 
 
 And all my natural affections quenched ; 
 
 For Honour says I needs must pluck thee from 
 
 My heart, and cast thee out. 
 
 Oh, Holy Mother, how can I do this ? 
 
 How can I make this cruel, cruel wrench ? 
 
 'Twixt Love and Duty — rather should be said 
 
 'Twixt Love and Law — there comes a struggle 
 
 great. 
 My lord, I am not free ; I wear the yoke 
 Of marriage — bonds that only Death relieves. 
 
 Ten years ago I was a happy girl, 
 
 Although an orphan ; placed all safe 'twas thought 
 
 In quiet convent school, therein to stay 
 
 In strict seclusion till I was of age. 
 
 My liberty attained, I would be free 
 
 To choose the veil or enter marriage state 
 
 With full consent of my two guardians. 
 
 'Twas known throughout the convent I was rich ; 
 
 The same was talked of in the village too ; 
 
 But of the will and testament, exact 
 
 Provisions no one knew, save these old men — 
 
ILAMEA 
 
 A priest and layman. Now, our convent stood 
 Hard by the village — quiet, grey, and old, 
 Secluded and embowered within tall trees, 
 And high stone walls encircling these. 
 Ah, those were happy days ! To me the nuns 
 Appeared like angels pure ; they thought of naught 
 But God and Jesu's Virgin Mother. Thus, 
 Their love of Heaven to prove, they gave them- 
 selves 
 To teach and train us children. Oft I stood, 
 And gazing upwards to the vault of heaven 
 I wondered if the angels there our nuns 
 Resembled aught. The painted pictures of 
 Sweet saints had wings, and harps of gold, but 
 
 these 
 Were 'tired in darkest garb, as if our world 
 Were type of death, and sin, and hell, or all. 
 
 Anear the village dwelt one Carlos, gay 
 
 And profligate, yet handsome, tall, well-made. 
 
 His means all dissipated, he was urged 
 
 By strong necessity to find a mode of livelihood. 
 
 He sought my hand that he might get my gold ; 
 
 A low confederate of his did wait 
 
I LA ME A 
 
 Upon us girls. She whispered in mine ears 
 How grand a thing to gain a gallant's love. 
 Tempted by her and him, and teased, and pressed, 
 At length I did give way and fled ; a priest 
 As vile as he then made us man and wife. 
 But fifteen summers had sped o'er my head 
 When that villain base decoyed me thus. 
 Oh, what a wretched life he led me then ! 
 Completely baffled, foiled, when he had learned 
 His marriage brought no wealth (without consent 
 The whole was lost ; the convent gained my lands), 
 Then how he raved, and swore like madman wild, 
 And made my life a sea of misery. 
 
 I had no friends. Shut out from all the world 
 From early childhood, I knew no pitying soul 
 To whom I could appeal. He hated me. 
 A woman base as he held all his heart, 
 And daily urged him on to leave me. I 
 Had hoped our little babe would, when the time 
 Was come, his hard heart melt. 
 One day — 'tis graven on my brain with fire- 
 He came no more. We lived alone, we two : 
 Our simple meal was spread, of which I would 
 
I LA ME A u 
 
 Not taste till his return. I filled the place 
 
 Of wife, and thrall — even I, the heiress of. 
 
 Fair Italy's fairest lands. No handmaid now 
 
 To wait upon my will. He knew full well 
 
 Mine hour I looked for, day by day, but yet 
 
 He did desert me. 
 
 In my solitude, still watching for him, 
 
 The pains of travail overtook me straight. 
 
 That long night I lay wrestling with my pain, 
 
 With none to help. (The memory of it makes 
 
 My whole frame shudder.) 
 
 Then, in my dreadful agony, I prayed 
 
 That I might die. The anguish of my soul 
 
 Exceeded many times the travail-pains. 
 
 'Twas like a spell of hell that awful night, 
 
 My mind and frame with torture torn, and soon 
 
 My strength was spent. 
 
 Then I remembered that another life 
 
 Might claim my care — that I must live for one 
 
 Who struggled now for life ; and so I braved 
 
 For its dear sake the terrors of that night. 
 
 Oh, how I longed for day ; that some stray soul 
 
 Might haply touch the latch and bring me aid ! 
 
 When morning came a little child, to whom 
 
12 ILAMEA 
 
 I oft gave alms and cheerful words, peeped in. 
 What .joy ! She ran all fleetly to a house — 
 The nearest one — and thus my life was saved. 
 But, ah, that spark of life was quenched which I 
 Had looked to light the utter darkness of 
 My home, unblessed by one small ray of love ! 
 That gift of God to cheer my desert-path 
 Was lost : the babe, so strong erstwhile within my 
 
 womb, 
 In its unaided struggles for its life 
 Was slain, and with it gone my dream of love. 
 How my hot soul in strong rebellion rose, 
 And in my heart I thought that God took heed 
 Of naught : that cruel wrong its rampant course 
 Would run for ever here ! 
 Then utter weakness held me down ; I lay 
 For weeks 'twixt life and death, all cold and white. 
 
 When I revived, and hue of health came back 
 
 To my wan cheeks, I vowed a solemn vow 
 
 In deepest bitterness of soul that I 
 
 Had done with him for ever. Rumour said 
 
 His paramour with him had fled away. 
 
 I cast aside his ring : I would not own 
 
ILAMEA 13 
 
 His name. I left the place. I told my tale 
 To my lay-guardian, who in pity gave 
 Me portion of my fortune. I came here 
 To Rome, and gave myself to work, and hard 
 I studied daily. In the course of time 
 My writings brought me much renown. 
 
 When I attained full womanhood, and came 
 Of age, I pleaded for my fortune then ; 
 The king the hand of justice forced to make 
 The priests disgorge my wealth. This attained, 
 I had no end of suitors. Vain their wish ! 
 I closed my doors 'gainst all intruders ; few 
 Intimates I made, and secluded dwelt. 
 
 I heard that in another hemisphere 
 
 My husband wandered lawless — wild, 
 
 Entirely lost to me. I- know not where he is, 
 
 Nor whether he be dead, or living, now. 
 
 'Tis strange that Providence should watch so well 
 
 O'er wretches such as he : they seldom meet 
 
 Untimely end, but live to make us feel 
 
 That laws which govern the moral world 
 
 Are past interpreting. 
 
14 ILAMEA 
 
 I have no more to tell. In Friendship's guise 
 
 Thou cam'st to me, and cheered my solitude ; 
 
 'Twas thus that thou didst force the citadel 
 
 Of my proud heart, and made thyself 
 
 Its conqueror. 
 
 The circumstances of our life, how strange 
 
 They twist and turn ! One moment ask we 
 
 For a thing, the next we do refuse it. 
 
 An hour ago I longed to see thy face, 
 
 And, now, thine absence I must needs entreat. 
 
 These wretched contradictions now place 
 
 Me under hard conditions. 
 
 I willingly would give my life for thee, 
 
 But cannot yield mine honour. 
 
 COUNT 
 
 Oh, dearest, think what thy resolve doth mean 
 To me — thyself ? 
 
 It means the wreckage of two lives which thou 
 May'st save. No longer dost thou duty owe 
 To monster vile, whom legal contract calls 
 Thy husband. Get thee writing of divorce ; 
 'Tis soon accomplished ; and rid thyself 
 
ILAMEA 15 
 
 Of such base creature. 
 A covetous heart like his would burn to live 
 With thee again if wind of rumour brought 
 Him tidings of thy good condition. 
 
 ILAMEA 
 
 If once he came to Italy again, 
 
 'Twere not so easy to discover me. 
 
 The name I bear hath been assumed for this 
 
 Sole purpose, having no remedy. All 
 
 The tribe of learned lawyers say I have 
 
 No case, as I hold proof of naught : 
 
 'Tis but too true. That he hath left me for 
 
 A space, but shows desertion. 
 
 Our Holy Church forbids to be annulled 
 A marriage where the fault is venial, light. 
 'Tis naught to mar a woman's life, it seems, 
 If she be only wife ; the marriage vow 
 Doth cover all iniquity. 
 
 How bitter doth the heart become when thought 
 Reverts to bygone wrong ! Bygone ! alas, 
 
1 6 ILAMEA 
 
 It hath grown now an ever-living wrong ! 
 An ever-present misery ! 
 The Church's theory is good, and wise, 
 And very beautiful ; for marriage should 
 Be sacred, indissoluble. The fault 
 Must lie where this is desecrated. 
 
 COUNT 
 
 Yea, truly, for a world of perfect beings, 
 This doctrine would be excellent. 
 
 ILAMEA 
 
 Now go, and let the widest earth divide 
 
 Us twain : yet know, each time thy life-pulse beats, 
 
 My heart gives answering motion. 
 
 COUNT 
 
 Like a beautiful star hast thou shone bright 
 Before mine eyes, and then retreated far 
 Above the heavens, never to come again. 
 Or, as some goddess sweet, too pure for sphere 
 Like this, thou'rt here and then away again 
 
I LAME A 17 
 
 To thine ethereal home. Ilamea, 
 
 Thou taughtest me to love in manner that 
 
 My deepest dreams could give no picture. Why 
 
 Has Fate thus drawn me hither, making me 
 
 Her sport ? I ask, why taught thou me to love ? 
 
 ILAMEA 
 
 And dost thou say 'twas I who taught thee Love ? 
 Methinks the lesson first was given by thee. 
 But what is this philosophy of love ? 
 Now, let us reason. Was either taught at all ? 
 
 Who taught the lark to soar up to the clouds, 
 And in their bosom pour his happy song ? 
 Who taught the ocean in softly swelling waves 
 To kiss the glitt'ring shore, while making low 
 And melancholy music with sad voice ? 
 
 Who taught the gentle zephyrs to caress 
 The new-born roses shyly bursting forth, 
 While warm soft rays of sunshine pure 
 Expand their lovely petals to the kiss ? 
 
1 8 1LAMEA 
 
 Who taught the dew to kiss the lily's cheek, 
 
 And delicately leave a tear-drop there, 
 
 To show the soft, sweet tenderness of love ? 
 
 Why all this strange attraction ? Tis Nature's law 
 
 Which irresistibly impels, and leads 
 
 With forces so unutterably strong, 
 
 And yet so hid, — so wrapped in joy, concealed — 
 
 That whence it comes we nothing know, nor why, 
 
 We only know it is that power called Love. 
 
 Oh, mighty monitor ! oh, mystic power, 
 That rulest, teachest ev'ry human heart, 
 Whatever be its outer case, or form, 
 'Tis insignificant ! The coarsest churl 
 Beneath thy happy influence and mild 
 Forgets his rudeness : instant greatest change 
 Takes place, and he is gentle, thoughtful, kind. 
 The cold philosopher, who naught believes 
 Save what to him is measurably sure, 
 And who, with proud disdain, and lofty smile, 
 Doth scorn existence of a spirit-world : 
 He sees no soul in man ; no God above ; 
 No Heaven. To him eternity but means 
 
I LAME A 19 
 
 The space of time the sun will glowing pour 
 His glorious rays upon the earth, and all 
 Is darkness after : man is surely doomed 
 To blank annihilation. 
 
 Yet only mark 
 How changed his words when strongly moved by 
 
 love ? 
 Materialistic forms of speech to him 
 Are cold, unmeaning, empty — void. 
 For now a hidden force bursts forth in strength, 
 And lights upon him as a cloven tongue, 
 For God himself descends, and leaves on him 
 His spirit, baptizing him with FIRE ! 
 
 And lovely woman, shy, retiring, proud, 
 Doth melt to softest tenderness when Love 
 Holds sway within her bosom ; while ev'ry nerve 
 In new and thrilling ecstasy is moved, 
 And quiv'ring, trembles at thy mystic touch. 
 
 Her very soul — no longer hers — goes out 
 To meet that other with such strong desire 
 That their two souls, like pair of liquid streams, 
 
ILAMEA 
 
 Might join as one ; united, onward flow 
 Beneath the varying shadows of long years, 
 And thus through all eternity glide on. 
 
 Or, longs their two existences might grow, 
 And blend together, like sev'ral coloured rays 
 All merged in one, do straightway form a light 
 Of glittering white, whose beauty fills the earth. 
 
 Ah, yes, Love comes to ev'ry one alike, 
 Unerring finds his way to ev'ry heart, 
 And on each various character outpours 
 Such strange and subtle influence ; such change 
 Effects upon the mind and course of men, 
 We can but look, and wonder. 
 
 Say'st thou yet 
 I taught thee love, when thou dost know full well 
 I fain would break the bonds that bind me strong 
 To thee ? I fain from me would cast afar 
 The chains invisible surrounding me, 
 And making me their prisoner. The more 
 I struggle with my bonds, the more I'm bound ; 
 And yet it is captivity so sweet, 
 
ILAMEA 
 
 A thraldom so delicious, that at times 
 I long for liberty no more, and ask, 
 And only ask, to live for Love and Thee. 
 
 COUNT 
 
 And must be wrenched apart such ties as these ? 
 Is it the will of Him, — who liberal gave 
 To highest, noblest part of His own work 
 Such beautiful conception of that which 
 Makes His earth like unto Heaven— to close 
 Love's purest channels, and repress the soul's 
 Most tender impulses ? 
 If Love, my sweet, forbidden be, at least 
 Let us be friends ; and we'll begin anew 
 The gentle intercourse, and kindly thought 
 Which opened our acquaintance at the first. 
 
 ILAMEA 
 
 No, no, it cannot be, for who can rule 
 
 His heart ? 'Tis very true that Friendship may 
 
 Oft ripen into Love, but never Love 
 
 Will turn again to Friendship. Cold its light, 
 
ILAMEA 
 
 And pale when set against the fire of Love. 
 Compare the rushlight's glimmer to the warm, 
 Effulgent rays of Heaven's bounteous sun, 
 And mark the difference! 
 
 Even such is Love to Friendship. 
 
 Yet, stay awhile, and let me hear thee tell 
 
 A little of thy history. What came 
 
 To thee, when thou didst wander in those wilds, 
 
 And pathless lands where men do strive for gold ? 
 
 COUNT 
 
 As thou dost bid me, dear, I must obey. 
 
 I would not touch a topic such as this 
 
 Of mine own will. Thy tender heart would melt 
 
 At pictures of such misery as those 
 
 I witnessed daily. I have seen poor men 
 
 Drop down in sheer exhaustion on the road 
 
 From hunger and fatigue, with none to help, 
 
 And left to die in solitude. 
 
 Just picture, now, some lonely man who strove 
 
 To find his way to gold-fields, distant more 
 
 Than length of Italy thrice o'er ; all spent 
 
I LA ME A 
 
 The poof remains of his small substance, first, 
 In buying tools which soon were cast away 
 To ease the strain of such exertion. 
 
 His only food the leaves from off the trees, or 
 
 shrubs, 
 Which bore no nourishment ; and long before 
 His journey was accomplished, Nature sank 
 Exhausted. 
 
 The piteous sight would make me stop, and 
 
 fetch 
 Some water from the spring to cool his thirst, 
 And then, unwilling I pursued my way 
 Lest long delay might bring me sim'lar fate. 
 
 ILAMEA 
 
 How couldst thou bring thyself to turn thy back 
 Upon those wretched creatures ; thou wert rich, 
 And could command all help ! Oh, why didst thou 
 Not try to render better aid ? 
 Ah, me, most foolish questions, now, I ask ! 
 
24 I LAME A 
 
 COUNT 
 
 What use is wealth in such a case as this ? 
 These lonely places have no mart for food, 
 So far from habitation or abode 
 Of men. 
 
 I came across a set of ruffians once, 
 
 Who quarrelling among themselves did wound 
 
 Their own companion. 
 
 'Twas one against a number — most unfair. 
 
 I rushed upon them, striking right and left, 
 
 And succoured the poor fellow ; then to place 
 
 Of nearest refuge I conveyed him quick, 
 
 And through the long night watches tended him. 
 
 A burning fever coursed throughout his frame, 
 
 Effect of wounds most desp'rate — deep. 
 
 When morning broke he knew not where he lay, 
 
 Or who it was that stood beside his couch. 
 
 He took me for a woman : ' Beatrice ! 
 
 Beatrice ! ' he called, then muttered something 
 
 else ; 
 Anon, in his delirium wild, he changed 
 The name to Martha ! 'Twas most strange to hear 
 
ILAMEA 25 
 
 First Beatrice, then Martha ! Martha ! 
 
 How hard to lie upon a tortured couch, 
 
 The hot blood parching ev'ry pore ; the mind 
 
 Its balance gone, all racked with phrenzied 
 
 thought, 
 And feel no gentle hand of love is nigh — 
 No woman's tenderness forestalling all 
 Our wants ! 
 
 I pictured in my mind some gentle wife 
 In Italy's fair land awaiting his 
 Return, he desolate, dying far away. 
 I stayed with him three days, in hopes he would 
 Survive his troubles. Business urged me strong 
 To make no more delay. Good fortune sent 
 Antonio, a fellow-countryman, 
 To whom I gave the wounded man in charge ; 
 I left him gold and bade him not to spare 
 Good pains to bring the man to life and health. 
 
 ILAMEA 
 
 Didst thou inquire of thy poor patient, when 
 Recovered somewhat, whom this Beatrice was ? 
 And Martha— hateful name — of whom he spake ? 
 
26 I LAME A 
 
 COUNT 
 
 It was not meet to trouble him with speech 
 At such a time. I know that doctors urge 
 Necessity of silence to keep the patient calm ; 
 Yet this I learnt that Beatrice was his wife. 
 
 ILAMEA 
 
 His wife ! Describe to me the wounded man : 
 Was he quite tall and straight, with piercing eyes, 
 And Roman nose, and lips all large and full, 
 Of sensual mould, and hair of darkest hue ? 
 
 COUNT 
 
 Now truly thou hast drawn his portrait well. 
 He had beneath his curls a little scar 
 Just o'er his temple, seeming remnant of 
 Old wound. 
 
 ILAMEA 
 
 My God ! It is my husband ! Then thou hast 
 Even saved his life — thou, his would-be rival ! 
 
ILAMEA 
 
 Ah, surely Providence hath some strange modes 
 Of working out its methods. Thus 'twas given 
 To thee to succour him, who was of all 
 God's creatures most in thy way. 
 
 COUNT 
 
 Thy husband ! Oh, it surely cannot be ! 
 And have I thus bestowed upon a wretch as he 
 My pity, love, and care ? A heartless cur, 
 Who innocence deceived, and vows despised ! 
 Without one shred of honour ? This is misery 
 All heaped on misery ; a cup brimful ! 
 
 ILAMEA 
 
 Cease to reproach thyself for thy good act, 
 Nor think that it was meet to take on thee 
 The punishment of one whom God himself 
 Was scourging. Wisdom infinite decreed 
 That thou shouldst save him for some purpose 
 
 wise, 
 Beneficent. 'Tis all inscrutable. 
 Yet know we that however strange appears 
 
28 ILAMEA 
 
 God's ways to us, He surely in the end 
 
 Will justify Himself, and show His laws 
 
 To be most excellent. 
 
 Humanity is an attribute divine, 
 
 Which lifts man from the baser part 
 
 Of all creation, proving his sonship, 
 
 And title to the Fatherhood of God. 
 
 And when a sudden impulse made thee fly 
 
 To help the stranger in his dire distress, 
 
 Thou only didst obey the dictates of 
 
 That innate sense of right, transmitted thee 
 
 From out the Heart of God. 
 
 COUNT 
 \He sees a man approaching them. 
 
 By all the saints in heaven this surely is 
 
 A season of surprises ! Antonio ! 
 
 My good Antonio, whence comest thou ? 
 
 I left thee in the Austral wilds to tend 
 
 That lawless vagabond. Come near and give 
 
 Account of what thou'st done. Now, doth he live ? 
 
 Oh, say if thou didst nurse him back to life, 
 
 And health. Be quick — I urge thee to be quick ! 
 
ILAMEA 29 
 
 Recount to this fair lady and myself 
 All that thou knowest. 
 
 ANTONIO 
 
 My lord, I did your bidding ; long I watched 
 
 And tended him both day and night. Oh, blame 
 
 Me not ; 'twas ne'er through lack of care that he 
 
 Made no recovery — 'twas his bad luck. 
 
 For days he raved in strong delirium, 
 
 And when this passed away he knew that death 
 
 Pressed hard upon him. Oft I watched the tears 
 
 All silent trickle down his face when of 
 
 A fair young wife he thought — one Beatrice. 
 
 There was no priest to grant him solace in 
 
 His deep extremity. He said his sins 
 
 Could never be absolved by God ; that he 
 
 Was past redemption. Solemnly he bade 
 
 Me seek his wife, and in the village of 
 
 Arbosso find his Beatrice, whom years 
 
 Agone he basely had deserted. From 
 
 A quiet convent school he stole her, in 
 
 Good hopes her wealth would then become his prey. 
 
 He loved one Martha, with her fled away ; 
 
3o ILAMEA 
 
 Then she deserted him in turn. At length 
 
 He wandered with a lawless band who lived 
 
 By plunder. In the end they turned against 
 
 Him, grudging him fair share of booty. On 
 
 That night you succoured him, they thought to slay 
 
 Him outright. 
 
 He made me swear, before the breath of life 
 
 Had left his quivering lips, that I 
 
 Would carry to his wife his deep, heart-felt 
 
 Repentance ; the gage of which was this 
 
 Fair missal, bound in gold, with jewelled clasp, 
 
 Belonging to his wife. In deepest straits 
 
 'Twas ever kept as token of her worth. 
 
 See here, in fair handwriting is the name 
 
 Now writ upon it ! 
 
 He died beseeching God to grant her good, 
 
 Although He did deny him mercy. 
 
 COUNT 
 
 And so he lived to learn that deeds of wrong 
 Do breed a fearful progeny ! 
 Even so the mighty God doth make the law 
 Of retribution just, to follow out its course. 
 
I LAME A 
 
 ILAMEA 
 
 Say, rather he was guided unaware 
 By God of mercy, who thus made him shed 
 The penitential tear. And now we know 
 There is no soul upon this earth which is 
 All vile ; none unredeemable. The breath 
 God breathed on man in Eden carries still 
 A remnant of the fragrance all divine, 
 Which with his first faint inspiration came, 
 Bearing still the germ of His sweet purity. 
 The story of my husband's fading hours 
 From out my heart hath taken all the sting — 
 The bitterness which time hath ne'er effaced. 
 
 [She ivceps. 
 Now turn aside, I pray, and let me have 
 Communion with my soul. I feel as if 
 A lifetime I have lived in one short hour. 
 
 COUNT 
 
 Upon my bosom, dearest, lay thy troubled head, 
 And heart to heart we'll live anew our life : 
 
32 I LA ME A 
 
 For now I claim the right to comfort thee. 
 When sorrow's cloud doth rise, my sympathy 
 Will lighten it. Even as the sun doth break 
 Through thickest mist, and sheds his rays around, 
 So shall my love now chase away thy tears. 
 
 As flowers fragrant odours breathe to air, 
 My love shall rise to thee as incense sweet. 
 Or, as the petals of a rose enclose 
 The vital part, even so will I surround, 
 And guard thee from the faintest breath 
 That seeks thy harm. Thus in the casket of 
 My heart I'll keep thee safe, my precious gem. 
 
 Now, is every barrier broken down, 
 xAnd Love is Lord of all ! From thy dear lips 
 Of ruby let me take my first fond kiss, 
 Wherein methinks doth lie the essence sweet, 
 The summit and realisation of 
 Deliciousness of love. 
 
HONORIA'S LOVE 
 
 AND OTHER SONNETS 
 
 D 
 
35 
 
 HONORIAS LOVE 
 
 INTRODUCTION 
 
 Of all the various methods adopted by poets in 
 giving a love-story, no one, as far as I am aware, 
 has attempted such a task in sonnets which are 
 the outcome of the lady's feelings. 
 
 Innumerable sonnets have been addressed by 
 the lover to his mistress ; but few have undertaken 
 in this form of verse the expression of the lady's 
 sentiments under similar conditions. 
 
 In ' Honoria's Love ' are depicted the several 
 emotions of the mind when under the influence of 
 love ; each sonnet expressing a separate phase of 
 that passion which is admitted to be the strongest 
 of all human passions. 
 
 The baser feelings of jealousy and vexation — 
 the usual accompaniments of an ill-fated love — are 
 not treated here, for Honoria is above her sex in 
 
36 HONORIA'S LOVE 
 
 generosity and gentleness. Inspired by the deepest 
 passion, her heart knows no reproach. Even at 
 the moment of her desertion she shows no scorn 
 towards her vacillating lover, whose easy, volup- 
 tuous nature refuses to combat with the obstruc- 
 tions which circumstances have placed in the 
 way of their union. 
 
 Owing to the form of the verse, the eighteen 
 sonnets are less a love-story than an exposition of 
 the emotions. 
 
HO NOMA'S LOVE 37 
 
 LOVE'S ENTRANCE 
 
 Oh, Kingly Love, when first thou didst enthral 
 My soul in thy sweet bonds, I hardly knew 
 Thy presence : filled with joy, what could I do 
 But gaze upon thy face, and at thy call 
 Give willing ear ; then straight before thee fall, 
 In meekness yielding loving homage, true. 
 What sum of bliss wrapped up in moments few ! 
 Life's sweetest mystery is made my all. 
 
 Beneath thy flowing robes, where none could see. 
 
 Were chains invisible ; then didst thou take 
 
 And lace elysian unseen spells o'er me. 
 
 What boots it that impetuously I make 
 
 These struggles? Vain to strive 'gainst thy 
 
 decree ; 
 For Love is life. Life 's sweet for Love's dear sake. 
 
3 S HO NOKIA'S LOVE 
 
 II 
 
 LOVE AWAKENS THE HEART TO THE 
 BEAUTIES OF NATURE 
 
 Oh, how the glorious sunshine fills all breasts 
 With gentle thoughts ! The soft and balmy air 
 Now breathes delicious sweetness everywhere : 
 The fragrance of the new-mown hay contests 
 With scent of flowers ; and Nature now invests 
 The earth with beauty, life, and joy : all share 
 In mutual gladness, for Summer fair 
 I ler longed-for, promised treasures manifests. 
 
 The rise and fall of waving corn awakes 
 Sweet rhythm, as swelling waves of ocean seem 
 To give the music of the sea, which breaks 
 In cadence soft. The gentle wind now shakes 
 The murmuring leaves. Thus willingly we dream, 
 And listen to the poetry Earth makes. 
 
HOXOAVA'S LOVE 
 
 J9 
 
 III 
 ATTRACTION 
 
 WHAT makes me love thee, dear ? I cannot tell : 
 I know 'tis not thy beauty ; nights and days 
 I, like some first-work painter, fondly gaze 
 Upon thy face, and scan each feature well ; 
 Then wond'ring seek to know whence comes the 
 
 spell 
 That silent sends me to thy side always ; 
 At times unwilling, I would make delays, 
 And fain this strange and sweet enchantment 
 
 quell. 
 
 The painted picture of a Christ I've seen, 
 How round his head a halo bright is shown, 
 As if the beauty of his soul had been 
 In fair effulgent light outside him thrown : 
 Thou art not circled by such luminous sheen, 
 But yet thou hast a radiance all thine own. 
 
40 HONORIA'S LOVE 
 
 IV 
 LOVE'S MYSTIC POWER 
 
 Now would I closely analyse my mind 
 Like some philosopher ; fain would I try 
 To fathom mysteries ; discover why 
 Thou dost possess such psychic force, and find 
 If Reason leads me on, or impulse blind, 
 Or cunning culture of thy mind, that nigh 
 To thee I'm drawn in loving sympathy, 
 Like floating sound-waves in the wind. 
 
 There seems to me a magnetism strong 
 Surrounding thee ; as if an aureole 
 Of subtle influence doth crown thine head, 
 And overspread thee wholly. Thus, I long 
 For thy sweet kisses ; while my very soul, 
 And conscience, heart, and mind by thee are led. 
 
HO NOMA'S LOVE 41 
 
 V 
 LOVE, THE UNIVERSAL LAW 
 
 As atom unto atom firmly lies, 
 
 Obeying blindly that great law which makes 
 
 Subservient even lifeless matter ; wakes 
 
 An energy, a force whose hidden ties 
 
 Bind animate or inanimate in wise, 
 
 True order. See, the silver cloudlet breaks, 
 
 With others interweaves ; thus changed, forsakes 
 
 An individual existence, dies. 
 
 Wave follows wave in rhythmic lines, and one 
 By one they lose themselves in close embrace ; 
 Thus are we twain commingled ; our lives run 
 In closest sympathy ; we interlace 
 Our mind's emotions : now there hath begun 
 Creation new, to which past life gives place. 
 
HOXORIA'S LOVE 
 
 VI 
 DEVOTION 
 
 If mine were wealth of worlds, or vast estate, 
 Or kingly crown of monarchs great, then know, 
 I, dearest, would on thee all these bestow. 
 My Prince of Love, I would not hesitate, 
 Were I a queen, to daily ministrate 
 So humbly to thy wants, if need be show 
 How much my love would willingly forego, 
 Myself extinguishing to make thee great. 
 
 Ah, yes, if I the goddess Fortune were, 
 
 My gifts on thee I gladly would outpour : 
 
 If I possessed the zone of Venus fair 
 
 I'd give to thee a form and face e'en more 
 
 Enchanting than Apollo's. I would share, 
 
 Nay, yield to thee wealth, honour, beauty, power. 
 
HOAORIA'S LOVE 43 
 
 VII 
 DOUBTINGS 
 
 ALL brimming over, dearest, with my love to-day, 
 I knelt upon the grass ; I whispered low, 
 While closely bending to the flowers that show 
 The constancy of love, ' Oh, blue eyes, say 
 If he who gives me love, will love alway ? ' 
 I listened, but the leaves that to and fro 
 Were swinging overhead, then seemed to throw 
 A melancholy shadow as I lay. 
 
 ' Oh, hapless one,' then sighing said the wind, 
 ' Thy heart for ever on its love must bide ; 
 He loves thee not, and thou— well, thou art blind. 
 Just then, the love-songs to each new-made bride 
 Were trilled from tree to tree. ' These have divined 
 The mystery of love ! ' my heart out-sighed. 
 
44 HONORIA'S LOVE 
 
 VIII 
 LOVE, AN INSPIRATION 
 
 WOULD I dethrone thee, idol mine, my king, 
 If mine eyes ceased to win from thee thy love ; 
 Or if my voice's music failed to move 
 Thy soul in sweet accord ; and all I sing, 
 And all the minstrelsies my heart could bring, 
 Indifferent still found thee? 'Twould but prove 
 An incitation deep and strong : above 
 Love's joys is that of Love's sweet sorrowing. 
 
 Ah, if mine eyes had never looked in thine, 
 Or I had never listened to that tone 
 Which flowed in soulful words, like rich, red wine 
 That quickens warm life-currents ; then, not one 
 Stray thought of passion's poesy were mine ; 
 For, thou their inspiration, thou alone. 
 
HONORIA'S LOVE 45 
 
 IX 
 
 SEPARATION 
 
 Must we two part? Bound as we are? Oh, no ! 
 
 Tis sundrance of myself ! I would abide 
 
 At any cost for ever at thy side. 
 
 Oh, must for evermore life's river flow 
 
 In sep'rate channels, dried and shrunken go 
 
 To limitless eternity's dark tide ? 
 
 Henceforward must our life-path far divide, 
 
 And leave me in unutterable woe ? 
 
 How chilled the life-stream is that warmly ran 
 Erstwhile throughout the subtle, unseen ways 
 Of this my frame 1 All seems so cold and wan ; 
 Life's warm and roseate hues that met my gaze 
 Are turned to ice : for in that blow began 
 The death-in-life to last my length of days. 
 
46 HO NOKIA'S LOVE 
 
 X 
 RENUNCIATION 
 
 Now go ; I may not strive with this decree 
 Which doth divide us two. I will not say 
 I suffer : sound of speech shall not betray 
 My soul's incessant, tearless agony. 
 How often lowly on my bended knee, 
 Or in the occupation of each day, 
 I sue for my deliverance ; and pray — 
 ' How long, oh, weary heart, is this to be ! ' 
 
 Yet know, the farthest limits of earth's space 
 
 But poor division makes 'twixt thee and me : 
 
 The motions of our mind are so allied 
 
 That when thou hast a thought it must give place 
 
 To mine. 'Tis held by the intensity 
 
 Of that soul-chain which space may not divide. 
 
HONORIA'S LOVE 47 
 
 XI 
 DESPAIR 
 
 My darkness mock not, oh, thou orb of day, 
 Nor make the world so beautiful and bright, 
 While heavy clouds of deepest, densest night 
 Press down my inmost soul. No single ray 
 Of hope doth pierce the gloom that fills my way ; 
 Departed is my joy, my life's sunlight. 
 Like one struck blind the memory of sight 
 Alone remains ; so light is lost for aye. 
 
 Oh, how those light-winged mites of pleasure make 
 
 Mine utter joylessness more vivid, plain ! 
 
 While trilling happy songs they straight awake 
 
 All nature to rejoice : the sweet refrain 
 
 In times past thrilled each nerve, as bright leaves 
 
 shake 
 In summer wind, or quiver in the rain. 
 
48 HONORIA'S LOVE 
 
 Xll 
 
 REGRET 
 
 WlTH what delight the traveller longs to see 
 
 The shores of other lands, and eager goes 
 
 Upon his way despising ocean foes. 
 
 But, weary at last, he longs to be 
 
 At rest, and pants for home regretfully. 
 
 Thus storm-tossed, heart-sick, longing for repose, 
 
 t seek some peaceful shelter which bestows 
 
 A share of calm on chastened misery. 
 
 The flowery shores of Love I smiling sought 
 In new-born joy, nor ever stayed to think 
 'Twas but a lovely mirage that was fraught 
 With rainbow beauties. Just upon the brink 
 Of full possession all dissolved to naught, 
 And in the clouds I watched the vision sink. 
 
HONORIA'S LOVE 49 
 
 XIII 
 
 love's indestructibility 
 
 The days have multiplied themselves to years 
 
 Since visible reflection of thine eyes 
 
 Met mine ; though God propinquity denies, 
 
 Still art thou very nigh me. All my tears 
 
 Have failed to blot thine image, which appears 
 
 Upon the mental retina, defies 
 
 Laws physical ; and when I rest or rise 
 
 One solitary speech the silence hears. 
 
 And this my cry — ' Beloved, I love thee still ! ' 
 
 Howe'er I strive iconoclast to be 
 
 Mine idol will not shatter. If my will 
 
 Could change thy substance, and had power to see 
 
 Thee turned to limpid water, then my fill 
 
 Of life were given to cast myself in thee. 
 
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5o HONORTA'S LOVE 
 
 XIV 
 LOVE VERSUS REASON 
 
 As prisoner pining in his darkened cell, 
 And sighs to see the golden, glad'ning light ; 
 So longs mine hunger'd heart for one short sight 
 Of thee, mine absent one. Could I compel 
 Thy presence here, by force of that strong spell 
 Which essence is and outcome of the might 
 Of love enchained, and still all infinite, 
 Would I refrain ? My lonely heart, me tell ! 
 
 Hath Reason power to move the quickened soul 
 To do its dictates ? Or doth the lord of all, 
 Imperious, issue his command, control 
 All man's emotions ? Make him humble thrall, 
 And servant to his will ? Love 's not the whole 
 Of life ; though ofttimes Reason's reign may fall. 
 
HO NOMA'S LOVE ;i 
 
 XV 
 THE UNDOING 
 
 Now, how must I unlove thee ? I do attest 
 The task of this unloving can't compare 
 For easy methods to the loving. Where 
 The first is full of toil and strange unrest, 
 Of all things human, 'tis most manifest 
 The second 's like a slippery downhill snare, 
 O'er which all blindly stumble unaware ; 
 Nor wise, nor simple can the fall arrest. 
 
 In searching for the way through all book-lore, 
 
 I read that 'tis pre-eminently wise 
 
 To scan the loved one's faults, and closely dwell 
 
 Upon his blemishes, whom we of yore 
 
 Thought perfect. But, how vain to thus devise ! 
 
 Away they melt ! Unloving, love we more. 
 
HO NOMA'S LOVE 
 
 XVI 
 PEACE 
 
 I HAVE at last the victory achieved — 
 That victory over Love, beneath whose sway 
 My hot, rebellious soul could see no way 
 Of freedom good, nor means to be relieved ; 
 And all this weary time I had believed 
 The bondage must endure ; for day by day 
 My ever-changeful, helpless heart would say — 
 ' Love 's gone at last ! ' Then find itself deceived. 
 
 On me a nun-like peace hath now ensued, 
 Serenely I can think of thy dear name, 
 And sink each foolish, fond solicitude 
 In deep oblivion. The past's a dream, 
 For Love is dead, and buried now for good, 
 A thousand times I tell myself the same. 
 
HONORIA'S LOVE 53 
 
 XVII 
 SUBDUED, BUT NOT DEAD 
 
 Within my breast a meek submission reigns ; 
 
 Unruffled as the stars I see thy face, 
 
 Of which I keep the semblance, not a trace 
 
 Of those old byegone love-throbs now remains : 
 
 Nor is it moved by burning, jealous pains, 
 
 That oft in quick succession took their place. 
 
 I see thy fair handwriting, in this case 
 
 The written page mine eyes no more enchains. 
 
 Yet, this I know, if Fate should send thee here, 
 We must not meet ; there's not a doubt but all 
 My walls of strong defence would disappear ; 
 I could not trust my wayward heart this much, 
 If on mine ears thy deep, soft tones should fall, 
 Nor neutralise the magnet of thy touch. 
 
54 HONORIA'S LOVE 
 
 XVIII 
 LOVE NEVER LOST 
 
 All crushed and broken are those tender flowers 
 That wilful Hope persisting strewed my way ; 
 And there before mine eyes Love's rosebuds lay 
 Blushing, and waiting soft refreshing showers 
 To ope their petals sweet, in summer hours, 
 And bask in light and beauty while they may : 
 But just at brightest bloom they passed away, 
 And dying perfume breathed amidst their bowers. 
 
 The flowers are gone ; their fragrance still remains 
 All hid within my breast as incense rare ; 
 Though Love 's departed, yet its influence reigns, 
 And gives more gentle thoughts the soul to share ; 
 Beneath its gen'rous power the heart attains 
 A sweetness fair, that else were never there. 
 
TO AMY 55 
 
 TO AMY 
 
 On her Twenty-first Birthday 
 
 This day hath dawned for thee, my darling sweet, 
 Which often thou hast longed for in th? past ; 
 Thy childhood's o'er, and thou hast gained at last 
 Fair womanhood's estate ; for thee replete 
 With health, and joy, and love ; gifts truly meet 
 For God's dear children. Now o'er thee is cast 
 The glory of life's sunshine ; now thou hast 
 The fragrance of life's flowers at thy feet. 
 
 Thy smiling lips breathe sweet content ; thine eyes 
 Of clearest blue bespeak thy happy thought ; 
 For in their depth a tender beauty lies, 
 That e'en we think a glimpse of Heaven is caught, 
 Drawn as it were from out the far-off skies, 
 Which makes thy life with love for ever fraught. 
 
56 TO J. W. S. 
 
 TO J. W. S. 
 
 On his Birthday, March 31 
 
 When Winter's frosts had safely passed away, 
 And all his course of storm and tempest run, 
 Then birds and flowers peeped forth to meet the 
 
 sun ; 
 For Spring-time came with bounding steps to say 
 Her pleasant mission was to make earth gay ; 
 And raising fairy wand, she thereupon 
 Commanded Life to spring, and one by one 
 The earth disclosed sweet charms each new-born 
 
 day. 
 
 Twas thus midst budding trees, and sunshine brave, 
 The wooing of the birds, the building of each nest, 
 Xew-wakened Life to thee a greeting gave, 
 In mystic music all her love expressed, 
 Forecast of joys that I would wish thee have, 
 Thy length of days ; the purest, sweetest, best. 
 
FAITH 57 
 
 FAITH 
 
 Ye countless, far-off suns that form a scheme 
 Unfathomable ; hung above the blue 
 Of high-vaulted heaven, and sending through 
 The skies your inextinguishable beam ; 
 Now say if Heaven and Hell be all a dream, 
 And but a myth the vast hereafter, too, 
 Yet ye remain all steady, constant, true, 
 For ever kept alight by power supreme ? 
 
 Is there no God ? If so, then let your light 
 Now totter ; your empyrean fires go cold ; 
 No longer glist with scintillation bright, 
 Ye mysterious spheres of molten gold ! 
 Now let your glory fade, and turn to night, 
 In darkness all the universe enfold. 
 
58 THE EVANGELIST 
 
 THE EVANGELIST 
 
 'God is Love' 
 
 Oh, sweet-voiced messenger, now thou dost go 
 To spread the olive-branch of peace each day ; 
 At once rejoicing, pitying ; on thy way 
 Thou breathest gentle thoughts that surely flow 
 From out the Fount of God's own love, and glow 
 With light divine. A mingled two-fold ray 
 Illumes thy face ; for in thy heart doth stay 
 A depth of human love most good to know. 
 
 Thou dear enthusiast ! Inspired by love 
 Speed on thy way, and strike the desert stone 
 Of hardened heart of man ; now gently break 
 That flinty rock, and by thy sweetness move 
 To penitential tears. Thy work alone 
 Will bring thee love — 'tis all for ' Love's ' dear 
 sake. 
 
EDAIN 
 
 AN ANCIENT LEGEND OF IRELAND 
 
LIST OF IMAGINARY ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 I. Early morning. A beautiful woman (Edain) bathing 
 in a lake, which is surrounded by trees — chiefly willows. In 
 the clear lake is reflected the rosy clouds. Behind the trees 
 stands a man (the king) in an attitude of astonishment, 
 mingled with delight, as he gazes on the maiden. 
 
 ' He wandered on until his steps unwittingly drew near 
 The willow-sheltered lake, where bathed Edain all void of 
 
 fear. 
 With eyes transfixed he stood amazed, and mute 
 With joy ; for quivered ev"ry nerve with love all absolute.' 
 
 II. Edain is crowned the Queen of Erin, and, seated on 
 a golden throne at the king's right hand, she receives the 
 homage of the nobles. 
 
 ' And all the nobles in his court paid homage to her there, 
 In twofold honour, Erin's queen, and queen of beauty rare.' 
 
 III. The fairy king, disguised as a minstrel, and the King 
 of Tara are seated at a table on which is placed the chess- 
 board. The checkers are made of gold and silver alternately, 
 the angles of which are richly illuminated with precious stones. 
 The Queen Edain is entering the room. The minstrel looks 
 at her, spell-bound with surprise at her extraordinary beauty. 
 
 ' The glory of her loveliness 
 
 Enraptured all his soul ; 
 His senses, steeped in joy, no more 
 
 Were under his control.' 
 
62 EDAIN 
 
 IV. The royal hall. The banquet over, the guests are 
 standing about in groups, or seated on low benches covered 
 with cloth of gold. The princes of Erin, in flowing hair, are 
 crowned with golden circlets. The queen is seated in her 
 royal chair at the king's right hand, while the minstrel (who 
 is invisible to all others) is singing his love-song in the ears 
 of the queen, and playing softly on his golden harp. The 
 Chief Poet, arrayed in his robes of white, is seated on a dais 
 at the opposite side of the room, surrounded by his train of 
 fifty minstrels, or minor poets. 
 
 ' Most beauteous lady, come with me 
 
 To my palace made of gold ; 
 Thy bed shall be drooped with diamonds rare 
 
 And glitter with wealth untold.' 
 
 V. Beautifully shaped horses, with golden bridles, and 
 shod in silver, are leaping over the high wall the king caused 
 to be erected in order to starve them to death, so as to revenge 
 himself on Midar. The chiefs of Erin running after them, in 
 hopes of catching them for their own use. 
 
 ' The horses were of noble blood, 
 
 And leaped their barriers high ; 
 Nor bolts, nor bars, nor prison walls 
 
 Could spoil their liberty.' 
 
 VI. The king's warriors and workmen are all vigorously 
 engaged in digging down into the hill, situated in the ' Sacred 
 Midde' (centre) of Erin. 
 
 ' And now the king's brave warriors 
 
 And workmen, one and all, 
 With spade and pickaxe bore the earth, 
 
 To reach the palace wall.' 
 
 VII. Summer's night. Moonlight. An immense number 
 of fays and fairies are diligently engaged in filling up the pit. 
 
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 Some are striving to carry stones nearly as big as themselves, 
 while others are rilling wheelbarrows ; those nearest the pit 
 are shovelling in the soil. They present a very grotesque 
 appearance. 
 
 ' But daily, as their task went on, 
 
 Their labour proved in vain : 
 As fast as e'er the pit was made, 
 Each morn 'twas filled again.' 
 
 VIII. Fairyland. King Midar's gardens. Fays and 
 fairies reclining on moss beds, which glitter like emeralds. 
 Fairies wandering in the maze of beautiful avenues. Foun- 
 tains playing at every turn, showing rainbow hues. Minstrels, 
 dressed in glistening gossamer, with harps, are seated on the 
 branches of noble trees. The whole illuminated by myriads 
 of tiny lights suspended from the branches of the trees. The 
 lamps give out every imaginable colour, the effect on the 
 scene being most gorgeous. 
 
 ' The spirit-music floating from 
 
 These sylvan seats above, 
 Was tuned to poetry divine, 
 
 Whose themes were all of love.' 
 
 IX. Midar mixes them. Fifty fairies are seen filing out 
 of the castle gate, all exactly alike, and all perfectly resembling 
 the queen. 
 
 ' In dress, and face, and form, all like 
 
 The beautiful young queen ; 
 So nearly they resembled her, 
 
 No difference was seen.' 
 
 X. The king gazes bewildered at the file of lovely women. 
 At the sound of his voice, Midar's spell on Edain is broken. 
 She looks at her husband with a countenance lit up with joy. 
 
64 ED A IN 
 
 ' Her prisoned soul burst through its chains, 
 
 And lit with love her eyes, 
 As gazed she on her husband's face 
 
 In warm and glad surprise. 
 
 ' He knew her by her look of love 
 
 And drew her from the crowd, 
 And kissed her, raised her on his steed, 
 
 Then back to Tara rode.' 
 
 XI. Fifty warriors have each a maiden mounted on horse- 
 back behind him. To prevent their escape they are strapped 
 to the soldiers' waist-bands. 
 
 ' Securely fastened to his waist 
 
 (A curious cavalcade) 
 Behind him, mounted on his horse, 
 
 Each warrior has his maid.' 
 
 XII. Tara's Gate. The warriors, glancing behind at their 
 prisoners, are utterly amazed to find that they are non est. 
 In the distance the fifty fairies are seen melting into mere 
 shadows, which become fainter and fainter. 
 
 ' And when they turned them to alight 
 
 At Tara's palace fair, 
 Lo, every maid had vanished quite, 
 
 And melted into air! ' 
 
65 
 
 EDAIN 
 
 An Ancient Legend of Ireland 
 
 Introduction 
 
 The romantic and poetic nature of the Irish may 
 be seen in their beautiful fairy tales, or ancient 
 legends of Erin, where historical events, and 
 fanciful fairy lore are most romantically mingled. 
 It seems as if the very beauty of the country 
 helped to inspire a poetic feeling in its people, and 
 stimulate their imagination ; for every glen and 
 mountain has its own history, each of which is 
 made dear by its association with some national 
 hero who was held in honour in the days of old, 
 when Ireland possessed her own kings and native 
 chiefs. 
 
 The annalists of Ireland claim for their country 
 a civilisation extending over a period of three 
 
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66 EDAIN 
 
 thousand years. Long before Romulus founded 
 Rome Ireland had her college at Tara, ' where 
 the Druids taught the wisdom of Egypt ; the 
 mysteries of Samothrace ; and the religion of Tyre.' 
 
 The Irish believed, as did most civilised peoples, 
 in a race of beings, partly human, partly super- 
 natural ; beings midway between man and the 
 angel. The Persians called these peris, the Greeks 
 demons, and the Irish the Sidhee, or fairies. These 
 latter are said to be very fond of beautiful mortal 
 women, and use their supernatural powers to wile 
 them away to fairyland. This belief has given 
 rise to many a beautiful fairy-tale. The fairies 
 are said to have their palaces beneath the hills 
 and lakes, where they hide all the treasures of the 
 earth. They enjoy perpetual youth, and are un- 
 acquainted with death or disease, living a life of 
 pleasure, and revelling in dance, and music and 
 song ; nevertheless, they are not perfectly happy, 
 for they know they are doomed at the Day of 
 Judgment to complete annihilation. 
 
 In the following verses I have adhered faithfully 
 to the incidents given in the old legend ; never- 
 theless these form but the framework of the story ; 
 
EDAIN 67 
 
 for the filling in of the details are partly the work 
 of my own imagination and partly information 
 culled from the best historic sources. In this way 
 I have endeavoured to give a more vivid picture 
 of those ancient times for ever passed away. 
 
63 EDAIN 
 
 EDAIN 
 
 'TWAS dawn of day, in his majestic beauty rose 
 
 the sun 
 Behind the ancient hills of Erin. Dewdrops one 
 
 by one 
 Now slowly disappeared ; caught up, absorbed by 
 
 every ray 
 That glinted through the shady glens, filled with 
 
 the mist)' grey 
 Of Night's dark curtain. Like some beauteous 
 
 mirage in the lake, 
 The purple-tinted clouds appeared to move about, 
 
 and break 
 In myriad forms and shapes. Before the heat of 
 
 summer sun 
 Had spread, and in the early cool, the maid Edain 
 
 with none 
 
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 To see, herself unrobed, and springing in the 
 
 glitt'ring sheet 
 Oflimpid water, bathed all free in this secure retreat. 
 
 Save the soft clouds none saw the rounded limbs 
 alternate gleam 
 
 With shell-like tint upon the wave, or vanish like 
 a dream : 
 
 Her breasts like two fair doves in gentle palpita- 
 tion rose 
 
 With each lithe motion ; for her silken hair con- 
 fined all close 
 
 Naught of her charms concealed. Th' exquisite 
 beauty of her race 
 
 Was gloriously expressed in ev'ry curve of her 
 sweet face. 
 
 No peri half so fair ; 'twas glimpse of heaven to 
 see her eyes 
 
 Glow with the light of midnight stars set in the 
 arched skies. 
 
 From Tara's halls the king had wandered forth in 
 
 quiet mood, 
 To list to love-songs of the birds in this sweet 
 
 solitude : 
 
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 To drink the morning air ; to watch the rising sun 
 
 soft glow 
 O'er every dell, or mountain top, or valley far 
 
 below ; 
 He wandered on until his steps unwittingly drew 
 
 near 
 The willow-sheltered lake where bathed Edain all 
 
 void of fear. 
 
 Then suddenly he stopped and gazed upon that 
 
 vision fair, 
 His heart beat fast and full, and he could scarcely 
 
 breathe, nor dare 
 He move a limb. With eyes transfixed he stood 
 
 amazed, and mute 
 With joy ; for quivered ev'ry nerve with love all 
 
 absolute. 
 
 He turned him round and fled ; this new-born 
 
 feeling quickly brought 
 Sensations of strange bashfulness. Then back he 
 
 came and sought 
 With swift impatient steps to see this naiad of the 
 
 lake 
 
EDAIN 71 
 
 Who held such empire, that he could yield his 
 
 kingdom for her sake : 
 But, lo ! the maid was gone ; in vain explored he 
 
 everywhere ; 
 The sylvan glens, the shady woods he searched 
 
 with anxious care ; 
 He homeward turned ; perturbed his mind ; with 
 
 strong emotion rent ; 
 * Who was the maid ? How came she there ? ' he 
 
 asked with wonderment. 
 
 Though parted from her presence there remained 
 
 before his sight 
 The image of Edain, that seemed like some fair 
 
 dream of light : 
 All things to him were changed ; the soothing 
 
 sounds of minstrelsy ; 
 The pleasures of the chase ; of banquetings and 
 
 revelry ; 
 Now lost their charm ; a melancholy man in all 
 
 his thought 
 The king became, without Edain all pleasures 
 
 were as naught. 
 
72 EDA IN 
 
 At length the king's decree went forth through all 
 his wide demesne 
 
 That sweet Edain be brought to him, and made 
 fair Tara's queen ; 
 
 Now sate she on a golden throne upon the king's 
 right hand, 
 
 And fame of all her loveliness was spread through- 
 out the land ; 
 
 And all the nobles in his court paid homage to 
 her there, 
 
 In two-fold honour, Erin's queen, and queen of 
 beauty rare. 
 
 King Midar the powerful chief 
 Of Tuatha-Danann race, 1 
 
 Loved far beyond all of his kind 
 A beauteous woman's face. 
 
 1 It may be somewhat confusing to the reader to find 
 that the Tuatha-de-Dananns (a race of the earliest historic 
 settlers in Ireland) are treated in the legend in the two-fold 
 character of fairy and human being. The following will 
 explain this apparent anomaly. The first historic settlers in 
 Ireland were a pastoral people, called Firbolgs. The next 
 
EDAIN 73 
 
 He longed to look on sweet Edain, 
 
 Behold her features rare ; 
 And see how far a mortal may 
 
 Transcendent beauty bear. 
 
 'Twas told him she was wondrous fair, 
 
 More lovely to the sight 
 Than any fairy who e'er danced 
 
 Upon a beam of light. 
 
 Then he disguised him cunningly, 
 As wandering minstrel dight, 
 
 And came to Tara's halls, and sued 
 For shelter on one night. 1 
 
 were the Tuatha-de-Dananns, a large, fair-complexioned 
 and very remarkable race. ' They were warlike, energetic, 
 progressive ; skilled in metal-work ; musical, poetical, ac- 
 quainted with the healing art, skilled in Druidism, and 
 believed to be adepts in necromancy and magic' Owing to 
 their superior knowledge the Dananns were credited to 
 possess supernatural powers which in course of time con- 
 verted them by the imagination of the Irish into fairies. 
 'From these two races sprang the fairy mythology of 
 Ireland.' 
 
 1 In ancient times it was the custom in Ireland to render 
 hospitality to every bard who demanded it ; for it was held 
 to be a sacred duty for both king and commoner to entertain 
 
74 EDA IN 
 
 No song sang he, no epic gave, 
 
 But to the king straightway — 
 ' A game of chess, my sire,' said he, 
 
 ' I beg of you to play.' 
 
 ' And who art thou that I should play 
 
 A game of chess with thee ? ' 
 The king demanded of the bard 
 
 A little haughtily. 
 
 ' Try me, I am a worthy foe,' 
 
 The minstrel quick replied ; 
 ' I have no check-board,' quoth the king, 
 
 Unable to decide. 
 
 ' 'Tis in the chamber of the queen,' 
 
 Explained he to his guest ; 
 ' It is not meet to enter now, 
 
 And spoil my lady's rest' 
 
 him. ' A train of fifty minor poets always attended the 
 chief poet, and they were all entertained free of cost where 
 ever they visited throughout Ireland. The Chief Bard was 
 borne on men's shoulders to the palace of the king, and 
 there presented with a rich robe, a chain, and a girdle of 
 gold. Of one bard it is recorded the king gave him in 
 addition, his horse and armour, fifty rings to his hand, one 
 thousand ounces of pure gold, and his chess-board.' 
 
EDA IX 75 
 
 That challenge was given the king, 
 
 The Queen Edain soon heard ; 
 Forthwith she sent the checker-board 
 
 To please the stranger-bard. 
 
 The checkers were of rich red gold, 
 
 And silver, white and fair ; 
 And every angle was bedecked 
 
 With jewels rich and rare. 1 
 
 The chessmen were most weird and strange, 
 
 For they were deftly wrought 
 From out the bones of enemies 
 
 Who centuries had fought, 
 
 1 A manuscript of the twelfth century contains this 
 description of a royal chess-board : — ' It was a board of silver 
 and pure gold, and every angle was illuminated with precious 
 stones ; and there was a man-bag of woven brass wire.' The 
 ancestors of the king to whom this board belonged used 
 chessmen made from the bones of hereditary enemies. A 
 recent writer says — 'The game of chess was frequently 
 referred to in the old bardic Tales ; and chess seems to have 
 been a favourite pastime with the Irish from the most 
 remote antiquity. The royal chess-board was very costly, 
 and richly decorated.' 
 
76 EDAIN 
 
 With Tara's kings l in bitter hate ; 
 
 And thus from out the dead 
 A monument of victory 
 
 Their conquerors had made. 
 
 Then from her chamber Queen Edain 
 Came forth her guest to see, 
 
 But while she gave him welcome meet, 
 He trembled visibly. 
 
 He gazed with ravished, dazzled eyes 
 
 Upon that vision fair ; 
 The pow'r of utterance had fled, 
 
 And speechless he stood there. 
 
 1 Montalembert says — 'Almost without interruption, up to 
 1 1 68, kings, springing from its different branches, exercised 
 in Ireland the supreme monarchy — that is to say, a sort of 
 primacy over the provincial kings, which has been compared 
 to that of metropolitan over-bishops, but which rather recalls 
 the feudal sovereignty of the Salic emperors. Nothing could 
 be more unsettled or stormy than the exercise of this 
 sovereignty. It was incessantly disputed by some vassal 
 king, who generally succeeded by force of arms in robbing 
 the supreme monarch of his crown and life, and replacing 
 him upon the throne of Tara with a tolerable certainty of 
 himself being similarly treated by the son of the dethroned 
 king.' 
 
EDAIN 77 
 
 The glory of her loveliness 
 
 Enraptured all his soul ; 
 His senses steeped in joy, no more 
 
 Were under his control. 
 
 A strange emotion suddenly 
 
 Came o'er the lady too, 
 She paled, and quivered like a leaf, 
 
 Then silently withdrew. 
 
 ' What are the stakes ? ' the king inquired, 
 The minstrel answered free ; — 
 
 ' Let him who conquers name the prize, 
 Whatever it may be.' 
 
 ' Agreed, agreed ! ' exclaimed the king, 
 
 And then the game began ; 
 To make successful the campaign 
 
 He wisely laid his plan ; 
 
 All skilfully he played his game ; 
 
 With care the pieces moved ; 
 But played the bard more cunningly, 
 
 Who victor final proved. 
 
78 EDAIN 
 
 ' Now, name the prize ! ' the good king cried, 
 
 ' The game is surely thine ! ' 
 ' The Queen Edain,' the bard replied, 
 
 ' I fairly claim as mine ; 
 
 ' Twelve months this day, I'll take away 
 
 The prize thou didst award.' 
 Then suddenly was seen no more 
 
 The strange mysterious bard. 
 
 The king, aghast at this demand 
 
 Beyond all parallel, 
 Felt sorely straitened ; deep perplexed, 
 
 And down his countenance fell. 
 
 Then instantly a grey-beard spake, 
 
 ' Thy royal oath was given ; 
 Thine honour pledged to thy young queen, 
 
 Which never may be riven.' 
 
 ' Yield up Edain ? ' exclaimed the king ; 
 
 ' I ask the All-Good's curse, 
 If such I do while drop of blood 
 
 My frame doth still traverse.' 
 
EDAIN 
 
 The monarch kept a strict account, 
 Whene'er the day should be, 
 
 And gathered round him all his court 
 To bear him company. 
 
 And then he royal banquet made 
 
 Upon this fatal day, 
 And summons sent to vassal kings ' 
 
 That none should stay away. 
 
 The prince of fair Mommonia, and 
 
 Cannocia in the west, 
 Lagenia and Ultonia, were 
 
 Each one an honoured guest. 
 
 1 In ancient times Ireland was governed by a supreme 
 monarch and four vassal kings. The country was divided 
 into provinces, or kingdoms ; to the north Ulster, or Ultonia, 
 to the south Munster, or Mommonia, to the east Leinster, 
 or Lagenia, to the west Connaught, or Cannocia. Over 
 each of these provinces reigned a vassal king who was 
 subject to the supreme monarch. At one time Leinster 
 alone paid a triennial tribute to the King of Tara of cattle to 
 the value of 130,000/., 5,000 ounces of silver, 5,000 cloaks, 
 5,000 brazen vessels. The supreme king dwelt in and 
 owned a distinct district — the antique ' Sacred Middle ' of 
 Ireland, represented by the counties of Meath and West- 
 meath, which surrounded the royal residence of Tara, 
 celebrated in Moore's ' Melodies ' : some ruins of the castle 
 still remain. 
 
So EDAIN 
 
 Beside all these the monarch bade 
 The minstrel-chief, and suite 
 
 Of fifty bards — well-favoured men — 
 To make the feast complete. 
 
 Above the nobles sat the bards 
 
 In honourable place, 
 All gifted men of noble mien 
 
 Endowed with every grace. 
 
 The minstrel-chief was centre of 
 
 This goodly, fair array 
 Of talent, genius, yet was he 
 
 More noble e'en than they. 
 
 He sat in state, resplendent in 
 His robes of purest white, 
 
 All clasped with jewelled brooches fair, 
 That glistened in the light. 
 
 To ask him to give song — declaim — 
 Such privilege none possessed ; 
 
 Not e'en the king ; nor nobles high, 
 Nor prince ; nor honoured guest. 
 
EDAIN 8 1 
 
 The queen alone, 'twas e'er ordained, 
 Should choose the epic, glee, 
 
 Or song of chivalry and love 
 At royal revelry. 
 
 At times the venerable bard, 
 
 When inspiration came, 
 Would sweep his golden lyre, or pour 
 
 His soul in lofty theme. 
 
 And while the poet thus declaimed 
 No sound the silence stirred ; 
 
 But all in reverence sate still, 
 Nor ever uttered word. 
 
 And bravely all the chieftains looked 
 
 With golden circlets set, 
 To crown their long and flowing locks 
 
 Of brown, or glossy jet. 
 
 Antique they were, of classic form, 
 And wrought all cunningly 
 
 In divers ways of workmanship, 
 Most wonderful to see.. 
 
 G 
 
82 EDALX 
 
 And every chief his jewels prized, 
 
 For in the days of yore 
 Their ancestors these diadems 
 
 At war, or banquet wore. 1 
 
 The fair Edain was richly tired 
 In robes of beauteous sheen ; 2 
 
 A costly diadem of gold 
 
 Crowned Tara's lovely queen. 
 
 1 ' Relics of a civilisation three thousand years old may 
 be seen in the Royal Irish Academy. The golden circlets ; 
 the fibulas (brooches) ; torques, bracelets, rings, &c, worn by 
 the ancient are not only costly in value, but often so sin- 
 gularly beautiful in the working out of minute artistic details, 
 that modern art is not merely unable to equal them, but 
 unable to even comprehend how the ancient workers in 
 metals could accomplish works of such delicate, almost 
 microscopic minuteness of finish.' — Sir William Wilde. 
 
 2 At this remote period ' the ladies wore the silken robes 
 and flowing veils of Persia. The native dress was costly 
 and picturesque, and the habits and mode of living of the 
 chiefs and kings splendid and Oriental. The high-born and 
 the wealthy wore tunics of fine linen of immense width, 
 girdled with gold, and with flowing sleeves after the Eastern 
 fashion. The fringed cloak with a hood after the Arab 
 mode was clasped on the shoulders with a golden brooch. 
 Golden circlets of beautiful and classic form confined their 
 long flowing hair, and, crowned with their diadems, the chiefs 
 sat at the banquet, or went forth to war. Sandals on their 
 feet, and bracelets and signet rings, of rich and curious work- 
 manship, completed the costume.' — Sir William Wilde. 
 
EDAIN 83 
 
 At every portal, every gate, 
 
 A guard full trusty, sure, 
 Was placed to keep all strangers out, 
 
 And make the queen secure. 
 
 Around the palace walls were ranged 
 Three lines of warriors, brave ; 
 
 A triple cord of chosen men, 
 Who swore the queen to save. 
 
 Yet, when the hour of midnight came ; 
 
 The pleasure at its height ; 
 And gallant nobles homage paid 
 
 To win their ladies bright. 
 
 Within the midst of this gay throng 
 
 Appeared the bard again, 
 And no one heard him, save the king 
 
 Sing softly to Edain. 
 
 No bard so beautiful as he, 1 
 
 All glorious his attire ; 
 While deftly swept he harp of gold, 
 
 And glowed his eyes with fire — 
 
 1 Every bard was handsome. ' They were gifted, 
 learned, and beautiful ; even genius was not considered 
 
84 EDAIN 
 
 THE MINSTRELS SONG 
 
 ' MOST beauteous lady come with me 
 
 To my palace made of gold ; 
 Thy bed shall be drooped with diamonds rare, 
 
 And glitter with wealth untold. 
 
 ' Delicious nectar from dewy flowers 
 Shall be given thee all thy days ; 
 
 And crimson red are the lover's lips 
 That would kiss thee, sweet, always. 
 
 ' And thou shalt sleep on the gentle down 
 That comes from the butterfly's wing ; 
 
 Thy wine-cup shall be the lily fair ; 
 Thy lover the Danann King. 
 
 enough without beauty to warrant a young man being 
 enrolled in the ranks of the poets. A noble, stately presence 
 was indispensable ; and the poet was required not only to 
 be gifted but handsome. Then, he was promoted through 
 all the grades until he reached the last and highest, called 
 " The Wisdom of the Gods." ' 
 
EDAIN 85 
 
 ' And nightly thou shalt be lulled to sleep 
 
 With a soothing, dreamy strain, 
 And the music floating through the air 
 
 Shall come to thy dreams again. 
 
 ' And delicate scent of balmy flowers 
 Shall o'er thee shed incense sweet, 
 
 Culled from the gardens of all the earth, 
 To render thy joy complete. 
 
 ' And thou shalt be my fairy queen 
 
 Endowed with eternal youth, 
 For ever and aye thy love I'll be, 
 
 If thou wilt be mine in truth. 
 
 ' Then come with me, come, sweet lady mine, 
 
 To my palace made of gold, 
 With ivory floors of creamy white, 
 
 All beautiful to behold.' 
 
 Thus with his golden harp sang Midar to Edain ; 
 In low seductive voice he uttered this soft strain ; 
 
S6 EDA IN 
 
 Then drew her tenderly from out her royal chair 
 And pressed her to his heart with none to interfere : 
 He led her down the hall amidst the courtly throng 
 His presence none perceived ; none heard his sweet 
 
 love-song : 
 None save the king, who sat immovable — fast 
 
 bound — 
 Struck dumb by Midar's spells : as soon as he had 
 
 found 
 His freedom, then he upraised him, in anger fierce 
 He bade his horsemen follow ; uttering a curse 
 Upon the sorcerer, he scoured the country wide ; 
 ' Come back, Edain, Edain ! ' impetuously he cried ; 
 The echoes of the hills took up the mournful strain 
 In seeming mockery replied — ' Edain — Edain ! ' 
 
 The monarch message sent to all the kings around, 
 And bade them kill and slay, and utterly confound 
 All of the hated Tuatha-de-Danann race, 
 And leave of all their forts e'en not a single trace ; 
 And royal Danann steeds should perish in their 
 
 stalls ; 
 For 'twas the king's command to build up all the 
 
 walls. 
 
EDAIiX 87 
 
 The horses were of noble blood 
 And leaped their barriers high, 
 
 Nor bolts, nor bars, nor prison- walls 
 Could spoil their liberty : ' 
 
 Of noble form these fiery steeds, 
 
 With golden bridles dight, 
 Their hoofs with silver gaily shod, 
 
 Shone in the bright sunlight. 
 
 The chiefs of Erin now forgot 
 T' obey their king's command, 
 
 To find where Midar kept Edain, 
 And spoil the Danann band ; 
 
 To capture for himself a steed 
 
 Each chieftain vainly tried ; 
 To mortal man these would not yield, 
 
 But ran the country wide. 
 
 1 It is said that the Tuatha-de-Danann horses were a 
 breed of noble animals found only in ancient Ireland, where 
 they flourished for several centuries : they were distinguished 
 for their beautiful shape, and high mettle. ' The last of this 
 race at the death of its owner refused to submit to a base- 
 born churl ; threw the groom, killing him on the spot, and 
 galloped away. Finally he plunged into the lake and was 
 seen no more.' 
 
EDA IN 
 
 The king in hottest anger raged ; 
 
 His heart with anguish stirred ; 
 To see his warriors and chiefs 
 
 So disregard his word. 
 
 He straightway issued a decree 
 That the Druid chief who dealt 
 
 In spirit lore, should cast a spell, 
 And find where Midar dwelt. 
 
 The Druid over Erin searched ; 
 
 His charms cast all around, 
 For, lo ! the penalty was death 
 
 If Midar were not found. 
 
 At length it was revealed to him 
 
 That Midar's palace bright, 
 Was hidden deep down in the hill, 
 
 In Erin's centre, quite. 
 
 At once the king's brave warriors, 
 
 And workmen, one and all, 
 With spade and pickaxe bored the earth 
 
 To reach the palace wall. 
 
EDAIN 
 
 But daily as their task went on, 
 Their labour proved in vain, 
 
 As fast as e'er the pit was made, 
 Each morn 'twas filled again. 
 
 And now the monarch sorely felt 
 
 All baffled in his quest 
 And sat heart-broken on the hill 
 
 Refusing food, or rest. 
 
 At midnight on one starry eve 
 While lonely he stayed there, 
 
 He heard a soft mysterious voice 
 Come floating through the air : 
 
 And then 'twas told him how to break 
 
 Th' enchanter's wily spell, 
 And how the pit could sure be made, 
 
 And all the work go well. 
 
 Oh bravely, bravely sped they on 
 
 Until the palace bright 
 Was seen to glitter through the earth 
 
 All in the broad daylight. 
 
yo EDAIN 
 
 And soon they reached the palace gate, 
 
 When lo ! they saw a train 
 ( >f lovely women filing out, 
 
 All like the Queen Edain. 
 
 Then, what a gorgeous scene burst forth 
 
 Upon their ravished sight, 
 Enchanting gardens teeming o'er 
 
 With every delight ! 
 
 The turf was velvet to the touch, 
 And glowed with beauteous sheen, 
 
 Like sparkling emeralds glittering fair 
 In many hues of green. 
 
 Delightful flowers of brilliant dye 
 
 Filled every gay parterre ; 
 While balmy odours from sweet shrubs 
 
 Were wafted through the air. 
 
 Far up the height of noble trees, 
 
 And glittering among 
 Their foliage, were a myriad lights, 
 
 Like stars in heaven hung. 
 
EDAIN 91 
 
 Each lamp gleamed with a wondrous fire ; 
 
 (No two alike were there) ; 
 A multiple of colours shed 
 
 Their lustre ev'rywhere. 
 
 No eye before such radiance saw, 
 
 And no one could divine, 
 What mystery made these tiny lamps 
 
 So constantly to shine. 
 
 At every turn a fountain played, 
 
 In thousand colours dight, 
 Like many rainbows merged in one 
 
 Sweet cloud of beauteous light. 
 
 And resting 'neath the spreading trees, 
 Or wandering through the maze 
 
 Of lovely avenues, were seen 
 The fairies, and the fays. 
 
 Upon the stately linden trees 
 
 Were scattered here and there, 
 The fairy minstrels, robed in white 
 
 Of glistening gossamer. 
 
92 EDALX 
 
 The spirit-music floating from 
 These sylvan seats above, 
 
 Was tuned to poetry divine, 
 Whose themes were all of love. 
 
 The perfumed air was parted with 
 
 Delicious melody, 
 That swept the ear, and filled the soul 
 
 With thrilling ecstasy. 
 
 The halls within were soft illumed 
 By radiance that was spread 
 
 Of myriad diamonds clustering thick 
 In branches overhead. 
 
 Indignant that these soldiers bold 
 Should view his fairy hall, 
 
 King Midar caused a thick dark cloud 
 To cover over all : 
 
 Yet when he saw his conquerors close, 
 Their victory to protract, 
 
 He fifty beauteous fairies sent 
 The warriors to distract. 
 
EDAIN 93 
 
 In dress, and face, and form all like 
 The beautiful young queen, 
 
 So nearly they resembled her, 
 No difference was seen. 
 
 For Midar this enchantment made 
 
 In hopes he might retain 
 The winsome woman whom he loved, 
 
 And struggled hard to gain. 
 
 The king was sorely puzzled now 
 When gazed he on the scene, 
 
 He could not recognise his wife, 
 Nor say which was the queen. 
 
 Then with the concentrated force 
 
 Of love, and wild despair, 
 In mighty tones his voice cut through 
 
 The dense and darkened air. 
 
 ' Edain, my love, my life, come forth, 
 Throw off thine awful yoke ; 
 
 Reveal thyself, my joy, my light ! ' 
 Thus pleadingly he spoke. 
 
94 EDAIN 
 
 Now, when she heard her husband's voice, 
 Her heart gave sudden thrill ; 
 
 It broke the spell that bound her down, 
 And held in bonds her will. 
 
 Her prisoned soul burst through its chains 
 
 And lit with love her eyes, 
 As gazed she on her husband's face 
 
 In warm and glad surprise. 
 
 He knew her by her look of love, 
 And drew her from the crowd, 
 
 And kissed her, raised her on his steed, 
 Then back to Tara rode. 
 
 And now the gallant warriors were 
 
 Unable to refrain 
 From much contention 'mongst themselves 
 
 Which should a maiden gain. 
 
 The sight of so much loveliness 
 
 Their souls set all on fire ; 
 Their hearts were witched by fairy charms, 
 
 And burned with strong desire : 
 
EDAIN 95 
 
 But Might asserted now its Right ; 
 
 The strongest soon agreed 
 Each warrior should a maiden take, 
 
 And place her on his steed. 
 
 Securely fastened to his waist, 
 
 (A curious cavalcade) 
 Behind him, mounted on his horse, 
 
 Each gallant had his maid. 
 
 But when they turned them to alight 
 
 At Tara's palace, fair, 
 Lo, every maid had vanished quite, 
 
 And melted into air ! 
 
 Though Midar loved fair women well 
 
 He ventured ne'er again 
 To trouble Tara's Halls, or try 
 
 To steal the fair Edain. 
 
POEMS IN BLANK VERSE 
 
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99 
 
 THE BURSTING OF ' CONE- 
 MAUGH LAKE; 
 
 Johnstown, U.S., May 31, 1889, 
 
 In which 14,000 Persons perished. The Disaster 
 took place at half-past two o'clock, in early 
 Dawn. 
 
 The busy town was hushed, and silence reigned 
 
 Around, upon that eve of leafy June ; 
 
 And sweetly Nature nestled everywhere. 
 
 The bird-song hushed, the hum and chirp 
 
 Of each wee winged thing that flits on earth, through 
 
 air 
 Had ceased ; and weary men who toiled all day, 
 The labour-sleep full deep and dreamless slept. 
 
 In light repose a babe lay on the breast 
 
 Of many a tired house-mother. Young Love 
 
 came 
 
 h 2 
 
ioo BURSTING OF 'CONEMAUGH LAKE' 
 
 All decked in pearly robe of rainbow hues 
 To whisper paeans sweet to maidens fair, 
 And steep their senses in a new delight. 
 
 The restless little children slumb'ring lay 
 Within their cots, while pleasing dreams 
 Brought dimpling smiles to play all lightly 'mong 
 Their roses. Nature, empress first and last 
 Of all the universe, did then enforce 
 Her gentle law, and saw that ev'ryone 
 Of all her various subjects rested. 
 
 But, hark ! What is that cannon boom that rends 
 The air with awful roar, more fiercely than 
 The concentrated sound of myriads of huge 
 Field-pieces, belching forth their fire and death ? 
 Is this artillery of Heaven that bursts 
 Upon the ear in new and forceful form ? 
 
 Now comes the rush of mighty waters — see, 
 They leap along their course like chargers spurred 
 To agony, expending all their strength 
 To compass full destruction of some foe. 
 Or hungry tigers springing on their prey 
 
BURSTING OF 'CONEMAUGH LAKE' 101 
 
 They light upon each unresisting cot, 
 
 And ev'ry homestead thought so safe erstwhile 
 
 Is now submerged within the angry flood. 
 
 Then terror strikes at every heart ; it is 
 As if the mighty ocean broke its bounds, 
 And now no longer moon-kept thrusts away 
 Its chains, engulfing all it reaches. 
 
 See, riding down the vale in fullest speed, 
 The horseman brave to give the sleeping town 
 An instant's warning ; valorous he sped, 
 The huge flood following, and fronting him 
 The town. He hears the waters rush, he turns 
 Him round ; he sees himself pursued 
 E'en by a mighty moving mountain chain, 
 Whose huge dimensions gave momentum great. 
 
 With pallid face he spurs his steed — ' On — on ! ' 
 He urges him, ' or else a town is lost ! ' 
 But while the words were on his lips, both horse 
 And rider were to quick destruction whirled. 
 
 Now bravely stands one woman at her post, 
 And sends electric summons to each place, 
 
102 BURSTING OF 'CONEMAVGH LAKE' 
 
 Within the radius of the waters' course, 
 To warn them of their danger. ' Save thyself! ' 
 The answering message said ; but still she plied 
 The needles, while the waters onward came 
 With giant strength. ' This message is my last ! ' 
 She trembling wired ; one moment later rushed 
 In fullest force the torrent wild, and swept 
 Away in one vast wave that noble soul. 
 
 But her brave deed will live : no hero great 
 Hath better won his laurels bright, than she 
 Who willingly laid down her life to save 
 The many from destruction. Henceforward men 
 Will say, — ' Ah, seldom woman's courage fails 
 When those she loves are found in danger : ' here 
 Xo selfish love inspired her soul, 'twas done 
 All bravely for the public good ; and in 
 Long years to come the children shall be told 
 With quiv'ring lips this woman's gentle deed, 
 This tale of noble self-devotion. 
 
 Now high upon the roof a mother stands 
 Surrounded by her children ; wond'ring if 
 Avenging God another deluge sent. 
 
BURSTING OF < CONEMAUGH LAKE' 103 
 
 The building swayed and rocked, moved by the 
 
 force 
 Of that mad water-mountain. Suddenly 
 It tottered over. In the flood herself 
 And one brave boy now struggled. ' Swim for 
 
 life ! ' 
 She cried as she upheld him clinging close 
 To floating thing, which swirled and danced 
 
 around. 
 With blanching cheek and beating heart the boy 
 Obeyed ; then turning his white face to hers — 
 ' Mother,' said he, ' you always told me God 
 Would keep me safe ; will He protect me now ? ' 
 
 Alas, poor mother, that long ling'ring look 
 
 The loving child gave thee is all thou hast 
 
 To dream upon ! Now, widowed, childless, 'reft 
 
 Of all the seven, weep thine eyes away ; 
 
 The light of life from thee for ever fled, 
 
 All blighted and extinguished thy heart's joy 
 
 In one short moment. 
 
 Impelled with awful force the floating wrecks 
 Of all the hamlets round come riding on 
 
104 BURSTING OF < CONEMAUGH LAKE' 
 
 The wave, alive with shivering souls who cling 
 With death-tight clasp to their unstable aid. 
 On — on the waters rush with mighty swell, 
 And soon the town is even with the ground, 
 And ev'ry habitation as completely wrecked 
 As if an army vast with vengeful force 
 Had swept it with great cannon. Onward goes 
 The flood, which carries now the wreckage of 
 A town, together with the remnant left of all 
 A goodly town's inhabitants. 
 
 Xow mingling with the waters' rush and roar 
 Are heard the shrieks of terror-stricken souls, 
 Who cling in wild despair to aught that floats 
 The frightful current. Snow-white locks of men 
 Bent with the weight of years, are mingled with 
 The full rich brown of youth. And childhood's 
 
 gold 
 Is gleaming in the morning sun, that lights 
 Those cruel waters that last day of May. 
 
 All innocent of danger ; void of fear, 
 
 A child plays on the floating timber ; laughs 
 
 Full merry as he dances down the wave 
 
BURSTING OF ' CONEMAUGH LAKE' 105 
 
 In all the joy of childhood, happy — free — 
 In full belief this ride on chance-made craft 
 Was pleasant sport for dawn of summer's day. 
 
 Still rushes on the flood, until the bridge 
 
 Is reached ; the wreckage is too vast to pass 
 
 Beneath its arches. Suddenly is made 
 
 A barrier of piled-up heap of homes 
 
 Demolished — shattered — all that goes to make 
 
 A goodly town, and clinging to this mass 
 
 Are thousands souls who swell the block the bridge 
 
 Hath made, and forms one firm stupendous dam. 
 
 And thus the coming current losing vent 
 
 Falls back upon the town, which now becomes 
 
 As deep submerged as ocean bed ; as void 
 
 Of human habitation, or the sign 
 
 Of human hand as what the sea traverses. 
 
 But see ! A flame is flickering through the pile 
 Against the bridge : it gathers strength — it spreads 
 All o'er the mass ; and volumes of dense smoke 
 And tongues of fire are leaping from that heap 
 In which are wedged a multitude of souls. 
 Oh, God ! Now hear the shrieks that fill the air ; 
 
io6 BURSTING OF ' CONEMAUGH LAKE' 
 
 The moans of dying in their agony ; 
 As if a thousand martyrs to the stake 
 Made fast, were slowly, horribly consumed. 
 
 Or has the Earth disclosed at last a Hell, 
 
 And in the midst of all the torrent's rush 
 
 Belched forth its fierce and fiery fumes 
 
 Upon the hapless beings gathered there ? 
 
 To flee the torture of this hell, those free 
 
 To move their limbs leaped from the writhing mass 
 
 To end their torments in the deep dark flood. 
 
 Abated now the fury of the flood ; 
 
 But who shall dare approach that awful pile 
 
 Still burning, smould'ring dense ? And now no 
 
 sound 
 Doth issue from its depths ; no groans — no cries — 
 No signs of life ; an awful stillness reigns. 
 Though hope is lost yet every man hath now 
 Become a hero. Day by day they struggle on 
 To free the loved remains from hellish place, 
 Though naught but ashes, or charred limbs will 
 
 meet 
 Their dazed, dimmed eyes, and sickened hearts. 
 
BURSTING OF < CONEMAUGH LAKE' 107 
 
 And this is all 
 That's left of manhood's strong and stately prime ; 
 Of womanhood's sweet beauty ! Hoary age, 
 And tender infancy are mingled in 
 One mass, and none can say — ' She's mine ! ' for all 
 That goes to make a woman love one man, 
 Or man to love one woman far above 
 All other, are now extinguished, and full 
 Obliterated all life's beauty. 
 
 Oh, saddened men, why seek ye your beloved 
 Among the charred remains that strangely fill 
 This floating charnel-house ? Shut fast your eyes, 
 Nor let the hideous vision haunt your sight 
 Throughout the weary, solitary years 
 That ye may call your own. Let Memory 
 Alone, before the mental retina 
 Bring faces sweet and fair ; whose eyes looked 
 
 love 
 To yours ; whose smiles were as a household sun 
 Which spreads its warm, refulgent rays around. 
 Whose souls were as a book all fairly writ 
 With tender thoughts, and deeds, and all 
 Those sweet solicitudes that Love begets 
 
io8 BURSTING OF ' CONEMAUGH LAKE' 
 
 In woman's heart, and leaves to blossom there. 
 Thus contemplate ; and in the earnest strife 
 That falls to men who live their lives through- 
 out 
 Now bury this Dead Past in deep oblivion. 
 
log 
 
 TO J. F. T. 
 
 Birthday Ode 
 
 Once more the earth with swift unerring flight 
 Hath sped her course around her glorious lord, 
 Who sits enthroned above the Heavens, and sheds 
 On many worlds his warm effulgent beams : 
 To each their proper season duly gives, 
 Bestowing riches, beauty, life on all. 
 
 Again the earth is clothed in russet dress, 
 And Autumn brings its many-shaded hues 
 Of golden brown ; more beautiful than spring 
 In all its youthful freshness ; now the heart 
 Is stirred with aspirations pure and good 
 By all this wealth of loveliness around. 
 
 'Twas thus, dear friend, at such a beauteous time 
 Thou first didst ope thine eyes, and saw Heaven's 
 light ; 
 
no TO J. F. T. 
 
 When Earth breathed poems sweet, and softly 
 
 sang 
 Her mystic songs in every rustling leaf. 
 
 Yes, then thou cam'st, all innocent of what 
 Life means. Thou hadst to learn that even joy 
 Brings pain. That hid beneath the cup of bliss 
 There lies some bitter element we hate ; 
 And fain would we untasted leave those dregs ; 
 But still no choice is left : — the full, deep draught, 
 Or none. 
 
 Wrapped in sweet unconsciousness of all 
 Existence means ; its duties, crosses, joys, 
 Its vast responsibilities, thou breathed 
 The breath of life in gentle sleep. 
 How much unwearied love and care 
 Have fondly been bestowed on thee since then ! 
 So much its magnitude were all in vain 
 To realise, until thy time doth come 
 To lavish pure paternal love on bright 
 Young hearts. It is a compensating law 
 Our Mother Nature doth enforce that what 
 We cost we pay again in full : in turn 
 
TO J. F. T. in 
 
 We render too that self-forgetting love ; 
 That patient, true devotion we received. 
 
 To what can I compare thy glad, young life 
 Emerging just on manhood's sober years ? 
 'Tis like a tree that's now attained fair growth 
 And covered o'er with scented blossoms sweet 
 Gives promise sure of richest freight of fruit. 
 
 And yet one other simile is here ; 
 As year by year the tree doth form around 
 Itself a circle, showing the vital force 
 Within is ever working out with strong, 
 Unceasing energy, that first great law 
 Of Nature : that power inherent, to build — 
 Construct, and give unto itself such grand 
 Proportions — such wealth of noble beauty, 
 So let thine energies be put to high 
 Pursuits, to elevating deeds : to that 
 Which cannot fail to give the toiler true 
 A glad and sweet content. 
 And may each sep'rate phase of thy career 
 Bear honourable marks of thy life's work 
 Which seeing, all can say 'This Man Hath 
 Lived ! ' 
 
APOSTROPHE TO THE OCEAN 
 
 Oh, surging ocean, wide, and wild, and grand ! 
 An angry despot thou, and harboureth deep 
 Strong enmity to Earth. Fain wouldst thou rob 
 Her every treasure. Now, wouldst thou engulf 
 The glistening beach, anon, the smiling fields : 
 How many forest wilds hast thou entombed 
 Since first thou wert begotten ? 
 In far-off age, while yet the Earth was young, 
 Thou mad'st a bed for thy tumultuous head, 
 'Midst spongy reeds as great as forest trees, 
 And tangled brakes which drew their breath 
 From rank and humid atmosphere. 
 
 Now white with foaming rage in furious storm 
 Thou fill'st man's heart with apprehension deep ; 
 Awe-struck, with fascinated gaze he sees 
 White-crested waves, like thousand monsters huge, 
 
APOSTROPHE TO THE OCEAN u; 
 
 Rush on in quick succession ; gaping wide 
 With cavernous mouth, to swallow up their prey. 
 
 Then terror-struck the white-sailed ship doth flee, 
 
 As if she were some closely- hunted hind, 
 
 That running blindly on, doth trembling seek 
 
 The quiet shelter of some friendly cave. 
 
 But long before 'tis reached her eye-balls strained 
 
 With longing gaze, are glazed in grim, cold death. 
 
 The quiv'ring limbs her great embarrassment 
 
 No longer testifies. The fearful strife 
 
 Of death-agony is past ; she breathes no more. 
 
 Even so the laden ship so fair, and strong 
 Erstwhile, is now resistless torn by grasp 
 Of Ocean's arms ; she gasping sinks therein. 
 No more will gentle zephyrs play within 
 Her fair white wings. 
 No more to shores whose odorous breath 
 Delicious scents the balmy breeze, she'll sail 
 With graceful mien. The Sea, with envious eye 
 Hath cruelly despoiled her. Down she sinks 
 With all her living, breathing treasure closed 
 Within her. 
 
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ii4 APOSTROPHE TO THE OCEAN 
 
 And thou, oh, Sea, assumeth placid calm, 
 As if no crime were thine ; like innocence 
 Thou weareth smooth and happy brow, and trust 
 Again is given to thy deceitful face. 
 
 Now slowly comes the rolling mist all dark 
 And moist. It is thy heavy breath which fills 
 The broad expanse. In volumes huge and dank 
 It spreads itself, o'er earth, through air, and like 
 A dark unsightly veil it hideth all 
 Things fair. 
 
 The numerous suns who myriad miles above 
 
 The sky, desire to send their far-off light 
 
 To earth, are now shut out. Their scintillation 
 
 bright 
 Is hid by black and murky mask. 
 And Cynthia herself can show no more 
 Her beaming, placid face, and her strong spouse 
 Through atmosphere has ceased to dart his rays ; 
 For all is steamy, cold, and vaporous. 
 
 The Heavens unhappy at such fate weep tears 
 Of sadness. Winds moan and sigh, and all 
 
APOSTROPHE TO THE OCEAN 115 
 
 Without is misery. Birds hide their heads ; 
 Their song is hushed ; their pleasant warblings 
 
 ceased, 
 For in this darksome time all Nature mourns. 
 
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 SOUVENIR OF OXFORD 
 
 LIKE echoes oft repeated through a chain 
 
 Of mighty hills, reverberating far, 
 
 Whose voice so strangely multiplied doth leap 
 
 From peak to peak ; or as a train of dear 
 
 Sweet visions, each one brighter than the last, 
 
 So thy remembrances, fair city come 
 
 Before mine eyes, and ever in my thoughts 
 
 Are imaged forms so life-like, real, — true — 
 
 They take a tangibility so clear, 
 
 That fain I would persuade myself once more 
 
 I live, I move among them. 
 
 Now I glide 
 Most softly o'er the rippling waters bright 
 Of lovely Isis ; where the willows bend 
 With graceful mien from rich and verdant banks, 
 And seem to watch their own reflection fair 
 
SOUVENIR OF OXFORD 117 
 
 In drooping modesty. And blue forget-me-nots 
 Shy peeping from their em'rald beds, now set 
 My heart aglow. 
 
 Imagination fondly takes me next 
 Beneath the cool deep shade of noble trees, 
 Which clothed in beauteous dress of green stand 
 
 forth 
 All radiant in their freshness, new and bright ; 
 Suggesting thoughts for utterance too high, 
 Too deep for words to give expression true. 
 
 And now the soul in tend'rest rapture turns 
 To dear associations of the past ; 
 For mem'ry quick recalls how genius trod 
 That very path long time ago, in grave 
 And serious contemplation. 
 
 Again the scene is changed. I see uprise, 
 As vivid antique pictures, forms distinct 
 Of venerable piles, whose ancient walls 
 All ivy-covered ; fair, and shapely domes, 
 And arches curiously carved, inspire 
 Me straight with rev'rence deep ; I bow me down 
 
i iS SOUVENIR OF OXFORD 
 
 In meek humility ; my soul is stirred 
 With loving wonder at the mighty Past. 
 And looking back through centuries, I see 
 What warm enthusiasm, zeal, and love 
 Have done, how much they have attained ! 
 How each succeeding generation made 
 Sweet Learning its own mistress, framing thus 
 A scheme of evolution broad, and true, 
 And perfecting. 
 
 Thou city of religion, then, farewell ! 
 Of realism, beauty, learning deep ; 
 Of pleasure, labour ; prejudices old, 
 Ideals new : but ever shall these last 
 Strive hard and struggle ; surely in the end 
 Their victory over ancient notions gain ; 
 Which like old men all ready for the grave, 
 Shall gently pass away from ev'ry mind, 
 And only by the new and vig'rous be 
 Remembered long for their antiquity. 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 OR, LEA VES FROM ANCIENT ANNALS 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 or, Leaves from Ancient Annals 
 
 PART I 
 DEATH OF AURELIUS 
 
 Upon his royal couch Aurelius ' lay- 
 All sick, and they who loved him, day by day 
 Soft whispered to each other — ' Would that some 
 Deep learned man of healing art could come 
 And ease our king ; for sorely straitened we 
 To see him peak and pine all helplessly 
 At such a troublous time. Those Saxons vile, 
 Led by Pascentius, invade our land, defile 
 The peaceful homes of Britain. Yet the bold, 
 Strong Uther, brother to the king, doth hold 
 The conduct of the war, and all valiantly 
 Will lead the army on to victory.' 
 
 1 Aurelius Ambrosius, King of Britain, A.D. 484. 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 So hoped the Britons ; but the Saxons grew 
 More bold, and flattered they themselves anew ; 
 That Fate had favoured them with fortune fair 
 To lay Aurelius low in time of war. 
 
 Then Eopa to the invaders came, 
 
 And spake, — ' What the reward, and what the 
 
 name ; 
 What will ye give if there be one who'll slay 
 The smitten king, and thus no more delay 
 The laurels that be yours ? ' Pascentius said — 
 ' Oh, that I could find a man inbred 
 With such brave resolution ! I would give 
 A thousand pounds of silver ; and while I live 
 Make him my friend ; and if the crown I gain, 
 He shall centurion be, while I the king shall reign.' 
 
 To this the Saxon Eopa replied, — 
 
 ' I am well skilled in Physic ; but beside 
 
 All this I know the manners — speech 
 
 Of Britons, and in their own tongue can reach 
 
 The court and king. If thou wilt swear an oath 
 
 To well perform thy word, I give my troth 
 
 That I this part all faithful undertake.' 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 123 
 
 Pascentius readily complied—' I make 
 This covenant most solemnly with thee.' 
 He swore the oath ; 'twas sealed ; and silently 
 The Saxon left the presence of the son 
 Of Vortigern. Before the day was done 
 The wily Eopa had shaved his head, 
 And in the habit of a monk had sped 
 To Winchester, armed with a mighty load 
 Of drugs, he hied him to the king's abode. 
 
 Then, with an air of holy sanctity, 
 
 And look of wisdom suiting his degree, 
 
 He simulated sorrow ; great access 
 
 Of sympathy for King Aurelius : 
 
 And offering his services to heal 
 
 The stricken monarch, promised with great zeal 
 
 To quickly bring him into health, and make 
 
 The fount of life with vigour to awake. 
 
 All willingly they listened him, and gave 
 Unhesitating the liberty he crave. 
 Then led him to the king : with anxious air 
 He soft approached the couch ; with tender care 
 The baleful draught he bade the monarch drink. 
 
124 THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 ' Drink ! ' said he, ' and sleep ; to-morrow thou wilt 
 
 think 
 Thou never hadst a pain ; thy sickness seem 
 To be some vague, and half-forgotten dream : 
 Now lie thee still, and fear not ; court sweet sleep, 
 Let silent slumber soon thine eyelids steep.' 
 
 The poor drugged king now slept, and ever slept, 
 Until the life-stream in its courses kept 
 No action : then, they knew the king was dead, 
 And Eopa, the false physician, fled. 
 
 Then in the heavens a mighty star appeared, 
 Most brilliant its light, and strangely weird 
 In shape : for, darting forth a fiery ray 
 This ended in a dragon, whose jaws lay 
 Gaping ; sending forth two other rays of light, 
 Of which one reached to Gaul ; one beaming bright 
 Upon the Irish Sea, was finished by 
 Seven other rays of less intensity. 
 
 And all the people wondered ; and great fear 
 At sight of this strange star spread everywhere. 
 E ven the gallant Uther now betrayed 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 125 
 
 Disturbance of his mind, as all dismayed 
 He gazed upon the fiery orb while on 
 His march to Cambria. ' No comparison 
 Bears this to aught I've seen ; now quickly go, 
 Bring Merlin, the magician, for I would know 
 The full interpretation of these signs, 
 If evil doth portend our harassed lines.' 
 
 Thus Uther spake, and Merlin, — who following 
 The fortunes of the war that he might bring 
 Good counsel unto Uther, — then lifted high 
 His voice, and with a wail, and woeful cry, 
 While tears adown his cheeks their channels made, 
 Uttered the words of prophecy, and said — 
 
 ' Alas, alas, the king is dead ! Now woe, 
 Now death, now doom is on us all, for lo, 
 The king is dead ! Yet, Uther, that bright star 
 Doth signify thyself : take heart ; this war 
 Shall end in thy renown, and thou shalt reign 
 All over Britain, and the crown remain 
 Most steadfast on thine head ; for, from thee 
 Shall spring a son most potent, that shall be 
 A monarch great, whose rule shall reach as far, 
 
126 THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 And wide as doth the rays of yon bright star. 
 Thou art the dragon ; and the other ray 
 That emanates from thee is picture of the sway 
 Of thy fair daughter, who in turn shall bear 
 Her husband royal sons, whose every care 
 Shall be to win their subjects greatest good ; 
 And rule all Britain with solicitude.' 
 
 And Uther, scarce believing all was true 
 Marched on to battle ; valiantly drew 
 His forces nigh Menevia, 1 where lay 
 The Saxons. Fierce the battle raged all day, 
 And each side suffered keenly : 'twas most long^ 
 And bloody ; in the end the bold and strong 
 Pascentius, with Gillomanius were slain, 
 And all their forces routed from the plain. 
 
 And Uther followed even to the sea, 
 Where th' invaders sought their ships, to flee 
 The swift pursuer. Messengers soon came 
 To camp, who brought account of that vile scheme 
 Which slew the stricken king. Then, Uther went 
 His way to Winchester, where reverent 
 
 1 St. David's, Wales. 
 
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 Bishops, abbots, and persons of degree 
 Assembled were in great solemnity 
 To render to the dead the sacred rite, 
 With all the pomp, and honour requisite, 
 For royal obsequies. And in the tomb 
 Reared by Aurelius, whose stones had come 
 From Mount Killarius, the manes were placed ; 
 A monument l that time hath not effaced. 
 
 Succeeding this in great magnificence 
 
 The crowning came, and conference, 
 
 Where with one accord they Uther chose for king : 
 
 And Merlin's prophecy remembering 
 
 1 The monument of antiquity now called Stonehenge. 
 According to the legend these stones possessed medicinal 
 properties, and were brought over from Africa to Ireland 
 by giants, who used them for healing-baths ; whence 
 Aurelius, by the magical aid of Merlin, had them conveyed 
 to Britain, and constructed into a mausoleum for himself. 
 Francis Palgrave says — ' The temples in which the Britons 
 worshipped their deities were composed of large rough stones 
 disposed in circles, for they had not sufficient skill to execute 
 finished edifices. Some of these circles are yet existing ; 
 such is Stonehenge, near Salisbury; the huge masses of 
 rock may still be seen there, grey with age ; Stonehenge 
 possesses a stern and savage magnificence, the masses of 
 which it is composed are so large that the structure seems 
 to have been raised by more than human power.' 
 
128 THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 King Uther caused two dragons of pure gold, 
 In likeness of the star which had foretold 
 His power, to be constructed. One he gave 
 To Holy Church ; the other he would have 
 As lucky talisman to take at ev'ry war 
 In memory of the strange prophetic star. 
 And both were finest wrought, all skilfully 
 In veriest workmanship that be : 
 Then was ' Pendragon ' added to his name, 
 Or ' Dragon's Head,' by popular acclaim. 
 
 PART II 
 
 THE BATTLE 
 
 MEANWHILE, the enemy now bore 
 
 On luckless Britain. Octa, bound no more 
 
 By treaty made with King Aurelius, 
 
 The Saxon army joined most treacherous ; 
 
 Who pressing message unto Germany sent 
 
 For troops to swell their numbers, and augment 
 
 Their heavy forces ; which exceeded far 
 
 In numbers Uther's troops ; and everywhere 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 129 
 
 They ruin, desolation, spread around, 
 And ravished, razed fair cities to the ground. 
 With this vast army Octa then made waste 
 The northern provinces ; urging great haste 
 He sieged the places fortified, and sped 
 His way to York, so thither Uther led 
 His forces : gallantly he made onslaught 
 Upon the bold marauders, courageous wrought 
 Heroic wonders. Now, from his chariot leapt 
 The British warrior, and fiercely swept 
 The Saxon lines with long, and glitt'ring sword ; 
 While the skilful charioteer in keen accord 
 His well-trained steeds would swiftly turn aside 
 To give good space for prowess ; there abide 
 The issue of the struggle, and give good aid 
 If worsted were his comrade. Full well arrayed 
 With numerous piles of javelins, a line 
 Of charioteers in steady discipline 
 Came tearing through each Saxon rank, 
 And with deft aim the pointed weapons sank 
 Deep in the breast, or mayhap at the head 
 Of many a stout barbarian ; who red 
 With streaming gore, and weak with deepest wound 
 Would spend his ebbing strength on all around 
 
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130 THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 With fierce, and deadly thrusts. In contest close 
 The short sharp sword of these barbarian foes 
 Proved instruments death-dealing : swiftly down 
 They mowed the Britons, whose corses white were 
 
 strown 
 Upon the reddened plain. Yet all that day 
 They unremitting fought, until the grey 
 Of evening, on the tempestuous scene, 
 Closed for a brief night's space the conflict keen. 
 
 Thus, were Uther's legions by th' invading force 
 Outweighed in valour. However brave their course 
 Throughout the fight, the Saxon dogs devoured 
 The struggling Britons. The remnant overpowered 
 At length some safety sought, to flee the slaughter 
 
 made 
 For Hill of Damen, where the friendly shade 
 Of Hazel trees fair sheltered the pursued, 
 And rocky caverns in centre of this solitude — 
 The wild beasts' lair — the soldiers did impress, 
 As harbours welcome in their dire distress. 
 
 No sleep that night pressed down the lids of king 
 Or commoner ; for what the morn would bring 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 131 
 
 Made tremble every heart. Night nearly spent, 
 The king to all his consuls message sent 
 To hold a council ; when assembled gave 
 To Gorlois, the Duke of Cornwall, first leave 
 To make his motion. Being of them all 
 The eldest, bearing ripe experience, 
 The king accorded him pre-eminence. 
 
 ' This is no time for ceremonies fine, 
 Or speeches ; for unless we well combine 
 Our chance is lost ; our lives, or freedom gone 
 If we keep still till shines the morning sun. 
 But rather let us rise while darkened night 
 Our scanty numbers covers o'er from sight ; 
 And keeping well compact make rush and raid 
 Upon the enemy, who all dismayed, 
 And taken by surprise, will haply prove 
 Our victims, not our victors, by this move.' 
 
 Thus spake Gorlois, the duke : with one consent 
 The council well received his argument. 
 Collecting all their troops the rugged slope 
 The warriors descended, and high with hope 
 All silently and soft pursued their way 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 To where the heavy-sleeping Saxons lay, 
 
 And pounced upon their guards ; who instantly 
 
 Proclaimed approach of coming enemy 
 
 With loud-voiced bugles. Swift they pushed their 
 
 course 
 Towards the Saxons ; with vehement force 
 Rushed right, and left, and ruthlessly they hewed 
 The half-awakened men ; who nearly nude, 
 And all unarmed ran madly here and there 
 In 'wildered, wild confusion ; for where 
 A Saxon missed one sword, he straight would fall 
 Beneath another. Thus were slaughtered all 
 King Uther's foes ; of all their hosts scarce one 
 Remained, to tell how Britons lost, and won. 
 
 ' Firmly hath the archer fixed his bow ; 
 
 Like wind the cunning arrow 
 Cleaves its winged way towards the foe 
 
 To pierce him to the marrow. 
 
 ' Iron warriors hurled the javelin 
 With force all full unswerving ; 
 
 Cord-like swells the knotted muscles in 
 Each limb, good purpose serving. 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 133 
 
 ' Scythed chariots swiftly hew their way 
 
 Through the lines unheeding : 
 Helmed knights in all their war array 
 
 Their chargers boldly speeding. 
 
 ' Scythe, nor spear, nor dart, nor glitt'ring sword, 
 
 The bold marauders vanquished ; 
 But the arm of God, the mighty Lord, 
 
 The heathen dogs x extinguished. 
 
 ' Weep for your dead, oh, women, weep as rain, 
 
 Nor stay the wild emotion ; 
 For you ne'er shall see your pagan men 
 
 Come sailing o'er the ocean. 
 
 ' Stark and stiff they stay upon the plain 
 
 With faces upturned lying ; 
 Curse nor caress shall never again 
 
 Come from the lips of the dying. 
 
 ' Weep, weep, oh ye women, weep for aye, 
 Though the western wind is blowing 
 
 Over the sea this dawn of sweet day, 
 No white sail shall be showing.' 
 
 1 The Britons applied to the Saxons constantly, the 
 epithets — ' dog,' ' barbarian,' &c. 
 
134 THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 Thus sang the thankful Uther, giving God 
 
 The praise ; while the legionaries raised the 
 
 sod, 
 And reverent laid beneath their own dear dead. 
 Then marched they on to London ; thither led 
 As prisoners Eosa and Octa, who stirred 
 The Saxons with great confidence ; whose word 
 Brought hosts of fresh invaders. News of raid, 
 And ravage, and rapine was quickly laid 
 Before the king that Caledonians were 
 For ever lawless, plundering ; void of fear, 
 Undisciplined. Then Uther with much care 
 Quelled the contumely ; punished the pillager, 
 And straightway made strict laws of equity 
 To govern his dominions steadily ; 
 And forcibly their prompt obedience brought 
 That all might live in harmony throughout. 
 
 And mild-eyed Peace proclaimed her gentle 
 
 sway 
 All over Britain ; and mingled with the Bay 
 Meek olive-branches decked each warrior's 
 
 head, 
 And o'er his brow an ambient glamour shed. 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 135 
 
 A sheen more honoured ; of nobler sort, 
 Than all the laurels that can grace a court : 
 For kings, proud Conquest is most glorious art ; 
 For subjects, Peace doth play the better part. 
 
 PART III 
 
 THE BANQUET 
 
 And when the Ides of March drew near, the king 
 
 Would have a royal banquet ; issuing 
 
 Invites to his nobles ; and all the fair 
 
 Of Britain's daughters Uther summoned there, 
 
 And bade he graciously each high-born guest 
 
 To grace his court, do honour to his feast. 
 
 Being the festival of Easter-tide 
 
 King Uther thought to honour it ; beside 
 
 'Twas his desire to meet his subjects face 
 
 To face ; gain their esteem, give royal grace ; 
 
 And thus by mutual affections bind 
 
 The Ruled, and Ruler in harmonious mind. 
 
 The king arrayed in royal robes and crown, 
 Covered with glory ; justly-earned renown, 
 
136 THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 In great solemnity, and pomp, and state 
 
 The Church's festival did celebrate. 
 
 From every city fair the nobles came 
 
 To greet the conqueror with loud acclaim : 
 
 All gentle blood of Britain now essayed 
 
 To show him honour. Many a beauteous maid 
 
 .All bright with gems, in rich apparel tired, 
 
 To royal grace would gladly have aspired. 
 
 The royal banquet set 'neath silken tent, 
 
 Was costly, rich ; on scale magnificent : 
 
 On silver vessels of beauteous design 
 
 Were delicacies served, and dishes fine : 
 
 In glistening wine-cups of pure gold did shine 
 
 The red, or amber juice of choicest wine. 
 
 And silken couches from Damascus' loom 
 
 Were ranged in Roman style all through the 
 
 room : — 
 For simplicity of the Briton's home 
 Was changed for luxuries of conquering Rome — 
 And costly tables of sweet-smelling wood, 
 Brought from Eastern groves, vied with the food 
 In yielding delicate odour. While breath 
 Of fresh spring-flowers, woven with green heath, 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 137 
 
 Delicious fragrance shed throughout the air, 
 And made a multiple of perfumes there. 
 The whole was blended with harmonious sound ; 
 For melting music swept the space around : 
 Thus cultured art enhanced th' enraptured sight, 
 And every sense was steeped in sweet delight. 
 
 And all the stateliest in the land were there ; 
 Long trains of lovely women ; and every fair 
 Was led by noble knight of high renown, 
 And braves, and beauties in one phalanx shone. 
 
 Of all the glittering galaxy none saw, 
 
 The equal of the lady of Gorlois : ' 
 
 Of queenly mien, of loveliest form, and eyes 
 
 Like gems set in translucent skies. 
 
 And all the beauty of the court was dimmed 
 
 By fair Igerna : to Uther's eyes she seemed 
 
 To stand a peerless pearl ; a diamond divine ; 
 
 Beyond all price, and fitted most to shine 
 
 1 This name I take to be Gallic, and have consequently 
 given it the modern French pronunciation as in Dunois. 
 The pronunciation of old French is as entirely lost to the 
 French of the present day, as Old English is to us, therefore 
 only the modern style can be safely given. 
 
138 THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 In kingly coronet of the Great on earth ; 
 A prizeful jewel of unbounded worth. 
 
 Upon her beauty Uther gazed with eyes 
 
 That saw no other ; all women she outvies 
 
 In every gentle grace. Her voice now thrilled 
 
 With soft delight his ravished ears, and filled 
 
 His listening soul with music's harmony 
 
 Sweet as the rippling water's melody. 
 
 And heedless Uther knew not this was Love, 
 
 Which took away his strength, and sweetly wove 
 
 Around him mystic chains, that gave 
 
 A mingled joy, and left him veriest slave. 
 
 Only to Igerna the king's discourse 
 Was e'er addressed ; his care at every course 
 Of tempting viands to send most delicate 
 Of the dainties to this fair lady's plate : 
 And when he quaffed the ' cyathus ' of wine, 
 His toast was fair Igerna. To enshrine 
 Her in most honour, as oft he filled the same, 
 He drank to every letter in her name. 1 
 
 1 This was a Roman custom. To give extraordinary 
 honour to a person the Romans at a feast would drink a 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER i 39 
 
 His smiles to sweet Igern alone were given 
 All through that festive day, and when the even 
 Drew on, and revelry began, he sent 
 Her golden cups by his own confidante. 
 
 And while the king was bound in love, the song 
 Was sung, the harp was strung the whole night 
 long. 
 
 THE HUNTER'S SONG 
 
 ' THROUGH forest, over heather, 
 Regardless of all weather, 
 
 I range a hunter bold, 
 The sylvan woods I'm keeping, 
 With pearly dew-drops dreeping 
 
 To be my own stronghold. 
 
 cyathus of wine as often as the number of letters contained 
 in the name of the person toasted. The cyathus was a 
 certain measure that held the allowance of pure wine which 
 was always mixed with a fixed quantity of water. 
 
J-lo THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 II 
 
 ' And when the skies are looming ; 
 Her cannon Nature's booming 
 
 Through darkened firmament ; 
 I watch the lightning sunder, 
 'Midst crashing of the thunder, 
 
 The trees magnificent. 
 
 Ill 
 
 ' Though quick the woodcock's flying, 
 My bow and arrow plying 
 
 I reach it in a trice : 
 The boar that's madly rushing, 
 And thick-set brushwood crushing, 
 
 My needs help to suffice. 
 
 IV 
 
 ' In truth, I'm monarch royal, 
 For subjects none so loyal 
 
 As those the woods bestow : 
 No jealousy assails me, 
 My dog he never fails me, 
 
 My sceptre is my bow. 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 141 
 
 V 
 
 ' The pure and crystal fountain 
 That trickles down the mountain : 
 
 My thirst doth soon allay : 
 Day vanishes so fleetly, 
 And evening comes so sweetly, 
 
 I scarce feel them glide away. 
 
 VI 
 
 ' Before the stars are gleaming, 
 While yet the sun is streaming, 
 
 Its glories from the west : 
 While his crimson rays soft glimmer 
 Through the trees with elf-like shimmer, 
 
 I seek my mountain nest' 
 
 THE POET'S SONG TO HIS LADY 
 
 I 
 'COME to the woods while day is brightly beaming 
 
 And songsters fill the air ; 
 The earth is filled with life and beauty, seeming 
 
 A paradise so fair. 
 
, 4 2 THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 II 
 
 ■S 
 
 ' The flowery mead in gayest colours smilin 
 Reflects the sun's bright beams : 
 
 The brooklet sweet with murmurs soft be 
 guiling 
 Sends forth the purest streams. 
 
 Ill 
 
 ' At eve we'll watch, when day is calmly 
 closing, 
 
 The sunset 'neath the hill ; 
 And feathered choristers are soft reposing ; 
 
 And all is hushed and still. 
 
 IV 
 
 ' The blue skies gemmed with stars that 
 beaming brightly 
 
 O'er this fair world of ours, 
 Sends whispering winds to play so lightly 
 
 Their music 'mongst the flowers. 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER , 43 
 
 ' Fair beauty and sweetness now are pervading ; 
 
 Filling the earth and sea ; 
 Ah, whether sunshine, or even's soft shading, 
 
 All teems with good for thee.' 
 
 THE MINSTREL'S SONG 
 
 ' Ah, Music and Song, how I love ye twain well ! 
 Now, come and cast over me your sunny spell ! 
 Come hither, your charms unto me now reveal ; 
 Come ravish my senses, and make me to feel 
 The care that surrounds and oppresseth the mind, 
 Is fled by the flow of your measure combined. 
 Enhanced are the ripples of sound, that enfold 
 Mine ears, by the poet's sweet story that's told. 
 
144 THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 II 
 
 ' Ah, how can the lover his heart disclose, 
 
 Which bursts with the fulness of love's gentle 
 
 throes, 
 To her he adores with his whole soul's delight, 
 Without whom existence would be as dark night ? 
 'Tis sweet voice, and sweet verse that can tell his 
 
 tale, 
 Express it with fervour that never can fail ; 
 Her heart it will melt at the soft witching strain, 
 While swells her white bosom with Love's sweet 
 
 pain. 
 
 Ill 
 
 ' Two-fold is the beauty of Music, and Song ; 
 A foretaste of heaven while to earth we belong ; 
 They lift up the soul to ethereal bliss, 
 With ecstasy pure like a lover's first kiss. 
 The heart-sick and weary most gently they soothe, 
 Life's rough stony ways delightfully smooth : 
 Give courage anew to the warrior when faint ; 
 Softening the sinner ; inspiring the saint' 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 145 
 
 PART IV 
 THE QUARREL 
 
 GORLOIS, the Duke, perceiving how the king 
 Paid court to his fair wife, with her took wing 
 At once to Cornwall ; nor did he crave 
 Permission thus to quit, but took his leave 
 Abruptly. The king insulted in his court, 
 Vexed, and indignant sent a summons short 
 To quick return, and pay apology, 
 All due to host as well as royalty : 
 But th' angered, jealous duke was stiff and stern, 
 With scorn, most sullenly refused to turn 
 Him back again to court ; for well he knew 
 The prime, sole cause why this disturbance grew 
 He clearly saw 'twas not his grim old face 
 That thwarted Uther longed his court to grace. 
 
 Set at defiance thus King Uther swore 
 A hasty oath, and hotly vowed he'd lower 
 Gorlois' proud arrogance ; while furious heat 
 Filled all his blood, he bade his army meet. 
 
 L 
 
H6 the love of uther 
 
 Gorlois unswerving from his course, now placed 
 His vassals and his warriors in great haste 
 To stand a siege ; for no equivalent 
 Of men had he to the vast complement 
 Of royal troops commanded by his foe ; 
 He therefore made defence alone, to throw 
 Attack on Uther. On the wild sea-shore 
 Was reared his castle of Tintagel ; ' more 
 Strong, and inaccessible than any tower 
 Within the realms of Britain ; for its power 
 Was helped by rugged Nature. Here frowned 
 The grey impenetrable rocks all round, 
 Like giants great emerging from the wave, 
 Sustaining solid walls of stone, that gave 
 No entrance there ; save by a passage small 
 And narrow, that three fighting-men were all 
 Defence the castle needed. To keep secure 
 His wife, Gorlois within this fortress sure 
 Now placed her ; and in his wisdom thought 
 'Twere best to thus divide. Said he, — ' If aught 
 Of ill befall the town wherein I stay, 
 There is she safe, secure from all the fray ; 
 
 1 The ruins of this castle still exist, and show that it 
 must have been a place of great strength. 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 147 
 
 Within Dimilioc the siege I can sustain 
 Till aid shall come from Erin o'er the main. 1 
 
 The sun was sinking 'neath a glorious pile 
 Of crimson-tinted clouds, and for awhile 
 Bathed Uther's tents in richest tints of gold. 
 It played upon the rippling sea that rolled 
 In rhythmic motion on the smooth sea-shore, 
 And gleamed and glistened more, and more, 
 As wave succeeded wave in endless train, 
 Kissing th' expectant shore again, and yet again. 
 
 It lit the hedgerows with more vivid hue ; 
 It oped the blades of budding corn that grew 
 So tall, and waxed in verdant strength each day, 
 Till crushed by ruthless feet they dying lay, 
 Like children swept untimely from the breast, 
 By famine, sword, or pestilential waste. 
 
 And Uther in his anger fiercely warred 
 Against Gorlois, nor spared the fire, nor sword ; 
 Upon Dimilioc's fields he pitched his tent 
 With all the force of royal armament. 
 
i 4 S THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 But pangs of conscience ever and anon 
 Depressed his mind, howe'er he strove to shun 
 Uneasy murmurs. In his heart he felt 
 'Twas not the insult of the duke that dealt 
 A blow to kingly pride, but inward fire 
 Of passionate love that filled him with desire ; 
 Converting all the sweets, and good of life 
 To cne long hellish stream of endless strife. 
 
 PART V 
 
 THE CONCEPTION OF KING ARTHUR 
 
 And Uther sat within his camp that eve 
 
 In melancholy thought ; nor longer could deceive 
 
 Himself with reasons plausible to make 
 
 The siege continue. Then, he to Ulfin spake — 
 
 Brave Ulfin his familiar friend, and said, — 
 
 ' I'm weary of this war, and hate to shed 
 
 The blood of mine own subjects, though Gorlois 
 
 Hath given me scorn, I'll even now withdraw. 
 
 Oh, Ulfin, woe the day, and woe the hour 
 
 That e'er I saw Igerna ; for me no more 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 149 
 
 Hath life the shadow of a joy ; nor peace : 
 
 Lost to me the sweets of conquest, unless 
 
 I may possess Igerna. In my heart 
 
 There burns a passion strong, whose counterpart 
 
 Hath no existence. Now, am I consumed 
 
 With love all strong and powerful, and doomed 
 
 To bear a flame that hath no parallel 
 
 In all my past. Oh, Ulfin, is it well 
 
 That I should die ? Yes, death will prove 
 
 The inextinguishable force of love.' 
 
 While thus he spake his eyes grew dim, and dcw'd 
 
 With tears, unlike his hardy habitude ; 
 
 His ruddy cheeks embrowned by sun, or rain, 
 
 Or biting wind, when camping in the plain, 
 
 Were paled and sunken by the lack of rest ; 
 
 Unerring witness of unquiet breast. 
 
 And while the fretted king the silence broke 
 
 His manly frame with strong emotion shook ; 
 
 And lowly bowed he down his mournful head. 
 
 Then Ulfin to his master sorrowing said — 
 
 ' It grieveth me sorely to see my king 
 Sighing in sorrow all unavailing. 
 
ISO THE LOVE OF VTHER 
 
 Oh, why dost thou dwell on the lady's charm 
 With unsatisfied love that can only harm ? 
 For safe is she lodged in Tintagel's town, 
 Girt by the sea-wave and thick walls of stone ; 
 And the bravest warriors of all thy train 
 Could ne'er make a breach, nor an access gain : 
 Now, let me call Merlin, the deep, and wise, 
 Who out of his wisdom might now devise 
 Some magical method to gain this prize.' 
 
 And Merlin was brought to the king that eve, — 
 For he kept with the camp that he might give 
 Good counsel to Uther, and lend his aid 
 With rare words of wisdom when came the need. 
 When Uther revealed the torments he bore 
 To Merlin, his friend and counsellor, 
 Then pained was the prophet to learn, that he 
 Was held in a hopeless supremacy. 
 
 But he comforted Uther whose soul waxed light 
 At the glorious plan he unfolded that night. 
 ' By my art,' said he, ' I will change thy face 
 To that of Gorlois, with his figure and dress : 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 And Ulfin will I metamorphosise 
 To Jordan, his comrade ; with this disguise 
 To Tintagel's gate I'll go with ye twain, 
 And order the guards to open amain.' 
 
 And Merlin, the Wise, by his magical law 
 Converted the king into Duke Gorlois ; 
 And he and his friends were disguised so well 
 When they came to the Castle of Tintagel, 
 That th' intelligent guards oped wide the door, 
 Supposing their lord had come to the bower 
 Of his beautiful wife that twilight hour. 
 
 Igerna, the fair, was so well deceived, 
 She ne'er hesitated, but straight believed 
 That she held in her arms her own Gorlois, 
 Who filled with delight, and rapturous joy, 
 Now kissed and caressed her the livelong night, 
 And tenderly told her when morning's light 
 Peeped over their heads, what risk might incur 
 In leaving his castle for love of her. 
 And love-songs sang he to softly beguile 
 His sweet lady fair, and win one more smile. 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 ' Dearest, tell me which is first 
 
 Of thy winning graces, 
 Rival beauties meet mine eyes 
 
 In so many places ? 
 
 ' Love circles round thy lips 
 
 Like a cupid lying 
 In a rosy, coral bed, 
 
 While his arrows flying 
 
 ' Swift upon their dang'rous course 
 To unsuspecting victim ; 
 
 Who is forced to yield himself 
 To that fateful dictum. 
 
 ' So in thine arched brows 
 Even there he's hiding ; 
 
 Each mute unerring shaft 
 In quick succession sliding. 
 
 ' In every look of thine 
 Love is surely peeping ; 
 
 Thine every motion proves 
 That he's never sleeping. 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 ' Love lights those liquid eyes 
 
 Till in very seeming, 
 The brightest star is shamed 
 
 At their lustrous gleaming. 
 
 ' Fringed lids shade their light 
 
 With a tender veiling, 
 As cloudlets through the heavens 
 
 'Neath the stars are sailing ; 
 
 ' Hiding now their lustre bright ; 
 
 Now their light revealing, 
 While through the firmament 
 
 Rays are softly stealing. 
 
 ' Yes, thou hast bound me quite 
 
 To thyself securely, 
 By a thousand magic charms 
 
 I am thine, most surely. 
 
 ' Links fastened by such spells 
 
 Never can be riven ; 
 Oh, what enchantment sweet 
 
 Unto thee is given ! ' 
 
154 THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 Thus sang th' enraptured Uther, all untired, 
 By sweet deliciousness of love inspired ; 
 In bliss they spent a long dear night of love, 
 Like mated doves that coo in shady grove ; 
 Igern conceived in loyal love that night 
 The goodliest son that e'er saw the light, 
 Arthur, bravest prince that Britain ever knew ; 
 The kingliest of kings ; most gentle, true. 
 
 PART VI 
 
 DEATH OF GORLOIS, AND MARRIAGE OF UTHER 
 
 Ere morning broke the absence of the king 
 Was full discovered ; and what strange thing 
 Had now befallen him his legions made 
 A cause of wonder. Gladly they essayed 
 To hurry on the siege, and make attack 
 Most desperate ; eagerly they longed to sack 
 Dimilioc's fair town ; themselves repay 
 For Uther's indecision and delay. 
 
 Gorlois, with scanty numbers now rushed out 
 Most rashly on the royal troops, and thought 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 155 
 
 To win his way victorious by a raid 
 
 All sudden on the foe ; fronting blockade 
 
 Of full-drawn swords he fell amidst the fight : 
 
 And every warrior, every wight 
 
 Each plundered as he willed, all unrestrained, 
 
 Nor deigned to share alike the booty gained. 
 
 Then messengers to Tintagel swift came 
 To give the duchess tidings of the same ; 
 Struck with surprise, she knew not how to act, 
 Nor reconcile the statement with the fact. 
 ' My husband killed ! ' she unbelieving cried, 
 ' And still my husband standing at my side ! ' 
 ' My sweet,' said Uther, ' sure thy husband's here ; 
 Come kiss me ere I go, and have no fear.' 
 
 All quickly Uther hied him to the tent ; 
 Ridding himself of all disguise, he went 
 To camp, to test the tale he thought so vain, 
 Of Dimilioc sacked, and Gorlois slain. 
 
 But when the king the staunch old warrior saw 
 Slain with a score of wounds, the Duke Gorlois : 
 
156 THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 Then lifting up his voice he wept full sore ; 
 ' And art thou gone, Gorlois, the brave ! No more 
 Shall I behold thy stern and honest face ; 
 No more thine iron arm shall leave its trace 
 Upon thy foes. Gorlois, thou diedst my foe ; 
 Deserved I well thy wrath. Oh, now I know 
 The pangs of biting conscience, and my heart 
 Moved with remorse doth feel the stinging smart — 
 The bitterness of friendship wronged, know I ; 
 For thee I wronged, Gorlois, most bitterly.' 
 
 And when the king his fallen foe had mourned, 
 His thought to his heart's idol fondly turned, 
 And all his grief was changed to keen delight, 
 When he full realised how soon he might 
 Crown her his own fair queen ; nor did he wait 
 A length of moons for her to meditate 
 In darkened widowhood ; but strove to dry 
 With soft caress, and soothing minstrels)-, 
 The ever-welling woe that filled her breast 
 In strong tempestuous waves of deep unrest. 
 
 Like a pale lily beaten to the ground 
 
 By fiercest winds ; whose courses all unbound 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 157 
 
 Know naught of mercy ; so she bowed her head, 
 Nor heeded what her lover fondly said. 
 
 ' Canst thou forgive, Igerna ! At thy feet 
 
 I humbly sue for pardon, and entreat 
 
 Thine ample mercy. I would atone 
 
 My shameful fault, and sorrowfully own 
 
 I plucked the rose not mine ; which blushed in all 
 
 Inherent beauty : thus, did I forestall 
 
 The unexpected bliss that lit on me 
 
 With golden wings, and fixed my destiny. 
 
 ' Now, like a rainbow merging from the cloud, 
 
 I see thy dove-like eyes shine through their shroud 
 
 Of mist, and greet me with a gentle gaze 
 
 Of God-like pity. Or, is it thy dispraise 
 
 Of my unutterable boldness ? Sweet, 
 
 Say by one dear smile, if all complete 
 
 Thou hast forgiven unseemly brimming-o'er 
 
 Abundance of my love, for evermore ? 
 
 ' In kindness, cast not all the blame on me, 
 For man is not himself, when urgency 
 
158 THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 Of over-powering love doth master him. 
 Beloved, arise, merge from this sorrow dim, 
 And suffer thy sweet womanhood's dear sway 
 To meekly bend to Love, and me. Away 
 With Grief ; let my fond kisses now beguile 
 Thy soul to burst through cloud to sunny smile.' 
 
 ' Pale sits fair Igerna within her strong tower, 
 And she weeps, and weeps for aye, 
 For her husband she weeps alway ; 
 
 She mourns her dear lord with a sorrow all sore, 
 Oh, she mourns him night and day ! 
 
 II 
 
 ' And the breath of her sighs fills the space around, 
 And her sobs break through the air, 
 As she wails and weeps up there : 
 
 Like a dark pall falls from her brow to the ground 
 Her lone; waves of silken hair. 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 159 
 
 III 
 
 ' All bedimmed is the rose upon her fair cheek, 
 And washed with the heavy rain, 
 Aye, washed and watered again ; 
 
 And fretted and changed to the pale lily meek, 
 With the tears, and sore heart-pain. 
 
 IV 
 
 ' Oh, beautiful lady, now bind up thine hair, 
 Now bind it in shining braid 
 In coronet on thine head ; 
 
 Stay thy sad sighs, and cease thy sorrowful air, 
 And calm thee, for thy dear dead. 
 
 ' For who is it loves thee, Igerna the bright, 
 Igerna my lily all pure, 
 With passionate love, and sure, 
 
 But thy sovereign lord, who sues for the right 
 To make his fair pearl secure ? 
 
160 THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 VI 
 
 ' I will give thee one hour, my beloved, to weep, 
 
 To weep one other sad hour, 
 
 In the silence of thy bower ; 
 Then thy tears will I dry with kisses, and keep 
 
 Thee ever, my own sweet flower. 
 
 VII 
 
 ' Oh, sweet was the scent of the pure morning air 
 That came o'er the bright sea-wave, 
 And Tintagel's towers did lave ! 
 
 But my love she is sweeter, more soft, more fair 
 Than the breath the south winds gave. 
 
 VIII 
 
 ' And hid in the casket of my deepest heart 
 I'll treasure thee all my days ; 
 My diamond worthy all praise ; 
 
 Thou gem of my crown set in golden art, 
 And shedding divinest rays.' 
 
THE LOVE OF UTHER 161 
 
 IX 
 
 ' Make thee ready, my love, for the marriage rite ; 
 
 The solemn and sacred vow, 
 
 Within an hour from now ; 
 Give joy to my soul, thou sweet star of my night ; 
 
 Thyself on thy king bestow. 
 
 X 
 
 ' And as the firm apple encloseth the seed 
 All safely within its core, 
 From frost and wintry show'r, 
 
 Until the ripe season of fair Earth's good need 
 Shall succour it evermore. 
 
 XI 
 
 ' Even so shall I shelter thee, love, from all harm, 
 And nourish thee in my breast, 
 Like dove in its own sweet nest : 
 
 No rough wind shall assail thee, or biting storm, 
 Till the earth shall give us rest. 
 
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1 62 THE LOVE OF UTHER 
 
 XII 
 
 ' Then, cease thy lamenting, my jewel, my crown, 
 Thou source of my soul's delight, 
 Who changest my dark to light ; 
 
 Array thee in robes of the bridal, my Own ; 
 And gladden my longing sight.' 
 
 One moment pale, then flushed with rosy red 
 Igerna's tear-stained face, while being led 
 All trembling towards the altar, by the king 
 In happy triumph. And she fulfilling 
 Merlin's prophecy, gave to him her love 
 Unswerving, faithful : soon around him wove 
 In silent strength the sweet magnetic chain 
 Of wife, which throughout life bound close 
 the twain. 
 
CAEDMON 
 
 AN EARLY ENGLISH IDYLL 
 
 M 2 
 
l6 5 
 
 CAEDMON 
 
 An Early English Idyll 
 
 INTRODUCTION 
 
 Every student of early English literature is fami- 
 liar with the story of Caedmon, the peasant-poet. 
 Historians give him a marked position in their 
 writings as forming a distinct epoch in English 
 literature ; for Caedmon, ignorant and unlettered, 
 and belonging to a race rude and uncultured, rose 
 out of the darkness that surrounded him, in a truly 
 wonderful manner. A thousand years before 
 Milton's time this Whitby peasant sang the epic of 
 the Creation, the first ' Paradise Lost' In vivid 
 language is depicted the War in Heaven, the Fall 
 of Satan, and his counsellings in Hell. ' Thus, 
 Caedmon began the first in time, and among the 
 first in genius the strain in English poetry.' 
 
 Caedmon was in fact our first English poet ; 
 
1 66 CAEDMON 
 
 our Early Milton. His verse is full of dramatic 
 power, and true poetical fervour. Here he sings 
 of Satan fallen : — 
 
 ' Satan discoursed, he who henceforth ruled hell 
 
 Spake sorrowing. 
 
 God's angel erst, he had shone white in heaven, 
 
 Till his soul urged, and most of all his pride, 
 
 That of the Lord of Hosts he should no more 
 
 Bend to the word. About his heart his soul 
 
 Tumultuously heaved, hot pains of wrath 
 
 Without him. 
 
 " Then," said he, " Most unlike this narrow place 
 
 To that which once we knew, high in Heaven's realm 
 
 Which my Lord gave me, though, therein no more 
 
 For the Almighty we hold royalties. 
 
 Yet right hath He not done in striking us 
 
 Down to the fiery bottom of hot hell.'" 
 
 The monks with whom Caedmon was associated 
 when he became an inmate of the monastery, were 
 acquainted with the Chaldee Scriptures, and gave 
 him the name of Caedmon, because his verse was 
 taken from that scripture — ' In the beginning' the 
 Chaldee for which is ' b Cadmon,' thus, in every 
 
CAEDMOX 167 
 
 sense it was a beginning, for it was the first dawn 
 of Saxon genius in England. 
 
 Although Bede, and every historian downwards, 
 give Caedmon due place in their histories, no poet 
 has ever pictured the story of his hearth-life, or 
 woven around him in imagination the probable 
 incidents of his home, and immediate surroundings. 
 
 Bede informs us that ' Hilda received him into 
 her monastery with all that he possessed.' 
 
 This implies either the possession of some little 
 property, or family, or both. Being an elderly man 
 at the time of his poetic inspiration, his family, if 
 any, would be grown up. It was no uncommon 
 thing at that time for married persons, in the en- 
 thusiasm of their new conversion, to give up husband 
 or home for a monastic life, in order to promote 
 the glory of God. Therefore, it is quite probable 
 that Caedmon had a portion of his family living 
 with him at the time he broke up his home to enter 
 into the monastery. 
 
 The ' Idyll ' presents a double picture to the 
 reader ; on the one hand it recounts those incidents 
 given by the Historian, and on the other, it fills up 
 those spaces left out by him. 
 
1 68 CAEDMON 
 
 CAEDMON 
 
 The oxen and horses all slowly along 
 
 The summer-white roads, were now wending their 
 
 way, 
 Bearing their burdens, as they patiently toiled 
 Alongside of the hedgerows, which robed in their 
 Kmerald dress — new gift of the fair young Spring — 
 All scented, and decked with the may-blossom 
 
 bright, 
 Were mingling their sweets with the newly-mown 
 
 hay, 
 And with ravishing perfumes filling the air. 
 
 The Beechen trees bursting their bud-leaves, 
 
 branched out, 
 Beflccking in shapes all bewildering, 
 The beautiful scene, with their shadows all 
 Shifting, as light clouds in the arch of the sky. 
 
CAEDMON 169 
 
 At a turn in the road stood a cottage, meek, 
 Where dwelt Caedmon, the churl, the dreamer, yet 
 
 wise, 
 And all urgent to learn the new story of Christ, 
 And Creation. His fathers, barbarian 
 Saxons by birth ; who worshipped Odin, as god, — 
 A dead hero ; — bowed them to sun, and to sea. 
 And Caedmon's dear gentle daughter, had now 
 
 learnt 
 The new doctrine of love, from the God-serving nuns 
 Of Streaneshalch, 1 sea-town on our northern shore. 
 
 Overlooking the great rolling ocean, oft 
 Angrily lashed into motion, by north winds 
 And east winds, was the Abbey of Hilda, the saint ; 
 Hilda, the Princess, who rose as a Deborah — 
 Revealer of Truth, on the wilds of our northern 
 shore. 
 
 Kings in humility for her counsel came, 2 
 
 1 Ancient name for Whitby. 'Streaneshalch' means, 
 Bede tells us, ' the Bay of the Lighthouse.' 
 
 2 'Her prudence was so great that not only indifferent 
 persons, but kings and princes came for her advice.' — Bede. 
 
iyo CAEDMON 
 
 Her wisdom-words drinking in reverence, deep, 
 And left her refreshed for their toil in the world. 
 
 From her teaching uprose 
 The Old Fathers, and heroes of gentle renown ; 
 Who quelled the wild passions of Northmen, brave, 
 Alone by the love that springs out of God's fount, 
 And laid for all time the foundation of faith 
 In the hearts and the book-lore of England. 
 
 Save his one daughter, Caedmon lived lone ; all else 
 Who belonged him were long since laid in their 
 
 grave ; 
 And his thoughts were all God-ward, but bound 
 
 his speech, 
 No utterance finding for the fire within. 
 
 When the gold of the sun turned to crimson, red, 
 And shadows fell long ; finished the toil of the 
 
 da>-, 
 Then Edna, his golden-haired daughter spake out, 
 Saying — ' Father, dost thou remember the feast, 
 Our good eorl hath maken us ready to-night ? 
 We thither must hasten ; have share in the sport; 
 
CAEDMON 171 
 
 For the harp and the song will merrily pass 
 The hours with good speed. And the old-time 
 Love-stories, old Ulfin, our neighbour, will tell, 
 Who weareth his ninety long winters full well, 
 On his snowy-white head. 
 
 ' And cometh young 
 Ethwuld, the fisher, from Heorta, 1 to-day. 
 He longeth all greatly to join in the throng : 
 And sings he most sweetly the songs of the sea. 
 Now, look through the distance, and canst thou not 
 
 find 
 The sight of his brown sail just dotting the wave ? 
 Dear Ethwuld ! The daughters of Aegir 2 are now 
 Winging thee over the ocean, to help thee 
 To hie unto me.' 
 
 ' My daughter, it doth not beseem thee to give 
 Such honour to sea-gods ; all idle this talk ! 
 For only Almighty Lord reigns over all. 
 
 1 ' Heorta' or ' Heruteu ' ancient name for Hartlepool. 
 
 2 In Scandinavian mythology Aegir was god of the sea, 
 his daughters, the waves. Our ancestors for long retained 
 their old superstitions, and kept them side by side with the 
 new faith. 
 
172 CAEDMON 
 
 So Ethwuld is coming to greet thee ! 'Tis well ; 
 He is welcome to bed and to board this night, 
 For sake of his father, my friend of old-time. 
 But Edna, oh, set not thy heart upon him, 
 Nor think thee of marriage ; for fain I would see 
 Thee God-serving always, as the nuns who sing 
 
 praise 
 To their King day and night, for love of His Name. 
 
 Then, swiftly uprose the deep blush on her cheek, 
 Which as quickly retreated, turning back on 
 Her heart, and leaving her pale as a white rose, 
 Whose petals untinted, and passionless, send 
 Only their sweets to the air. 
 
 ' Give up Ethwuld ! 
 Desert him, who loves me as dear as his life ! 
 I cannot. 'Tis now all too late to undo ! 
 I love him, and holds he my true plighted troth. 
 Yet, father, I still would obey thee. Take now 
 My promise. If Ethwuld all willingly yields 
 His just claim, myself I will give unto God.' 
 
 Then trembled the tears within their casements 
 bright, 
 
CAEDMON i 73 
 
 As dew on the flowers, or cloud hiding the stars : 
 And stirred was her whole soul, and heart deeply 
 
 moved 
 By contending emotions, filling her breast. 
 Full oft had she longed to live only to God, 
 And give Him heart-service. Advancement 'bove 
 
 all 
 To dwell 'neath the roof of his holiest saint, 
 The sweet Lady Hilda ; exalted beyond, 
 And above all women. 1 Who daily was blessed 
 By the poor ; revered by the wealthy and great. 
 
 That instant through the open door, Ethwuld's 
 
 form 
 Across her vision came. In thoughtful tenderness, 
 Fearing lest to him the pleasure would be lost 
 
 1 ' At Whitby Hilda was as mother to the child-princess, 
 the one-year-old daughter of King Oswald's brother and 
 successor, who grew up under her care, and became next 
 abbess after her. She was as mother in her little community, 
 and among the rude people round about, who long preserved 
 the belief that her form was at certain times to be seen in a 
 vision of sunshine among the ruins of the later abbey, built 
 upon the site of hers. She so much encouraged the close 
 study of Scripture that in her time many worthy servants of 
 the Church, and five bishops, are said to have come out of 
 her abbey.' — Morley. 
 
174 CAEDMON 
 
 Of that night's revel, she put away her grief, 
 Made good endeavour to greet him valiantly, 
 And meet him with a sunny smile. He, man-like, 
 Knew not the difference 'twixt the brightness 
 
 forced, 
 And the heart's true merriment. Donning her 
 
 hood, 
 She led the way athwart the fields to the abode, 
 Where now, the eager guests in full assemblage 
 
 met. 
 
 When finished the repast, and the mead sent round, 
 And all had well quaffed : they straightway sate 
 
 them down 
 In one great circle. Thither was brought the harp, 
 And in the simple minstrelsy each took part. 
 One touched the strings with cunning fingers ; or 
 
 one 
 Sang his heathen song, or told some Northland 
 
 tale. 
 
 The stranger to honour most, the host now bade 
 Young Ethwuld sing the first. Though embrowned 
 his cheeks 
 
CAEDMON 175 
 
 By sun, and rough sea-wind, still, the flush rose full, 
 As straight he stood, and, with deep melodious 
 
 voice, 
 He sang the song of his birthplace. 
 
 THE FISHERMAN'S SONG 
 
 I 
 
 ' AROUSE thee, my mate, for ye western breeze 
 Now blows fresh, and free, and clear ; 
 
 Across ye white-foaming, and surging seas, 
 And thou, our coble must steer ; 
 
 II 
 ' For long have we waited ye fickle wind 
 
 To lend her light fairy wing ; 
 But she with uncertain, and changeful mind, 
 
 No help to us e'er would bring. 
 
 Ill 
 ' And then we will hoist our one big, brown sail, 
 
 To swell in ye morning's light ; 
 And away with our nets, and a pleasant gale, 
 
 We'll hie us with all our might. 
 
176 CAEDMON 
 
 IV 
 
 ' We'll silently speed, as fishermen brave, 
 
 Who toil on ye ocean wide ; 
 While bright waves our boat will merrily lave, 
 
 As onwards we safely glide. 
 
 V 
 
 ' But if ye false wind should change her soft tone, 
 
 And furious send ye storm, 
 And wild beats ye tempest, whose angry moan 
 
 Doth fill us with deep alarm ; 
 
 VI 
 
 ' Our thoughts will then fly to ye dear old Bay, 
 Where those who love us are nigh ; 
 
 While watching for us through ye livelong day, 
 Their prayer will ascend on high. 
 
 VII 
 ' Arouse thee, my mate, for ye western breeze, 
 
 Now blows fresh, and free, and clear, 
 Across ye white-foaming and surging seas, 
 
 And thou our coble must steer.' 
 
CAEDMON 177 
 
 Then full great applause was given Ethwuld's 
 
 song; 
 When, suddenly an old-time warrior uprose, 
 Regarding with scorn the theme of Ethwuld's lay : 
 ' I will sing anent Great Odin's son, King Ring, 
 A lay learnt long ago in the old home-land.' 
 
 THE SCANDINAVIAN'S SONG 
 (The Choosing of a King) 
 
 ' O'ER hill and vale the Bud-staff, 1 fleet, 
 
 Calls to the Ting ; 2 
 Prince Ring 3 is dead ; the people meet 
 
 To choose a king. 
 
 1 The bud-staff was made of wood, about a foot long, and 
 was carried from house to house for the publication of news, 
 or proclamations, which were inscribed thereon in runic 
 characters. 
 
 2 ' Ting ' was an assembly first introduced by Frei at 
 Upsala, where the people met three times a year for sacrifice, 
 and also for the conduct of State affairs. 
 
 3 King Ring ruled over Ringarike, a part of Norway. 
 These verses are translated from an original Scandinavian 
 Saga. 
 
 N 
 
178 CAEDMON 
 
 ' The warrior takes adown his blade 
 
 Of blue-bright steel, 
 Against his hand with care 'tis laid, 
 
 The edge to feel. 
 
 ' The maiden cleans the helm awhile 
 
 With diligence ; 
 And blushes as she sees her smile 
 
 Reflected thence. 
 
 ' Then to the field the people hie 
 
 Where bucklers ring ; 
 No tent was there, save cloudless sky 
 
 O'er open Ting. 
 
 ' Above all, Frithyof was descried 
 
 With boy so fair, 
 'Twas royal child, close at his side 
 
 With golden hair. 
 
 ' A murmuring voice went through the 
 throng ; — 
 
 " To lead the host 
 He knoweth not ; and is too young 
 
 For Judge's post." 
 
CAEDMON 179 
 
 ' The child is raised by Frithyof's hands 
 
 On shield of steel : 
 " Here is your king ! on him depends 
 
 The country's weal. 
 
 ' " And ancient Odin's image grand 
 
 Before ye, see ! 
 Descended from the royal line 1 
 
 Of Gods is he. 
 
 ' " My sword his country's just renown 
 
 Shall e'er protect ; 
 Hereafter with his father's crown 
 
 He shall be decked. 
 
 ' " Forsete, Baldur's 2 son, I take, 
 
 As witness, thee ; 
 If ever I this oath should break, 
 
 Destroy thou me ! " 
 
 1 These kings invariably considered themselves descended 
 from Odin, and traced their ancestry back to him. 
 
 2 'Baldur' is god of light, and typical of all good. 
 ' Forsete" ' is Baldur's son by Nanna, the god of justice. 
 The sun is female in Scandinavian mythology; the moon 
 male ! 
 
i8o CAEDMON 
 
 ' And from the shield the child looks round 
 
 With eyes all bright ; 
 As eaglet looks from gloomy ground 
 
 On Baldur's light. 1 
 
 ' But wearied now the youthful blood ; 
 
 So with a bound, 
 The boy in proudly royal mood, 
 
 Attained the ground. 
 
 ' Then rang the voices from the Ting 
 
 All full and free ; 
 " We choose thee buckler's child 2 of Ring, 
 
 Our King to be ! " ' 
 
 And the merry circle grew merrier still 
 At thought of their ancient Fatherland, which 
 had 
 
 1 ' Baldur's light.' This expression refers to the eagle 
 looking at the sun. 
 
 J ' Buckler's child,' is an expression alluding to the custom 
 of ancient northern nations, who, when they had elected a 
 kiny, raised him on a shield, and carried him round the host 
 in a triumphal procession. 
 
CAEDMON us i 
 
 Given birth to Gods. 1 And many a lay was sunt; 
 In great Odin's praise ; and Frigga, his fair wife ; 
 And strong Thor, their son — the Northern Trinity, 
 Which in Upsala's temple they had worshipped. 
 And Caedmon's poor heart was burning strong 
 
 within, 
 As listened he long to these vain verses sung, 
 Which now he full disdained. Still, he could not 
 
 sing 
 The praises of his God. Motionless and mute 
 Remained he there, all pained ; and dreading the 
 
 turn 
 He plainly saw approaching. Then, silently 
 He stole him from his seat ; and the merry band 
 Better served by tending to their tired beasts. 
 
 Then, Ulfin, white-haired man, all bowed by weight 
 Of many a weary winter, spake full clear ; 
 Recounting a story of a time within 
 
 1 The religion of the Anglo-Saxons was a compound of 
 the worship of Celestial bodies and of Hero-worship, termed 
 Sabceism. The worship of Odin was common to all the 
 Teutons. He was their king from whom their science and 
 lore had been derived. The song of the bard and incanta- 
 tion of the sorcerer had been taught by Odin. 
 
CAEDMON 
 
 His sire's remembrance. A love-tale of a king, 
 Descendants, of whom these rough Northmen long 
 
 since 
 All clean annihilated. 
 
 OLD ULFIN'S STORY 
 
 I 
 
 ' As far northwards I wandered away, 
 1 saw shining Heorta's fair Bay, 
 And I wended my way by the sand, 
 Till I came where the sea-robbers land.* 
 
 II 
 
 " I saw nothing but rocks all around, 
 And dark caves reaching far underground, 
 But no soul in that solitude bare, 
 Nor the sign of a being was there. 
 
 1 This is the place now called ' Black Hall Rocks.' 
 Believed to have been a great resort of pirates, on account 
 nf its facilities for concealment. It possesses a weird, wild 
 beauty of its own ; being now a coastguard station, a few 
 cottages relieve its solitude. 
 
CAEDMOX 183 
 
 III 
 ' 'Twas the heat of a bright summer's day, 
 Now, what think you I saw near the Bay ? 
 But a beautiful maiden bathing all free, 
 Laughing and laving in the cool sea. 
 
 IV 
 
 ' How she splashed and she dashed in the wave 
 How the sound of her clear voice now gave 
 Sweetest echoes on echoes, whose shock 
 Silver-belled seemed to play on each rock ! 
 
 v 
 
 ' Glittered the sun on the scene so fair ; 
 Sending his rays through her golden hair ; 
 Lighting the water with golden light ; 
 Topping the waves as they danced so bright. 
 
 VI 
 ' Sparkled the blue eyes in their wild glee, 
 Brighter than sunbeams lighting the sea ; 
 Like a lily the limbs, fair and round, 
 Parted the waves at each merry bound. 
 
i84 CAEDMON 
 
 VII 
 
 ' Oh, what luck, lackaday, lackaday ! 
 Xow whom think you came passing that way, 
 But King Locrin, the brave, who traversed 
 Past the place where the maid was immersed. 
 
 VIII 
 
 ' But the sight of the nymph in the sea, 
 Nude as the flowers that grow on the lea, 
 Never came to his eyes ; nor espied 
 Maiden's garments hard by the rock-side. 
 
 IX 
 
 ' Then, in soft dreamy mood sate he down, 
 Close to the robe of dark russet brown, 
 As if careful to keep in his sight 
 The lily-white linen, bright with sunlight. 
 
 ' Horror-struck, and all under the sea 
 Dived the maiden as long as could be ; 
 But the day-dreaming king, from the spot 
 Never stirred even one little jot. 
 
CAEDMON 185 
 
 XI 
 ' Sentinel unbidden still he stayed ; 
 Little dreaming what part would be played 
 By the rosy sea-nymph in her strait, 
 Growing crimson at thought of her fate. 
 
 XII 
 
 ' " Oh, for the ribbons of dark sea-brown, 
 Thickly upon the broad beach now strewn ! 
 Never a one will come to my hand 
 While full plenty lie there on the sand ! " 
 
 XIII 
 
 ' Thus, Estrilda wailed out in her woe, 
 And the shame made her cheeks deeper glow, 
 And she prayed that the distant sea-weed, 
 Fate would float to her in her great need. 
 
 XIV 
 
 ' Aegir listening the prayer of the maid, 
 Sent his daughters, the Waves, to her aid, 
 Who brought clusters of sea-ribbon, brown, 
 Over rocks, as they tumbled adown. 
 
1 86 CAEDMON 
 
 XV 
 ' Aphrodite uprising from sea, 
 Than Estrilda no fairer could be, 
 As she timidly 'merged from the wave, 
 Robed in the raiment the sea-god gave. 
 
 XVI 
 ' Now, from her waist of ivory fair 
 Hung the brown streamers, trembling in air ; 
 Hiding the limbs of shell-tinted hue, 
 While sea-zephyrs kissed, and parted them, too. 
 
 XVII 
 
 ' Never in Britain beheld he before 
 
 Like of this Naiad, who 'thwart the sea-shore 
 
 Fleetly she fled far into a cave, 
 
 That opens its mouth anear the sea-wave. 
 
 XVIII 
 
 1 " Gods ! Do I dream ! Or, see I aright ! 
 Is this beautiful being of light, 
 Goddess come hither from Northland shore, 
 Daughter of Estrild, 1 whom all Northmen adore ? " 
 
 1 Estrild was the god of love, in Northern Europe. The 
 heroine of this story was daughter of a Northern Prince, and 
 
CAEDMON 187 
 
 XIX 
 ' Thus he cried, and he suddenly knew 
 That a fire swept its courses all through 
 Heart, and brain ; and he bowed to the ground, 
 Homage paying to her he had found. 
 
 xx 
 ' And he loved with a passionate love 
 Northland princess, whose beauty above, 
 And excelling all women's, made glow 
 His soul with joy too sweet to forego. 
 
 xxi 
 ' And around him she tenderly wove 
 Her heart's truest, devotional love ; 
 And her bright eyes of violet deep, 
 Told the secret she fain would now keep. 
 
 XXII 
 
 ' Then, Corineus raising on high 
 
 His great battle-axe, King Locrin drew nigh ; 
 
 Harshly in all the heat of his rage, 
 
 Cried — " Die — traitor, die ! Or keep thy gage. 
 
 was evidently named after the god. The story treats of the 
 ancient days of Britain. 
 
CAEDMON 
 
 XXIII 
 ' " Marry Estrilda, Barbarian vile ! 
 My daughter desert, and shameful defile 
 Blood of fair Britain ; and basely break 
 Thine own pledge, for this strange woman's 
 sake ! 
 
 XX rv 
 ' " Poor reward for the scars I now bear, 
 Remnant of wounds in many a war 
 Fought for thy sire ! Full well now I know 
 How much of gratitude kings bestow ! " 
 
 xxv 
 ' To appease Corineus, Locrin sware 
 Guendolena to marry, and share 
 With her his crown ; so he kept the troth 
 Wrung by ambition, and forced by wrath. 
 
 XXVI 
 ' But he loved with a passionate love ; 
 Love, that naught on this earth could remove ; 
 And daily and nightly his tears would start 
 For the golden-haired maid who held his heart. 
 
CAEDMON 
 
 XXVII 
 ' Within a subterranean hall, 
 Faithfully tended by many a thrall, 
 This Northern princess was kept in state 
 For the love of the king could ne'er abate. 
 
 XXVIII 
 ' His devotional duties as shield 
 Made he for his visits concealed 
 To his love ; by this cunning device, 
 Of rendering his gods sacrifice. 
 
 XXIX 
 ' When Corineus died, he banished from sight 
 The lady he loved not ; and brought to light 
 His hidden Estrilda, all full of grace ; 
 Made her his queen in Guendolena's place.' 
 
 While spake the old man, all silent listened him ; 
 Not only for reverence of his great years, 
 But also for the strange love-tale he then told, 
 Which diversely charmed each willing listener. 
 
190 CAEDMON 
 
 Then missing Caedmon the company cried out 
 That he had basely treated them, and needs must 
 
 pay 
 Some forfeit, which only his own kin must answer 
 
 for. 
 To clear his debt, fair Edna, trembling, took 
 
 place 
 Among the singers, and lightly touching strings 
 Of glee-wood, she sweetly sang an old quaint 
 song. 
 
 THE SHEPHERD 
 Edna's Song 
 
 ' By crystal fountains, 
 O'er grassy mountains, 
 
 And pastures fair, 
 The shepherd speedeth, 
 His flock he feedeth, 
 And gently leadeth, 
 
 The young with care. 
 
CAEDMON igi 
 
 II 
 ' Few things he needeth, 
 Free life he leadeth 
 
 In open air. 
 On God relieth : 
 The spring supplieth 
 
 To him full share. 
 
 Ill 
 ' His flock is biding 
 Where streams are gliding 
 
 Beneath the shade. 
 The woods are seeming 
 With new life teeming : 
 The sun is beaming 
 
 O'er hill and glade. 
 
 IV 
 
 ' Evening 's advancing, 
 Shadows are dancing 
 
 Over the hills. 
 The shepherd 's kneeling, 
 His heart is feeling 
 That God's kind dealing, 
 
 All nature fills.' 
 
193 CAEDMON 
 
 Meanwhile the unhappy Caedmon full of shame 
 That he was dumb, and all powerless to sing, 
 Or, tell the tale in verse, as old Ulfin did, 
 Set himself to watch the cattle of the guests, 
 That while they made them merry, no harm 
 Should overtake the patient beasts which had 
 Conveyed the peasants from their more distant 
 homes. 
 
 Weary of watching he laid him down to rest, 
 And gentle sleep soon peacefully pressed his lids : 
 But, the fire that filled his breast throughout the day 
 Still haunted the visions of the night ; and dream 
 Most wonderful disclosed itself before him. 
 
 He thought the great Almighty had come nigh, 
 As he lay there ; and in a majestic tone 
 Straight issued the command — ' Caedmon sing ! ' 
 And unaffrighted answered he — ' I cannot sing, 
 I left the feast because I could not' But, still, 
 The Being at his side said, ' Sing ! ' Caedmon 
 
 cried, 
 ' Of what then must I sing ? ' 
 ' Of Me ; of all created things.' 
 
CAEDMON 193 
 
 And straightway the emotion of his mind 
 
 Found true utterance ; and all his soul was filled 
 
 With the poet's fuller conception, and all 
 
 A poet's beautiful imaginings. 
 
 The tongue, erstwhile all dumb for verse, burst 
 
 forth, 
 And sang he sweetest songs ; yea, songs more 
 
 sweet 
 Than mortal ever heard. 
 When morning broke he thought he had talked 
 
 with God. 
 
 With this new inspiration filled, hastened he 
 To Lady Hilda, and audience humbly sought, 
 Which graciously she gave. Then recounted he 
 His glorious vision ; rendering the noble verse 
 He sang with God beside his couch, which upon 
 His mind most vividly remained. In deep surprise 
 The Lady Abbess listened, all strong impressed 
 With this most unexampled testimony 
 Of Power supreme. 
 
 Then she realised that this unlettered churl, 
 Who, in her presence shamed, and hesitating stood, 
 Was called to tell the wondering world His Work. 
 
 O 
 
194 CAEDMON 
 
 To Caedmon's mind, trained in humility, 
 
 'Twere presumption unsurpassed, but that he knew 
 
 A Higher, still, than Hilda bade him speak. 
 
 Willing to help the work which God commenced, 
 And further still to prove him, she council called 
 Of learned monks that they might witness how 
 This uncultured and unlettered man could sing 
 The epic of the great creation. 
 
 And one, by her command a scripture read 
 Which Hilda bade the poet turn to verse 
 To test his truth. Next morn he sang again 
 The verses sweet, new-made from Holy text. 
 Then Hilda knew the peasant was inspired. 
 And now, she issued the command that he 
 Be taught and trained, giving him privilege 
 Of dwelling there, devoted unto God. 
 
 And Caedmon wept for joy that he so lowly, rude, 
 And of such mean condition should be thus raised 
 To high estate of holy monk, and dwell 
 Beneath one roof ; with wise, illustrious men. 
 And ever dedicated he both voice and verse 
 
CAEDMON 195 
 
 To themes all holy and sublime ; and none in all 
 His time sang verse so eloquent as he. 
 
 When Edna's soft voice had ceased ; her simple lay 
 Fell with a tender influence on the hearts 
 Of the heathen around ; of God knowing naught. 
 Beckoning young Ethwuld to follow eftsoon, 
 With quick step she wended her way through the 
 
 wold 
 Illumed by the silvery light that outbeamed 
 From the night-lamp of heaven. 
 Looking upward, she gazed on the gentle orb, 
 That placidly shone from the blue arch above, 
 And ardently longed for the calm that dwelt there. 
 
 All through the revel she had hidden the pain, 
 And the tumult within her. Now, the great strain 
 Of joy all assumed, and fictitious, was past, 
 She burst into passionate sorrow, and cried — 
 ' Oh, Ethwuld, how hard 'tis to give up the world — 
 The world, oh, my love, that holds thee ! ' 
 
196 CAEDMON 
 
 His footsteps approaching her swiftly, at once 
 Arrested her speech. 
 
 ' My Edna in tears ! 
 What ails thee, my darling, that after the feast 
 Cometh this sorrow ? Hath Edgar, or churl 
 Been rude unto thee ? ' 
 
 Then she told him her strait. Her father's com- 
 mand ; 
 Her gage to lead life of a virgin, to God 
 Devoted, if her lover would yield his claim. 
 
 Then Ethwuld turned white with the anger that 
 
 rose 
 All rapid and fierce through his frame. And the 
 
 fire 
 That flamed in his eyes fell like shot ; or the 
 
 point 
 Of an arrow that would pierce through heart or 
 
 brain. 
 ' Where is thy love, I would ask thee ? I well trow 
 How little thou carest for me. Fool that I was 
 To believe thee ! Thy vows are as firm as sand 
 That shifts on the shore, or clouds that sail in sky ! ' 
 
CAEDMON 1 97 
 
 ' Ethwuld, listen. Lay not this blame on mine 
 
 head ! 
 The charge of the matter is thine. With thee rests 
 The final decision. Thou art the judge 
 Of my future. Say, shall I live unto God, 
 Or, for thee ? ' 
 
 ' Ask thine own heart. I prize little the love 
 All halting between two resolves. 
 Mayhap after marriage thou wilt rue, and then 
 Desert me for nuns in the end ! What a faith ! 
 For they teach it is good to leave husband, or child, 
 For God and His work.' 
 
 Then Edna's eyes filled ; but after a space 
 She lifted her head, and indignantly said — 
 ' Even so let it be ! No more of thy doubts, 
 I'll not rue after marriage, but now ! ' 
 
 And homeward she hastened, and left him alone : 
 
 In bitter resentment, stern stood he there ; 
 
 Out on the common, his face fanned by the winds 
 
 That played in the soft summer air. 
 
 And wildly he wandered all night on the wold, 
 
CAEDMON 
 
 In utter distraction, driven this way, and that, 
 As he balanced the matter in his wild brain. 
 Consumed by the passion that held him, at once 
 He would beg her forgiveness ; next moment felt 
 'Twas too late. At dawn of the day, when streaked 
 With new gold was the sky, Ethwuld was seen 
 In the distance sailing away on the sea. 
 
 And all that long night Edna waited return 
 
 Of her father ; drowned in her own bitter tears ; 
 
 Wailing the loss of her love : full of remorse, 
 
 She chid herself vainly for taking the share 
 
 In so thankless a task. Her father more fit 
 
 To tell his commands. The whole blame of his 
 
 wrath, 
 And strong indignation she placed on herself. 
 If chance had then brought him, she surely was his, 
 One soft word of love would have won back her 
 
 heart, 
 And melted the dissidence raised by her faith. 
 
 But that word never came ; and the stream of her 
 life 
 
CAEDMON 199 
 
 Took an opposite course. Helpless, and heart-sick 
 She drifted along the flood of her fate. 
 
 When the sun had attained its meridian, 
 Caedmon returned to his home radiant with joy, 
 And delirium at thought of his newly-found gift. 
 For ever to him a rich source of delight ; 
 A continual blessing ; a cup at his hand, 
 Filled with wine inexhaustible, giving new life, 
 And bestowing the richest of joys. 
 A fount ever welling, that shrinks not, like friends, 
 When dewy streams of the world's riches are 
 
 dried. 
 Unlike beauty which fades with the burden of 
 
 years, 
 Time only enriches this storehouse, its fruit 
 All mellows, refines. 
 
 As a sun-ray meeting with glittering diamond, 
 Or, polygonous crystal, is many times 
 Multiplied, so Edna rejoiced full tenfold 
 In the glory her sire had attained, such joy 
 That shed multitudinous rays of sunshine 
 O'er the home and the heart of her sire. 
 
CAEDMON 
 
 And zealously Caedmon now pressed the nun's veil 
 On Edna, for health of her soul, and new faith 
 To advance, that the light of God's love might be 
 
 seen 
 In the drear and the darkness around. 
 And her thought was of God, and daily her prayers 
 Went upward to Christ, and to Mary, for grace : 
 But her heart in deep yearning mourned mutely 
 
 for love, 
 As to Ethwuld she sent her farewell. 
 
 EDNA'S FAREWELL 
 
 I 
 
 ' THINK of me only as thy friend 
 
 Whose memory is to thee, 
 As some sweet song that haunts thine ear 
 
 With tuneful melody. 
 
 II 
 
 ' My love shall be the poet's theme, 
 Whose verses make the song ; 
 
 My heart-strings shall the music be, 
 Vibrating now so long. 
 
CAEDMON 
 
 III 
 ' The memory of mine eyes shall give 
 
 Thy strains their gentle flow, 
 And fill thee with emotion sweet, 
 
 That only poets know. 
 
 IV 
 
 ' And my soul shall be filled with joy 
 The angels fair, might take, 
 
 Pure as the streets of gold, they tread ; 
 Clear as the silver lake. 
 
 v 
 ' When over wave thy little bark 
 
 Glides on with fairy flight, 
 The picture on mine eyes is fixed, 
 
 And fills my inner sight. 
 
 VI 
 
 ' If in the stillness of the night 
 
 I long for quiet rest, 
 The one recurring thought is thee, 
 
 An ever-welcome guest. 
 
CAEDMON 
 
 VII 
 ' Where'er thou art, where'er I be, 
 
 Ah, Ethwuld, 'tis the same, 
 The distance cannot shut thee out, 
 
 I only hear thy name ! 
 
 VIII 
 
 ' Think of me only as thy friend, 
 Who without doubt shall be, 
 
 The truest, tenderest of all, 
 That God can give to thee. 
 
 IX 
 
 ' And the thought of the love I bear 
 
 Shall be as glad sunlight, 
 Or, as the kindly dew of heaven, 
 
 That droppeth in the night. 
 
 x 
 ' Or, like the fragrance of sweet flowers 
 
 That comes from a garden fair, 
 Their odours, wafted incense-like 
 
 Amidst the balmy air. 
 
CAEDMON 203 
 
 XI 
 ' Or, the calm of a holy hymn 
 
 That falls on all around, 
 When through the lofty pillared aisle 
 
 Is borne the mystic sound ; 
 
 XII 
 
 ' The waves of music softly steal 
 O'er tired hearts gathered there ; 
 
 Like echoes sweet from heaven, they come 
 All floating through the air. 
 
 XIII 
 
 ' Oh, Love, the sweetest aim in life, 
 
 What joy is given with thee, 
 Thine essence every soul pervades, 
 
 Thou rul'st eternally ! 
 
 XIV 
 ' Let an altar for ever be raised 
 
 To the Power all must own, 
 'Tis meet that Love be deified, 
 
 The heart of man her throne. 
 
204 CAEDMON 
 
 XV 
 ' As memories come in our dreams, 
 
 Shadow the pictures of old ; 
 So love, now all living and warm, 
 
 Will end like a tale that's told.' 
 
 All over the rugged steep, on which was reared 
 The Abbey of Hilda, the setting sun showered 
 His wonderful shades of deep gold ; which the sea, 
 Lying below, mirrored as fair as if 'twere 
 The face of a crystal lake. 
 
 Looking down on the scene 
 Or gazing far into the distance at sails 
 That dotted the wave, Edna stood on the edge 
 Of the steep, lost in sad bewildering thought : 
 Only one night lay between her and the world ; 
 Next morn the seal would be set that fixed her fate, 
 And the inviolable vow would be given. 
 
 Now, deeply was stirred all her soul with the old 
 Agitating, retrospective regrets : 
 
CAEDMON 205 
 
 For in full force felt she the fault of her weak, 
 
 And wavering purpose ; which, justly brought grave 
 
 Self-accusations. 
 
 How different her method had she better gauged 
 
 The state of her heart, fully conscious of love, 
 
 Now, felt she the coil of her fate winding round, 
 
 All due to her own irresolute doing ! 
 
 Pendulum-like, her will worked this way, and that. 
 
 In imagination full clearly the scene 
 
 Was enacted before her. Yet, not the same. 
 
 In the unity perfect of knitted souls, 
 
 Whose purpose was firm, undivided, and sure, 
 
 The twain would have conquered her father's great 
 
 zeal, 
 And melted him to set in its own true place 
 Th' irresistible altar of sweet human love. 
 
 In the midst of her musings, like a dream ap- 
 peared 
 
 A white sail on the waterway which lightly bore 
 
 Towards the shore of Streaneshalch ; near and 
 more near 
 
 It steadily came on its way ; till she discerned 
 
2o6 CAEDMON 
 
 The boat of her lover swift skimming the wave, 
 All lit by the gold in the sky. Then her heart 
 Gave a bound, for she saw that young Ethwuld 
 
 drew nigh : 
 And hastening all quickly he clambered the steep 
 Where Edna sat silently weeping in woe. 
 Like a lily her cheeks with heart-sorrow, and wan 
 With her anguish and grief. But, now, the bright 
 
 flush 
 All over her face was suffused, and her eyes, 
 New lit by the light that came into her soul, 
 Beamed their welcome to Ethwuld ; showing her 
 
 heart, 
 At that exquisite moment, all bare to his gaze. 
 
 No tongue-knowledge seeking ; nor staying for 
 
 word, 
 He kissed her in passionate fervour, and led 
 Her away to the sea. And the soft summer wind 
 Full well knew it bore on its wings a new bride 
 To Heorta's wild shore. And the sea-birds saw, 
 As they wheeled in the air in wonderful flight, 
 And told it the rocks rising out of the wave, 
 That the fisherman's bride was come to her home. 
 
SONGS, AND LYRICAL POEMS 
 
209 
 
 THE STORM 
 i 
 
 The storm without is wild and strong, 
 
 The rain in torrents beats 
 Upon the panes, and all along 
 
 The dark deserted streets. 
 
 II 
 
 But for the dismal noise of winds, 
 That shake the very floor ; — 
 
 Each gust some unseen crevice finds 
 Beneath the bolted door, — 
 
 III 
 There would be stillness everywhere, 
 
 For not a soul is seen ; 
 No children's voices fill the air ; 
 All wears a woeful mien. 
 
 P 
 
THE STORM 
 
 IV 
 The sparrows too, are mute and still, 
 
 No fluttering wings abound ; 
 Their cheerful chirps no longer fill 
 
 The house-tops all around. 
 
 v 
 And many a little nest this night 
 
 That's stood the summer's rain 
 Ere morning brings its cold, grey light, 
 
 Will ne'er be seen again. 
 
 VI 
 
 And many a mariner this day, 
 Who's been to many a shore, 
 
 Will never again be heard to say — 
 He's seen the like before. 
 
 VII 
 And many a ship that's sailed away 
 
 With swelling canvas bright, 
 And left behind the broad, smooth bay, 
 
 Will never see the light. 
 
THE STORM 
 
 VIII 
 And many a careless, happy child 
 
 All full of joyous glee 
 While gazing on the billows wild, 
 
 Of the angry, boiling sea, 
 
 IX 
 
 Will know full soon, the one so brave, 
 
 So loving, tender, true, 
 Whom mother prays her God to save, 
 
 Is lost with all his crew. 
 
 x 
 And many a gentle wife, just now, 
 
 Who's watching, hoping on, 
 Will something learn that shades her brow, 
 
 And makes her cheek grow wan. 
 
 XI 
 
 And all along the yellow strand, 
 
 And near ' the rocks,' I ween, 
 There's many a ship fast in the sand, 
 
 And many a wreck is seen. 
 
 P 2 
 
THE STORM 
 
 XII 
 For, oh, the Storm so cruel, cold, 
 
 Ne'er cares what hearts it breaks ; 
 What lives it spoils remains untold ; 
 
 What misery it makes. 
 
213 
 
 MATERNAL DEVOTION 
 
 PART I 
 i 
 
 SwEET memories rise unchidden in my breast 
 Of thee, my darling : in Love's warmest nest 
 Securely art thou hid. When thou art here 
 I cannot sing, nor tell what makes thee dear : 
 When thou art gone my bursting heart would move 
 In tend'rest measures of exalted love. 
 
 II 
 Communion close, and sympathy of thought 
 Brought us more near than Kindred could ; we 
 
 sought 
 Ambitions high and true. The noblest aims 
 Erstwhile didst fill thy soul, and all the names 
 Of men in bygone days, who won their state 
 Of honour, thy models were to imitate. 
 
ii4 MATERNAL DEVOTION 
 
 III 
 
 Thou art not only son, but brother — friend ; 
 The three all merged in one, and in these blend 
 Love, sympathy, and trust ; a triple cord 
 To firmly bind us twain. Unframed the word ; 
 Unknown the thought to analyse this chain 
 Subtle — unseen. Who can its depths obtain ? 
 
 IV 
 
 'Tis might)-, mystic Love that draws us nigh, 
 That sacred link ; that everlasting tie ! 
 Ocean may rear between its broad deep wall : 
 The widest earth divide us far, yet all 
 Is naught to us. The world may pass awaj', 
 And all things fail, but Love is bound to stay. 
 
2I 5 
 
 MATERNAL DEVOTION 
 
 PART II 
 
 i 
 MUSING and dreaming, here sit I alone, 
 Thinking of moments that long since have flown : 
 March winds are tumbling, and rumbling ; and 
 
 rush 
 On their wild course, as if trying to crush 
 All that opposeth them ; conquerors free 
 In their mad flight they now strive hard to be. 
 
 II 
 Out of the Calendar, who would not own, 
 Insolent Ides, that he wishes thee gone? 
 None love thy boisterous, roughly-hewn face ; 
 Nothing that's tender therein can we trace ; 
 Season more balmy, delicious I'd sight 
 If I could rule the ethereal height. 
 
?i6 MATERNAL DEVOTION 
 
 III 
 Go now, rough March, and take with thee thy 
 
 train ; 
 Long I for sunshine, and summer's soft rain ; 
 Long I to dream and gaze into the sky 
 Wherein fairy cloudlets sailing on high, 
 Shimmer and shake in the odorous breeze, 
 Wafted so gently from the southern seas. 
 
 IV 
 Ah, far above these there's a well-loved face 
 Wealth of the world could never replace ; 
 When it is absent the hearth is a-cold ; 
 Sun's gladdening rays do not as of old 
 Flow round my heart with their life-giving beams ; 
 Nature is icicled even in dreams. 
 
 v 
 Song hath gone from me ; for there is no sound ; 
 Only my heart-sighs that echo around ; 
 Sits by my Solitude whisp'ring ' At last, 
 Sister, accept me, I'm all that thou hast.' 
 Unwilling to take her, bow I my head, 
 Wishing that dear one were here in her stead. 
 
MA TERN A L DE VO TION 
 
 PART III 
 
 i 
 
 Silently sitting close imprisoned here, 
 
 And weary of all this solitude drear 
 
 The days of November hath brought. I sigh — 
 
 Yet how vainly — for the beauteous sky, 
 
 For gossamer cloud ; for the sunshine fair 
 
 For the hum of the bee in the dreamy air ; 
 
 II 
 
 I look, and I long for the balmy breeze 
 That comes to our shores from the southern seas ; 
 The scent of the hay, the bright flowers so gay, 
 How I wish for one hour of summer day ! 
 There's something I long for, far above these ; 
 E'en something more dear than the budding trees 
 
2i8 MATERNAL DEVOTION 
 
 III 
 
 For the cloud in the air, and the cloud in my breast 
 Now fill me with feeling of strange unrest ; 
 I long now to hear in these lonesome hours 
 The voice of my firstborn, more sweet than flowers, 
 More sweet than the songs which give me such joy 
 Are the tones of thy voice, my dearly-loved boy ; 
 
 IV 
 
 Fair harmony is the song of the birds, 
 A thousand-fold sweeter are thy heart-words : 
 Mine idol as babe ; in manhood the same, 
 Thou'rt part of my being, as the gold frame 
 Encircles a diamond, so art thou laid 
 Encased in the casket my strong love's made. 
 
219 
 
 MATERNAL DEVOTION 
 
 PART IV 
 
 i 
 
 THOUGH cold and dark November 
 
 Brings yearly the happy morn, 
 That ever I remember 
 
 As the day that thou wert born ; 
 Yet bright it will be always, 
 
 And beaming a sun shall be, 
 That sun is Love, whose warm rays 
 
 Are surely lit up for thee. 
 
 II 
 
 Then faint not when aweary 
 With many an uphill stride, 
 
 For oft the path proves dreary 
 While yet it is being tried ; 
 
MATERNAL DEVOTION 
 
 But think of love so tender 
 That follows thee ev'rywhere ; 
 
 A love that seeks to render 
 
 Thy young life all free from care. 
 
 Ill 
 
 A love that is undying, 
 
 E'en when the quick pulse grows cold 
 The spirit endless sighing 
 
 Will outbreathe its yearnings old ; 
 And send in still small voices 
 
 The unforgotten refrain : 
 The soul even then rejoices 
 
 In watching, loving again. 
 
THE CRY OF THE DESERTED 
 ONE 
 
 i 
 
 Oh, that I had some sweet magical charm, 
 
 Some secret and powerful spell 
 To cast over him who enchants my soul — 
 
 Over him whom I love so well. 
 
 II 
 If only a share of the deep, deep throbs 
 
 That fill my tumultuous heart, 
 Were echoed in his to the smallest degree, 
 
 To even a thousandth part. 
 
 Ill 
 Oh, then would it leap with supremest joy, 
 
 Then hotly the wildfire would glow ; 
 Oh, then would the life-stream rush through 
 my frame, 
 Which slowly is languishing now ! 
 
222 THE CRY OF THE DESERTED ONE 
 
 IV 
 Ah, there was a time when the whisper of love 
 
 Oft came from his lips all unsought ; 
 But now hath his heart grown cold as the sea, 
 
 And my love for him is as naught. 
 
 V 
 
 Where then shall I find the magical wand, 
 
 Or elixir worthy all cost, 
 To kindle again the fire of his love ; 
 
 The love that is doomed to be lost. 
 
 VI 
 
 Ah, what is my beauty? my empire is gone — 
 What care I for woman's soft grace, 
 
 When he who's my world, my life, and my joy 
 No longer looks into my face ? 
 
 VII 
 
 No longer dwells he on the sound of my voice 
 Which he singled from out the world's throng ; 
 
 Its music is gone ; 'tis now like the lyre 
 Whose strings are all broken— unstrung. 
 
THE CRY OF THE DESERTED OAE 223 
 
 VIII 
 
 If only its chords were touched by his hand 
 How quick would the vibrating string 
 
 Give harmony sweet, for answering love 
 The lost music would surely bring. 
 
 IX 
 
 Oh, must I then cherish his image no more, 
 
 And banish him ever from sight, 
 And crush out the love that's sapping my life, 
 
 That's turning my day into night ? 
 
 X 
 
 Can the sunflower forget the bright orb of day, 
 
 Her idol, her lover confessed ? 
 And oh, can the rose forget the soft dew 
 
 That nightly doth fall on her breast ? 
 
 XI 
 In the infinite future of love 
 
 His spirit will come to my side ; 
 In the eternity endless I'll gain 
 
 That love which on earth he denied. 
 
224 
 
 TO MY BROTHER 
 
 When Autumn brings the russet leaf, 
 
 And Earth is all a-glowing 
 With colours rich of yellow sheaf 
 
 That in the fields are flowing 
 In waves of beauty, while the air 
 
 In gentle zephyrs playing 
 Makes rhythm in the meadows fair, 
 
 And lines of beauty laying. 
 
 II 
 
 Then Nature's poetry is sung, 
 For Earth herself is trying 
 
 To make her music with sweet tongue 
 In cadence softly sighing. 
 
TO MY BROTHER 
 
 'Twas thus in sweetest time of year 
 
 A little babe thou earnest, 
 To fill thy niche, and unknown here 
 
 On earth a place thou claimest. 
 
 ill 
 And when the harvest moon shines clear ; 
 
 With stronger lustre beameth, 
 Then memory brings thee very near 
 
 And at my side thou seemeth 
 To list, and wonder as before, 
 
 When thou to me appealing, 
 I told thee tales in days of yore, 
 
 Of fancy, or of feeling. 
 
 IV 
 But soon I wake and find thee gone ; — 
 
 'Twas but a spell of dreaming ; — 
 I here, thou there, and all alone, 
 
 Above the great moon gleaming. 
 And yearly as the Autumn wanes 
 
 My heart would fain be showing 
 Its love towards thee, and full contains 
 
 A measure overflowing. 
 
226 
 
 THE BATTLE OF LIFE 
 
 A FAIR young girl with a serious look 
 Sat pondering deeply over her book ; 
 
 And lifting her head in innocent grace 
 Intently gazed she in her mother's face. 
 
 ' Oh, what is this " battle of life " ? ' she said, 
 ' Where are the soldiers ? By whom are they led 
 
 ' Our Queen hath her warriors brave, I know, 
 But what is this army ? Who is their foe ? 
 
 ' With pennant and plume, and brave array 
 Are the soldiers dight on the battle-day ? 
 
 ' With flashing sword and cannon, and lead, 
 Mow they down the living, heap up the dead ? ' 
 
THE BATTLE OF LIFE 227 
 
 ' Ah, daughter, the men in the battle of life, 
 
 Do not meet on the blood-stained field of strife ; 
 
 ' No sword is seen, nor pennant, nor plume, 
 Nor rolling thunder of the cannon's boom ; 
 
 ' Nor charge of rifles, are heard on the plain, 
 Where combatants struggle for life or gain. 
 
 ' Strange soldiers are some in this battle of life, 
 The young and the frail ; the widow, and wife ; 
 
 ' Unequal the contest, yet on they go, 
 Their leader Necessity, Want their foe. 
 
 ' And countless heroes now gone to their rest 
 Ne'er wore the Victoria Cross on their breast. 
 
 1 More noble than they who have scaled the height 
 Of some dear ambition, kept well in sight. 
 
 ' Yet the battles fought by these heroes great 
 Are seldom acknowledged by King or State. 
 
 q 2 
 
THE BATTLE OF LIFE 
 
 ' Oh, the garret all bare, and lowly cot 
 Give shelter to many brave hearts, I wot ! 
 
 ' The slim pale youth in his attic high, 
 Must face this terrible ordeal, or die. 
 
 ' And many a woman shrinks not to yield 
 Her very heart's blood on this battle-field. 
 
 ' The strain on her heart, and strain on her brain 
 Are more than human power can sustain. 
 
 ' The weak and weary soon slip out of sight, 
 Crushed by the conflict they sink in the fight. 
 
 ' Ah, yes, there are battles fought valiantly 
 'Neath poverty's shadow, with none to see.' 
 
 She finished ; a pause ; then the quiet air 
 Was parted by sound of a whispered prayer, 
 
 And the fair young girl on her bended knee, 
 Wept tears at these pictures of misery. 
 
229 
 
 MY CHOICE 
 i 
 
 The bard may sing of eyes so blue, 
 
 And say that none compare, 
 With their sweet beauty, emblem true 
 
 Of all that's good and fair. 
 
 II 
 And others sing of bright dark eyes 
 
 That flash 'neath jetty brow, 
 While each glance with its fellow vies 
 
 To make all hearts to bow. 
 
 Ill 
 But, oh, give me dear kindly eyes 
 
 That beam with Love's soft light, 
 Which throughout ev'ry change ne'er dies, 
 
 But gathers depth and might, 
 
230 MY CHOICE 
 
 IV 
 
 With all the long, long, changeful years, 
 Whose joy now comes, now goes, 
 
 And in each chequered phase endears 
 The hearts wherein it flows. 
 
 V 
 
 Then give me eyes bright with pure love, 
 Whose lovelight shines for me ; 
 
 And whose sincerity years prove 
 The truest love to be. 
 
231 
 
 NEW YEAR'S THOUGHTS 
 i 
 
 In ev'ry moment gliding o'er our heads 
 
 Insensibly are woven subtle threads 
 
 In life's own garment : year by year 
 
 Are tissues fashioned that we needs must wear. 
 
 II 
 And of these robes no two alike are made, 
 For each hath sep'rate tint of light, or shade, 
 Some glitter like a rainbow, beauteous, bright, 
 With pearly hues of everlasting light. 
 
 Ill 
 And daily we're invested by our deeds, 
 More real these than all beliefs and creeds, 
 For good or ill, they never fail to cling 
 More close to us than any other thing. 
 
232 NEW YEAR'S THOUGHTS 
 
 IV 
 
 And, lo ! Our life is numbered, not by days, 
 Nor counted by the years, but rather by the ways 
 And actions it hath wrought ; by these alone 
 The sum of our existence is best shown. 
 
233 
 
 CHRISTMAS 
 i 
 
 Oh, Christmas fair, oh, Christmas fair 
 
 How sweet thou art to me ! 
 Thy feath'ry flakes of falling snow 
 
 That crown each hill and tree, 
 Like the Spirit of God descend 
 
 In silent dove-like guise, 
 And light upon the hearts of men 
 
 To make them pure and wise. 
 
 II 
 
 I love thee, beauteous, glist'ning snow, 
 
 Emblem of Him who came 
 Clad in the innocence of heaven 
 
 To give me His own name. 
 Love left his 'thereal home, 
 
 Love lives with us to-day, 
 Love fills our hearts with God's own peace. 
 
 Love ever lights our way. 
 
234 
 
 WAITING FOR THE FIRST-FOOT 
 
 In the North of England an old custom still pre- 
 vails of having a first-foot for the New Year. It 
 is supposed that good or bad luck is brought to the 
 inmates of a house by the person who first crosses 
 the threshold in the New Year. 
 
 If a female should happen to enter first it is 
 considered an omen of misfortune ; consequently, 
 great care is taken that none but the favoured 
 individual be permitted to go into the house at 
 such a critical time. 
 
 The moment the New Year is ushered in, the 
 expected first-foot enters, when he is received with 
 hearty welcome. 
 
 In the following verses a poor girl, whose family 
 have been undergoing the trial of trade depression, 
 is awaiting the return of a reconciled lover. He is 
 hastening homewards in order to make his appear- 
 ance in the capacity of first-foot. 
 
WAITING FOR THE FIRST-FOOT 235 
 
 I 
 THOU'RT passing away from us, grey Old Year, 
 
 Thy moments are few and fleeting ; 
 All spent thy career, thy farewell is near, 
 
 For now thy last pulse is beating. 
 
 II 
 Full many a grief thou didst bring, Old Year, 
 
 My heart with much sadness steeping, 
 Yet Hope did appear, and dried the hot tear, 
 
 And stayed the long spell of weeping. 
 
 Ill 
 The poverty-cloud that appeared, Old Year, 
 
 Brought its train of miseries, making 
 So white the brown hair, with sorrow and care 
 
 Of mother, whose heart was breaking. 
 
 IV 
 And weaker the little ones grew, Old Year, 
 
 Though bravely hunger defying ; 
 Ah, we had a share of trouble to bear 
 
 When little Annie lay dying. 
 
236 WAITING FOR THE FIRST-FOOT 
 
 V 
 I never could hope, relentless Old Year, 
 
 However foolish my dreaming 
 This night I would wear the smiles of good cheer 
 
 With love-light mine eyes soft beaming. 
 
 VI 
 
 New gladness hath come to me now, Old Year, 
 
 Instead of that time so weary ; 
 The longed-for New Year dispels every fear, 
 
 And gone are thy days all dreary. 
 
 VII 
 
 There's someone returning to me, Old Year, 
 
 Who left me in anger and sorrow ; 
 But the scalding tear shed over Love's bier 
 
 Will shine as diamonds to-morrow. 
 
 VIII 
 A lucky first-foot is speeding, Old Year, 
 
 As soon as the bells are ringing 
 To welcome the year, his step I will hear, 
 
 To me a whole life's love bringing. 
 
WAITING FOR THE FIRST-FOOT 237 
 
 IX 
 Come in, oh, come in, with the glad New Year, 
 
 My bosom with joy is glowing ; 
 Ah, yes, he is here, to me now more dear 
 
 Than rivers of gold o'erflowing. 
 
2 3 8 
 
 MEMORY 
 
 i 
 
 WHAT art thou Memory, the essence of the 
 
 mind ; 
 Embodiment of all the faculties combined ; 
 The seat of all the intellect ; the moral throne ; 
 The lamp that keeps our love alight, when all is 
 
 gone ? 
 
 II 
 
 Thou mausoleum of the heart, in which are 
 
 urned 
 Our dead and buried hopes, those ill-spared joys 
 
 that turned 
 The clouds of life to laughing sunshine, full and 
 
 bright, 
 Whose every ray of bliss converged in one 
 
 delight. 
 
MEMOR Y 239 
 
 III 
 
 What subtle necromancy little children own, 
 
 Tis felt in every footstep ; 'tis heard in ev'ry 
 
 tone ! 
 Its influence still lives, though buried in the grave 
 Where memory hath laid the dear ones God once 
 
 gave. 
 
 IV 
 
 Within the vault of memory are close entombed 
 Our dearest, best ambitions, blighted, long since 
 
 doomed 
 To banishment perpetual ; yet here they stay 
 Fair relics of a goal for ever passed away. 
 
 V 
 Oh, memory is crowded with graves of ev'ry 
 
 kind ; 
 The broken trust ; the stinging wrong that haunts 
 
 the mind ; 
 Our wasted love ; the false deed done in friendship's 
 
 guise ; 
 In this mysterious place each ghostly shadow lies ! 
 
240 MEMORY 
 
 VI 
 
 What art thou Memory, a vista fair of dreams, 
 Or, vision of the past in which our fancy teems 
 With fond illusions of sweet, sunny rose-strewn 
 
 ways, 
 Crowned with the pearly beauties that belong 
 
 youth's rosy days ? 
 
 VII 
 
 Along the avenue of Time there rises now 
 A shining halo whose soft lustre doth endow 
 One darkened scene with sun, one glaring scene 
 
 with shade 
 Thus looking down the distance, a pleasing 
 
 glamour's laid. 
 
 VIII 
 And all throughout the way traversed long years 
 
 ago, 
 Time strews enchantments fair, by which he may 
 
 bestow 
 A multiple of joys to cover all the pains, 
 That in the grand sum-total only good remains. 
 
241 
 
 LOVE'S MISERIES 
 
 i 
 
 Oh, how I love thee, how I hate thee, 
 
 Often wish thee far away, 
 
 And endeavour day by day, 
 To teach, and charge my heart most straitly 
 
 That my love is gone for aye. 
 
 II 
 My heart's emotions beat not even 
 
 In their palpitating walls ; 
 
 When thy deep voice gently calls 
 My name in love, 'tis taste of heaven 
 
 That thy presence here forestalls. 
 
 Ill 
 But when I watch thine eyes all roving 
 O'er the charms of ev'ry fair ; 
 Like the bee who here and there 
 Is constant changing, always moving, 
 Kissing flow'rets ev'rywhere. 
 
 R 
 
242 LOVE'S MISERIES 
 
 IV 
 
 And I can see new passion gleaming 
 In thy face, but not for me, 
 Naught am I just then to thee ; 
 
 Then straightway thousand torments teeming, 
 Gather round tumultuously. 
 
 V 
 
 High throbs my heart, but not with gladness, 
 Moved with pain I know so well, 
 Filled with hate I cannot quell, 
 
 And all the tumult, and the madness 
 Make it feel a very hell. 
 
 VI 
 
 Then a weary feeling follows, 
 
 And the joy my heart had known 
 Into black despair is grown, 
 
 Full darker than the darkest hollows, 
 Where the sun no ray hath thrown. 
 
LOVE'S MISERIES 24.3 
 
 VII 
 Ah me, the agony of keeping 
 
 Outward calm the livelong night, 
 While its balm hath taken flight, 
 Oh, how my heavy eyes still weeping 
 Gladly welcome morning light ! 
 
 VIII 
 
 As limpid spring to parched wayfarer 
 Panting in the wilderness, 
 So the kisses thou dost press, 
 
 And love of which thou art the bearer 
 Give new life in one caress. 
 
 IX 
 
 Impetuous as the torrent's motion 
 
 Towards the vast unbounded sea, 
 Dashing by each rock, and tree ; 
 
 Such is now my soul's devotion ; 
 Wrapped in thee eternally. 
 
244 
 
 THE IRISH MAIDEN'S ADIEU 
 
 On leaving England 
 
 I 
 WHEN other friends around thee smile 
 
 Whom thou hast known for long, 
 Give one stray thought to her, meanwhile 
 
 Who cheered thee with her song, 
 
 II 
 
 And warbled forth her simple strains 
 
 Of chivalry and mirth ; 
 Whose echo only now remains 
 
 To hover round thy hearth. 
 
 Ill 
 
 But even shadowy echoes bring 
 
 The sweetest recollection, 
 And Fancy oft will faintly sing 
 
 Songs of a rare collection. 
 
THE IRISH MAIDEN'S ADIEU 245 
 
 IV 
 
 And I will conjure in my mind 
 Sweet thoughts of Love, and Thee, 
 
 And music soft, in one combined ; 
 Love's surest, truest key, 
 
 v 
 
 And carry back to Erin's shore 
 
 A new and thrilling theme, 
 Wherewith to warble out once more 
 
 The melody I dream. 
 
 VI 
 
 And as the lark 'twixt earth and heaven 
 
 Doth trill its joyous song, 
 So from my inmost soul are given 
 
 Its breathings all day long. 
 
 VII 
 Thus full of happy thought I'll go 
 
 Bright as the gladsome day, 
 And as the streamlet loves to flow 
 
 Make music all the way. 
 
=46 THE IRISH MAIDEN'S ADIEU 
 
 VIII 
 Soft murmuring sounds that sweetly fill 
 
 The heart with new delight, 
 Like dancing, rippling, glitt'ring rill 
 
 That flows down rocky height. 
 
 IX 
 
 Oh, Erin, land of sun and dew, 
 Thou spreadst a spell o'er me, 
 
 And tender yearnings spring anew 
 That draw my heart towards thee ! 
 
 X 
 
 Thou land of trefoil emerald green ! 
 
 Thou land of daisied turf! 
 Thou land of waters bright, whose sheen 
 
 Gleams 'midst white-crested surf ! 
 
 XI 
 Ah, Ireland, country ever dear, 
 
 Thy beauties now recall, 
 Thy sorrows even while still here 
 
 And tears unbidden fall ! 
 
THE IRISH MAIDEN'S ADIEU 247 
 
 XII 
 
 As dreams of loved and long-lost dead 
 
 Whose memories we keep, 
 So homes whose joys are ever fled, 
 
 Their solitude I weep. 
 
 XIII 
 
 But, ah, why should mine eyes be dewed 
 With tears which dull their light ? 
 
 Begone from me such mournful mood 
 My smile shall e'er be bright. 
 
 XIV 
 
 My song shall henceforth be of mirth ; 
 
 My lay of truest love ; 
 My ardent soul shall e'en give birth 
 
 To strains that all hearts move. 
 
 xv 
 
 Tho' fairer face thy heart shall gain 
 
 When I am gone from thee ; 
 Ah, then, let memory still retain 
 
 One sweet, stray thought for me. 
 
THE IRISH MAIDEN'S ADIEU 
 
 XVI 
 And as night spreads her softening shade 
 
 O'er earth, and sky, and sea, 
 Remember her the Celtic maid 
 
 Who loves, but must leave thee. 
 
249 
 
 THE SAILOR'S SONG 
 
 OVER the breezy, rippling sea 
 
 We sailors merrily go, 
 With all our canvas spread so free, 
 
 While gaily we shout — ' Yah, ho ! ' 
 
 II 
 
 None so merry as we, and light, 
 The rolling sea our world, 
 
 All gilded by a sun so bright, 
 
 That gleams on the sails unfurled. 
 
 Ill 
 We have perils, God knows, our fill, 
 
 But why should we feel alarm ? 
 Duty and Love inspire our will, 
 
 Give the courage to our arm. 
 
250 THE SAILOR'S SONG 
 
 IV 
 
 Over us the resistless storm 
 
 Low, our gallant ship would lay ; 
 
 Our head is cool, as heart is warm, 
 And safely plough we our way. 
 
 True, there are times when all unsought, 
 
 Welling upwards to our mind, 
 There come great waves of yearning thought, 
 
 For the dear ones left behind : 
 
 VI 
 
 Though the wide, wide ocean may part 
 
 The mariner from his home, 
 Still, constant and true is his heart, 
 
 Wherever his ship may roam. 
 
 VII 
 
 Over the breezy, rippling sea 
 
 We sailors merrily go, 
 With all our canvas spread so free, 
 
 While gaily we shout — ' Yah, ho ! ' 
 
251 
 
 TO JAMES WATSON SEWELL 
 
 Born March 31 
 (Acrostic) 
 
 T UST as boisterous, blust'ring March is dumb, 
 
 A nd knoweth full well that his hour hath come ; 
 
 (M erry made he in his wild, wilful glee, 
 
 E ncircling the valley, and bending the tree ; 
 
 S miling and scowling by turns now did he 
 
 W in the good-will of the frost-bound Earth, 
 
 A s she opens her arms to welcome the birth, 
 
 T hat brings her soft showers, and sunshine, and 
 
 flowers ;) 
 S o thou wisely waited not the few hours 
 O f dying-out March ; thy Fate safely rules 
 N ot to let thy dSut come on Day of All Fools. 
 S ecuring a star more lucky to shine 
 E ver upon thee with soft rays divine. 
 W hen Night spreads her veil all over the sky, 
 E ven then thy good star, tho' hidden from eye, 
 L ights its lustrous lamp ; for thee surely burns, 
 L oving and watching and warning by turns. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS 
 
255 
 
 TOO MODEST BY FAR 
 
 A Kiss-in-the-ring Incident 
 {Ballade) 
 
 The ring was formed, a pretty sight 
 To see the maidens dark, and fair 
 
 Stand blushing, and pretending flight, 
 And make-believe the kisses were 
 Too much for modesty to bear ; 
 
 And yet they slily wished for one ; 
 
 And each girl longed her turn was there 
 
 To give a kiss when fairly won. 
 
 Among the merry group that night 
 A bashful swain refused to share 
 
 The blisses that were his by right ; 
 To take a kiss he could not dare, 
 Before the world, and gaslight glare, 
 
 'Twere sacrilege in sight of sun ! 
 
 ' And, still,' he thought, ' why need I care 
 
 To give a kiss when fairly won ? ' 
 
256 TOO MODEST BY FAR 
 
 So with good courage, manly might, 
 He took his place with jaunty air, 
 
 And gazed around on maidens bright ; 
 But mercy ! ere he was aware, 
 Some sadly mischievous betrayer 
 
 The kerchief dropped at him in fun ; 
 Oh, where his brave resolves, oh, where, 
 
 To give a kiss when fairly won ? 
 
 O'erwhelmed he sank on nearest chair ; 
 
 The cannon's mouth he might not shun, 
 On woman's lips 'twere harder far, 
 
 To give a kiss when fairly won. 
 
257 
 
 FRIENDSHIP 
 
 {Ballade) 
 
 I THOUGHT thee friendship all divine, 
 I worshipped thee as a being fair ; 
 
 My heart I made thy living shrine, 
 I was thy slave, and I would dare 
 All things to do without one care. 
 
 I saw thee with enchanted eyes, 
 
 But now those eyes are opened — therc- 
 
 Ah, me, is too much friendship wise ? 
 
 Why should I waste this heart of mine 
 
 On tinkling brass or empty ware ? 
 No longer will I wish and pine 
 
 For that which is by far too rare. 
 
 Ingratitude is hard to bear, 
 And cold neglect from those you prize ; 
 
 Experience says each passing year 
 ' Ah, me, is too much friendship wise ? ' 
 
 s 
 
258 FRIENDSHIP 
 
 And is this Nature's best design 
 
 That human love be poor and bare, 
 And must my heart itself resign 
 
 To the ascetic's cold despair ? 
 
 True faith be found not anywhere — 
 No kindred soul to sympathise ? 
 
 I would myself this question spare — 
 ' Ah, me, is too much friendship wise ? ' 
 
 ENVOIE 
 
 Oh, Friendship, fickle, light as air, 
 
 I'm still thy slave to idolise ; 
 The cynic's wisdom I'll not share, — 
 
 Nor ask — ' Is too much friendship wise ? ' 
 
259 
 
 THE MONKEYS 
 
 (A Lecture) 
 
 In Holy Writ it is enjoined 
 
 That men should love their brothers ; 
 I trust this lesson on your part 
 
 You learn with all the others. 
 
 For men and monkeys are the same 
 
 The scientists now tell us ; 
 If this be true, we sure must treat 
 
 The monkeys as our fellows. 
 
 The structure of their tender frame 
 You cannot help from seeing, 
 
 Essentially is just the same 
 As that of human being. 
 
260 THE MONKEYS 
 
 They grin, they squabble, steal, and learn 
 Tricks that are veiy naughty ; 
 
 And if you gave cigar and cane, 
 
 Like gents they'd grow quite haughty, 
 
 Whate'er the difference may be 
 'Twixt man and little monkey, 
 
 I cannot see, no more than ' Tit ' 
 Saw in her darling donkey. 
 
 She loved him well, she led him forth 
 
 To sylvan, leafy bowers ; 
 She beauty saw in his long ears, 
 
 And wooed him with bright flowers. 
 
 Tis true 'tis but a fairy scene 
 
 Imaginative feeling 
 Doth spread before us, yet we know 
 
 With real life 'tis dealing. 
 
 How many a woman good and fair, 
 
 Intelligent and clever, 
 A donkey for her idol makes, 
 
 And worships him for ever. 
 
THE MONKEYS 261 
 
 And if one raised the sorcerer's veil 
 
 That Cupid's ever casting 
 Before her eyes ; though clear she sees, 
 
 She loves to everlasting. 
 
 And thus the world goes round and round, 
 
 And matches human beings ; 
 Strange incongruities are found, 
 
 And all by Fate's decreeings. 
 
262 
 
 THE MAIDEN'S CHOICE 
 
 Or, the American Girl in England 
 
 Oh, she was fair, as fair could be ; 
 Her step was light, and quick, and free ; 
 Her golden hair shone with bright hue, 
 And roses bloomed 'neath eyes so blue. 
 
 Oh, whom will this fair maiden wed, 
 This maiden with the buoyant tread ; 
 Oh, whom will she in wedlock take, 
 Whom now will she her husband make ? 
 
 How earnestly the young man wooed 
 And for her hand he warmly sued ; 
 His words of deep and faithful love 
 A maiden's heart must surely move. 
 
THE MAIDEN'S CHOICE 263 
 
 Oh, she should be his star so bright, 
 Filling his home with 'thereal light ; 
 His heart's own idol ; his desire, 
 Of whom his soul could never tire. 
 
 ' His goddess fair,' he said, ' his life,' — 
 All merged in one sweet title — ' wife.' 
 His aim her happiness on earth, 
 If she would share his home and hearth. 
 
 The maiden listened for a while, 
 Then turned away with coldest smile, 
 She told him she preferred to be 
 Just as she was, with fancy free. 
 
 He went his way, only to dream 
 That she was good as she did seem, 
 But, oh, his heart was very full, 
 And all the world seemed cold and dull, 
 
 For want of her whose beauteous face 
 He thought endowed with ev'ry grace ; 
 He hoped 'twas but a passing whim 
 This anguish deep had laid on him. 
 
THE MAIDEN'S CHOICE 
 
 And then another suitor came, 
 Whose wealth was his untarnished name, 
 Unblemished was through life his path, 
 But riches none, alas, he hath ! 
 
 In this case too, the maid proved coy, 
 And firm refused to be his joy ; 
 Her virgin heart no man could gain, 
 'Twas clear a maid she must remain. 
 
 And so he had his way to \\ end, 
 With hopes the maid might still unbend ; 
 His bosom burned with Love's true fire, 
 In truth, she was his heart's desire. 
 
 And many suitors came and went, 
 But unto none the maiden meant 
 To plight her troth, to give her hand, 
 For that which she did most demand, 
 
 These lovers had not to bestow ; 
 However much their hearts might glow 
 With honest love ; she little cares 
 If gold and riches are not theirs. 
 
THE MAIDEN'S CHOICE 265 
 
 ' Oh, back to the New World, I'll hie ! ' 
 Cried she with disappointed sigh. 
 ' The boasted beauties of your isle 
 I guess, my fancy can't beguile.' 
 
 There was a something in that voice 
 Which one would hardly like from choice ; 
 A tone peculiar to that land 
 Which by Atlantic winds is fanned. 
 
 At length a period to her stay 
 Was fixed upon, and soon the day 
 Of her departure drew full near, 
 Which scarcely brought one single tear, 
 
 And scarce she felt one small regret 
 At leaving the kind friends she'd met ; 
 Her visit here 'twas plain to see 
 Was sorry failure as could be, 
 
 When another, and a better lover 
 Around her path began to hover ; 
 He told her that his heart was hers ; 
 And now no longer she demurs, 
 
266 THE MAIDEN'S CHOICE 
 
 For he lays before her glist'ning eyes 
 Vast piles of shining gold which lies, 
 In rich profusion at her feet, 
 Where he has taken lowly seat. 
 
 ' All — all, my darling, to be thine 
 
 If only thou wilt be but mine ! ' 
 
 Cried he with fervour and delight, 
 
 While love made his dim eyes grow bright. 
 
 His grizzly beard, and scanty hair 
 Had seen full many a passing year, 
 Old age had touched him on the shoulder, 
 But that was naught, since oft he told her, 
 
 That without doubt all he possessed 
 Should sure be hers, if he were blest 
 With her as his own darling wife, 
 Tho' albeit his span of life, 
 
 Was somewhat narrow and confined, 
 But wealth and love, these two combined, 
 Would cover any want so small, 
 As that of youth, which after all, 
 
THE MAIDEN'S CHOICE 267 
 
 Is merely an imagination 
 Compared to money and high station. 
 What woman would such good refuse ! 
 'Twere tempting Fate such luck to lose ! 
 
 And so the maid was quite convinced, 
 The matter now no longer minced, 
 Accepted him who thus had wooed her, 
 And took the money and the suitor. 
 
 Her lot since then, I dare not say ; 
 I only know that every day 
 She wishes either she, or he, 
 Were gone to bliss eternally. 
 
268 
 
 A LETTER 
 
 (Written in a Draughty Room) 
 
 Without the snow lies on the ground ; 
 
 Within the wind doth play 
 Upon my back, and all around 
 
 (Thou know'st its little way). 
 
 My fingers stiffen as I write 
 
 In this too airy place, 
 For sundry draughts now take their flight, 
 
 And rise from feet to face. 
 
 They settle on my shoulders chill ; 
 
 They run adown my spine, 
 Ah, how can I this letter fill 
 
 Or make another sign ? 
 
A LETTER 269 
 
 Thou know'st full well the truth of this, 
 
 For often thou didst swear, 
 When zephyrs bold thy cheek would kiss, 
 
 And take thee unaware. 
 
 And then, perchance, an ugly sneeze, 
 
 Would screw thy visage fair, 
 And almost bring thee on thy knees ; 
 
 (A posture now so rare.) 
 
 Now write me, write me, son of mine, 
 
 The pages long and sweet, 
 And let each goodly, newsy line 
 
 Be ample, full, complete. 
 
 The overflowing measure mete 
 Beyond what thou dost owe ; 
 
 Then I'll peruse each covered sheet, 
 Recounting how things go. 
 
 Skimp not the herald mute, that speaks 
 
 Of all that comes to thee ; 
 That tells the doings of past weeks 
 
 So truthfully to me. 
 
270 A LETTER 
 
 And when thou sittest down to think 
 
 In calm and quiet mood, 
 Just take the handy pen and ink, 
 
 And chronicle what's good. 
 
 And on the virgin paper pour 
 The fruit of thoughtful mind ; 
 
 Something that we may ponder o'er, 
 With sense and love combined. 
 
 The utterance of the soul is thus 
 Embalmed, and ever near, 
 
 It is thyself who speaks to us, 
 Although no longer here. 
 
271 
 
 A VALENTINE 
 
 The Fate of The Flatterer 
 
 There is a sure unerring law — 
 
 A part of Nature's plan, 
 That what man giveth unto maids, 
 
 Maids render back to man. 
 
 For men's duplicity they yield 
 
 Their mighty scorn in full, 
 And with severity tenfold 
 
 His character they pull, 
 
 Remorselessly to pieces small, 
 
 Until the very shreds, 
 Would take full countless pairs of hands, 
 
 To gather up the threads. 
 
A VALENTINE 
 
 The man who tells each girl he meets 
 
 ' She's fairest of her sex,' 
 In course of time will surely find, 
 
 He flatters but to vex. 
 
 What is the worth of honeyed phrase, 
 That's given to all around ? 
 
 It bears no meaning when 'tis known 
 To be but empty sound. 
 
 But retribution comes at length, 
 No woman wants his praise, 
 
 There's not a maid in all the world 
 Believes a word he says. 
 
273 
 
 REFLECTIONS OF A STUDENT 
 
 WHEN queerest problems rack my brain, 
 And give me infinite of pain, 
 That sure I feel I'm near insane 
 
 As madman. 
 
 I sit, and think, and read, and pore, 
 And go on wondering more and more 
 While conning ' methods ' o'er and o'er, 
 
 Till heart-sick. 
 
 I wonder if my genius rare 
 Will ever the round circle square, 
 And make my work beyond compare 
 
 Of mortal. 
 
 T 
 
:?4 REFLECTIONS OF A STUDENT 
 
 My mind disturbed and ill at ease, 
 Sweet satisfaction none it sees, 
 For all prove vain soliloquies, 
 
 And worthless. 
 
 At length my temper grows quite hot, 
 For I declare the thing ' all rot,' 
 And to my dear tobacco-pot 
 
 I turn me. 
 
 My pipe, what consolation kind 
 I ever in thy incense find ! 
 It soothes and cheers my troubled mind 
 
 Most sweetly. 
 
 Ah, what care I for love and kisses ? 
 My heart such transport never misses 
 Nor ever seeks those tender blisses, 
 
 To cheer it. 
 
 When sober, thoughtful, walking through 
 The green fields decked with diamond dew, 
 I take my one companion true, 
 
 And love it. 
 
REFLECTIONS OF A STUDENT 275 
 
 Yes, to my lips I press the shank 
 As seated on a sloping bank 
 I smoke amidst its grasses rank 
 
 Quite happy. 
 
 Now, I'll be wedded by-and-by, 
 But not to woman — no — not I ; 
 'Twill be to pipe and brown birdseye. 
 
 I'm mated. 
 
276 
 
 LINES ON A LADY'S PORTRAIT 
 PAINTED ON AN ASH-TRAY 
 
 (Addressed to Its Owner) 
 
 1 
 
 Say canst thou on this brow so rare 
 So beauteous, pure, and smooth, and fair ; 
 Or on this cheek of damask rose 
 The ashes from thy weed dispose ? 
 
 II 
 
 Though fragrant it may seem to thee ; 
 
 Delightful to the senses be, 
 
 Yet couldst thou to so base a use 
 
 Put this sweet face, if thou mightst choose ? 
 
LIXES ON A LADY'S PORTRAIT 277 
 
 III 
 While balancing thy cigarette 
 Like any little vain coquette ; 
 Methinks I see thee gazing now 
 Upon that white, and spotless brow, 
 
 IV 
 And wishing that its owner were 
 Ensconced not too far from thy chair ; 
 And in her sunny eyes of brown 
 Watch the reflection of thine own. 
 
 But what's the use of speculation, 
 Or making this vain calculation, 
 Upon a piece of painted china 
 Which represents the face of Nina ? 
 
 VI 
 
 Now cover o'er those features bright, 
 With veil of ashes thin and white, 
 And put that sweet face out of sight, 
 While wishing it a fond ' Good-night ! 
 
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 Salar. My wind, cooling my broth, 
 
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 And see my wealthy Andrew, dock'd in sand, 
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 To kiss her burial. Should I go to church 
 And see the holy edifice of stone, 
 And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks, 
 Which touching but my gentle vessel's side, 
 Would scatter all her spices on the stream, 
 Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks, 
 And, in a word, but even now worth this, 
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 Ant. Believe me, no : I thank my fortune for it, 
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 Salar. Why, then you are in love. 
 
 Ant. Fie, fie ! 
 
 Salar. Not in love neither ? Then let us say you 
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