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THE CHRIST-CHILD, 
 
 AND OTHER POEMS. 
 
THE CHRIST-CHILD. 
 
 AND OTHER POEMS. 
 
 EDWARD BYRON NICHOLSON, M.A., 
 
 LATE SCHOLAR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD ; 
 PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN OF THE LONDON INSTITUTION. 
 
 Henry S.King & Co., London. 
 1877. 
 
Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Printers, London and Aylesbury. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 At a time when our country can boast not only 
 four poets of consummate genius and achievement, 
 but a whole legion of thoughtful, musical, and copious 
 verse-writers, I am not so foolish as to imagine that 
 this little volume, even were it very far stronger than 
 it is, coud win its way through them into ' the land 
 of matters unforgot,' and I am far too doubtful of 
 the general appetite for ' minor verse ' to suppose 
 that these poems can bring me any other kind of 
 gain. Indeed I publish them at this particular time 
 partly because I expect from them neither name nor 
 profit. A scanty and laborious leisure leaves me 
 jsmall chance of swelling them into a volume from 
 which I coud hope either one or the other, and their 
 publication will at least remove from me enticement 
 to waste time in such an attempt. This of course is 
 
vi PREFACE. 
 
 not my only reason for printing them. I suppose 
 that every man who writes verse (or, for that matter, 
 prose), however poor it be, thinks that it will give to 
 a certain number of people that same pleasure in the 
 reading which it gave to himself in the writing, and 
 looks to receive their approval in return : if any one 
 be insensible to such motives for authorship, I am not 
 that one. But I am so little blinded to the weak- 
 nesses of this volume that any critic who should do 
 me the honour of noticing it among other ' Recent 
 Verse' needs have but slight fear of wounding its 
 author's feelings. 
 
 On one point alone I venture to deprecate too 
 harsh a judgment. While the subject and measures 
 of ' The Death of CEnone ' and ' The Air Spirit ' were 
 of course suggested by poems of Tennyson, not the 
 faintest attempt was made to copy his manner. But 
 in the style of ' The Christ-Child,' ' The Story of 
 Comatas,' and ' The Second Valentine,' Morrisian 
 influence, however copiously diluted, is plainly pre- 
 sent, and I am aware that verse-writers who seek 
 to reproduce the style of a great living poet reap 
 small thank for their ill-bestowed ingenuity. I can 
 
PREFACE. vii 
 
 honestly say that I have sought to do nothing of the 
 kind, but have only ventured to use the same broad 
 type of expression for ideas of which it seemed the 
 most fitting vehicle. 
 
 And since poetic insight and poetic art are capable 
 of the same continuous development as all other art 
 and insight, and no man likes the unripe fruit of his 
 boyhood to be taken for the best produce of his fuller 
 powers, I may be pardoned for adding that the two 
 longest and most ambitious poems in this volume, as 
 well as that from which its title is taken, were written 
 before the age of twenty. It is the more needful for 
 me to say this because my verses are not in the least 
 likely to meet with a favour which might encourage 
 me to try better things. 
 
 It is due to the printers to add that I am respon- 
 sible for the spellings cotid (could), hole (whole), holely 
 (wholly). Hand (island), lim (limb), rime (rhyme), sent 
 sented (scent, scented), and tung- (tongue). The 
 modern spellings of these words are sheer blunders, 
 insulting alike to pronunciation and etymology. 
 Coud (once cound) does not come from a root end- 
 ing in /, like ' should ' and ' would ' : Hand (igland; 
 
viii PREFACE. 
 
 has not the remotest connexion with isle (insula), 
 Urn with limbus, or rime with rhythm : hole (cf. hole- 
 some) is the same word as hale : tung-e or tong-e did 
 not come to us from the French : sent did. These 
 facts are well known to every student of the English 
 language, and, if I recollect rightly, the Saturday 
 Review has more than once called attention to some 
 of them, and has favoured a return to the old and 
 rational spelling. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 TO MY WIFE 
 
 POEMS OF THE RELIGIOUS IMAGINATION :— 
 
 THE CHRIST-CHILD - 3 
 
 THE VISION OF JOSEPH 7 
 
 FLORES GETHSEMANE II 
 
 MORITURA - 13 
 
 SLEEP AND DEATH 1 6 
 
 THE DEATH OF CENONE - - 21 
 
 THE STORY OF COMATAS - - - 35 
 
 AN OLD, OLD STORY :— 
 
 ON AN UNCOLOURED PHOTOGRAPH - - 55 
 
 THE FIRST VALENTINE - - 56 
 
 THE SECOND VALENTINE - - - - 59 
 
 TWO PROVERBS - - 62 
 
 RONDEL - - - - 64 
 
66 
 
 X CONTENTS. 
 
 AN OLD, OLD STORY (continued):— 
 
 " CONFESSIO AMANTIS " 
 
 WHAT ARE THE WILD WAVES SAYING ? 7° 
 
 THE LAST VALENTINE 73 
 
 AN APOLOGY 74 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS :— 
 
 THE AIR SPIRIT 77 
 
 PHILOMMEIDES 8o 
 
 FLORES— AMORES 83 
 
 LYCIDAS 87 
 
 AvKidas 89 
 
 HELICE 90 
 
 THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR 93 
 
 TO A FLIRT 97 
 
 AFTER PARTING lOI 
 
 ON THE DEATH OF AN AERONAUT I03 
 
 " FOUND DROWNED " IO4 
 
 THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ 109 
 
TO MY WIFE. 
 
 Thou in whose love's deep-bosomed bay 
 My heart hath anchor at the last, 
 
 That many a skyless night and day 
 Rocked on the billows of the past — 
 
 Whose name should fill my latest line, 
 
 And crown my little work, but thine ? 
 
 Pure and compassionate and true. 
 And adding to these things the love 
 
 Of all that live beneath the blue. 
 
 And One who lives, we think, above — 
 
 Enough if my poor rimes might be 
 
 A little like, sweet heart, to thee. 
 
 April, 1877, 
 
POEMS OF THE RELIGIOUS 
 IMAGINATION. 
 
THE CHRIST-CHILD. 
 
 A POEM FOR CHRISTMAS-EVE. 
 
 In a far country many a mile away 
 
 Eastward across the tossing northern sea, 
 
 Wherefrom our fathers sailed in olden day, 
 But now it speaks another tung than we — 
 
 In a far country, as the people say. 
 This eve a sweet strange vision takes its flight 
 Atwixt the setting sun and dawning light. 
 
 East from the Syrian shore 'tis said to come. 
 And to the western water as it flies 
 
 It stands on every hearth, nor turneth from 
 The strawen pallet where the rough carl lies, 
 
 But aye before the rich man's gilded home 
 The windbeat hut upon the snowy wild 
 Knows the soft footfall of the angel-child. 
 
 None hear the Christ-Child. Ever silently 
 The barred door opens to the tiny hand. 
 
4 THE CHRIST-CHILD. 
 
 And they alone this night the Christ-Child see 
 That pass still children to another land 
 
 Wherein His love hath called them to be — 
 Wherein He gathereth the pure and mild, 
 And young and old are likened to a child. 
 
 Yet, though their eyes see not, He standeth there, 
 As once He rested on a mother's knee — 
 
 Clad in white raiment to the ankle bare — 
 Save that a silver star full lustrously 
 
 Ripples upon the golden-floating hair. 
 
 And dight with hues of God's own fashioning 
 Twin pinions from the snowy shoulders spring. 
 
 This is the Christ-Child. For each pillowed head 
 The Christ-Child's lips some simple blessing weave ; 
 
 On every brow the viewless starbeam shed 
 Silvers with some fresh joy the yule-tide eve ; 
 
 Some gnawing care the soundless vision's tread 
 Drives from the sleep-bound memory. To-night 
 E'en Judas' slumbers should be long and light. 
 
 Then from that country will the sweet sprite go ; 
 Yet whither thence what living man shall say } 
 
THE CHRIST-CHILD. 
 
 No tiny foot-print stamps the new-fallen snow : 
 Only the voiceless breeze might tell His way. 
 
 We for our sins that way must never know : 
 Mayhap unto our fathers was it known 
 In purer days and years long since agone. 
 
 Yet, if the story of that land be true, 
 
 Passeth the Christ-Child westward through the 
 earth, 
 Still with some gift divine, some succour new, 
 
 Encompassing the weary world's wide girth. 
 Yea, if a hand unseen the billows strew 
 
 And hush the ocean gale, then crosseth He 
 
 That stilled the troubled wave of Galilee.* 
 
 Therefore, fair sirs, before this eve be gone 
 Think that the Christ-Child at your side shall 
 stand. 
 
 * Years after the above line was written I found a striking 
 parallel to it in Tennyson's Aylmer's Field : — 
 
 "... she walk'd 
 Wearing the light yoke of that Lord of love. 
 Who still'd the rolling wave of Galilee ! " 
 
 If I had ever read Tennyson's hne I certainly had no recollec- 
 tion of it in writing my own, which came in natural sequence to 
 those before it. 
 
6 THE CHRIST-CHILD. 
 
 Who by the first streak of the morrow's dawn 
 Will plant his foot upon some further land. 
 
 So, ere the curtain of to-night be drawn, 
 
 Let me in my poor rime the Christ-Child pray 
 To deal you all the blessing that He may. 
 
 And, if of this one listeth to enquire, 
 
 Then in your ears the Christ-Child do I crave 
 
 To ripen to its full your meet desire, 
 
 And from the Dead Sea apples your soul save ; 
 
 Unscathed you lead through seven times heated fire, 
 And grant you in such wise this year to live 
 That yule-tide next He needeth naught to give. 
 
 1868. 
 
THE VISION OF JOSEPH* 
 
 I, Joseph, son of Heli, of the tribe 
 
 Of Judah, carpenter, at Nazareth 
 
 In Galilee abiding, being now 
 
 Well ripe with many years, and having hope 
 
 Before long time be past to be ingathered 
 
 Into the bosom of my father Abraham, 
 
 Have taken parchment, with mine own hand writ. 
 
 And with mine own seal signed, the memory 
 
 (Lest it should die with me) of that I saw 
 
 Upon the birth-night of my stepson Jesus, 
 
 Whom men do vulgarly repute my son, 
 
 Not being mine, but of the Spirit of God 
 
 Begotten, as an angel of the Lord 
 
 * This poem is founded on the story of Joseph's vision in the 
 apocryphal " ProtevangeUum of James." The rest of the work 
 is ordinary narrative, but the vision is told in the first person : 
 " And I, Joseph, was walking and not walking," etc.,-^pretend- 
 ing as it were to be taken from some statement by Joseph him- 
 pelf. The paragraph beginning " And suddenly I, Joseph," is 
 a paraphrase of the original. 
 
■>THE VISION OF JOSEPH. 
 
 Forewarned me in a dream. Touching which Jesus 
 
 Did many strange things hap at Bethlehem, 
 
 Where he was born ; yea, and in afterwhile 
 
 Many strange things, whereof the certainty 
 
 Is known to faithful witnesses : howbeit 
 
 None dareth openly make speech thereof, 
 
 Lest men should thrust him from the synagogue 
 
 For liar and blasphemer, or perchance 
 
 Work him some greater evil. But one thing 
 
 I, Joseph, only know, and none beside ; 
 
 So, lest the knowledge of it pass away 
 
 When I pass, see, here I have written it 
 
 In goodly characters, to be revealed, 
 
 If God so pleaseth, when the hour shall come 
 
 That of this Jesus, Mary's son, the name 
 
 And presence shall be great in Israel. 
 
 For, that it shall be so, that doubt I not, 
 
 Although mine eyes shall see it not, and though 
 
 Mine ears shall never hear it. The sun shall rise 
 
 Whose dawning dazzles me, and I shall go 
 
 Having beheld it not on earth, but hoping 
 
 It shall yet shine on me in Paradise. 
 
 Therefore be it known that at the time ordained 
 Of Caesar for enrolment I went up 
 From Nazareth, my place of sojourning. 
 
THE VISION OF JOSEPH. 9 
 
 To Bethlehem-Judah, where my fathers sleep ; 
 
 And with me Mary my espoused wife. 
 
 Being great with child. And so it came to pass 
 
 That as we drew anigh to Bethlehem 
 
 She said, " I am troubled : therefore haste and fetch 
 
 Some woman ; " and I took her from the ass 
 
 And laid her in a cave beside the way, 
 
 And hastened me. 
 
 And suddenly I, Joseph, 
 Was walking and not walking, and I looked 
 Upon the heavens and saw the heavens amazed ; 
 The setting sun set not, the rising moon 
 Rose not, and all the flying things of air 
 Flew not, but rested hovering. Then I looked 
 Upon the earth and saw a company 
 Of labourers sitting round their evening meal, 
 And lo, they eating ate not, and the hands 
 That gathered from the dish were stayed therein, 
 But all their eyes gazed upward. And thereby 
 A shepherd drove his sheep into the pen, 
 And the sheep moved not, and the shepherd's staff 
 Was raised to smite them, and the staff remained. 
 And hard beside me was a little brook, 
 And the brook ran not ; and a flock of kids 
 Were come to drink, and drank not, but their mouths 
 
10 TH£ VISION OF JOSEPH. 
 
 Were resting on the stream. And all the face 
 Of all the world was still. 
 
 But at the last 
 The world moved on, and straightway I beheld 
 A woman coming from the hill-country 
 Wearing a midwife's badge, and spake with her. 
 And brought her back with me. But when we came 
 Behold we found this Jesus born. 
 
 The rest 
 I write not, Mary knows it, and can tell 
 When this child Jesus stands revealed a prophet 
 As one of Israel's prophets,* yea, maybe 
 
 Elijah's self, or even but my brain 
 
 Grows dull with many years, I dare not trust 
 
 The thing I think. Only I clearly know 
 
 That I have seen and herein testified, 
 
 I, Joseph, son of Heli, of the tribe > 
 
 Of Judah, carpenter, of Nazareth 
 
 In Galilee, as my seal witnesseth. 
 
 1870-7. 
 
 * In Mark vi. 1 5 " a prophet as one of the prophets " is 
 recognized to be the true reading. 
 
FLORES GETHSEMANE. 
 
 (ON THE SUPPOSED * BLOOD-STAINS IN THE ROMAN 
 CATACOMBS.) 
 
 I THOUGHT to find no bud of humblest bloom 
 Here in the barren places of the tomb ; 
 Not even earth's lowliest weed I looked to see 
 Here where the world is dark continually ; 
 And lo, mid fadeless flowers no sun's warm ray 
 Nor soft fresh shower hath drawn to life, I stray, 
 And wander marveling amid blossoms bright, 
 That lie all open through the long, long night. 
 
 Each little purple drop of martyred blood, 
 I hold it fairer than the new rose-bud ; 
 
 * It is, however, now satisfactorily established that they are 
 merely the stains of Eucharistic wine. See the article " Cata- 
 combs" in Smith and Cheetham's Dictionary of Christian 
 Antiquities. 
 
12 FLO RES GETHSEMANE. 
 
 For these are blossoms sprung of Christ's own root, 
 And these are blooms that have in heaven their fruit ; 
 These are the flowers most sweet for God to see. 
 Sweeter than any earthly flowers that be ; 
 These are the flowers most sweet for God to see, 
 Flowers of the Garden of Gethsemane. 
 
 1868. 
 
13 
 
 MORITURA. 
 
 Moritiira. O WIND on whom the gracious South 
 Hath shed the fragrance of her mouth, 
 What pleasure dost thou bear for me ? 
 
 Notics. To-night my fever-burdened heat 
 Shall stop for aye thy pulses' beat : 
 Such pleasure do I bear for thee. 
 
 Moritura. South wind, thy sorrow were more glad 
 Whose pleasure is so passing sad. 
 
 II. 
 
 Moritura. O sturdy wind that sweepest forth 
 From icy portals of the North, 
 
 What succour wilt thou give to me .■' 
 
14 MORITURA. 
 
 Boreas. For thee to-night my frozen breath 
 Is laden with the chill of death : 
 Such succour will I give to thee. 
 
 Moritura. North wind, thy blast is strong enow, 
 Thy succour is but weak, I trow. 
 
 III. 
 
 Moritura. O wind from out the balmy West, 
 
 Of all the winds men love thee best ; 
 What blessing dost thou carry me .' 
 
 Zephyrus. The breezes on thy cheek that play 
 To-night shall steal thy life away : 
 Such blessing do I carry thee. 
 
 Moritura. West wind, thy curse might well be rare 
 Whose blessing is so hard to bear. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Moritura. Ill wind, whose cradle is the East, 
 
 Of all the winds men love thee least ; 
 Scant comfort coud'st thou bring to me. 
 
MORITURA. 
 
 15 
 
 Euriis. A sound that lives through ages dead, 
 From off a tree upon a height, 
 
 For comfort do I bring to thee ; 
 The echo of a Voice that said, 
 " Know thou that by my side this night 
 
 In Paradise thy place shall be." 
 
 Moritura. O wind from barren Calvary, 
 
 To gain thou turnest all my loss ; 
 When death is wafted from the Cross, 
 Then, breezes, waft my life from me ! 
 
 1871. 
 
16 
 
 SLEEP AND DEATH. 
 
 Sadly beneath the darkening skies 
 Each eve in sleep my head I lay, 
 And quit the life and light of day, 
 
 Nor know if I again shall rise. 
 
 Without a joy, without a pain, 
 
 I rest, or haply roam the maze 
 Of bygone years, till morning rays 
 
 Call me to light and life again. 
 
 And, when my life's long day is o'er, 
 
 And shades of death have gathered nigh, 
 Thus will my painful spirit cry 
 
 That I perchance shall wake no more. 
 
 Then will I turn faith's latest look 
 
 (Though faith be faint and vision weak) 
 To life's recurring change, and seek 
 
 God's parable in nature's book. . 
 
SLEEP AND DEATH. 17 
 
 Nor doubting what I read therein, 
 His mercy will I pray to keep 
 From mournful memories my sleep, 
 
 And rising shapes of buried sin ; 
 
 Till longer morrow chase away 
 
 The blindness of that last long night. 
 And open to my purer sight 
 
 God's love my life, Himself my day. 
 
 1872. 
 
THE DEATH OF CENONE. 
 
THE DEATH OF CENONE. 
 
 ARGUMENT. 
 
 Paris of Troy being sore wounded sought leechcraft of CEnone, 
 which being by her denied him, he perished, and she for the 
 dole thereof died also. To these and the Trojans was given by 
 the gods a new city in the Elysian fields. 
 
 In the gray twilight, where the clambering pines 
 
 Halted before a steep of broken rocks. 
 
 Barren and cold and white, but faintly flushed 
 
 With dying embers of the crimson west — 
 
 In the gray autumn twilight there she stood. 
 
 Her eye upon the cRamber of the heaven. 
 
 Her bloodless hands clasped downward as she spoke. 
 
 " O Ida, hear me, — hear, O earth and seas. 
 And flashings of the interwoven stars. 
 And bloom innumerable of tree and flower. 
 And echoes of the many-murmuring streams : 
 The death hour is upon me, I must speak 
 Before I perish into nothingness — 
 
z THE DEATH OF (ENONE. 
 
 Whether against myself or the great gods 
 Judge }-e. 
 
 He came to me one eve ; I stood 
 In all the moon's full brightness, looking down 
 On Ilion and the many camps thereof. 
 He came, not as in the old happy time 
 Bounding to meet me with some four-foot prey, 
 But toiling as a stricken hart that climbs, 
 With the dark life-blood oozing at each step, 
 Hoping to reach its fern-hid lair to die. 
 And in his face a deathly weariness, 
 As one that maddened by a baleful draught 
 Cares not for wife or child or any kinj 
 But only for a golden-armoured snake, 
 And fondles it and loves it more and more, 
 Until the spell has wrought its work, and death 
 Lies hard upon him, and his brain grows changed : 
 But still he hangs, sickening with many doubts. 
 Irresolute between the good and ill. 
 So Paris came, and, standing with bowed head 
 And suppliant hands before me, brake to speech. 
 
 " ' CEnone, I have done a grievous wrong : 
 Yet lo, the gods enforced me, the great gods 
 With whom there is no striving, Here, Pallas, 
 Eris, and she, the Paphian. And now 
 
THE DEATH OF (ENONE. 
 
 Achilles has slain Hector, I Achilles 
 Smote in requital with a shaft-borne death, 
 To fall in turn from a Thessalian aim, 
 The bow of Philoctetes. Yea, the wound 
 Lies heavy on me, and the seers have said 
 No man can heal it, nor the most high gods, 
 Phoebus or Zeus himself, but only thou. 
 Now therefore am I come — I had not dared, 
 Save only for dear life — to pray for mercy. 
 And she, the Spartan woman, she shall go, 
 Caressant, fair, and subtle, for all her eyes 
 Striking as silver lyres into the soul, 
 For all her roselipped mouth, for all the gold 
 That breaks adown her shoulders, as the fall 
 Of sunlit cataracts. Yea, she shall go. 
 For I perceive she is a snare of heaven 
 Wherewith to slay the tribes of living men.' 
 
 " He paused, as waiting answer, for a while, 
 But I with fluttering heart stood cold and still. 
 
 " ' Heal me, CEnone : if I did this wrong. 
 Or if the gods, am I not punished yet .' 
 I would not send her home, for honour's sake, 
 Seeing the gods made me infatuate. 
 
24 THE DEATH OF CENONE. 
 
 Yet she that shamed her husband must have shame, 
 And I have done her husband double fault, 
 And double fault to thee. Therefore she goes, 
 Though all the gods say Nay.' 
 
 Again he paused, 
 I answered not. 
 
 ' Yea, pity Priamus 
 And pity Hecabe in pitying me. 
 For these had fifty sons, but now scarce five ; 
 And if I die, the dearest loved of all. 
 These two will die. Have pity on these and me. 
 And thou shalt live the queen of Ilion, 
 My queen, and I as in the olden days 
 Thy shepherd lover ; and the mighty gods 
 Will give requital to us, and we shall live 
 Far onward into many happy years, 
 Till Zeus or Aphrodite or Artemis 
 Bear us to fields Elysian. But now 
 I shall go down among the quivering shades. 
 Away from life and youth and friends and kin, 
 Away from all things lovely ; and Priamus 
 Will perish, and my mother ; and thou too 
 Wilt die of anguish if thou heal me not' 
 
 " He ended, but again I answered not : 
 
THE DEATH OF (ENONE. 25 
 
 And with raised head he looked the old old look 
 That made him seem my love of bygone days, 
 Faltering more faintly, ' Heal the wound, CEnone, 
 Bring not these deaths upon us.' And my eyes 
 Dropped earthwards, and the slowly gathering tears 
 Struggled against repression, and I strove. 
 Turning, to hide the weakness of fhy heart, 
 That half resolved to heal the wound and die. 
 
 " But when I turned again Paris was gone. 
 Lost in the tangled mazes of the brake ; 
 Paris was gone, Paris was gone to die. 
 And I had slain him. Thrice I strove to call 
 His name adown the mountain, thrice the word 
 Fled backward from my lips. The forest reeled 
 About me, and from that day until this 
 My life has been a blank. 
 
 This dawn the gods. 
 Inveterate, sent me reason yet again. 
 Lest I should perish in forgetfulness, 
 Unsorrowing. And I rose and heard a voice 
 Of Wood-Nymph or of Naiad, and it said, 
 ' Lo here CEnone, that hath hither strayed 
 Unwitting, in her madness.' Thus it spoke. 
 And gazing up I saw the silver rush 
 
26 THE DEATH OF CENONE. 
 
 Of waters poplar-fringed on Gargarus ; 
 
 And, while I gazed, all things came back to me, 
 
 Though first as cypress tops that slow and dim 
 
 Peer through the melting mist. I had gone mad 
 
 What time to Ida wounded Paris came 
 
 And went unhealed from me ; and at this thought 
 
 The distant torrent hissed ' Paris is dead ; ' 
 
 Poplar and pine and cypress and all trees 
 
 Whispered in turn the word ; the heron hung 
 
 Fluttering in midmost flight, the wild swan paused 
 
 To echo back the tale ' Paris is dead.' 
 
 " And I went forth along the mountain slope, 
 Purposing I would go to Priamus, 
 And kneeling pray him slay me with his hands 
 For that I healed not Paris. Then the stream 
 Hissed ' Slain is Priamus, and Ilion burnt ; ' 
 And poplar, pine, and cypress, and all trees 
 Took up the burden ; heron and wild swan 
 Screamed ' Priamus is slain, Ilion no more.' 
 
 "Then looked I forth, and saw upon the plain 
 From hearth to temple other smoke arise 
 Than wont to greet the nostrils of the gods, 
 And mingling flashings of an under flame 
 
THE DEATH OF (ENONE 27 
 
 That laughed and sported upward on the breeze. 
 
 And thronging tents I saw on Pergamus, 
 
 And banded taskmasters and cowering slaves 
 
 And oxen booty-laden. And the sky 
 
 Was bright with joy : for had not Ilion fallen, 
 
 Ilion the proud and all her palaces 
 
 Of Idan marble, mirrors to the sun, 
 
 Her heroes slain, her daughters captive led 
 
 To serve the Argive lords that widowed them ? 
 
 Therefore the gods rejoiced — the unenvious gods. 
 
 Merciful gods, just gods — and heaven was bright. 
 
 But I went sick at heart, with tearless eyes 
 
 Praying if I might blind myself with tears, 
 
 And I do think all things did pity me, 
 
 All save the Olympus-dwellers. Thus I came. 
 
 " Now therefore I will die. For I have wrought 
 Such wrong as none e'er did upon the earth. 
 Lo, in what thing he sinned he had no fault, 
 For Aphrodite gave him Tyndaris, 
 And who may spurn the giving of a god .' 
 But, even an he would not, other gods, 
 Pallas and Here, forced him, in their wrath 
 With Aphrodite, Paris, Ilion. 
 For, had it not been so, no town had fallen 
 In one man's sin, one woman's loveliness, 
 
28 THE DEATH OF CENONE. 
 
 But only by the gods implacable. 
 Therefore I slew him for no fault of his, 
 And for the woe thereof I cannot live. 
 And slaying him I slew a royal town, 
 That might have been a mistress to the world, 
 With the old king and many goodly men. 
 For lo, if he had lived, these had not died : 
 He would have sent the Spartan woman home, 
 And Priamus and Ilion would have stood. 
 Therefore I die ; I cannot live to see 
 Ruins of hearth and temple, I cannot live 
 And think on all this life made desolate, 
 Paris and Dion. 
 
 Wherefore, O earth. 
 And sea, and lake, and stream, and tree, and flower. 
 And sther, and the studded lights of heaven. 
 Farewell ; and Ida, that didst give me birth 
 Malfortunate to me and Ilion, 
 Give me a speedy death, lest I should lie 
 Wounded for many hours and many days 
 Until my thoughts do drive me mad again. 
 And now farewell, my mother." 
 
 So she said. 
 And slowly mounted all the barren crags ; 
 But when she reached the highest, that looked down 
 
THE DEATH OF CENONE. 29 
 
 Upon a stream dashing far underneath 
 A mist of spray from off the broken rocks, 
 She stood in the fair moonlight for a time, 
 Then cried again, " Farewell, mother, farewell," 
 And stepped upon the utmost ledge to plunge 
 Into the deadly cataract — but fell 
 Struck by a painless shaft invisible 
 Of pitying Artemis. 
 
 There dead she lay 
 In all the ivory fairness of her lims, 
 In the dim moonlight on the Idsean rock, 
 Ahd Ida from her forests whispered back 
 A shuddering farewell. 
 
 In Elysion 
 There lies a broad bright plain, and through it 
 
 dance 
 Two rivers downward to a distant sea 
 Whereof green wavelets toss empurpled crests, 
 Changed into jasper by the setting sun. 
 And lo, away upon a tiny steep 
 A town of temples many and palaces. 
 And happy people and song-echoing streets. 
 This is called Ilion, and yonder hill 
 Pergamus. Here they dwell in holy calm 
 
JO THE DEATH OF CENONE. 
 
 That suffered the fell envy of the gods, 
 
 With all the elder progeny of Tros. 
 
 Such meed have they, such separate recompense 
 
 Beyond the rest. Unvexed of Here, Pallas, 
 
 Hephaestus, Poseidaon, peacefully 
 
 They dwell — no Spartan plague-spot in their midst. 
 
 No warfare at their gates : no death, no pain, 
 
 No winter theirs, but life and happiness 
 
 Eternal as Elysion itself 
 
 Yonder where Simois and Xanthus lap 
 
 Meads summery with never-dying blooms, 
 
 Lily and asphodel and amaranth. 
 
 Crocus and rose and snowflake, wander some. 
 
 Others attend where sits old Priamus 
 
 Glad-hearted in a many-raftered hall, 
 
 Making libation to ancestral Zeus. 
 
 And round him Hecabe with fifty sons — 
 
 Maidens, and wives, and heroes, counselors. 
 
 And chiefs of elden yore. And in the midst 
 
 A minstrel boy, that tunes upon a tung 
 
 More silvery than his cithern ancient tales 
 
 Of days before the fickle Tyndaris, 
 
 Before Laomedon and Heracles, 
 
 When faith and peace and holiness and right 
 
 Shone spotless in primaeval demigods. 
 
THE DEATH OF CENONE. 31 
 
 And near him Hsteri two, or feign to listen, 
 As fair as in the happy shepherd days 
 Ere the high gods put madness in his mind 
 And called it love — he sitting at her feet, 
 She drawing through his locks caressant hands. 
 Like traveling fingers of a dawn, put forth 
 To thrust away the funeral garb of night. 
 But most they love the sunny mountain slopes 
 And shady glens, and ivied caves and scaurs. 
 And laughing streams and sweet memorial haunts, 
 Of old Elysian Ida. Such their life 
 As native earth to storm-dashed mariners 
 That many winds have driven and many waves 
 Tossed many a league back to their mother coast ; 
 But skyless days and nights, and mists and storm. 
 Still blind them to the shore, until the waves 
 Glide into ripples, and the winds have fled. 
 And with them storm and mist, and from above 
 The sun bursts out and shows them stranded home : 
 And many dear ones clasp them round and bring 
 All life and gladness, and they bless the woes 
 That make their refuge sweeter than safe shores 
 And summer tides and softly breathing skies. 
 
 Save that one day, as yearly summers wing, 
 They visit earth — save that one day they know 
 
32 THE DEATH OF CENONE. 
 
 The doom of one sad evening that the gods 
 
 Have doomed them yearly — Paris that endured 
 
 To leave CEnone, her that healed not Paris. 
 
 And oftentimes hath Idan forester 
 
 Or shepherd, threading slow his homeward way, 
 
 Stood awe-arrested as the moonbeams slid 
 
 Down through the sombre shades, impenetrable 
 
 Save when they shivered sideways from the wind. 
 
 Yea, he hath stood and seen a woeful form, 
 
 But fair as dawn upon the Id^an peaks. 
 
 Trailing adown the interwoven groves 
 
 As wounded — and away upon the hill, 
 
 Perfect as Aphrodite, but her face 
 
 Sick with a woe that killed the gazer's soul, 
 
 One that stretched forth a hand before her eyes. 
 
 Then fell back shrieking. And the breeze caught up 
 
 The wail, and bore it onward through the wood, 
 
 Until the very foliage shuddered more, 
 
 Rustling responsive pity. And then alone 
 
 The solemn rows of giant-girthed pines 
 
 Frown in the blank death-silence of the night. 
 
 1867. 
 
THE STORY OF COMATAS. 
 
THE STORY OF COMATAS. 
 
 ARGUMENT. 
 
 A certain shepherd loved and worshiped the Muses exceed- 
 ingly, for which his master thought to have slain him. Howbeit 
 the goddesses virrought his deliverance in marvellous wise, and 
 brought him to great felicity, but his master to a miserable 
 end. 
 
 Near Zancle in the fair Trinacrian isle — 
 Now Sicily, but on an ancient while 
 Seafarers named it the Trinacrian shore — 
 Anigh to Zancle dwelt an herdsman poor 
 Yet richer far than many a lord this day.* 
 
 For to the Muses did Comatas pray, 
 Who of sweet sounds gave him such mastery 
 
 * A reminiscence, I fancy, of Morris's line — 
 
 " And richer than the Emperor is to-day." 
 
 —The Proud King. 
 
36 THE STORY OF COMATAS. 
 
 That when he sang men thought themselves to be 
 Where Siren voices o'er the hushed waves come, 
 And when he piped the nightingale was dumb. 
 Surely I deem a happy life he spent, 
 . Whose mind unto no scorching cares was lent 
 Whereby the green leaf ere its time is sere 
 And the heart's springtide turns to winter drear. 
 For while his flock cropped short the heathery lea 
 He piped right cheerly to the tossing sea. 
 Or hymned the god that rules the glorious day — 
 Happy though no man heard his roundelay. 
 And, when the red sun neath the wave was gone. 
 And brighter in mid sky the pale moon shone, 
 Then truly were the roselipped maidens fain 
 To listen whiles he sang in wondrous strain 
 Of gods and heroes and the great old time 
 Before this earth had faded from her prime. 
 Or chanted praises of Idalia's queen. 
 Then would they scatter on the moonlit green, 
 And thread with shepherd lads a rustic maze 
 All to the dainty measure of his lays. 
 
 ^gon was of this shepherd .named the lord, 
 Whose wide lands opened to the ocean-board 
 For many a league of fruitful pasturage, 
 Who many an hundred bondmen held in gage. 
 
THE STORY OF COMATAS. 37 
 
 O'er whom he ruled more lordly than a king, 
 Deeming their lives to be a little thing, 
 And oft for some small fault a man would slay, 
 Naught caring what of him the world should say, 
 Nor having of the just gods any fear. 
 
 Now in the flowery season of the year, 
 And at the midmost of a cloudless day, 
 It fell perchance that .^Egon passed that way 
 Nigh where Comatas used his flock to feed, 
 Who now was tuning to new notes his reed 
 Beneath the shadow of a beechen tree. 
 Thereunder whiles he played full daintily, 
 Beside him ^gon stood and said, " Sir Knave, 
 Prithee why echoeth this tune so brave .'' 
 Scare ye the wolf thus early from the fold .'' 
 Or seek ye perhaps to make the crow less bold 
 To pluck his harvest from the unshorn fleece .■" 
 Or wish ye to mine ears such little peace 
 That thus ye train your noisy reed and harsh 
 To mock the clamour of a bitterns' marsh .' " 
 To whom Comatas answered reverently, 
 " Thereof, good master, prithee pardon me, 
 Who hearkened not thy footstep drawing nigh. 
 And of my feeble skill was fain to try 
 Some pleasant strain unto the maids divine 
 
38 THE STORY OF COMATAS. 
 
 About whose brows the sented laurels twine : 
 Yea, often from my labour's scanty price 
 A yearling kid has fed their sacrifice, 
 Who give their slaves more than a kingdom's fee, 
 Envy of gods, sweet-breathing minstrelsy." 
 To whom said ^gon, " Nay, and dost thou so ? 
 Then mayhap soon their kindness wilt thou know ; " 
 And so upon his way passed scoffingly : 
 Whereon Comatas, used these moods to see, 
 Piped up, nor held his churlish lord in fear. 
 
 But when the sun was down and night grew near, 
 And he must lead his flocks unto the pen. 
 There stood his master and of serving men 
 Some score, to whom spake .^Egon on such wise, 
 " Knaves, of this shepherd see that ye make prize : 
 Yet from your hands no harm to him shall tide. 
 But bring him to the place where I shall guide. 
 And if to any of you this word seem vain, 
 Or any to make little speed be fain, 
 I think before long while that man to slay." 
 
 No pleasant speech he spake to them ; and they. 
 Who knew not to what thing his purpose bent, 
 But thought that a brief space of punishment 
 Comatas for some ill-done deed must taste. 
 
THE STORY OF COMATAS. 39 
 
 To work their master's bidding made all haste, 
 Naught eager of his threat to make essay, 
 And led Comatas where he showed the way, 
 Till to an outland coppice they were come, 
 Whose taper trunks scarce hid a shattered dome. 
 
 Then, drawing near, they knew it for a place 
 Built of old time by one of Agon's race, 
 And how that in it was a chest of stone, 
 Wherein he thought to rest, his life being done, 
 Yet came unto another grave at last — 
 As to himself a forest voice forecast. 
 Saying, " O man, upon some other spot 
 Rear up thy sepulchre and grieve me not, 
 And have long wealth of days felicitous. 
 But if thou hew this tree most dear to us. 
 And in its stead a burial chamber raise. 
 Think not to look on many happy days. 
 But in short time most miserably to die,. 
 Nor even then within thy tomb to lie." 
 So spake to him the woodland god, but he. 
 That no god worshiped, smote adown the tree 
 And builded where the green sap ran this dome ; 
 Which being fully wrought, unto his home 
 While with no careful mind his foot was bent, 
 Wolves of the mountain met him where he went. 
 
40 THE STORY OF COMATAS. 
 
 Whom with short space for prayer or curse they slew 
 
 And to some trackless den his body drew : 
 
 Whereby in brief time, as the voice had said, 
 
 He came in a poor place to lay his head 
 
 Who, that thereto his rotting bones might come. 
 
 Despite the forest god raised up this tomb. 
 
 Thereto they wended through the thick-set brake, 
 And therein being entered ^gon spake. 
 Saying, " Good people, truly think I best 
 This second time ye doubt not of my hest, 
 But in the stone coffer this shepherd lay, 
 Except ye wish to see an evil day." 
 Such was the bidding that Comatas heard. 
 Who yet indeed had breathed not any word, 
 Deeming this thing to be but some grim play. 
 Nor willed his master's rigour to gainsay 
 — Knowing that ^gon used not to relent^ 
 In any wise for some small punishment. 
 But, when that harsh speech fell upon his ear. 
 Then with it came an horrid nameless fear 
 Drowning Comatas in its mighty wave, 
 And pardon wildly he began to crave, 
 Albeit of no wrongful deed he knew : 
 Whom, hand and foot fast held, six slaves soon 
 threw 
 
THE STORY OF COMATAS. 41 
 
 Within the coffer, and closed down the hd 
 Till in its wards the grating lock had slid. 
 
 Then ^gon stood beside the 'chest, and said, 
 " Good friend, I marvel that thou hast such dread, 
 Being, as thou sayest, a god-fearing man ; 
 For if thy life should be but as a span. 
 Or if thou come to fourscore years and ten. 
 This resteth with the gods, and not with men. 
 Wherefore I rede thee pray these gods to send 
 Long years of gladness and a peaceful end 
 In guerdon of thy kindly championship. 
 But, if from out their minds thy service slip. 
 And if on thee they look with small good will. 
 But send upon thee, as might hap, some ill, 
 Yet shalt thou thank from Hades me that gave 
 Thy luckless bones, unasked, an honoured grave." 
 
 Therewith began he from that place to wend. 
 In no wise doubting what should be the end ; 
 And as he went some mocking tune he sang. 
 But, while his last word through the chamber rang, 
 Upon Comatas came a deadly swoon. 
 Wherein he lay for many a night and noon, 
 Dreamless and painless, till the birds awoke 
 One morning and Comatas' slumber broke ; 
 
42 THE STORY OF COMATAS. 
 
 That knew not first indeed if he were dead 
 Or live, nor in what place, but for great dread 
 Did close again his eyes, thinking to see 
 Through the thick darkness white Persephone, 
 Or lurid swirls of Pyriphlegethon, 
 Whereby the restless spirits make their moan. 
 But when he heard not any waters' wash 
 Against the gloomy boat, nor muffled plash 
 Of him that ferries o'er the Stygian marsh, 
 Nor furious scourges of taskmasters harsh, 
 Nor feeble twitterings of the phantom dead. 
 Then took Comatas courage with raised head 
 To look upon the darkness and to seek 
 What else might be, with trembling hands and weak. 
 So smote he on the clammy side, and (dim 
 And slow at first) all things came back to him — 
 Wishing indeed the Stygian stream were passed 
 He feared of late to look on. 
 
 But at last 
 Unto the sweet-voiced sisters changed his mind, 
 And to his bosom strayed his hand to find 
 The river-gotten reed whose liquid lays 
 Lightened the weariness of happier days. 
 Thereto Comatas turned, who thought not yet. 
 Albeit by them forgotten, to forget 
 
THE STORY OF COMATAS. 43 
 
 The maids that dwell by babbling Hippocrene, 
 But framed a prelude on that reedpipe lean, 
 Whereof the wondrous skill I fain would show, 
 Likening it to some fair tune men know, 
 If in these times were heard a tune so fair ; 
 But now there breathes not such a sweetness rare 
 On us that love the Muses not so well. 
 Only the manner would I gladly tell, 
 The few and feeble echoings in mine ears, 
 Of that sweet lay, lost in long lapse of years. 
 The which, while yet his pipe was scarcely stilled. 
 In that drear place melodiously he trilled: — 
 
 Maybe that now the sad night flies 
 The pleasant sun ; the boughs proclaim 
 In early- waking harmonies 
 The faint east quickening into flame ; * 
 Light whispers stir the sented grass ; 
 A sheepbell tinkles o'er the lea ; 
 Far off" the dull gray vessels pass 
 Along the cold gray line of sea. 
 
 * "The faint east quickens."— Swinburne, Atalanta in 
 Calydon. 
 
44 THE STORY OF COM AT AS. 
 
 " Maybe this hour the eye of day 
 Glares lidless on the pastured down, 
 And thick-clad flocks have made their way 
 Beneath the shade of beeches brown 
 Where lies their shepherd stretched along ; 
 Upon his ear fall pleasantly 
 The bee's soft hum, cicala's song, 
 And measured murmuring of the sea. 
 
 "Or on the rosy breast of eve 
 Perchance this while the sun-god lies 
 Sunk into rest ; the red fields heave. 
 Moved by the west wind's loving sighs ; 
 Hushed are the woodland voices quite. 
 And hushed the music of the bee ; 
 Still roll from far in long ' good-night ' 
 The echoes of the tireless sea. 
 
 " I hear them not, I see them not, 
 Where noiseless gloom encircles me. 
 Almost forgetting, quite forgot. 
 Only a form I seem to see. 
 Only a voice I seem to hear. 
 Of one whose heavy-lidded eyes 
 Drain slowly out a burning tear, 
 
THE STORY OF COMATAS. 45 
 
 Who veils her red-white face and cries, 
 ' Why comes he not this many a day ? 
 What bated breath hath done me wrong ? 
 What bitter god hath cut away 
 The love whereto my love had clung ? ' 
 
 " Ah ! ye the flower-crowned goddesses 
 That dwell in endless undreamt bliss ; 
 Whose sunlit palaces of gold 
 The blue slopes of Olympus hold ; 
 Or if by Castaly's green pool, 
 Beneath o'er-arching shadows cool, 
 Ye quafjf the summer day's delight ; 
 Or if your slender lims and white 
 Ye moisten in Libethra's spring, 
 Or in Pimplea, listening 
 While the sweet-throated nightingale 
 Tells once again her tearful tale — 
 A little think on me, I pray,* 
 Who hope not many another lay 
 Unto the mighty gods to sing, 
 But in short time must look the wing 
 
 * " Remember me a little, then, I pray."— MORRIS, preface to 
 The Earthly Paradise. 
 
46 THE STORY OF COMATAS. 
 
 Of Hades' messenger to hear 
 Flapping about this place of fear." 
 
 So had his song ceased, and he seenaed to know 
 Without that prison-place such murmuring low 
 As when upon the soft hillside he lay- 
 Where beechen leaves shut out the noontide day, 
 Passing to dreamland, listening the sound 
 Of tiny honey-gatherers flocking round 
 Some bush of dainty-flowered aspalathus. 
 Such gentle din, that now more clamorous 
 And nearer grew, Comatas wondering heard, 
 Until beside him soon a small thing whirred. 
 And soon another. Then he turned, and lo ! 
 At the chest's corner saw the white light show 
 Where time and little care had made a chink. 
 Then in good sooth began his heart to sink, 
 Who saw the sharp-tunged insects hurrying through, 
 And thought indeed that by this torment new 
 His master, grudging further space of breath. 
 Sent him a yet more miserable death. 
 But now the myriad fluttering settled down 
 Where seemed that dark place meetest for a town 
 And palace of sweet-chambered honeycomb : 
 Where how they made of wax a tiny home 
 That soon grew large I linger not to tell, 
 
THE STORY OF COMATAS. 47 
 
 Nor yet how many hopes and fears befell 
 Comatas ere with trembling hand he drew 
 Unharmed the luscious banquetage, and knew 
 That the good gods remembered him and sent 
 Such heavenly stay to hinder famishment. 
 So from that moment held he a firm heart, 
 Nor thought from happier hours to be apart 
 Long time, but, as release were nowise dim, 
 To the sweet sisters ceased he not to hymn. 
 And all the high gods, grateful chants of praise. 
 And fashion on his reedpipe wondrous lays. 
 To tune in afterwhile. 
 
 But at the last 
 Came ^gon, when a year was fully passed. 
 Having of cowering slaves a goodly throng. 
 And of the closed door drew the leathern thong. 
 And, being entered, to his bondmen spake : 
 " Friends, to the high gods holy reverence make ; 
 For this Comatas, as ye doubtless heard. 
 Above all other lords the Olympians feared. 
 And to the Muses most of these would pay 
 Much savoury due of sacrifice, and play 
 Sweet-sounding hymns, whereof I bid you see 
 How the nine sisters gave him goodly fee." 
 
48 THE STORY OF COMATAS. 
 
 Therewith he strode a pace unto the chest, 
 And, plucking forth a key from out his breast. 
 The rusty fastenings of the lock undid. 
 And bade his bondmen raise the heavy lid 
 — A rough-hewn slab not one man's strength coud lift; 
 Who to perform his bidding scarce made shift, 
 Such chilly fearfulness their hot veins froze. 
 
 But when the lid was raised Comatas rose. 
 And upright in the chest they saw him stand 
 Holding the oftheard reedpipe in his hand. 
 In no wise like one wakened from the dead, 
 Save for some pallor, and about his head 
 What seemed to be a dusky halo wound, 
 Wherefrom there came a strangely murmuring sound. 
 Then wist I all were gladdened in that place — 
 All saving ^gon, that stood face to face 
 With one he thought to be no living man. 
 But from the shades indeed a spectre wan 
 The serpent-haired Erinyes had sent 
 To work on him some fearful punishment. 
 So, when the shepherd's lips unclosed to speak, 
 Then backward ^gon fell with a great shriek. 
 And lay with glazed eyes bloodless on the grourjd ; 
 Whom when some faithful servants gathered round 
 
THE STORY OF COM AT AS. 49 
 
 Lo 1 the dusk halo o'er Comatas' head 
 Louder and scattered grew, until there spread 
 Throughout the tomb of bees a stormy cloud, 
 Driving before them all the panic crowd ; 
 Who willed not in that place to stand again 
 That day, naught caring if their lord were slain. 
 Or rather gladder. But with many a tear 
 Of joyance would they bid Comatas cheer, 
 And heard with leaping hearts his wondrous tale 
 Told o'er and o'er, until the sunlight pale 
 Passed into moonlight, and in festive throng 
 They bore him, crowned with flowers, and 
 
 praised in song. 
 And cheered with ruddy vintage, to his home. 
 
 But, when the golden-footed dawn was come, 
 Then to that gloomy threshold back they went. 
 And found their master's guilty life long spent. 
 Whereof those small brown things had left alone 
 A ghastly spectacle of fleshless bone. 
 
 So prospered this man for an evM deed. 
 But to Comatas soothly came much meed 
 Of wealth and gladness, and an envied name. 
 For in brief space some god had sent the fame 
 
 4 
 
50 THE STORY OF COMATAS. 
 
 Of what had been among all men that bide 
 Betwixt the narrow waters and the wide ; 
 And to Comatas did the people bring, 
 As each coud furnish of his store, some thing 
 Of price — a kid, or honey-apples ripe. 
 Fine-woven raiment, or a sweet-tuned pipe 
 Whereof the playing was more worth than gold, 
 Cups carven by some cunning man of old 
 With many a living wonder changed to wood — 
 As beyond others in the god's sight good 
 Each to this shepherd gave some pleasant gift : 
 Who, out of toilsome livelihood and thrift 
 Being of no glad thing for the rest denied, 
 Sang to his flocks below the cool hillside 
 For many a happy summer, and being dead 
 In fair Sicilian marble laid his head, 
 Whereon was graven all the tale here told. 
 And many a long year did that iland hold 
 His name in honour, and his songs were sung 
 Many a long season when the world was young. 
 
 But as the world grows old all memory dies. 
 And so no more beneath the southern skies 
 Comatas' name is storied in men's praise 
 (Though mayhap still the shepherds pipe his lays 
 
THE STORY OF CO MAT AS. 51 
 
 Unwitting), and no more his tomb is shown — 
 Lost in some untrod hill-nook, overgrown 
 With evil weeds, or broke with wrack of time. 
 Only an ancient singer's scarce-saved rime* 
 The scanty word hath breathed wherefrom to tell 
 This tale of him that loved the Muses well. 
 
 1868. 
 
 * Theocritus, Idyll, vii., 78-8i5. 
 
AN OLD, OLD STORY. 
 
55 
 
 ON AN UNCOLOURED PHOTOGRAPH* 
 
 Viewing thy sweet similitude, portrayed 
 By heaven's own limner, the unerring sun, 
 Rudely I did the artist's fault upbraid. 
 That left his lovely labour half undone; 
 Whose niggard sloth of my poor 'wit to mend, 
 And to his picture give thy natural hues, [wend. 
 Straightway I bade three courier thoughts forth 
 And for my pencil purest colours choose. 
 Then one, returning, for thy cheek's soft blush 
 Brought vermeil of the winter-blooming rose ; 
 And one, to paint thy neck, the last faint flush 
 Of dying day upon the winter snows ; 
 
 The third had borrowed from the dawning sky 
 The liquid heaven of thy dark-curtained eye. 
 
 Jan., 1873. 
 
 * This and the only other sonnet in the volume were written 
 while reading Shakspere's Sonnets, the simple measure of which 
 I have preferred, endeavouring also in the present poem to catch 
 something of their spirit. 
 
56 
 
 II. 
 THE FIRST VALENTINE. 
 
 Go, Valentine, go ! By valley and hill, 
 
 By field and woodland, and sand and sea, 
 By lake and pool, and river and rill, 
 
 Love's wings are loose and his words are free. 
 Shall we not speak ? shall our voice be dumb, 
 
 When Love hath speech in cottage and hall ? 
 Shall our voice be dumb and our heart be numb 
 
 That love the best and truest of all .'' 
 
 Go, Valentine, go ! She will gaze upon others — 
 
 On others less loving — ere glancing at thee : 
 A smile and a kiss she will give to thy brothers, 
 
 A smile and a mock to my message and me. 
 Yet hope bides long, and patience longer. 
 
 And the love I love the longest of three ; 
 And these are strong, and my love is stronger, 
 
 So thou shalt say what I say to thee. 
 
 Say, when my skiff, down the swift current dashing. 
 Cleaves waters that mirror the light of the skies, 
 
THE FIRST VALENTINE. 57 
 
 In the moon-silvered wavelets her laughter seems 
 flashing, 
 
 Her smile in the diamond spraydrops that rise. 
 Her beauty in all that is fair I remember ; [eyes ; 
 
 In the heaven of the dawn the clear heaven of her 
 And the flush on her cheek in the last crimson ember 
 
 That flushes the face of the day as it dies. 
 
 Say, when the first bird of morning is singing, 
 Praying for her ever brings me delight ; 
 
 Praying for her, ere slumber be bringing 
 • Her presence to gladden the visions of night ; 
 
 Thinking of her every eve and each morrow. 
 In solitude thinking, or midmost the stir 
 
 Of the city of nations — oh 1 balm of my sorrow. 
 Oh ! crown of my happiness — thinking of her. 
 
 Yet what shall it profit, though thus thou be laded } 
 
 Were the bloom of her beauty less perfect to see. 
 Were the sun of her grace and her pureness o'er-shaded, 
 
 So might her heart beat less coldly for me. 
 Ah ! if a tung of laudation coud sing of me. 
 
 Tell of some nobleness, blazon me great ! 
 If the world withitsvoices and echoes coud ring of me! 
 
 So might I bear to be patient and wait. 
 
58 THE FIRST VALENTINE. 
 
 Yet say that all greatness and goodness rise slowly, 
 
 That the oak of the forest was once but a seed ; 
 Can she tell the first spring of the high or the lowly, 
 
 The birth of the flower from the birth of the weed ? 
 The river was once but a fountain, that plashes 
 
 The navies of nations with fathomless waves ; 
 And the gold that now glitters, the gem that now* 
 flashes, 
 
 Have once been o'ertrod by the footstep of slaves. 
 
 Then fly to her, Valentine ! Valentine, fly to her ! 
 
 Fear not the scorn of a spirit so sweet : 
 And cry to her, Valentine, tenderly cry to her, 
 
 Laying thy burden of love at her feet. 
 So, if the years ever crown me with honour. 
 
 In the day that shall come she may pity me yet ; 
 So haply till then, while my hope fastens on her. 
 
 She may sometimes remember, not always forget, 
 
 1873- 
 
59 
 
 III. 
 THE SECOND VALENTINE. 
 
 O LONG-EXPECTED ! art thou here once more, 
 Herald of happy spring, and Love's own day ?' 
 
 Is it thy voice I hear without my door, 
 
 Bidding me tell what I would have thee say 
 When to my heart's hope thou hast found thy 
 way, 
 
 Whom, new-awaken, thou dost haste to greet 
 
 With wooing speeches and love-tokens meet ? 
 
 Ah ! surely now thou comest but in vain. 
 Since vainly didst thou come a year agone : 
 
 Why wilt thou wake my foolish song again ? 
 Knowing that I no art of Orpheus own, 
 To outcharm a Siren or to move a stone — 
 
 I, a poor rimer of these later days, 
 
 Whose strong heart beats not in my feeble lays. 
 
 Oh ! did I dream, or did I twice begin 
 
 Some dawning change in her calm eyes to see .' 
 
6o THE SECOND VALENTINE. 
 
 Alas! for she has "turned about to win 
 Once more an unblest woeful victory,"* 
 And I — no heavenly hand has given to me 
 Such threefold charm wherewith Milanion stayed 
 The windshod feet of Arcady's fair maid. 
 
 Yet natheless this third time will I cast 
 
 My heart's love at her feet, while yet I may, 
 
 If haply it will please her at the last 
 From her ungentleness awhile to stay, 
 Gather the fair fruit lying in her way. 
 
 Grasp the sweet toy whose charm shall never tire. 
 
 And gain the bliss '' all women most desire."! 
 
 Yes, haste, O kindly day, and tell her this. 
 
 And with the first breath of returning spring 
 Softly do thou her cheek's faint flushes kiss 
 
 * Morris, AialMita's Race. 
 
 t In Gower's Tale of Florent {Confessio Amantis, bk. i.) the 
 hero has to discover "what alle women most desire." The 
 answer is — 
 
 " That alle women lievest wolde 
 Be soverein of mannes love." 
 
 The same legend is the subject of Chaucer's " Wife of Bath's 
 Tale." 
 
THE SECOND VALENTINE 6i 
 
 And therewith to her thought the memory bring 
 Of shadowy elm and rosebush blossoming, 
 
 And ask her then what new felicity 
 
 She wins from these brief days so changed to me. 
 
 Maybe that they are changed some fault was mine 
 Of unripe hope and overloving word. 
 
 Oh ! tell her that forgiveness is divine : 
 
 Have I, whose love was great, so greatly erred 
 That even thy pleading voice must be unheard. 
 
 Her eyes unmoved for aught that I can say, 
 
 And all my life as this sad winter's day ? 
 
 1874. 
 
62 
 
 IV. 
 TWO PROVERBS. 
 
 We sat and watched the flickering daylight die, 
 From underneath the rose-festooned verandah, 
 
 And fell to talk of proverbs, she and I, 
 
 I and ' Fanchette ' (mutata sunt mutandd). 
 
 " Yes, they are strangely wise," I said, " and yet 
 'Twixt two there seems a wondrous inconsistence : 
 
 D'you think that hearts grow more akin, Fanchette, 
 In 'inverse ratio to their square of distance' .''" 
 
 She was not mathematically inclined, 
 
 She said ; indeed, my meaning was beyond her. 
 
 " Well then, is ' out of sight ' gtnte ' out of mind,' 
 Or think you ' absence makes the heart grow 
 fonder ' ? 
 
 " Both can't be true. I doubt but you'll forget 
 One absent friend at latest ere December." 
 
 " Our country life is quiet," said Fanchette, 
 " I have not much to do save to remember. 
 
TWO PROVERBS. 63 
 
 " But you, who mingle with the busy throng, 
 You " — thereupon I stopped her in the middle. 
 
 " Fanchette," I said, " Time answers nothing wrong, 
 So let us wait for Time to rede our riddle." 
 
 Brief while to wait — the leaves were scarcely thin, 
 Summer's last rose was scarcely yet a-dying. 
 
 When Time his weird solution handed in, 
 Affirming both, yet each apart denying. 
 
 For I no limits to my love assigned, 
 
 But hers within her eyes' patrol must wander : 
 
 She found that ' out of sight is out of mind,' 
 
 And I that ' absence makes the heart grow fonder.' 
 
 Ay, there's the pity. Evil proverbs both ! 
 
 If either were more false or either truer, 
 A little lief had not been turned to loth,* 
 
 And weary hearts had been by one heart fewer. 
 
 1874. 
 
 * Gower, Confessio Amantis, bk. i. : — 
 
 " Wherof the lief is after lothe." 
 
64 
 
 V, 
 
 RONDEL. 
 
 " I LOVE you, and I love you not," she said, 
 And brought me to a little garden-close ; * 
 
 " I will not bid your hope be holely dead," 
 And in my hand she set an opening rose. 
 
 It was the emblem of her double mind 
 
 (" I love you, and I love you not," she said), 
 
 A fair, faint-perfumed blossom, and behind 
 A small sharp thorn raised up its threatening head. 
 
 Beneath the screen of petals overspread 
 It lurked unseen, unfelt — alas, unsought ; 
 
 " I love you, and I love you not,'' she said, 
 
 And sweet " I love you " hid sharp " love you not." 
 
 * The exp7-ession is suggested by the exquisite song in Morris's 
 Jason, bk. iv., beginning : — 
 
 " I know a little garden-close, 
 Set thick with lily and red rose." 
 
RONDEL. 65 
 
 But now my poor frail flower is crushed and torn, 
 Its blush is faded, and its perfume fled ; 
 
 The thorn remains — long since I found the thorn ; 
 " I love you," — ah ! " I love you not," she said. 
 
 1874. 
 
66 
 
 VI. 
 
 "CONFESSIO AMANTIS."* 
 
 " CONFESSIO AMANTIS ? " Oh, 
 You need not open that ; I know 
 Your sober wisdom spurns the storied fancies 
 Of long ago. 
 
 So put it back upon the shelf, 
 And see this curious piece of delf 
 I got for a mere song the other morning. 
 — Well, please yourself. 
 
 Ah ! have the roses caught your eye ? 
 And must you hear the reason why 
 I put these faded flowers between the pages 
 So carefully by .'' 
 
 * The title of the poet Gower's English masterpiece, always 
 quaint, and often beautiful, but hitherto painfully neglected and 
 scandalously edited. 
 
 The metre of this poem and of " Helice " is adapted (by the 
 excision of one foot in the first, second, and fourth lines) from 
 one invented by Mr. Grant Allen, the author of many poems 
 (unfortunately not yet published) of remarkable beauty. 
 
"CONFESSIO AMANTIS." (^ 
 
 You know my foolish childish bent. 
 You know these poor, dead things are meant 
 To echo to my thought their simple language 
 Of hue and sent. 
 
 But what I meant them to express, 
 That is my secret, friend — Unless — 
 
 Well, in three times I think you'll hardly guess it ; 
 Thrice you shall guess. 
 
 " Emblems of one dear maid ? " Oh no ! 
 Surely you wrong her fairness so. 
 How should this withered growth of leaf and blosson^ 
 Her beauty show .'' 
 
 Oh no ! guess on. "Are these the sign 
 Of my dead love .' " — No love of mine : 
 Although I grant your metaphoric instinct 
 Has grown more fine. 
 
 My love no August drought coud kill, 
 Nor frosts of February chill : 
 Truly I know it is not dead, nor faded, 
 But blossoms still. 
 
feS ^' CONFESS JO A MANTIS." 
 
 Deep in my heart its roots are spread, 
 With my life-blood its life is fed, 
 Fanned with the breath I breathe, and if this wither 
 I too am dead. 
 
 You aim but widely at the best : 
 Guess once again. Ah ! you have guessed, 
 And to your curious wit my poor sad secret 
 Lies manifest. 
 
 She gave me those one night of June, 
 And these she gave that last sweet noon, 
 Tokens of hope restored and love half- willing 
 To follow soon. 
 
 Ah ! friend, what further need be said ? 
 The hope's recalled, the love is fled ; 
 The flowers remain, fit emblems of both faded, 
 Both crushed, both dead — 
 
 Embalmed within the sweet sad rime 
 Writ by that lover of old time 
 Whose lesser star still sparkled through the sunlight 
 Of Chaucer's prime. 
 
'•CONFESSrO AMANTIS." 6y 
 
 He knew the better and the worse 
 In love, its blessing and its curse ; 
 But still, " I must her loven " is the burden 
 Of all his verse. 
 
 And I — however, of myself 
 Enough. Let's put them on the shelf — 
 John Gower's ' Confessio ' and my confession — 
 And see the delf. 
 
 1874. 
 
70 
 
 VII. 
 
 WHAT ARE THE WILD WAVES SAYING ? 
 
 Between the waters' ebb and flow 
 I listened to their plashings low : 
 " O waters of the western sea, 
 What song is this ye sing to me ? " 
 
 The last wave of the ebbing tide 
 Crept to my feet and thus replied : 
 " My waters as they backward roll 
 Sound the sad echo to thy soul. 
 
 " A shriveled line of weedy wrack 
 Speaks to thine eye my morning's track : 
 A few dead flowers are left to show 
 Where rose thy hopes a year ago. 
 
 " Thy hopes ran high, thy hopes ran free ; 
 My waters surged in boisterous glee. 
 But now their bed is dull and drear, 
 And thy heart waste since yesteryear.'' 
 
WHAT ARE THE WILD WAVES SAYING i 71 
 
 " O waters of the western sea. 
 Sad is the song ye sing to me. 
 O waters of the ebb and flow. 
 Is there none other song ye know ? " 
 
 The first wave of the flowing tide 
 Crept to my feet and thus replied : 
 " My waters as they onward roll 
 Give the glad keynote to thy soul. 
 
 " A little while and on the shore 
 They'll rise to where they rose before : 
 A little while and thy heart's cheer 
 Shall dance as high as yesteryear." 
 
 Where Ystwith's waters join the sea 
 Thus spake the meeting tides to me, 
 And here within this southern bay 
 I listen to their voice to-day. 
 
 I hear the self-same songs again ; 
 The ebb-tide's song is true as then, 
 But still with weary heart I bide 
 The promise of the flowing tide. 
 
72 WHAT ARE THE WILD WAVES SAYING 1 
 
 Ah ! if the currents in our life 
 
 Veered equal, as in watery strife ! 
 
 But man's poor hopes, 'twixt high and low. 
 
 Take hours to ebb, but years to flow. 
 
 Aberystwith, 1874. 
 ShankUn, 1874. 
 
VIII. 
 
 THE LAST VALENTINE. 
 
 No sented offering of floral rime 
 To sue thy maiden heart this year I bring, 
 Nor would I vex thy peace this one last time 
 With vain appeal or bootless murmuring. 
 Only my love, whose doom thou late didst seal, 
 With dying breath a message bade me send, 
 ' Praying that from his woe might spring thy weal. 
 And his poor loss to thy dear vantage tend ; 
 Trusting that thou hadst found a stronger guide, 
 
 A wiser counsellor, a love more true' 
 
 But there with eyes that flashed a quenchless pride 
 He turned and bade me write those last words through: 
 ' For, let her search the bounds of earth and sky, 
 She shall not find a truer love than I.' 
 
 1875- 
 
74 
 
 IX. 
 
 AN APOLOGY. 
 
 If any westward breeze should blow 
 These faintly-sented flowers of song 
 
 To cliffs that rise o'er waves that flow 
 
 To meet the Severn and the sea — 
 
 Sweet servitress of harmony, 
 
 Deem not my rime hath done thee wrong. 
 
 I chide thee not, I blame thee not : 
 
 How should I blame, how should I chide, 
 
 Kow think of thee one bitter thought ? 
 
 Nay, if the power be mine to bless, 
 
 May thy new-budded happiness 
 Bear richest fruit, O happy bride. 
 
 But think it not amiss if I 
 
 In my heart's solitude am fain 
 To wander back to days gone by — 
 As one who waking in the night 
 Turns from the cold gray dawning light 
 
 To dream his last sweet dream again, 
 
 1875- 
 
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 
 
77 
 
 THE AIR SPIRIT* 
 
 Who would be a Spirit of Air, 
 Wafted along in the boundless sky, 
 Sweeping away in a whirlwind flight. 
 Or soft as a summer sigh ? 
 
 I would be a Spirit of Air ; 
 
 On a Zephyr's wings I'd merrily sit. 
 
 And over the plain 
 
 With its golden grain, 
 And over the snow-capped hills I'd flit. 
 In the tops of the forest trees I'd hide, 
 
 Till the Spirits of Air 
 
 Should find me there 
 On the leafiest branch astride. 
 And out of my bower, when they found me, I'd fly 
 Laughing a mocking laugh in my pride ; 
 
 * Suggested to "the boy that was then'' by Tennyson's, 
 Mermaid. 
 
78 THE AIR SPIRIT. 
 
 And they should chase me abroad and away, 
 Abroad and away in the merry blue sky ; 
 They should chase me over the torrent's spray, 
 And among the rocks where the seabirds bide, 
 Preening their wings in the summer day ; 
 
 Over the blue abyss — 
 Over the wavelets, one by one. 
 
 Tossing their heads. 
 
 Leaping to kiss 
 
 Our feet as we passed. 
 With a twinkling laugh in the sun. 
 Till the mermaidens came, with their locks flung free 
 In a diamond sheen, in a golden blaze. 
 From hunting the countless things of the sea. 
 To gaze at our flight with a longing gaze. 
 And on a purple cloud we'd rest, 
 A purple cloud from the dusky west, 
 Till the stars came forth in a silver maze ; 
 
 Then would we rise, 
 Neath the myriad lamps of the spangled skies, 
 
 Dancing away 
 
 In a banded throng, 
 
 To the grim-voiced deep 
 
 Chanting a song ; 
 
 Dancing away 
 To hail the sun as he rose from his sleep. 
 
THE AIR SPIRIT. 79 
 
 No wintry chill should be ours : 
 We would follow 
 The swallow, 
 
 And follow the flowers. 
 Our food should be the jasmine's sent, 
 Our drink the dew on the rose besprent. 
 The Sylph might boast' of a leafy home. 
 The River Nymph tell of the silver foam. 
 The Mermaid sing of a deeper wave, 
 A gem-strewn sand and a coral cave — 
 Living in joy, living in love, 
 We'd change not for billow or torrent or grove. 
 
 1866. 
 
8q 
 
 PHILOMMEIDES.* 
 
 Some have I known of soul as true and tender, 
 
 Features as winsome and a heart as free ; 
 But never saw I yet in other maiden 
 Like fairy glee — 
 
 Glee like the summer waters that, illumined 
 By the full splendour of the noontide ray. 
 In one unceasing tide of rippling laughter 
 Welcome the day. 
 
 There is a tale, a simple ancient story, 
 
 Told at the humblest and the highest board, 
 Where'er in first calm infant slumber sleepeth 
 Peasant or lord — 
 
 That, often as within the peaceful cradle 
 
 Soft dreamland smiles upon its features rest, 
 By angel hands the child is girt, by angel 
 Voices addressed. 
 
 * Written to Miss E. H. Boys, now Mrs. Lyne. 
 
PHIL OM ME IDES. 
 
 But when first sins affix their blot, and darker 
 
 The stain becometh daily and more wide, 
 Then, one by one, the sorrowing seraphs slowly 
 Forsake its side. 
 
 Yet sure the loving spirits longer tarried 
 
 By one too pure to be forsaken thus. 
 And still some angel monitor accosts thee, 
 Unheard by us. 
 
 Or, haply, in thy early spring some seraph 
 
 Bent o'er thy cot, embracing thee the while. 
 And still there lingers, on those lips imprinted, 
 The angel's smile. 
 
 Smile on, laugh on, in all thy youth and fairness ; 
 Laugh on, smile on, and gladden still the glad, 
 Rejoice the drooping spirit, make the mourner's 
 Sadness less sad. 
 
 So, sorrow banishing from all around thee, 
 
 Thou shalt have love of others for thy meed, 
 And He who dwells above shall smile upon thee 
 In all thy need. 
 
82 PHILOMMEIDES. 
 
 Till in thy latest hour thou shalt look backward 
 
 With trustful smile upon thy lifetime past, 
 And to a joy eternal angels smiling 
 Bear thee at last. 
 
 1867. 
 
83 
 
 FLORES— AMORES. 
 
 "Yes, thy wave was calm and golden, golden with 
 
 the sinking day, 
 Scarce a zephyr shook thy willows, shook thy poplars 
 
 tall and gray. 
 She had plucked a spray of woodbine, roses red that 
 
 near it grew, 
 Added from thy bank, O streamlet, many a tiny flower 
 
 of blue. 
 Flowers and hand in mine I clasped them ; looking 
 
 in her face I said, 
 ' Emblems these of love and fairness, rose and wood- 
 bine, white and red ; 
 Tokens of remembrance constant these the tiny 
 
 blossoms blue. 
 Leave them here with rose and woodbine, if you love 
 
 me well and true. 
 If to you I seem too tainted, you that are without a 
 
 blot, 
 If I am too poor and humble, keep them — if you love 
 
 me not.' 
 
§4 FLORES—AMORES. 
 
 And her eyes turned slowly upward, as I strove to 
 
 read her mind, 
 Slowly dropped her hand unlinken, but the flowers 
 
 remained behind. 
 
 " Now thy stream is dull and troubled, gilded by no 
 sun thy vale, 
 
 Bend thy willows, bow thy poplars, neath the storm- 
 gusts of the gale. 
 
 On thy banks again I wander, but she walks not at 
 my side ; 
 
 Once again I clasp the blossoms — 'tis to fling them to 
 thy tide. 
 
 But a few short weeks I left her, and again she plays 
 her part, 
 
 And another bows before her, lord of what he thinks 
 a heart. 
 
 " Lo the blossoms that she gave me; like the love she 
 
 took they died. 
 Gathered for a moment's plaything, then to wither 
 
 cast aside. 
 Take them, streamlet, as she gave them, with the cord 
 
 she drew around : 
 Let them perish, thread and blossom, in thy whirling 
 
 eddies drowned. 
 
FLORES—AMORES. 85 
 
 Yet beyond the beechen hillside on thy bosom let 
 them lie ; 
 
 Wandering with her happier wooer she may see them 
 floating by : 
 
 So perchance some thought of sorrow may redeem 
 the thing she is, 
 
 So when I am gone for ever may a truer love be 
 his. 
 
 Then, O streamlet, roll them onward, roll them on- 
 ward to the sea ; 
 
 Let no eastern blast return them, poison-blossoms 
 unto me." 
 
 Then he raised his hand to cast them, mingling with 
 the mournful wind 
 
 Heard a sob, and turning saw her, her his faithful 
 love, behind. 
 
 In her fair blue eyes the teardrops glistened as she 
 raised her head. 
 
 In her hand the same sweet emblems, rose and 
 woodbine, white and red — 
 
 Emblems they of maiden's fairness, emblems of affec- 
 tion true — 
 
 Tokens of remembrance constant, with them lay the 
 flowers of blue. 
 
86 FLORES—AMORES. 
 
 " You had passed," she said, "the hill-side, passed the 
 
 house without a look ; 
 / with these my heart's first pledges came to meet 
 
 you at the brook. 
 Look upon my face, then tell me, looking on the skies 
 
 above, 
 If you think a mocking whisper truer than a woman's 
 
 love. 
 If you think me false, then fling them in the tide, a 
 
 paltry sham : 
 They may bring, you said, some sorrow to redeem the 
 
 thing I am. 
 If you think me true " 
 
 That autumn, ere the summer flowers had died, 
 Stood beneath yon steeple peering from the beech 
 
 hill's russet side 
 One that, blent with bloom of orange, wore enwreathed 
 
 around her head 
 Blue forget-me-nots, and with them rose and wood- 
 bine, white and red. 
 
 1867. 
 
87 
 
 LYCIDAS. 
 
 In memory of E. L. Bernays, New College, Oxford, Editor o i 
 " College Rhymes," drowned August 31st, 1870, while bathing 
 n an estuary of the Bay of Bantry. 
 
 And shall not one brief page be writ, 
 
 Not one poor stanza, in his praise, 
 Whose various ear and tutored wit 
 
 Once judged our humble lays — 
 
 Himself from out the riming throng 
 
 Conspicuous in the power divine 
 To softly tune the graceful song 
 Or urge the vigorous line ? 
 
 Though not to me be given to frame 
 
 Sweet hymnings of memorial verse, 
 I, if none other, to his name 
 One little lay rehearse. 
 
 Yet, though his old familiar foot 
 We miss, he is not holely fled ; 
 And, though his kindly voice is mute, 
 He is not holely dead. 
 
88 Z YCIDAS. 
 
 But still its subtle fragrance gives 
 
 In death the summer's short-lived rose ; 
 And still with us his record lives, 
 His memory sweetly blows. 
 
 And, though I strike with little art 
 
 These hasty notes on jarring strings, 
 To Nature's touch in many a heart 
 Their untaught burden rings. 
 
 1870. 
 
NEIKEOMES iroTafiov rov afietXt'^pv o? Karehvae 
 
 •jra(rl<f>i\ov iriicpol'i f KVjxaaiv rjiOeov 
 Bo^aiTicev Trorafib'; 8' dp dvaiSri<; dvTiov afi/MV 
 
 dinieiv, aSiva <f>piKl KvXivB6fievo<;, 
 " w ^eve, (Mr) fi dr/av a)Be KoBdirTeo Keprofjuioiai 
 
 ^coav 09 AvKiBa Bwxa koX oil davdrov 
 Tw davdrcccra Sefiat, ^jrvxav Si oi ov davdrwcra, 
 
 ^Ka Se Trap TroTafjLoh vaie/j,ev 'nXvcrLOK' 
 T&v Xovrai AvKiSa';, irlvei 8e (pepia-jSiov vScop 
 
 dvTiXa^aiv 6\o(b •jrcofiaro'i d/j,^p6<7ia." 
 
 * " Thus sang the uncouth swain . . . warbling his /)(?«'(: lay.' 
 
 Milton, Lycidas. 
 t Salt. 
 
 1870. 
 
90 
 
 HELICE. 
 
 To-night beneath the winter sky 
 I stood with none but Love anigh ; 
 I stood, sweet heart, and strove a task to master 
 Love bade me try. 
 
 The circHng firmament bedight 
 With all the pure-eyed gems of night 
 I scanned to find thy radiant virgin emblem, 
 My life's dear light. 
 
 A planet in the silver west 
 Threw forth a splendour manifest 
 From out the lucent throng, and seemed to bid me 
 There end my quest. 
 
 " Not thee, sweet visitant," I said, 
 " Though with a tenfold brilliance fed 
 From thy heaven's viewless empyrean altar, 
 My choice shall wed. 
 
HE LICE. 91 
 
 " Not common thus to glancing eyes 
 The lustre in my love that lies : 
 He that would know her full serene effulgence 
 Heavenward must rise. 
 
 " Thou unto other climes wilt flee. 
 Faithless, for others' gaze, but she, 
 For ever constant, radiance never changing 
 Sheds down on me." 
 
 So to those steadfast spheres my sight 
 Turned, that, more distant, lend the night 
 A glory seeming but from earth the fainter — 
 In heaven more bright. 
 
 There saw I that fair northern star* 
 Which first through all the angry war 
 Of winds and waves brought safe the old PhcEnician 
 To lands afar. 
 
 Then cared no more my straining gaze 
 To wander through the argent maze. 
 But with an instant certainty I mirrored 
 Thee in those rays ; 
 
 * Called by the Greeks " Helic^." 
 
92 HELICE. 
 
 Who with thy own pure beacon-Hght 
 Ever through trouble's darksome night 
 Of driving storm and drifting current keepest 
 My course aright. 
 
 To-night, beneath the winter sky, 
 I won this quest Love made me try 
 Of thee, sweet heart, the Love that cannot perish, 
 Though Time may die. 
 
 1870. 
 
93 
 
 THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR. 
 
 Thy race 
 Is nearly ended, and yet all too slow 
 For us thou travelest, we'd have thee go 
 With faster pace. 
 
 Dost hear 
 The clanging bells thy lingering' footsteps flout .'' 
 "Die out, Old Year," they cry; "Old Year, die out; 
 Dost hear. Old Year .? 
 
 And we — 
 We bid thee learn the lesson that they chime : 
 Die out, Old Year, give place to a new time ; 
 We are weary of thee. 
 
 For thought 
 Grows sick in us, and our life's hope decays, 
 Counting the sinning and the sorrowing days 
 That thou hast brought. 
 
94 THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR. 
 
 We trod 
 With darkening sight more near to death each day, 
 And still we traveled in the smooth broad way 
 That leads /w»2 God. 
 
 Then hence 
 And to the wilderness of vanished years, 
 Laden with all our follies, crimes, and tears, 
 Bear thine offense. 
 
 II. 
 
 And yet, 
 Old Year, thou hast such little while to live. 
 Fain would we rather struggle to forgive, 
 Strive to forget. 
 
 Thee dying 
 Let us not curse, nor ill bespeak thee dead ; 
 Nay, in Time's bosom let thy snowy head 
 Unvexed be lying. 
 
 Nor thus 
 Uncurst unblest alike shalt thou forth speed. 
 Not so, Old Year, if ever one good deed 
 Thou didst to us. 
 
THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR. 95 
 
 Didst bring 
 Not one small gift to make our pained eyes glad, 
 And our sad souls a little while less sad ? 
 Ah ! yes, the Spring. 
 
 The Spring ! 
 Then fresh and fair the worn earth grew, and then 
 Life seemed once more to winterweary men 
 A pleasant thing. 
 
 Then Summer, 
 Thy sweet musician, to each feathered throat 
 Taught strains of mirthful melody that smote 
 Our sorrows number. 
 
 Gold-clad 
 Came Autumn next, and in his hand for toil 
 The bounteous wages, corn and wine and oil, 
 Making men glad. 
 
 And, though 
 All these are vanished and their beauty past. 
 And Winter over all his cloak hath cast 
 Of frost and snow, 
 
96 THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR. 
 
 Such rest 
 The labouring earth had need of — j^ea, and we, 
 Lest with an ever-sweet recurrency 
 We grew oppressed. 
 
 — Didst give us 
 All these good gifts, that we have turned to worse. 
 And for thy blessings hast thou had our curse ? 
 Old Year, forgive us. 
 
 Our eyes 
 Are opened now ; forgive, and die content 
 That this last moment of thy life now spent 
 Hath made us wise. 
 
 Oh knell 
 A tender requiem to his dying ear, 
 Ringing " Old Year, farewell. Farewell, Old Year. 
 Old Year, farewell." 
 
 1870-7. 
 
97 
 
 TO A FLIRT. 
 
 ON HER RECOVERY FROM A DANGEROUS ILLNESS 
 
 O DID ye ken my ain dear ? 
 'Twill gi'e ye mickle dool to hear 
 A chiel's been wooin' made me fear 
 I'd lose for aye my ain dear. 
 
 As she cam by frae Windsor toun, 
 Auld Death was gangin' on his roun', 
 An' cast his ee, the menseless* loun, 
 Asklent upo' my ain dear. 
 
 Her trippin' step ! her winsome grace ! 
 Her rosy, sonsie,t dimpled face ! 
 It gart J his cauld banes throb apace 
 To gaze upo' my ain dear. 
 
 Like fa's lit by the gowden sun, 
 The gowden tresses, a' undone, 
 Wimplin' about her neck did run — 
 The saft neck o' my ain dear. 
 
 * Mannerless. t Sweet. t Made. 
 
 7 
 
98 TO A FLIRT. 
 
 An' then her een, 'twixt gray an' blue, 
 Wi' merry glintin's shot him thro' ; 
 He swoor an aith he never knew 
 A bonnier than my ain dear. 
 
 Tho' o' young hizzies doun below 
 Th' auld Mormon had a guidly show, 
 He thought he wad have ae* mair jo 
 Whan first he spied my ain dear. 
 
 But marriage is an awfu' thing, 
 
 Whilk even Death had found coud bring, 
 
 Wi' little hinney, mickle sting 
 
 — Ah, that 'twas saved my ain dear. 
 
 For Death wad be mair close acquent. 
 To look before the loup he tent ; f 
 Sae back frae Windsor toun he went, 
 Unken'd, beside my ain dear. 
 
 He stept into her father's ha'. 
 Made bauld to stap ae day or twa. 
 Then (Gude be thankit !) ran awa, 
 And never took my ain dear. 
 
 * One more mate. t Took care. 
 
TO A FLIRT. 99 
 
 For soon he cam to understand 
 What ithers to their sorrow fand *—r 
 There does na dwell in a' the land 
 Sic jillett as my ain dear. 
 
 Already he'd some wee bit wifies, 
 Frae wham he'd learnt what married life is 
 Whare jealousy, fou' bogle, J rife is — 
 Sae he gi'ed owre my ain dear. 
 
 He'd tribble sair to keep his leddies 
 Frae flirtin' wi' the gay young shadies ; 
 She wad ha'e dri'en him crazed frae Hades — 
 He maun gi'e owre my ain dear. 
 
 Sae Death is gaen this mony a day, 
 An' sooth there's mair than ane do say 
 That / ha'e little sense to stay : 
 What says to that my ain dear ? 
 
 But, gin I've no the wit to flee. 
 Sail I be ane o' thretty-three .' 
 Maun thretty-twa gae shares wi' me ? 
 What says to that my ain dear ? 
 
 * Found. t Such a jilt. X Goblin. 
 
70 A I'LJRT. 
 
 She has na said a word at a' ; 
 Nae soun frae out her lips did fa'; 
 Yet frae her mou' I've ta'en awa 
 The answer o' my ain dear. 
 
 Ah weel ! my flight's na yet begun ; 
 Till brent, the fire I winna shun ; 
 What's na yet lost may yet be won — 
 The heart's-lo'e o' my ain dear. 
 
 1,872. 
 
AFTER PARTING. 
 
 And so the last, last kiss is taken, 
 
 And so the last, last word is said ; 
 A kiss for Love that shall not waken, 
 
 A prayer for Love that's newly dead. 
 No sweet sad dream of yesterday 
 
 Rise up before his sleep-bound eye ; 
 Be wraiths of memory far away 
 
 From where our buried Love doth lie. 
 
 Ah ! does he sleep .' Does not one ember 
 
 Of his strong life-fires flicker yet .'' 
 Have we, who promised to remember, 
 
 Promised more surely to forget .■" 
 Can aught that shall be quite eclipse 
 
 That which has been } O sweet, can I 
 Hearken that name upon men's hps 
 
 With never a care and never a sigh ? 
 
 Will my sad shadow holely vanish 
 In your new life's serenest day .' 
 
AFTER PARTING. 
 
 One memory z'A.wyou holely banish ? 
 
 One rising vision holely lay ? 
 When long years fail, and when you hold 
 
 Sweet children's children on your knee, 
 And silver are your locks of gold, 
 
 Will you not yet remember me ? 
 
 If, wandering through some happy haven 
 
 Where rest from life's rude seas the dead, 
 You mark perchance the letters graven 
 
 That point where I have laid my head — 
 Yes, then of days long, long past by 
 
 One little word the tale shall tell — 
 One prayer, soft struggling with a sigh, 
 
 " Heaven rest his soul — he loved me well.' 
 
 1872. 
 
ON THE DEATH OF AN AERONAUT 
 BY THE FALL OF HIS BALLOON. 
 
 Like some keen hawk, with forces yet unspent, 
 That stoops awhile to climb the steeper skies. 
 He for a moment fell, the next to rise 
 
 And make his last and loftiest ascent. 
 
 1873- 
 
I04 
 
 "FOUND DROWNED." 
 
 Two nights ago, waiting at Lambeth Pier, 
 I saw a floating body, hailed a boat, 
 And helped the rowers tow it in to shore. 
 " Poor gentleman," we said, for gentleman 
 Was stamped by his own nature in his face, 
 And death coud only fix it firmer. Then 
 We looked to find his name and some address. 
 And searching found an open envelope 
 Directed Francis Ellaby, Esq., 
 Brick Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, Lo7tdon. Inside 
 We found another envelope, addressed 
 Miss Florence Armfield, Oaklands, Hinton, Notts. 
 The seal was still unbroken, and outside 
 Returned — unopened in a woman's hand : 
 We opened it, and read this little note : — 
 
 My Darling Florence, 
 
 Do for mercy'' s sake 
 Send me one line and let me know the worst. 
 I have not heard from you for many weeks ; 
 
FOUND DROWNED. 105 
 
 / hope you are not ill, but almost hope 
 Yoti have been, in my fear of something worse. 
 Your faithful lover, 
 
 Francis Ellaby. 
 
 Elsewhere we found a photograph — her name 
 At foot of it, with three Italian words, 
 " Stella di me " — ' his guiding star.' 
 
 One hand 
 Clutched tight his watch-chain ; loosing it we found 
 A double locket, with her face again. 
 And treasured at its back a tiny curl 
 Of dark brown hair. 
 
 This was her answer then, 
 Returned — unopened, and he knew himself 
 The sacrifice to some rich-landed lout, [DROWNED 
 Who reading in his morning's Times Found 
 Reads this, and smiles, and lights a fresh cigar. 
 But recollecting decency, growls out 
 " Poor devil," takes a sheet of sented note. 
 And scrawls his toadish sympathy : — 
 
 Dear Flo, 
 So shocked about young Ellaby. I hope 
 You, will not take it much to heart : you know 
 
io6 FOUND DROWNED. 
 
 It wasri t your fault if you loved ^ne best — 
 Was it, now f May I call on Saturday 
 And drive you to the meet ? 
 
 Your loving 
 
 James. 
 
 Oh no ! I look upon that innocent face, 
 The fond and faithful eyes, the soft kind mouth, 
 And swear that hers was not the hand that wrote 
 This man's death-warrant, but she sat alone 
 Sad-eyed and sick at heart, yet cherishing 
 Hope against hope, the while another snared 
 (Was it not for her own dear daughter's good ?) * 
 Each post that came or went, and at the last 
 Sought by two words to make an end of all. 
 And made it — thus. 
 
 The verdict was " Found drowned : 
 No evidence to show how the deceased 
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 1874. 
 
 * " Basely contriving their dear daughter's good." 
 
 Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
 
THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ. 
 
109 
 
 THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ. 
 
 An utmost desolation, a wild waste 
 
 Of primal nakedness ere nature graced 
 
 The new-born earth with earliest drapery 
 
 Of green. Here never beareth any tree. 
 
 Here never blooms a flower : the groundling weed, 
 
 Whereof, unless to kill, men take no heed 
 
 Beneath our northern skies, here found should reign 
 
 The soil's one paragon, and this sad plain 
 
 Revel in verdurous riot. Now the sand 
 
 Lays out its weary leagues to either hand 
 
 Uncheckered, save where dusky camels move 
 
 Upon the low horizon. From above 
 
 No sweet-throat bird e'er makes with tremulous song 
 
 The silence voiceful and the way less long. 
 
 And for small pity shall ye look upon 
 
 The brazen-canopied heaven : the southern sun 
 
 Glares lidless there ; alone a thin faint streak. 
 
 Along the northward limit, points where break 
 
 The far-off murmurs of the Syrian sea. 
 
o THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ. 
 
 This is the land — the land whereunto ye 
 Who with my song would wander hand in hand 
 Must strain unwilling feet : for such a land 
 Ye must forsake * your old memorial towers 
 Bosomed mid avenues, made glad with flowers, 
 And lapped with pleasant streams. 
 
 Yet not the less 
 For that it seems of little loveliness 
 Hath this wan desert ancient heritage 
 Of marvellous memories, but on the page 
 Of storied names this name is also writ 
 So bright Time's touch shall scarcely darken it. 
 
 For hither oftenwhile in earth's young day 
 Came great old patriarchs, upon their way 
 To Canaan or to Mizrafm. Here trod 
 The saviour-prophet from the mount of God 
 Returning. Arab shepherds o'er these sands 
 Swept to the domination of new lands.f 
 Here passed to Asian conquest, and again 
 With captive peoples crouching in his train, 
 Sesostris ; here Cambyses passed ; and he 
 Whose name still lives upon the southern sea, 
 
 * Written at Oxford. 
 
 t The " Shepherd- Kings " who conquered Egypt. 
 
THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ. in 
 
 Insatiate Alexander. Then the dread 
 Caesarian eagles, and the muffled tread 
 Of old C^sarian legionaries. And then 
 The mightier Victor and one Prince of men 
 Lulled in a mother's breast. No visible band 
 About Him marching in the desert sand 
 Stamp earthly footprints, but Heaven's own array, 
 Viewless and trackless, tend Him on His way. 
 
 Who next .'' Alas, the devastating sword 
 Of Amru's warriors ; * then thy Turkish horde, 
 Selim.* Anon a second Caesar f led 
 New Gauls, fresh eagles. Last came Ali, fed 
 With scarce a less ambition, to the field 
 Of glorious Konyeh, where the sovran reeled 
 Beneath the vassal's arm, and Egypt rose 
 Triumphant o'er a hecatomb of foes. 
 
 Such hero-phantoms, such brave memories 
 Cling to this weariest desert. But shall these, 
 These only, be thy register of fame, 
 O land, and must I blazen forth thy name 
 For this thing chiefest, that upon thee stood 
 The feet of some man swift to shed the blood 
 
 * The Saracen and Tatar conquerors of Egypt, 
 t Buonaparte. 
 
(2 THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ. 
 
 Of men his brothers ? Must we, soothly, go 
 
 So far a-south, to sing thee ? Do we know 
 
 No nearer regions in our own cold north 
 
 Where kings have marched and emperors gone forth 
 
 In name of fairest right to do foul wrong ? 
 
 Nay, rather let me tune for thee my song 
 To words of but one single work of good, 
 One single work binding the fellowhood 
 Of nations, garnering for him who wrought 
 True tender tribute of the hole world's thought, 
 Sweeter than softest flattery of lays. 
 
 Therefore at such a work I bid you gaze 
 On-passing where the azure canopy 
 Sinks to yon westward limit. Ye shall see 
 Thin masts rise slowly from the level land. 
 Dark hulls that come and vanish. Ye shall stand 
 Beside a mighty current at the last, 
 Watching the freighted argosies float past. 
 Bound for the Syrian or the Ethiop sea. 
 
 For here is cleft thart seeming unity 
 Of continent entwined with continent 
 Midst of this wilderness. But here is rent 
 Rather their true disunion, and the bar 
 
THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ. 113 
 
 That made the path from land to land more far. 
 
 Here mingled with the gulf Arabian flow 
 
 The midland waters, here the great ships go 
 
 — From some thronged haven echoing with the roar 
 
 Of winds Atlantic, or some purple shore 
 
 Of fragrant Insulind, mid southern waves 
 
 Soft cradled. Thence no more the mariner braves 
 
 The angry Cape, but through this desert gray 
 
 Ploughs with a cheery heart his minished way. 
 
 For this in days of old great monarchs toiled 
 Through rolling ages : but time holely spoiled 
 The ill-nurtured work, long centuries agone. 
 That, in our living, being freshly sown 
 Hath ripened at the last to perfect fruit. 
 
 Foremost wert thou, Lesseps, still resolute 
 Against a hole world's mockery, to pierce 
 This stubborn wilderness. Men shall rehearse 
 Thy deed, about thy name shall honour spread 
 A widening halo, till the years be dead. 
 And with them each man's deed and each man's name. 
 
 Nor shall thy part be all unknown to fame. 
 Said, whose lofty purpose led the way. 
 And firm endeavour. Though the darksome day 
 
114 THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ. 
 
 Came all too soon to thee, thy record lives : 
 Death shall not rob thee of what glory gives. 
 
 And thou, Ismail, beneath whose fostering sway 
 Flashed over shores Nilotic brighter ray 
 Of promise, think not thou shalt be forgot 
 Whereso these names be storied. Thou hast wrought 
 Not least this glorious issue, nor shalt least 
 Reap due of honour — thou who with thy East 
 Wouldst link our West, burying flie ancient feud 
 Of race and race, to their true brotherhood 
 Calling these twain once more — the wide world's friend 
 Not less than Egypt's glory. 
 
 Such an end. 
 Such men, such labour, are they not more sweet 
 Than laureled brows and blood-embathen feet .'' 
 Throw off the haze of victory, tear away 
 The flimsy glamour from your eyes, and say 
 Which, think ye, are most sweet for GOD to see .' 
 Which shall look fairest in eternity .■' 
 
 And said I, then, that in a desolate land. 
 Sultry, and silent, with me ye should stand .' 
 Ah, rather, if ye gaze aright, this place 
 Shall be to you more filled with subtle grace 
 
THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ. 115 
 
 Than if upon some soft hillside ye lay- 
 Where beechen leaves shut out the noontide day, 
 Passing to dreamland, listening the sound 
 Of tiny honey-gatherers flocking round 
 A wild-rose thicket faintly odorous. 
 
 For, though there be no arbour, bounteous 
 Of dainty perfume, though no pasture fair, 
 No flower to blossom and no tree to bear, 
 No sound of bee or bird, here shall ye find 
 (Haply have found) that pleasaunce of the mind 
 Where hopes unblighted are the tender shoots. 
 Glad thoughts the happy flowers, the mellow fruits 
 Teachings of noble memories ; there good deeds 
 Breathe fragrance ; there, more soft than Lydian reeds. 
 To countless wealth of luscious notes a voice 
 Sings one word only, but that word ' Rejoice.' 
 
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